Jeff taught for 14 years in the Jordan School District at Elk Ridge Middle School and Bingham High School, where the students selected him as the most inspirational teacher in 2005. He was named Utah’s Outstanding High School History Teacher that same year by the Utah Council for the Social Studies. Jeff’s research interests include history teaching, democratic instructional methods, and nurturing secondary students’ historical literacies using primary sources. His publications include Building Students’ Historical Literacies: Learning to Read and Reason with Historical Texts and Evidence and numerous research articles associated with history teaching. His most recent work is the book, Explorers of the American West: Mapping the World through Primary Documents, that he co-authored with his partner, Jay Buckley.