Planning Through the Lens of the Black Historical Consciousness Principles: Black Agency, Resistance, and Perseverance

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.

In most communities, memorials, plaques, historical markers, and monuments are erected to record significant events or honor heroes and heroines.

The Maya were one of the most dominant societies in Mesoamerica, settling throughout Honduras, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador, and the Yucatán.