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.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Integrated Actions Civics Project: developed between The UC Berkeley History Social Science Project and the Santa Clara and San Mateo county offices of education, this project offers tested strategies to support the integration of civic engagement into classrooms.

Civic Engagement 137

Civic Engagement Civics K-12 Education 137

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Educators have felt pressure to cut time for science, social studies and the arts in order to carve out more time for reading and math, the two subjects that are tested annually by every state and by which schools are judged. Department of Education), the National Science Foundation and two private foundations.

Charter School 144

Charter School Geography Public School Private School 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

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.

Primary Sources 122

Primary Sources Social Science Professional Development Critical Thinking 122

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Heather Van Benthuysen, director, Chicago Public Schools Department of Social Science and Civic Engagement.

Civics 142

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 142

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Terrance Lewis, a middle school social studies teacher in Columbus, Georgia, said racial battle fatigue captured the overwhelming feelings he and some of his Black colleagues experienced last summer in the midst of the racial violence and protests. His goal is to become a teacher educator and to study the Black male experience.

K-12 145

K-12 Middle School High School Cultures 145

ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

The lesson could be used as a precursor to a unit on the New Deal in history classrooms or as a case study on economic policy impacts in a social science course. This lesson was designed to continue the topics presented in Dr. Witcher’s economic history lessons on The Great Depression.

Economics 52

Economics Lesson Plan Civics Policy Impact 52