Doing Social Studies

JULY 23, 2020

It can be tough finding the silver lining in all the disruption to student learning and teacher professional development caused by COVID-19. Mark Nickel, Secondary Social Studies & World Languages director in the Wichita, Kansas school district, passed on some details about what sounds like an amazing learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. For many of today’s students, the new program’s ideas and approaches to rethinking history and how it is taught are not radical.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. The post Preparing for a One Day Seminar appeared first on Teaching American History.

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C3 Teachers

APRIL 10, 2022

I recently zoomed with Nick S tamoulacatos, Supervisor of Social Studies at Syracuse City School District and one of the writers on the article “Countering the Past of Least Resistance” in that latest Social Education. And then overtime we then developed it in our school district. What keeps you coming back?

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our social studies program. We got some useful feedback, which will help us to set our agenda for professional development and materials acquisition. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

Teaching Irish American History Mar. 10, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER You only need to walk into a store and see St Patricks Day decorations to know Irish Americans have profoundly impacted our countrys culture. See why over six million students across America love using Studies Weekly Social Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In Norfolk, Virginia, the juniors and seniors enrolled in an African American history class taught by Ed Allison were working on their capstone projects, using nearby Fort Monroe, the site where the first enslaved Africans landed in 1619, as a jumping off point to explore their family history. On the Wednesday following the A.P.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. Because everyone who studies fascism knows that fascists are always democratically elected to then destroy democracy. And of course, history and social studies teachers.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

With a curriculum that includes slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, two world wars and the Civil Rights Movement, American history teachers are used to venturing into emotionally charged subjects. Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. We feel so polarized right now.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

and African American history. Chris Tims, a social studies teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, says he won’t stop teaching the 1619 Project, despite political pressure. Americans have been arguing over what to teach children about U.S. Related: OPINION — The wrong roadmap for teaching American history.

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