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October 8, 2026
Classroom Foundations: Creating Confident Teachers
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The Practitioner
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November 5, 2026
Human Raised, Human Ready: A Book Discussion on Raising and Teaching Children in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
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The Practitioner
December 10, 2026
Transformative Teaching through Mexican American Studies
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The Practitioner
January 7, 2027
Cultivating Critical Discourse: Empowering Students Through Student-Led Socratic Seminars
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The Practitioner
May 13, 2027
Seeing to Understand: Building Student Skills with Graphs, Maps, and Visual Data
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The Practitioner
June 10, 2027
Building Trust, Collaboration, and Stronger School Communities
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Book Talk Series
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September 17, 2026
Let Them Own It: Shifts That Put Students in the Driver’s Seat
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The Practitioner
August 13, 2026
Small Moves, Big Impact: Simple Routines for Smooth, Active Instruction
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The Practitioner
July 9, 2026
Advocating for Social Studies in the Elementary World
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The Practitioner
June 11, 2026
Beyond the Lecture: Active Learning Strategies for Lasting Impact in Social Studies
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The Practitioner
May 14, 2026
From Chaos to Clarity: A Vertically Aligned Blueprint that Ensures Proficiency
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The Practitioner
April 16, 2026
Raising the Rigor with Differentiation using Primary Sources
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The Practitioner
March 12, 2026
The Art of Quiet Influence: Timeless Wisdom for Leading without Authority
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The Practitioner
February 5, 2026
Exploring African American History through the Black Historical Consciousness Principles
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The Practitioner
January 8, 2026
From Coverage to Connection: A 4th Quarter Push for Purposeful Reading in Social Studies
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The Practitioner
December 11, 2025
Teaching America at 250
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The Practitioner
November 6, 2025
Teaching Modern History Through a Global Lens
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The Practitioner
October 9, 2025
It’s Complicated: Diversifying Historical Narratives Through Art and Literature
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The Practitioner
September 18, 2025
Planning Makes Perfect! A Process to Prepare for Tier I Instruction
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The Practitioner
August 14, 2025
Ready, Set, Move: Empowering Learning with Effective Transitions
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The Practitioner
July 31, 2025
Get It Right the First Time: A Process for Lesson Internalization using Navigate Texas
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The Practitioner
July 10, 2025
Empowering Financial Decision-Makers: Applying Behavioral Economics in the Classroom
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The Practitioner
June 12, 2025
Show What You Know: Bringing Learning Together Through Processing Assignments
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The Practitioner
May 15, 2025
It All Starts with Geography: Using Atlases to Develop Student Literacy
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The Practitioner
April 17, 2025
Social Studies + ELA: A Dynamic Duo
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The Practitioner
March 13, 2025
Leaving a Mark: Annotation Strategies for Deep Learning and Discussion
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The Practitioner
February 6, 2025
Amplifying Content and Language Supports in Your Classroom
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The Practitioner
January 9, 2025
Hearing History from Those Who Lived It: Collecting Oral Histories in the Classroom
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The Practitioner
December 12, 2024
Lights, Camera, Action! Using Movies to Engage Students in Historical Content
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The Practitioner
November 7, 2024
The C.O.R.E. and H.E.A.R.T. of AI in Social Studies Education
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The Practitioner
October 17, 2024
Book Talk #1: The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness
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The Social Studies School Service Book Club Series
October 10, 2024
Memes and More: Leveraging Social Media in the Social Studies Classroom
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The Practitioner
September 12, 2024
Every Minute Counts: Maximizing Instructional Time for Elementary Social Studies
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The Practitioner
August 22, 2024
Classroom Organization: Cultivating a Space Where Learning Happens
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The Practitioner
July 11, 2024
Psychological Influences in Personal Financial Literacy
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The Practitioner
June 13, 2024
LATs: Using Best Practice to Support the Implementation of Online Testing
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The Practitioner
May 16, 2024
Book Talk #4: QSSSA: The Essential Method for Structuring Conversations in All Classrooms
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The Social Studies School Service Book Club Series
May 9, 2024
Supporting K-2 Literacy through Social Studies
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The Practitioner
April 11, 2024
It’s All Connected: Aligning Social Studies Courses
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The Practitioner
March 21, 2024
Content and Language Objectives 101
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The Practitioner
February 22, 2024
Book Talk #3: The Black Mozart: Le Chevalier de Saint-Georges
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The Social Studies School Service Book Club Series
February 8, 2024
Give Them Something to Talk About: Building Efficacy and Engagement through Guided Academic Discourse
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The Practitioner
January 11, 2024
Improving Student Engagement with Interact Simulations
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The Practitioner
December 14, 2023
Measuring History and Civics Achievement: Lessons from the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress
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The Practitioner
November 30, 2023
Book Talk #2: The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—and How to Fix It
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The Social Studies School Service Book Club Series
November 9, 2023
Conversational Videos in the Classroom
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The Practitioner
October 12, 2023
Unreal: Leveraging Fiction in the Search for Truth
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The Practitioner
September 28, 2023
Book Talk #1 – Partnering: Forge the Deep Connections That Make Great Things Happen
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The Social Studies School Service Book Club Series
September 14, 2023
By the Time the Bell Rings: Planning for Effective Tier 1 Instruction in Social Studies
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The Practitioner
August 10, 2023
Classroom Management 101: Routines and Procedures
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The Practitioner
April 19, 2023
Book Talk – Literacy is Liberation
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
April 5, 2023
In a Flash: Super-Short Texts for Big Conversations
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Disciplinary Literacy
March 8, 2023
Leading Social Studies: Using Data to Drive Instruction
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Leading Social Studies
February 9, 2023
Book Talk – Civil Discourse: Classroom Conversations for Stronger Communities
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Leading Social Studies
January 11, 2023
Leading Social Studies: Advocating for Social Studies
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Leading Social Studies
December 7, 2022
Be the Change: Getting Started with Cultural Responsive Teaching
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
November 16, 2022
Picture This: Picture Books in the Social Studies Classroom
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Disciplinary Literacy
November 9, 2022
Reading and Writing: A More Perfect Union
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Disciplinary Literacy
November 3, 2022
Book Talk – Creating Successful Learners by Utilizing a Gender Lens
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
October 26, 2022
Seeing is Believing: Developing Visual Literacy Skills to Support Student Learning
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Disciplinary Literacy
October 20, 2022
Book Talk – Discover Develop Deploy: Creating a Teacher Leader Corps Program
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Leading Social Studies
October 12, 2022
Big Ideas! Big Impact!
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Learning that Lasts
September 28, 2022
Increase Retention by Utilizing Hands-on Learning
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Learning that Lasts Elementary
September 14, 2022
Using Active Classroom to Plan for Tier 1 Instruction
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Learning that Lasts
September 1, 2022
Classroom Routines and Procedures 101: Cultivating a Structured and Efficient Classroom Environment
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Learning that Lasts
May 19, 2022
Planning through the Lens of the Black Historical Consciousness Principles: Black Historical Contention
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
May 12, 2022
Research Based Best Practice in Social Studies
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Student Improvement
May 10, 2022
Learn by Doing with Mapping Activities
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Learning that Lasts
April 26, 2022
Transform Your PreK Classroom into Their Favorite Place
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Learning that Lasts
April 21, 2022
Secondary Geography Doesn’t Have to Come Second
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Learning that Lasts
April 12, 2022
Making Personal Financial Literacy Culturally Relevant and Responsive
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Learning that Lasts
April 7, 2022
Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy
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Book Talk
April 5, 2022
How to Ensure Inclusion in Secondary Social Studies, Literature and Literacy
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
March 29, 2022
Collaborate and Problem Solve with Digital Activities
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Learning that Lasts
March 24, 2022
Planning through the Lens of the Black Historical Consciousness Principles: Black Identities
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
March 15, 2022
Discover Develop Deploy: Discovering Your Why
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Leading Social Studies
March 10, 2022
Disciplinary Literacy in the Social Studies Classroom
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Disciplinary Literacy
February 24, 2022
Planning through the Lens of the Black Historical Consciousness Principles: Black Joy
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
February 17, 2022
Make Time for Simulation-Based Activities in the K-8 Classroom
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Learning that Lasts
February 15, 2022
The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t
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Book Talk
February 10, 2022
Economical Ways to Provide More Professional Learning Opportunities for Teachers
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Leading Social Studies
February 3, 2022
Tools for the Elementary Classroom: Evaluating Primary and Secondary Sources
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Disciplinary Literacy
January 20, 2022
Introduction to Visual Literacy
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Disciplinary Literacy
January 11, 2022
Questions Are the New Answers
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Student Improvement
January 6, 2022
Dare to Dream: Your first 5 years as a Social Studies Coordinator
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Leading Social Studies
December 16, 2021
The Power of Hands-on Mapping
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Learning that Lasts
December 9, 2021
Simulation-Based Learning: The Lasting Value Beyond the Classroom
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Learning that Lasts
December 9, 2021
The Black Historical Consciousness Principles: Africa and the African Diaspora
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
December 7, 2021
The Harlem Renaissance: A Celebration of Culture or Call to Action?
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Teaching the American Spirit
November 16, 2021
Taking Informed Action with the C3 Framework
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Learning that Lasts
November 9, 2021
Instructional Coaching 101
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Leading Social Studies
November 4, 2021
Discovering Hidden Figures: Mae C. Jemison
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Teaching the American Spirit
November 2, 2021
Unsolved. Mysteries? Asking the Right Questions
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November 2, 2021
October 28, 2021
The Black Historical Consciousness Principles: Black Agency, Resistance, and Perseverance
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
October 19, 2021
Meeting the Needs of All Learners Using Maps and Atlases
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Learning that Lasts
October 7, 2021
“Reading” Art
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Disciplinary Literacy
Length: 35 Minutes
September 28, 2021
Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning: Developing Student Writing in Social Studies Classrooms
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Pedagogical Social Studies
September 23, 2021
The Black Historical Consciousness Principles: Power and Oppression
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Seeking Culturally Responsive Classrooms
September 9, 2021
Ready, Set, Go: Implementing the C3 Framework in your District
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Leading Social Studies
August 24, 2021
Foster Student Ownership: Individualize Your Curriculum through Choice Boards
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Pedagogical Social Studies
May 13, 2021
Geography in the Elementary Years: Fostering Spatial Awareness for Young Learners
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Teaching Strategies
May 11, 2021
Teaching All Sides of History: New Trends in Indigenous Education
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Diversity
May 4, 2021
Combine Geography Skills and Current Events with Mapping the News
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Teaching Strategies
April 22, 2021
Strategies for Secondary Social Studies: Challenge Your Students to Visualize, Reason, and Think Critically About the World
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Teaching Strategies
April 20, 2021
Get the Most Out of Young Citizens: Deliberately Designed Group Work
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Teaching Strategies
April 15, 2021
Integrating Active Classroom with Google Classroom
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Teaching Strategies
March 23, 2021
Discussing Controversial Topics with Young Students: Fostering Skills to Comprehend Current Events
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Diversity
March 11, 2021
Working with Simulations: “Learning By Doing” Improves Student Engagement & Retention
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Inquiry
March 9, 2021
Social-Emotional Learning in the Digital Space: Strategies for the Pandemic-Era
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Teaching Strategies
February 25, 2021
Utilize Geography and Narrative Learning to Expand Foundational Pre-K Skills
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Inquiry
February 23, 2021
Geography as a Disciplinary Lens: Tools to Help Your Students Combine History and Geography
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Inquiry
February 9, 2021
Equity Challenges in the Remote Learning Environment: Strategies to Help All Student Succeed
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Diversity
February 4, 2021
Get the Most Out of Young Citizens: Build Skills to Analyze and Interpret Bias
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Teaching Strategies
January 19, 2021
Promoting Elementary Inquiry: Help Students Develop Their Own Questions
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Inquiry
January 14, 2021
Summative Assessments: Utilize Young Citizens to Meet and Exceed State Standards
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Teaching Strategies
January 12, 2021
Get the Most Out of Active Classroom: Intervention Resources for All Students
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Teaching Strategies
December 10, 2020
Get the Most Out of Young Citizens: Combine Reading and Social Studies Effectively
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Differentiation
December 8, 2020
Teaching All Sides of History: Indigenous Peoples of North America
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Diversity
December 3, 2020
Celebrate Inclusive Holidays to Foster Respect For Diverse Cultures
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Diversity
November 12, 2020
Get the Most Out of Young Citizens: Inquiry Strategies for Grade 5
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Inquiry
November 10, 2020
Get the Most Out of Active Classroom: Facilitating Online Discussions
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Remote Learning
October 27, 2020
Get the Most Out of Young Citizens: Encourage Diversity and Civic Engagement
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Diversity
October 22, 2020
Taking the Sting out of the Conversation: How to Help Students Hear Voices They Disagree With
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Diversity
October 20, 2020
Strategies for Secondary Social Studies: Develop Inquiry Skills for the Classroom and Beyond
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Inquiry
October 15, 2020
Teaching Tolerance and Promoting Empathy in the K-12 Classroom
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Diversity
October 13, 2020
How to Implement Diversity and Equity Strategies in Your School
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Diversity
October 8, 2020
Civic Engagement in the Elementary Classroom: Teaching about Elections and Voting
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Voting & Elections
October 6, 2020
Get the Most Out of Active Classroom: Teaching About Elections and Voting
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Diversity
October 1, 2020
Holding Space for Dissent in Online Classrooms
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Diversity
September 24, 2020
Primary Sources in the Primary Grades? You Betcha!
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Inquiry
September 22, 2020
Make Distance Learning a Success: Best Practices for Online Instruction
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Remote Learning
September 17, 2020
Get the Most Out of Young Citizens: Differentiation to Promote Learning for All Students
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Differentiation
September 15, 2020
Encourage Civil Discourse to Discuss Controversial Topics in the Secondary Classroom
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Diversity
August 27, 2020
Fostering Inquiry in the Elementary Classroom: Teaching Critical Thinking to Young Students
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Inquiry
August 20, 2020
Get the Most out of Young Citizens: Remote Learning Options for Teachers, Students, and Parents
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Remote Learning
August 18, 2020
Leverage Active Classroom for Blended and Remote Instruction
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Remote Learning
May 19, 2020
Strategies for Secondary Social Studies Students: Interpreting Political Cartoons
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Social Studies School Service
May 14, 2020
Making Social Studies Concepts Tangible for Pre–K Students
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Social Studies School Service
May 12, 2020
New Active Classroom Content: New Series, Current Events, and More!
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Active Classroom
May 7, 2020
Standards-Based Grading: Benefit or Detractor for Students?
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Social Studies School Service
April 23, 2020
Using a Methodical Approach to Investigate “Personal” Primary Sources
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Social Studies School Service
April 9, 2020
So You Want to Write Your Own Curriculum Map?
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Active Classroom
April 2, 2020
Deciphering “Personal” Primary Sources: Teaching Elementary Students Tools and Techniques to Analyze
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Social Studies School Service
March 26, 2020
Inquiry in the Secondary Classroom: Teaching Students to Ask Their Own Compelling Questions
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Social Studies School Service
March 19, 2020
Manage Training for A Crash Course in Assessments for Social Studies
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Social Studies School Service
March 17, 2020
Manage Training for Pre-teaching Strategies and Activities to Engage ELL Students
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Social Studies School Service
March 12, 2020
Applying C3 Digitally: Making the Framework Make Sense to All Students
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Active Classroom
March 6, 2020
When Time is Limited for Social Studies, How Do You Decide What to Teach
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Social Studies School Service
February 20, 2020
Using Narrative and Simulation-Based Learning to Foster Civil Discourse
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Social Studies School Service
February 13, 2020
Getting the Most Out of Active Classroom Text to speech Assessment Tools and More
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Active Classroom
February 6, 2020
Advancing Biliteracy in the Elementary Classroom Through Hands-on Activities
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Nystrom World
January 28, 2020
Working Together: How to Build Strong Relationships between Social Studies Teachers and Academic Coaches
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Social Studies School Service
January 23, 2020
Teaching Empathy: Ways to Foster Socioemotional Learning in K–8 Classrooms
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Social Studies School Service
January 21, 2020
Building Critical Thinkers: Providing Opportunity for Students to “Get Stuck” and Problem Solve
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Active Classroom
January 16, 2020
5 Steps to Developing Inquiry for K–5 Students
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Social Studies School Service
December 12, 2019
Content Exploration: Utilizing C3 Inquiry to Develop Student Skills
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Active Classroom
December 10, 2019
Making Abstract Ideas Concrete: Applications in Elementary Social Studies
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Social Studies School Service
November 26, 2019
Deepening Student Learning: Taking Action and Communicating Results
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Microcredential
November 19, 2019
Using Digital Mapping Activities to Develop Critical Thinking
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Social Studies School Service
November 14, 2019
Micro-Credentials: The Newest Form of Professional Learning
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Microcredential
November 12, 2019
Make Thinking Visible: Teach Your Elementary Students How You Think about Social Studies
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Social Studies School Service
October 29, 2019
Using Evidence to Support Student Learning: Now That’s Powerful!
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Microcredential
October 24, 2019
Active Learning: Using Storytelling and Simulations to Improve Student Learning
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Social Studies School Service
October 15, 2019
Grading for Elementary Classrooms: What Works, What Doesn’t, and What’s Next
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Social Studies School Service
September 24, 2019
Inquiry-Based Learning: Primary Sources for History, Geography, Economics, and Civics
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Microcredential
September 19, 2019
Simulations: What Role Do They Play in Today’s High-Stakes Testing Environment?
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Active Classroom
September 17, 2019
Setting the Foundation to Think Critically: Promoting Inquiry in the Elementary Classroom
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Social Studies School Service
August 29, 2019
Pre-K Learning: Setting a Foundation for Thinking
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Social Studies School Service
August 27, 2019
Question and Inquire: Develop Inquiry through Compelling Questions
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Microcredential
August 22, 2019
New to Active Classroom? Let’s Get Started!
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Active Classroom
August 20, 2019
Creating a Classroom Culture that Fosters Social and Emotional Learning
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Social Studies School Service
May 14, 2019
Building Context for ELL Students
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Active Classroom
May 9, 2019
Consume, Critique, Create—Writing for Social Studies
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Social Studies School Service
May 7, 2019
Depth of Knowledge—Challenging Students with Higher Level Learning
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Social Studies School Service
April 30, 2019
Career, College, and Civic Life—The Framework in Action
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Active Classroom
April 25, 2019
Critical Thinking is Critical, So Think Critically
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Social Studies School Service
April 16, 2019
Visual Displays and More—Putting Elementary Primary Sources to Work
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Social Studies School Service
March 21, 2019
Facilitating Student Engagement with Assessments
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Social Studies School Service
March 19, 2019
Student Choice—Pathways to Reaching Learning Goals
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Active Classroom
March 12, 2019
Developing Reading Comprehension—Strategies for Elementary Students
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Social Studies School Service
February 26, 2019
Effective Personalized Learning—How It Works in the Classroom
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Social Studies School Service
February 21, 2019
Utilizing Process to Differentiate for Students
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Active Classroom
February 12, 2019
Root Words—Developing Literacy Skills in Young Students
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Social Studies School Service
January 29, 2019
AP and Beyond—Prepping Students For More Than an Exam
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Active Classroom
January 24, 2019
Diverse Socioeconomic Backgrounds—Teaching with Poverty in Mind
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Social Studies School Service
January 15, 2019
Helping Young Students Apply Close Reading Skills
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Social Studies School Service
December 13, 2018
PBLs for the Young Student—What Teachers Need to Know
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Social Studies School Service
December 11, 2018
Rigor or Cognitive Rigor—What Does It Mean for Teachers and Students?
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Active Classroom
December 6, 2018
PBLs—Why Students Love Them and Why Teachers Should Use Them
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Social Studies School Service
November 8, 2018
ELL Support
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Active Classroom
November 1, 2018
Civic Engagement—What Does It Mean?
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Social Studies School Service
October 18, 2018
Struggling Students—What Do You Do?
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Social Studies School Service
October 11, 2018
Powerful Reading, Powerful Discussions
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Active Classroom
October 2, 2018
Vocabulary Strategies for Young Citizens
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Social Studies School Service
September 27, 2018
Fluency: The Bridge between Word Recognition and Reading Comprehension
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Social Studies School Service
September 20, 2018
Everything You Need to Know about Hands-On Learning
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Social Studies School Service
September 4, 2018
New to Active Classroom? This Is for You.
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Social Studies School Service
May 22, 2018
Making Thinking Visible
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Social Studies School Service
May 15, 2018
Literacy Strategies to Enhance Student Success
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Active Classroom
April 26, 2018
Leverage Blended Learning for Student Success
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Active Classroom
March 29, 2018
Do You Have a Growth Mindset or a Fixed Mindset?
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Active Classroom
February 22, 2018
Build Vocabulary with Retention-Boosting Activities
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Social Studies School Service
February 20, 2018
Inquiry-Based Learning with Active Classroom
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Active Classroom
February 15, 2018
Formative or Summative Assessments: Using Both to Enhance Student Learning
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Social Studies School Service
January 18, 2018
Supporting Your Struggling Learners
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Active Classroom