Martha Hales Ball

Alumna, M.S. Educational Studies

Martha Hales Ball taught Social Studies for 26 years in the public schools of Utah and California ages 12 to adult. She was the Director of the Utah 3Rs Project (Rights, Responsibility, Respect) from 1999–2009. Ms. Ball graduated magna cum laude from the University of Utah with a Bachelor of Science in History and a Master's degree in Educational Studies.

Martha is listed in Who's Who Among American Teachers. In 2000 she was chosen the outstanding teacher of United States History in the nation by the Daughters of the American Revolution. She received a Hays Fulbright Award to study in India and two awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, one to study in Greece and the other at the National Humanities Center in North Carolina.