The Arizona Chapter

of the Fulbright Association
Mini-bio for Syd Golston  

Syd Golston is an educational administrator, curriculum writer, historian, community volunteer, and proud mother of two grown children.
She has taught at all grade levels from 7th to college, specializing in constructivist learning experiences in local and women's history. Teaching awards included 1988 Middle Level Educator of the Year in Arizona, and summer grants to Turkey on a Fulbright, to four N.E.H. and U.S. Institute of Peace seminars, and to Oxford University. Golston authored the books Changing Woman of the Apache, Revisiting America, and Studies in Arizona History (Teacher's Manual), and articles in many journals.
Golston has served the National Council for the Social Studies for 20 years in leadership positions on state and national level. She was a member of the Board of Directors (1996-99), and she was recently elected again to the Board.
As Supervisor of Education for Kids Voting USA (1995-97), Golston wrote curriculum and traveled to 36 states to work with outstanding educators from rural Arkansas to downtown Chicago. She is now the Dean of Students at Alhambra High School, a large inner city Phoenix campus with many remarkable immigrant students.

golston@phxhs.k12.az.us

 


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