Tom Morton taught for over thirty years in Kabala, Sierra Leone; Montreal; and Vancouver at the high school and university levels. Over his career, Tom has received the British Columbia Social Studies Teacher of the Year Award, the Governor General’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Canadian History, and the Kron Award for Excellence in Holocaust Education. He is one of the founders of the British Columbia Cooperative Learning Association and is the author of Cooperative Learning and Social Studies: Towards Excellence and Equity (Kagan). He co-authored The Big Six Historical Thinking Concepts (Nelson). Currently, he is the Provincial Coordinator of the BC Heritage Fairs Society.