South Dakota’s teachers will face difficult challenges of implementation, pedagogy, and content when their state’s new, politically influenced, social studies standards go into effect in 2024. 

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International children’s picture books provide windows and mirrors for children and allow them to consider issues of fairness, justice, equity, diversity, and the common good as they build their nascent citizenship skills.

Dawnavyn James, doctoral student, graduate assistant, and graduate fellow at the Center for K–12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education at the University of Buffalo, spent seven years in the elementary classroom as a teacher, three of those in kindergarten.Her research focuses on early childhood/elementary Black history instruction and curriculum development, using picture books to learn about and teach Black histories, and what we can learn from Black women educators of the past. 

Author Rebecca G. W. Mueller posits that local history is an effective approach to powerful social studies when it builds from children’s prior knowledge in personal and tangible ways. In this article, Mueller describes an inquiry approach that uses experiences of children who lived in Beaumont Mill Village to answer the question, “Did children in the past live like me?”