Building Classroom Community Through Service

In teaching African American studies—specifically, content centered around the concept of Africa and the African diaspora, Dr.

In his article “Black History Is Not American History,” which focuses on teaching Black history from a Black historical consciousness approach, Dr.

The study of Black history (and ethnic studies more broadly) is rooted in a critical consciousness.

Flappers from the 1920s are described as young women who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, and danced, smoked, drank illegal alcohol, and partied throughout the Roaring Twenties.

How can you focus on ways to assess your students based on the questions that they ask as opposed to the answers that they give you?

As a geography teacher, I often started the year with a lesson about how to lie with maps.

“No one puts Baby in the corner!” That line that melts hearts everywhere as Patrick Swayze’s character, Johnny, brings Baby front and center and into the spotlight in Dirty Dancing.

The Little Red Hen folktale has generally been read to exhort children to work hard, accept responsibility, and share with others.

The C3 Framework is a framework for social studies education laid out by the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) that is inquiry based and aims to prepares students for college, careers, and civic life.