The Power of Deep Connections: Insights from “Partnering” by Jean Oelwang

As a multidisciplinary subject, social studies classrooms are home to many different topics, from the most gruesome historical conflicts to the most basic principles of government and economics.

Imagine building a piece of Ikea without the instructions.

It’s that inevitable time of year again: the summer has come to end and it’s back into the classroom for social studies teachers across the country! While it is sad to end our summer of sleeping in, traveling, using the bathroom whenever we want, let’s be honest, it is also exciting to start a new […]

In my relatively short time teaching, I have been asked this question numerous times by secondary students: Why are we learning social studies? What’s the point? Why do we need to learn it? Other teachers I have taught with have also been asked this question, which has always fascinated me.

Teachers across the country are out traveling to destinations near and far this summer.

Students are drawn to monsters, so teachers use their interest in the weird and scary to their advantage and teach social studies themes through these figures.

Become a teacher, they said! It’ll be fun, they said!  Truly, there is no more rewarding job than teaching and making a difference in students’ lives each and every day.

Every teacher has experienced the sensation of looking up at the clock midway through the lesson and thinking, “Where did the time go?!” No matter the bell schedule, it never seems like there is enough time to do all of the things you want to do: teach content, build literacy, practice writing, engage in discourse, […]

This July marks the 175th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention, a landmark event in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States, which took place on July 19 and 20, 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York.