Students engage in learning best when you give them a voice and orchestrate conversations where they are able to connect their personal experiences with academic content. Aligned to the C3 Framework’s Inquiry Arc, this one-hour webinar introduces a 3-Step teaching method for holding online SEL conversations with claims, counterclaims, and questions, and shows how to connect these conversations with curriculum. Learn a scalable go-to routine and practical tools for starting and managing an online conversation using Harriet Tubman as an example.  This webinar is a part of a series. Join NCSS…

Students engage in learning best when you give them a voice and orchestrate conversations where they are able to connect their personal experiences with academic content. Aligned to the C3 Framework’s Inquiry Arc, this one-hour webinar introduces a 3-Step teaching method for holding online SEL conversations with claims, counterclaims, and questions, and shows how to connect these conversations with curriculum. Learn a scalable go-to routine and practical tools for starting and managing an online conversation using Martin Luther King, Jr. as an example.  This webinar is a part of a series.…

Students engage in learning best when you give them a voice and orchestrate conversations where they are able to connect their personal experiences with academic content. Aligned to the C3 Framework’s Inquiry Arc, this one-hour webinar introduces a 3-Step teaching method for holding online SEL conversations with claims, counterclaims, and questions, and shows how to connect these conversations with curriculum. Learn a scalable go-to routine and practical tools for starting and managing an online conversation using a famous quote from Greek playwright Sophocles- “There is no success without…

Join special guest Natalie Wexler, author of The Knowledge Gap: The Hidden Cause of America’s Broken Education System—and How to Fix It, and inquirED CEO Shanti Elangovan to discuss the role of elementary social studies instruction in building deep background knowledge. note: all times Eastern Time

Implementing 25-minute instructional blocks when teaching online can help learners develop stronger inquiry skills and prevent the zombie-like effects of staring nonstop at a screen.

A close look at the history of African American voting rights can launch a lively classroom discussion about present-day democratic struggles.

The main focus of this issue is a special section on the Centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment that examines its limitations as well as its accomplishments. Outside the special section, the issue offers a rich set of articles on the topics of election security, the organization of online inquiries, the use of engaging primary sources, and the need for greater advocacy of the importance of social studies.

Members can form an NCSS Special Interest Community by submitting the form below along with a petition. Those forming a community must include justification for formation of the new community, and the names of at least fifteen NCSS members that support that the formation of the community. Please note: there shall be no duplication of intent, purpose or operation with an existing community.  For approval, the NCSS Board of Directors must be able to determine that the proposed community will provide a service to NCSS and the social studies community it represents.