Guampedia Educators Portal and Micronesia Milestones

Guampedia is a community project that highlights the unique Chamorro heritage and history of Guam and the Mariana Islands. It includes an Educator's Portal with resources connecting past to present and future, and a bank of lesson plans for culturally sustaining education. Guampedia's Micronesia and World Milestones Timeline details the region's important historical events into the context of world events. This interactive timeline helps students see the bigger picture and develop a context for historical thinking.

Teresita Perez
Unibetsidåt Guåhan, Guam

Teresita L. Perez is composition faculty at the University of Guam. After receiving her MATESL from the University of Washington, she found that her true academic interests lay in pedagogy and learning organic to first people's epistemological approaches to life. She is a proud daughter and mother from Guam.

James Perez Viernes
University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, HI

James Perez Viernes is from Guam and is part of the core faculty of the Center for Pacific Islands Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (UHM) serving as Outreach Director. His areas of specialization are gender, masculinities, militarism, place-based methodologies, and indigenous research frameworks as they relate to Micronesia and greater Oceania. He has an MA in Pacific Islands Studies and PhD in Pacific Islands History from UHM.

Guampedia Educators Portal and Micronesia Milestones

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