The story of how Virginia’s educators defended the curriculum on behalf of their students can serve as a model for teachers nationwide in the face of increased efforts to politicize history and social studies education.
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.
Exploring the Commerce Clause—a constitutional device used for much more than regulation of commerce—can launch engaging classroom lessons on topics ranging from labor practices, civil rights, environmental policies, and public health.
The National Archives offers a suite of educational programs through its Civics for All of US initiative that can help deepen students’ understanding of the Bill of Rights and our other founding documents.
Examining the featured map of Clarendon County, S.C., can springboard into a fascinating lesson on geography, racial segregation, and access to school before Brown v. Board of Education.
An Inquiry Revolution: The 10th Anniversary of the C3 Framework
An increasing number of U.S. states use the inquiry-based C3 Framework when developing new social studies standards, ensuring that more students have the opportunity to engage in ambitious social studies learning.
The one-page blueprint known as the Inquiry Design Model helps teachers outline essential elements of inquiry-based instruction and enables them to plan inquiry experiences for students.
Launched with only 15 teachers to support implementation of the C3 Framework, today C3 Teachers is a network of thousands dedicated to moving social studies in new directions.
By merging disciplinary inquiry and critical inquiry, the C3 Framework has helped teachers engage students in developing deep content knowledge about issues relevant to their lives.