Remove Critical Thinking Remove Primary Sources Remove Social Science
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Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

The Hechinger Report

The Sunnyside district, where roughly 90 percent of students are Hispanic, signed on at the start of the pandemic, after discovering that many of its ninth graders were struggling with the demands of recently adopted state standards for social science. There was much more emphasis on critical thinking and primary source investigation.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. I could incorporate Stanford University’s amazing library of historical critical thinking assessments at Beyond the Bubble.