
Reading Strategies for Social Studies
They Read It. They Still Can’t Tell You What It Said. You assigned the reading. You gave them highlighters. You walked the room and saw

They Read It. They Still Can’t Tell You What It Said. You assigned the reading. You gave them highlighters. You walked the room and saw

Building Your Engagement Toolkit Why Your Best Strategies Stay in the Binder You have been to the training. Maybe several. You came home with a

Why Our 8th-Grade Social Studies Scores Won’t Budge — and Two Things That Would Actually Move Them If you’ve been watching the 8th-grade Social Studies

The Machine That Knows Everything and Understands Nothing: AI, History Class, and the Damage We Keep Refusing to Measure There’s a seductive logic to putting

History Where You Live: Connecting Students to the Past Through Local Archives. Guest post by Vicki Tobias Imagine your students gently flipping through a century-old

Year-Long Preparation For Texas teachers, preparing students for the U.S. History STAAR exam means more than covering content—it means teaching students to analyze, evaluate, and apply

Getting kids to read informational text is always a challenge. Why not turn the challenge back on them? I have recently started writing a series

By Kydra Hubbard, Ed. S. Secondary Social Studies Interventionist As any good teacher does, I often eavesdrop. During my fourteen years of eavesdropping, I’ve

By Lisa Sutterer Geography, World History and Early High School Teacher Littleton High School “Why is starting class so difficult each day?” I recently

Primary Source Practice This spring, I had an epiphany! I was sitting down with a friend, planning out a new workshop on how to analyze