By confronting our inaccurate beliefs about youth apathy, we can engage and expand youth voter participation.

The results of the featured research study can help teachers become practiced communicators when presenting African American history to their students.

The time is now to advocate for social studies because our democracy depends on it. The NCSS Advocacy Toolkit offers the guidance and tactics to do just that. 

Incorporating poetry into the social studies curriculum can help students develop reading and writing skills while building their content knowledge.

Investigating with students how women suffragists used images and symbols to influence public opinion can spark an engaging lesson on the Nineteenth Amendment.

A classroom examination of the featured historical article announcing North Carolina’s ratification of the Constitution can springboard into a lesson on federalism, the Bill of Rights, and the ratification process.

Join featured speaker, Dr. Sohyun An from Kennesaw State, to inform our understanding of Asian American experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and pedagogical practices related to these topics. If you would like to read some of Dr. An’s work, we recommend Dr. An’s 2017 piece in the Journal of Social Studies Research, “Asian Crit Perspective on Social Studies” The presentation is brought to you by Teacher Education Research Collective (TERC).TERC is a project provided by CUFA through the NCSS Teaching with Primary Sources grant from the Library of Congress

The Haitian Revolution was the largest and most successful slave revolt in the world. Why is it rarely discussed or taught in U.S. classrooms?   

Listen to moderator Jane Lo as she leads a spirited 20-minute discussion about Project-Based Learning (PBL). Professor Lo's guests are Social Education authors John Larmer, Stacie Brensilver, and Rob Hallock. They examine how they first came to use PBL—and the challenges and rewards it offers to students and teachers over time. They provide beneficial advice to all teachers ready to try PBL for the first time. Read the special section (an introduction and six articles) of the January/February 2018 issue of Social Education for a more in-depth look at PBL. It will make you passionate about…