Bonnie Belshe is Social Studies Department Chair and teaches US history
and AP US history at Monta Vista High School in Cupertino, CA. She has an
MA in education from the University of San Francisco and an MA in history
from San Jose State University. She has been a four-time summer scholar
for the National Endowment for the Humanities and was named the
California History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute in
2014. In 2017–2018, Belshe was named as one of six teacher fellows for
Mount Vernon’s Lifeguard Teacher Fellowship. Her research and lesson
plans for Mount Vernon focus on incorporating 18 th century women’s
history into high school history classes. She recently held a teacher support
grant from the Schlesinger Library at Harvard University. Belshe’s research
is on comparing first and second wave feminism for Black and white
women and she is currently writing high school lesson plans based on her
research with the library’s primary source materials. She has co-hosted
several webinars for WGBH on using the PBS Learning Media resources and
American Experience. Belshe is a member of the 2018-2019 Teacher
Advisory Council for the National Humanities Center and the Teacher
Advisory Group for the board of directors of the National Council of History
Education. When not teaching, she loves to read, travel, enjoy the beach,
and finding the best snorkeling spots.