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With an engaging style and offbeat approach that uses humor, anecdotal material, and contemporary references; Davis makes his subjects, often viewed as boring, come vividly to life.  People magazine once said, “reading him is like returning to the classroom of the best teacher you ever had.”  He speaks frequently before public library and educational groups about the need to make learning more appealing and has appeared at the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Institute.

Davis’s books include Don’t Know Much About History, Don’t Know Much About Geography, Don’t Know Much About the Civil War, and Don’t Know Much About the Bible.

Bert Bower is CEO and President of Teachers’ Curriculum Institute (TCI).  His corporation is dedicated to training and supporting social studies teachers in a series of innovative teaching strategies that allow students with diverse learning styles to “experience” history.  Bower taught social studies for eight years at Mountain View High School in Mountain View, California, authored several social studies textbooks for D.C. Heath and Company in Lexington, Massachusetts and received a doctorate in Social Studies Education from the Stanford University School of Education. 

He is co-author of both Bring Learning Alive! The TCI Approach for Middle and High School Social Studies and Social Studies Alive! Engaging Diverse Learners in the Elementary Classroom.