In this ever changing, interdependent world, students need a geographic awareness that includes familiarity with different cultures, beliefs, and lifestyles to understand and address global issues.

This history-education researcher offers his views on how to successfully teach the skills of historical inquiry.  

In this investigation we will learn to better understand the disciplinary concepts and tools used within the four core disciplines within the social studies: civics, economics, geography, and history. This dimension of the C3 Framework does not focus on specific content that students should learn in each of these disciplines. Rather, this dimension outlines the broad concepts and tools that students need to understand the specific content found in their state curriculum standards.  As with the rest of the C3 Framework, Dimension 2 is focused on moving beyond knowledge of dates, facts,…

The Inquiry and Teaching with Primary Sources to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life institute discusses how to construct social studies curriculum inquiries for your pre-service teachers using digital sources from the Library of Congress. Pilot and share in-depth feedback on two online methods texts currently under development:  Using Inquiry to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life (Elementary K-6 Edition) Using Inquiry to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life (Secondary 6-12 Edition) These texts are a project generously…

All attendees, presenters, exhibitors, staff, volunteers, and vendors attending the 102nd NCSS Annual Conference, December 2-4, 2022 must provide proof of vaccination for admittance.  NCSS is working with CrowdPass, a HIPAA-compliant service, to verify vaccinations. It should only take you a few minutes to complete a simple, secure registration, and upload process. CrowdPass follows a thorough two-step verification process. Most verifications are completed within an hour or two, and CrowdPass will send a confirmation within one business day. CrowdPass will accept vaccination…

A Current Events Response by National Council for the Social Studies September 2022 The development of education standards has often included some level of political undertones and for this reason, the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) has consistently avoided commenting on specific organization, state, district, and/or teacher-developed social studies content and skills standards. Our position has remained consistent that the standards that organizations, states, districts, and/or schools and teachers develop or adopt should be grounded in content area scholarship, reflect best…

A Current Events Response by National Council for the Social Studies September 2022 The National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) is the largest professional organization devoted exclusively to the teaching and learning of social studies, and we represent over 10,000 social studies educators. The Civics Alliance recently published American Birthright: The Civics Alliance's Model K-12 Social Studies Standards. NCSS has a clear position statement on the best practices when developing social studies standards. Using the best practices outlined in that 2021 position statement, NCSS has…