Listen to an exclusive interview with the sister and brother team of Claire and Ralph Nader! These two longtime civic leaders and advocates for social, economic, and legal justice talk with James Damico, Professor of Curriculum & Instruction at Indiana University, about Claire’s recent book, You Are Your Own Best Teacher! Sparking the Curiosity, Imagination, and Intellect of Tweens. In this video, Claire and Ralph cover a range of topics and questions, including: Learning about your body The Commons How to wage peace What does it mean to be smart? Historical…

Have conceptions of Santa Claus as a religious symbol, barred “the most popular holiday mascot” (Fajardo, 2018) from your public school? Hear anecdotes about Santa’s secular identity along with scholarly “origin stories” about four Black Santas. Pedagogical ideas for sociocultural and socioeconomic curricular explorations will also be provided. Speaker: Danné Davis, Associate Professor, Montclair State University

We must all hang together, or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately." Ben Franklin didn't know it at the time, but we was talking about teachers in 2023! Let's share stories where hanging together has made us all smarter, and helped us stay energized as educators! Speaker: Joe Schmidt, Bill of Rights Institute Director of Programs

  National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) and Thinking Nation will host a special webinar that reviews a recent white paper published in Education Week and commissioned by Thinking Nation. The survey data gave statistics behind the anecdotes many of us know: 1. While Social Studies is deemed as critical for democracy, it is not viewed as a priority in most school districts; 2. Professional Development does not currently effectively support social studies teachers; 3. Social Studies as a discipline is not effectively vertically aligned in most contexts.  In this program, NCSS and Thinking…