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Instructor: Jeromy Winter

Jeromy Winter is a passionate educator and literacy specialist with more than two decades of experience teaching elementary students, primarily in first grade. Since beginning his teaching career in 2000, he has focused on helping students develop strong language arts and writing skills while inspiring fellow educators to grow through practical, classroom-based learning. He holds an MA in Reading and Language Arts and a Multiple Subject Teaching Credential and Reading and Language Arts Specialist Credential from Fresno State, along with a BA in Liberal Studies from San Francisco State University. Before entering education, Jeromy worked with adults with developmental disabilities and severe behavior challenges, an experience that strengthened his commitment to supporting diverse learners. He also brings technology experience through maintaining school and personal websites and building a website for his children's swim team. Jeromy believes learning and teaching go hand in hand and strives to make every course engaging, practical, and immediately useful for educators.

Classes by this instructor

SOC-900: Gold Rush: Mother Lode History

This course explores the rich history of the Southern Mother Lode during the California Gold Rush, focusing on key locations such as Mariposa, Agua Fria, Hornitos, and La Grange. Designed for educators, the course enhances social science teaching skills by integrating historical content with digital tools, including Weebly, TimeGraphics, Pinterest, Diigo, and Google Earth.

SOC-901: California Gold Rush: 49ers/Miners

Become more knowledgeable about California's Gold Rush and the impact it had on California's history. In this online course, you will learn about Native Americans and settlers in the Gold Rush areas. You will gain a deeper understanding of labor-intensive mining and capital-intensive mining in Coloma, Grass Valley, and Nevada City. Through video tours you will visit the James Marshall Gold Discovery Site, The Empire Mine, and the North Star Mine Powerhouse.

SOC-902: Monterey: Historic Capital of California

Gain a deeper understanding of the importance Monterey had in the establishment of California as a state. In this online course, you will learn about the Rumsen Indians, the settlement of Alta California, the Carmel Mission, and the effects of the Gold Rush on Monterey. You will understand why Monterey was considered the capital through many periods in history, including the period of the first California Constitutional Convention.

SOC-903: Los Angeles: Reflections on Its Heritage

This course explores various periods in the history of Los Angeles. Experts will discuss Mission San Gabriel, Southwest Indians, the Southwest Museum, George C. Page Museum and the La Brea Tar Pits, and El Pueblo De Los Angeles. Biographical information on significant people in the history of Los Angeles will be used to teach the idea of exploring history through biographies.

SOC-905: Historic Sacramento: Through the Years

This online course is designed to help students become more knowledgeable about Sacramento, California's rich history. Through this course, students will not only learn about Sacramento's history, but will understand how to enhance their social studies curriculum with high quality technological applications. They will recognize how Sacramento became the metropolis it is today through the study of Native American Indians, Sutter's Fort, Old Town Sacramento, the Gold Rush, the Big Four, Theodore Judah, The Port of Sacramento, and Sacramento's growth over the years.

SOC-906: California Missions: 1769 - Secularization

California Missions 1769 - Secularization is designed to help teachers learn about the California Missions Period. Through oral interviews, videos, and readings, teachers will become more familiar with important aspects of the Mission Period, including reasons Spain founded the missions, founding fathers of the mission, lure and treatment Native Americans at the missions, mission music, economics, architecture, religion, trades taught at the missions, restoration, and archaeology.

SOC-917: California: Reflecting America

This course is designed primarily to introduce teachers to Dr. J.S. Holliday's study of past and present relationships which led him to conclude that California's present-day image as a "risk-taking society" is the result of its formative years, especially those years during the Gold Rush and the 1860s through the 1880s.

SOC-984: Japanese Internment Camps: Pearl Harbor - Post Release

How were 120,000 Japanese Americans forcibly relocated simply for 'looking like the enemy?' In this course, students will gain a deeper understanding of the impact the attack on Pearl Harbor had on the lives of Japanese living in Western America. You will learn about the Japanese Internment Camps established after that fateful day in 1941. You will expand your understanding of life in the camps, including daily tasks like eating and using the bathroom, housing conditions, and how people occupied their time while incarcerated.