These first-edition books were written by members of NCSS. Please send notification of your recent new book to tssp@ncss.org, and we'll share it here, in the order received. Congratulations to these authors!

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Toni Fuss Kirkwood-Tucker. The Global Education Movement: Narratives of Distinguished Global Scholars. Information Age Publishing, 2018. Paperback $39.09; Hardcover $73.09; eBook price varies.
The pages of this book paint a portrait of thirteen scholars and their lifelong professional accomplishments in and contributions to teaching, service, and research in global international education around the world. "Their extraordinary work contributed extensively to the development, direction and growth of the global education movement in the United States initiated by James M. Becker as Director of School Services for the Foreign Policy Association, New York City, in the 1960s. These scholars were honored with the Distinguished Global Scholar Award presented by the International Assembly of the National Council for the Social Studies, the largest professional organization for social studies educators in the United States. Their narratives comprise an intriguing mosaic of backgrounds, scholarship, and contexts from which their extraordinary work blossomed in building bridges—not walls—among peoples and nations." This volume in the series “Teaching and Learning Social Studies” is intended to honor the professional achievements in global international education of these scholars who have devoted their professional lives to creating a better world through their work. More importantly, this book exposes globally-minded individuals, educators, scholars, administrators, and policymakers around the world to empowering role models from Africa, Europe, and the United States and opportunity to learn about the multitude of professional activities, teachings, partnerships, exchange programs and research in which they might engage to promote a deeper understanding about the cultural, geographic, economic, social, and technological interconnectedness of the world and its people---the very purpose of global education. ** *********************** **

Sarah K. Anderson, Bringing School to Life: Place-Based Education Across the Curriculum. San Francisco: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. Paperback $33, eBook $31.00, 170 pages.
This book offers insights into how to build a program across the K-8 grades. Anderson addresses key elements such as mapping, local history, citizen science, integrated curricula, and more. She suggests strategies for building community partnerships and implementation for primary grades. The book “goes beyond theory to give concrete examples and advice in how to make place-based education a real educational option in any school.”
Sarah taught middle school humanities for several years before becoming the fieldwork and place-based education coordinator at The Cottonwood School of Civics and Science, a public charter school in Portland, Oregon. Recently she has been helping teachers from around the Pacific Northwest design place-based education curriculum for their classrooms.

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Cynthia W. Resor, Investigating Family, Food, and Housing Themes in Social Studies. Rowman and Littlefield. 2017. Paperback $32.00, Hardback $64.00, eBook $30.00, 138 pages.
Students can critically examine their own culture by contrasting it with the daily lives of average people in the past. What people ate, where people lived, and the functions of families are examined and contrasted to subjective, cultural ideals prescribing what families, food, and housing ought to have been. The relationship between housing, food, and family and social class, status, and gender are emphasized. Each chapter includes essential questions to focus student inquiry; historical overviews focused on changes in family, food, and housing from the pre-industrial era, through its transformation during the Industrial Revolution and into the twentieth century; learning activities; and primary source documents and images. "This unique approach to teaching history and social studies supports thematic instruction, culturally responsive teaching, place-based education, and literacy in the elementary, middle, or secondary classrooms."
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475832006/Investigating-Family-Food-and-Housing-Themes-in-Social-Studies​

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Douglas Graney, American Teacher: Adventures in the Classroom and Our Nation's Capital. Order online at mascotbooks.com/mascot-marketplace/buy-books/nonfiction/bios-and-memoirs/american-teacher. Also available on Kindle and Nook. 2017. Paper $19.95. 350 pages.
American Teacher details Doug Graney’s journey to becoming a celebrated teacher at Herndon High School in Herndon, Virginia. It follows a career "packed with political and historical field trips, holding government officials accountable including Colin Powell, Sandra Day O’Connor and many members of congress, generating spirited debate, and creating a large congressional intern placement program." American Teacher is "the story of a man dedicated to his students and their education, no matter what."
Readers of NCSS blogs at connected.socialstudies.org will be familiar with some of Doug's writings. Here is more!

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Aaron Pribble, Teacherland: Inside the Myth of the American Educator. San Francisco: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. 198 pages. Hardback $60.00, Paperback $30.00. Visit https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781475836134/Teacherland-Inside-the-Myth-of-the-American-Educator
  In the popular narrative, teachers are cast as saints or slouches, heroes or zeros. They either forgo their material well-being for the reward of a higher calling, or they show movies, have too much time off, and are impossible to fire. 
  Teacherland fills the gap between these two clichés with insight, humor, and conviction. How do you manage a room of energetic adolescents and ensure everyone is learning? What happens when some students begin with a distinct disadvantage while others have every opportunity? How do colleagues and friends help counteract the profession’s inherent isolation? What happens when you make embarrassing comments in class, or can’t use the bathroom when desired? How do you deal with Back to School Night and Open House, staff meetings and rallies and dances? 
These are but a few of the questions Teacherland considers, with the ultimate goal of improving our education system by humanizing the teaching profession. It aims to reframe the debate about what it means to teach and learn and to show—for real—what life is like behind the curtains of one of America’s most important occupations.

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M. Gail Hickey and Jeremiah C. Clabough, editors. Digging Deeper: Activities for Enriching and Expanding Social Studies Instruction K-12 (A volume in the series teaching and Learning Social Studies. Series Editor: William B. Russell III), www.infoagepub.com/products/Digging-Deeper. 2017. Paper $39.09, hardcover $73.09, 242 pages.

Experts in social studies education and gifted education share teacher‐tested strategies for differentiating social studies in K‐12 classrooms. Chapter authors showcase best‐practice and research‐based lessons and activities that enrich and expand social studies instruction while building K‐12 students’ critical and creative thinking. Each chapter contains two or more teacher‐tested lessons or activities linking social studies content and concepts to the standards and recommendations of the National Association for Gifted Children (NAGC) and National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS).
This edited volume is targeted toward K‐12 teachers and administrators, gifted education coordinators and consultants, parents of gifted children, social studies methods instructors, and central office administrators. Each chapter contains activities that can be adapted and replicated in teachers’ classrooms.
Chapters focus on significant social studies topics such as civic education, historical thinking, drama, and teaching with primary sources. Each topic is approached in ways that meet the needs of gifted education students. Through its emphasis on critical thinking, inquiry‐based instruction, and higher order thinking skills, activities and lessons in the book challenge K‐12 educators to raise the bar for classroom instruction in ways that improve opportunities of learning for all students.

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Jeremy Stoddard, Alan S. Marcus, David Hicks, editors. Teaching Difficult History through Film. Routledge, 2017. Paper $49.5, Hardcover $155.00, eBook $34.97. 258 pages.
This new book explores the potential of film to engage young people in controversial or contested histories and how they are represented, ranging from gender and sexuality, to colonialism and slavery. Adding to the education literature of how to teach and learn difficult histories, contributors apply their theoretical and pedagogical expertise and experiences to a variety of historical topics to show the ways that film can create opportunities for challenging conversations in the classroom and for recognizing the perspectives of historically marginalized groups. Numerous chapter authors are NCSS members. Visit https://www.routledge.com/Teaching-Difficult-History-through-Film/Stoddard-Marcus-Hicks/p/book/9781138190771.

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Jeremiah Clabough, Thomas N. Turner, and Kenneth T. Carano. When the Lion Roars Everyone Listens: Scary Good Middle School Social Studies (Westerville, OH: Association for Middle Level Education, 2017) $24.99, 196 pages.
Middle school students need meaningful opportunities to explore the world around them by being actively involved in every step of the learning process. An effective social studies curriculum challenges students to think critically about their place in the world and provides for active discussion and exploration of the content through inquiry-based activities. This change to the classroom dynamic holds students accountable for their own learning and equips them with the skills to collaborate with others, both of which are important to their future success. The book
• Shares the six components of a student-centered classroom
• Connects to best practices in middle level education
• Models dozens of classroom activities and assessments
Visit www.amle.org/Shop/tabid/135/Default.aspx.

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