A study abroad program in Ghana helps preservice teachers gain new perspectives and develop culturally relevant educational practices.

An introduction to the Inquiry Design Model™ (IDM), a distinctive approach to creating curriculum and instructional materials that honors teachers’ knowledge and expertise, avoids over-prescription, and focuses on the main elements of the instructional design process as envisioned in the Inquiry Arc of the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for State Social Studies Standards. Presenters Kathy Swan Professor, Social Studies Education, Director of Next Generation Teacher Preparation University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY John Lee Professor, Middle Grades Social Studies Education…

Presented by Michelle Herczog, this recorded webinar describes how Social Studies and English Language Arts Methods Instructors at Schools of Education can utilize the C3 Framework as a vehicle for training teacher education students how to use the C3 Framework to meet the Common Core State Standards through the social studies curriculum. Presenter Michelle Herczog 2014-15 NCSS President Consultant III, History-Social Science, Los Angeles County Office of Education Documents shared during the webinar are available as downloadable documents below.  

M. Gail Hickey, ed. Reflecting on Service‐Learning in Higher Education. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield, 2016. 230 pages. $80.0 cloth; 79.77 eBook.This book examines forms of pedagogy such as service‐learning, experiential learning, and problem‐based learning in order to determine how students make connections between and among abstract academic concepts and real‐life issues. This edited collection is divided into three sections—“Reflecting on Community Partnerships,” “Reflecting on Classroom Practice,” and “Reflecting on Diversity”—so as to represent interdisciplinary…

As another presidential election year approaches, it’s a critical time to engage in classroom discussions about democracy—what it is, what threatens it today, and how we can protect it.

On the closing day of the 97th NCSS Annual Conference, Daniel Ellsberg was slated to address the plenary gathering, but he was ill that day, and co-speaker Peter J. Kuznick adeptly filled the hour (as will be reported in the next TSSP newsletter). Ellsberg was soon back on his feet, giving a 59-minute radio interview, a few weeks later. Teachers who wonder what Ellsberg might have said could do worse than check out the podcast and transcript at: https://www.democracynow.org/2017/12/6/doomsday_machine_daniel_ellsberg_reveals_he Ellsberg is author of The Pentagon Papers: A Secret History of the…

This documentary follows the creation of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s pop culture Broadway phenomenon "Hamilton" and the U.S. history behind it. Interviews with former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush, as well as Questlove, Jimmy Fallon, Nas, Stephen Sondheim, and more.

View an intimate portrait of the ongoing economic crisis told through kids growing up in the Midwest. The film revisits three families hit hard by the recession, exploring what poverty means to children and to the country.

A free, virtual library, International Affairs Resources, has over 2,000 carefully selected, annotated links in 34 international affairs categories. It is frequently maintained, receives worldwide use daily, and is designed for teachers, professors, scholars, students, researchers, diplomats, and the interested public, among others.  This directory is supported by Elizabethtown College, Pennsylvania, USA, and has recently relocated to http://www.internationalaffairsresources.com. (All external links to any former URLs of this site since 1999 will automatically be forwarded to the new URLs…

iCivics is featured in a new book exploring how video games are pioneering social change around the world.POWER PLAY: How Video Games Can Save the World by Asi Burak and Laura Parker devotes a chapter to iCivics’ origin story to illustrate how video games can be a force for good in society. The chapter narrated how Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was inspired to turn educational video games into the nation’s largest civic engagement project, which is now used by over 5 million students every year. Justice O’Connor said of the book, “This fascinating book shows how much games have to teach not…