We can disrupt inequity in the classroom by generating a more expansive understanding of what and who counts as worthy.

Cooperative learning stimulates student engagement and spurs deep thinking and classroom discussion.

When teachers create lessons that include historical sources, it’s important to pay attention to source choice and source attribution. 

The Educating for American Democracy initiative introduces an inquiry framework, or roadmap, organized around themes and questions to advance excellence in civic and history education. 

Creating photoblogs in the social studies classroom builds on students’ interest in using images to convey messages while teaching important media literacy skills.

Even without in-person field trips, photographs stored online can stimulate enriching investigations of historic places.

Strategically designed word walls can help students build the vocabulary needed to ask and explore important questions in the social studies.