Inquiry-based social studies empowers students to participate in the civic life of their local, state, and national communities. With inquirED, we will examine the following:How can a contentious election year provide an opportunity to explore civic participation?; What are the challenges educators face in polarized environments?
How do you discuss Native American contemporary cultures in existence from time immemorial on the land where you teach and live?
The beginning of the 2020 school year will be unlike any other. Now more than ever schools and districts must take into account the social and emotional needs of students and teachers.
We often live within the status quo, therefore it's sometimes difficult to see how the world exists beyond our everyday lives. The past has so much to teach us, as do our students. How do we intersect effective social studies instruction and culturally relevant learning in a way that honors students' cultural competence?
Despite massive efforts, the gap between students at the top and bottom of the socioeconomic scale hasn’t narrowed in 50 years—and may have increased significantly. While there’s been no shortage of attempted explanations, it was only after years within the education reform movement that Natalie Wexler stumbled across a fundamental and pervasive root cause that no one was talking about.
Incorporating the C3 Framework and Inquiry Design Model (IDM) into a social studies methods course can be challenging. This webinar advances a particular approach for introducing to social studies teacher candidates the C3 Framework, inquiry, and IDM.
How have human activities changed the Earth’s landscape, atmosphere, and ecosystems over the past two centuries? What are the ways to engage all kinds of middle school learners on human geography concepts as they relate to sustainability?
Children’s literature can play a powerful role in young children’s lives to learn, inspire and transform. The images and words convey a compelling story and message that has the potential to leave lasting impressions. In recent years, there’s been an explosion of children’s books that go beyond social and emotional learning.
Amplify women’s voices in your classroom to honor the past, inform the present and inspire the future. Women’s stories have always been integral to American history, but they have often been marginalized or erased from K-12 education – presented as peripheral to the main story or highlighted only during Women’s History Month.
This webinar introduces the sociology learning goals for College, Career and Civic ready students. In the first half of the webinar, sociologists provide an overview of the four learning goals, the assessable competencies for each of the goals, and the connections to the C3 framework.
