Some important concepts and strategies can help social studies educators teach civics in an inclusive manner when not all students in the classroom are formal citizens.

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

An inquiry-based approach to tackling hard history such as the one outlined in this article helps mitigate the instructional challenges presented by our current political climate.

Machine learning offers unique opportunities to re-imagine how students navigate and access digital collections for classroom learning.

The one-page blueprint known as the Inquiry Design Model helps teachers outline essential elements of inquiry-based instruction and enables them to plan inquiry experiences for students.

Encouraging students to participate in local civic activities for a classroom project enables them to develop real-world connections to social studies content.  

A detailed curricular loop that enables students to regularly engage in an inquiry presents a meaningful way of teaching hard history. 

In a classroom that promotes deliberation, students practice the kinds of speaking, listening, and critical thinking skills that advance active citizenship.

When students learn history through the lenses of political and social movements, they gain a more accurate understanding of the past and how it informs the present.  

If high school history courses are meant to introduce students to the paradoxes and debates of American history, then they should study the 1619 Project.