Read Social Studies and the Young LearnerSSYL features teaching ideas, lesson plans, and handouts written by and for K-6 elementary educators. This colorful, peer-reviewed, 32-page, journal is published four times a year. Read about the current issue, download a free article, or access the current and back issues at the online members-only Archive. Visit the SSYL webpages where you can read about how to become an author yourself. If you publish with NCSS, you still "retain copyright."   Get "Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People" Each Year…

National Council for the Social Studies was invited by the National Coalition Against Censorship (NCAC), as a coalition member, to sign onto a statement regarding a recent legal action in Virginia that could affect future free speech rights nationwide if other states followed suit. NCSS and its state affiliate, Virginia Council for the Social Studies, have signed onto the statement alongside other coalition members in support and protection of First Amendment freedoms and education. Prohibiting the sale and distribution of books is an affront to our democratic values and threatens each…

Social Studies and the Young Learner: Children as Civic Agents during the Civil Rights Movement The Newest Monument: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Middle Level Learning:The Green Book: Finding Safe Passage in Jim Crow America Social Education: Cloture Motion on 1964 Civil Rights Bill A Street Named for a King: A Lesson in the Politics of Place-Naming The Meaning of Memory: Establishing the Martin Luther King, Jr., Holiday.…

Jere Brophy, Distinguished Professor of teacher education and educational psychology at Michigan State University and long-time NCSS member died October 15. He was 69 years old. Brophy was a leader in the field of teacher education, and was known for his pioneering research on effective teaching. In 2006, Brophy and Janet Alleman were awarded the NCSS Exemplary Research in Social Studies Award for their research on K-3 students’ thinking about social studies topics in their book Children's Thinking About Cultural Universals. "As a young teacher in the seventies and eighties, his scholarly…

"Resistance 101 " is a free introductory lesson, allowing students to “meet” people from throughout U.S. history who have used a range of social change strategies. The lesson features activists from the 1800s-present, including Dave Archambault II, Ella Baker, Anne Braden, Fannie Lou Hamer, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Fred Korematsu, Linda Sarsour, Emma Tenayuca, and many more. View this resource at www.teachingforchange.org/resistance101 This Teaching for Change (www.teachingforchange.org) lesson is based on the format of a Rethinking Schools (www.rethinkingschools.org) lesson called "Unsung…

Books by NCSS Members James A. Banks, Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, and Miriam Ben-Peretz. Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education: Improving Policy and Practice (Multicultural Education Series). New York: Teachers College Press, 2016. Paperback, $44.95, 256 pages. Description: Mass migration and globalization are creating new and deep challenges to education systems the world over. In this volume (part of the series Multicultural Education), some of the world's leading researchers in multicultural education and immigration discuss critical issues related to cultural sustainability,…

Desk copies are provided to college professors and instructors whose 10 or 20 college students might then each buy the book as a course requirement. The online form will ask you for this information: Course number and title Instructor's (Your) Name Title of publication requested Estimated number of students enrolled Instructor's address at the college (street, bldg, room, for successful delivery) E-mail address of instructor Request Desk Copy OTHER FACULTY RESOURCES INCLUDE: Info about copyright, http://www.socialstudies.org/publications/copyrighted_material Author Guidelines, http…

Learning the stories of Ida B. Wells-Barnett and Stacey Abrams can deepen students’ understanding of the long and ongoing struggle for voting rights in the United States.

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