Remove 2019 Remove Social Justice Remove Social Studies
article thumbnail

Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

Related: Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies? Larry Paska, the executive director of the National Council for the Social Studies, challenges this characterization of action civics, saying it’s far broader than political protest. Larry Paska, the National Council for the Social Studies.

article thumbnail

Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment. 6; Love, 2019).

educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies Santana has been teaching the course at Philadelphia’s Parkway Northwest High School for Peace and Social Justice since 2019. In 2019, then Gov.

History 98
article thumbnail

Teaching About Palestine-Israel and the Unfolding Genocide in Gaza

Zinn Education Project

A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948. The spring 2024 issue offers a collection of articles and other resources on teaching about Palestine-Israel amid the growing attack on social justice education.

article thumbnail

Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

The Hechinger Report

Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. More than 100 positions were unfilled at the start of the 2019-20 school year. Paul, Minnesota, native, studied Spanish and history at Marquette University in Wisconsin.