
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

It Isn’t About the Glue: Understanding the Interactive Student Notebook If you have ever walked past a classroom and seen students cutting, folding, and taping

A First-Week Lesson That Sets Up Your Whole Year Somewhere in the first week of school, a student is going to ask you why they

The Philosophy Behind Every Lesson I Create If you’ve ever downloaded one of my lessons, sat through one of my workshops, or read a post

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

We know students are struggling reading informational text… and the issue seems to be expanding! Literacy is so important to our students, both for success