History Pedagogy Social Studies 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. The science and social studies topics should be sequenced so that the ideas build upon each other, and paired with vocabulary that will be useful in the future.
NCHE
APRIL 21, 2023
The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. The social studies standards recently approved by the South Dakota Board of Education did not adequately take into account the expertise of its teachers. The NCHE Board of Directors, by a vote of 13-1, approved this statement.
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HistoryRewriter
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Adam truly excels at simplifying pedagogy and combines it with an instinctive gift for self-reflection at a depth that I am incapable of. An ELA teacher can partner with a History teacher in working with City of Thieves by David Benioff, a novel on the siege of Leningrad told from the POV of a starving Russian in WWII.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was always interested in history. Not Caleb Brown.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. At first, I was convinced I found a pedagogy ingrained with Indigenous wisdom that could further decolonize my teaching.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JUNE 5, 2020
As a history major in college and former Social Studies teacher, I am aware of the racial abuses that have permeated our nation’s history and continue to be present. Books: School leadership for social justice. Books: Culturally-relevant pedagogy. Still learning… Still growing… .
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