Jazmin Puicón Receives AHA Beveridge Family Teaching Award
Jazmin Puicon.
Jazmin Puicón, assistant professor at Bard High School Early College Newark, was awarded the 2025 Beveridge Family Teaching Award for Excellence and Innovation in K–12 Teaching by the American Historical Association. The award recognizes excellence and innovation in elementary, middle school, and secondary history teaching, including career contributions and specific initiatives. The association stated that Puicón’s work “shows her commitment to active learning and inquiry, historical thinking activities, and culturally responsive and sustaining pedagogies.” In 2024, Puicón was named a New Jersey History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Institute.
Associate Professor of History Tabetha Ewing, who was formerly dean of studies at BHSEC, interviewed Puicón about her achievement. They discussed Innovative Newark, a course Puicón developed to help students learn more about their city, which included visits from local guests to present on different aspects of Newark. “My piece of advice is to bring in your passions [to the classroom],” Puicón said. “You will have failures [but] if you’re passionate about it, the students will be passionate about it.”
Bard Early College is a multi-campus network serving adolescents in American public school systems, with approximately 3,700 students at nine degree-granting campuses and a growing number of partnership programs through which students can complete up to one year of college.
Post Date: 02-17-2026
Associate Professor of History Tabetha Ewing, who was formerly dean of studies at BHSEC, interviewed Puicón about her achievement. They discussed Innovative Newark, a course Puicón developed to help students learn more about their city, which included visits from local guests to present on different aspects of Newark. “My piece of advice is to bring in your passions [to the classroom],” Puicón said. “You will have failures [but] if you’re passionate about it, the students will be passionate about it.”
Bard Early College is a multi-campus network serving adolescents in American public school systems, with approximately 3,700 students at nine degree-granting campuses and a growing number of partnership programs through which students can complete up to one year of college.
Post Date: 02-17-2026