High School Research Social Studies 
Studies Weekly
MAY 6, 2025
Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies May 2, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER At first glance, social studies and music might seem like two separate subjects, but they can come together harmoniously to make learning more engaging and memorable. Music is everywhere!
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 20, 2024
Every student needs a chance to practice these vital skills from kindergarten through high school. While a math teacher might look at a graph and observe that a certain variable decreased, a social studies teacher might say, “Of course there was a decrease, look at what was happening at that moment in history.”
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The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 13, 2024
Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman instructs students on atoms, matter and, she says, how they “influence the world around us.” That’s because so many students, even incoming ninth graders, arrive at the school without basic reading skills, according to Douglas Fisher, an administrator at the school.
Teaching American History
FEBRUARY 6, 2024
To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. Then she muses, “More graduate students should submit their research papers, because you never know.” Czarnecki says.
TCI
NOVEMBER 12, 2024
We’ll discuss the findings from state evaluations, the importance of high-quality instructional materials, what defines HQIM in social studies, and how they can transform classrooms into environments that inspire active citizenship. As a result of the study, states were encouraged to: Increase attention to civics and U.S.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Washington University in St.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 16, 2021
“I did poorly in middle school because I didn’t care,” Tendilla told me. He credits his rising ambitions to encouragement from his teachers at his Brooklyn high school, part of what was then a relatively new and untested high school network known as Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH).
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