Ian Evans is a secondary social studies teacher in Grand Junction, Colorado with eleven years in the classroom, a bachelor's in history, minors in economics and philosophy, and a master's in culturally and linguistically diverse education. He has been teaching the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis to his students for years, and he contacted George Howard not to express frustration with the mainstream but to show him a curriculum he has already built and ask how to get it further into the world.
George Howard's read on what makes this conversation different from most in this space is direct: most of the discourse around alternative history and mainstream textbooks is complaint without action. Ian represents the opposite, someone working inside the system as it exists, introducing catastrophism, ancient civilisation uncertainty, and the Younger Dryas evidence to middle and high school students through good educational practice, inquiry-based learning, and a responsible approach that does not charge in with what George calls the woo. His curriculum is available now at instructionwithimpact@gmail.com, and Ian has offered to work directly with any teacher who wants to adapt it for their own classroom.
The conversation covers the pathway that brought Ian into this community, starting with The Pyramid Code documentary during a student teaching placement at Denver East High School, which led him through John Anthony West, Robert Schoch, Graham Hancock, Klaus Schmidt, Andrew Collins, Greg Little, and eventually Randall Carlson. It covers the subjects he wants to see presented in schools: catastrophism, the Younger Dryas, the uncertainty around ancient history, the megafauna extinction, and the genuinely modern timeline of it all, including the white sands footprints that show a woman, a child, and a ground sloth in the same trackway, which became the most popular piece of Cosmic Summit content ever produced. And it covers why he believes the secondary school audience is the critical lever: the groundswell building in the alternative history community will break through the institutional resistance most effectively when children, raised on inquiry and exposed to the evidence, start asking the questions the textbooks cannot answer.
George has committed to hosting Ian's curriculum on the upcoming redesigned Cosmic Tusk website under the resources tab, alongside the existing Younger Dryas PowerPoints available for citizen educators and homeschool families. Ian's next phase is YouTube content to accompany the curriculum, including field trip guides to locations where the Younger Dryas black mat layer is visible across the United States.
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**CHAPTERS**
00:10 Introduction: Ian Evans and the vision for secondary education
03:00 Ian's background: Colorado, 11 years in the classroom, and the subjects he covers
05:20 The pathway in: The Pyramid Code, John Anthony West, Graham Hancock, and Randall Carlson
~20:00 The curriculum: what subjects, what approach, and why secondary school matters
~40:00 Practical steps: how to get this into classrooms without triggering institutional pushback
~55:00 The white sands footprints and why they were the most popular Cosmic Summit video ever
~60:00 The black mat layer, field trips, and making catastrophism tangible for young learners
01:06:37 Ian's email address and how to get the curriculum
01:07:33 George's plans for the Cosmic Tusk website and future collaboration
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Ian Evans — instructionwithimpact@gmail.com
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