Ross Newton teaches history at HEC Academy in Northampton, a special education public high school of the Collaborative for Educational Services (CES). Ross relates history to students’ lives through primary source inquiry and narratives about historically marginalized groups' agency and collective power. He earned a B.A. from Hampshire College, a Ph.D. in History from Northeastern University, and an Ed.M. in Social Studies Curriculum and Instruction from Boston University. Ross has published on topics in early American and public history and consulted for public history sites in Boston and Philadelphia. He has over a decade of teaching experience, sharing history with school groups and the general public at public history sites and teaching at Northeastern and LaSalle Universities and high schools in western Massachusetts. He is a disability history and education consultant. He contributes to  CES’s Emerging America’s Reform to Equal Rights: K-12 Disability Curriculum and to workshops, conference panels, and graduate courses on teaching history to diverse students.