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
Are you serious about teaching Social Studies skills, but looking for new ways to incorporate them? One of the hardest set of skills to teach
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
“A strategy to unlock vocabulary” by Roderick Graves, Social Studies Specialist – Holub Middle School Teaching students academic and content vocabulary is one of the
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