Glenn is president of History Tech Consulting, providing professional learning opportunities, curriculum coaching, and assessment support for teachers, schools, and districts across the Midwest and the country. He authors the History Tech blog, an Edublog finalist and member of the EdTech Must Read list. Glenn has also published articles for the National Social Studies Leaders Association, the Teaching History and Fractus Learning websites, and has written numerous discipline specific curricula.
“I have an intense belief in the power that educators have as agents of change in the world. We have the ability to literally change the future through our interactions with kids.”
Glenn’s teaching career began at Derby Middle School, finding ways to help thirteen-year-olds dig deeply into social studies and reading. He earned a graduate degree in American History while continuing to develop innovative practices and sharing them with his students. He spent five years teaching at a small midwestern liberal arts college before transitioning into a social studies curriculum specialist position at ESSDACK, a regional educational service center in central Kansas.
Serving as the director of multiple state and federal grants, Glenn has the opportunity to lead the learning of hundreds of elementary, middle school, and high school humanities teachers. He especially enjoys working with other members of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources Consortium across the country. Spending time with pre-service teachers as a social studies methods instructor helps him stay connected to the latest trends.
Glenn travels across the country as a consultant, working and learning alongside both elementary and secondary teachers. He is the current Past-President of the National Social Studies Leaders Association, acted as co-chair for the 2013 and 2020 Kansas State Department of Education Social Standards Writing Committee, and is a past president and current board member of the Kansas Council for the Social Studies. He also serves on the advisory board of the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program, is a state representative on the National Geographic Advisory Committee, the chair of the National Council for the Social Studies Resolutions Committee, and a member of the iCivics Educators Network.
Glenn lives in northern Delaware with his wife Maura, is the father to two adult kids, and will admit to visiting Gettysburg National Military Park no more than nine times. You can find him online at @glennw98 and at glennwiebe.org.
