Supporting Academic Freedom in Schools: Teaching Contentious/Controversial Issues Sponsor: College and University Faculty Assembly Co-Sponsors: Florida Council for the Social Studies; Association for the Teachers of Social Studies/United Federation of Teachers—New York City; Wisconsin Council for the Social Studies Rationale: NCSS (2010) has upheld that “Academic freedom for social studies teachers includes the right and responsibility to study, investigate, present, interpret, discuss, and debate relevant facts, issues, and ideas in fields of the teacher’s professional competence.…

The NCSS House of Delegates ("HOD") provides a forum for the general membership of NCSS, as represented by Affiliated Councils, Associated Groups, and Special Interest Communities, to bring ideas, principles, beliefs, and actions regarding social studies education to the attention of the NCSS Board of Directors. Resolutions are the framework through which the NCSS membership at-large makes recommendations to the Board. Any NCSS member can submit a resolution following the guidelines established in the House of Delegates Manual. Resolutions are debated and voted on during the HOD meeting at…

*/ National Council for the Social Studies is now accepting proposed resolutions for the 68th House of Delegates Assembly, to be held at the 2024 NCSS Annual Conference in Boston. The House of Delegates meeting serves as the official annual business meeting of the NCSS membership, and is composed of representatives of NCSS Affiliated Councils, Associated Groups, and Special Interest Communities. Resolutions are the vehicle through which NCSS members can bring issues before the HOD for debate and vote. Resolutions approved by the HOD are brought to the NCSS Board of Directors for approval and…

Consider how you can be a power player for diversity and equity by naming exclusive practices and language that are commonly used in education that are ineffective. Explore how you can encourage and activate inclusive language. Speaker: Magdalena Mata, Texas National Board Coalition for Teaching Founding Director

  National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) and Thinking Nation will host a special webinar that reviews a recent white paper published in Education Week and commissioned by Thinking Nation. The survey data gave statistics behind the anecdotes many of us know: 1. While Social Studies is deemed as critical for democracy, it is not viewed as a priority in most school districts; 2. Professional Development does not currently effectively support social studies teachers; 3. Social Studies as a discipline is not effectively vertically aligned in most contexts.  In this program, NCSS and Thinking…

In this article, the author offers teaching resources and insights from a two-week unit taught with in an eighth grade U.S. history class that deconstructed the boundaries between public and private by investigating the evolution of American household labor and tools.

After almost 20 years of service to her district in Oshkosh, Tanya Schmidt began working to revamp her school district’s K-5 social studies curriculum and, three years ago, she became the Oshkosh Area School District’s Social Studies Curriculum coordinator. C3 Teachers sat down with Tanya to talk about the state of education in Wisconsin, the Inquiry Design Model (IDM) as best cross-curricular practice, and what it means to live a life of inquiry.

Sarah Segal is a middle school teacher in Hood River, Oregon, specializing in history and social studies, language arts, and art. She has been a classroom teacher for more than 20 years, is a former president of the Oregon Council for the Social Studies (OCSS) and current member of the NCSS Book Award Committee.

An Inquiry into the History of Housework Plus • A C3 Teachers’ Interview • NCSS Member Spotlight

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