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Test drive the C4 Framework – Win a prize!
After years of sitting on the margins of instructional practice, social studies is getting a makeover. The Common Core is calling for the teaching of literacy through the integration of fiction and...
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A Guide to a New Type of Test
I got to know Jill Weber about five years ago when we started our second Teaching American History grant at ESSDACK. And she’s been great about opening up her classroom in a variety of ways including...
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6 C’s for analyzing primary sources
Over the last few years, we’ve seen the instructional strategy pendulum swing over to encouraging more use of evidence by students to solve authentic problems. And there’s tons of stuff out there to...
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H.I.T. Notebooks: A Different take on Interactive Notebooks
Jill Weber, 2016 Gilder Lehrman Kansas History Teacher of the Year, has joined the Doing Social Studies writing team and will be posting throughout the year. The following is a cross-post from her...
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Who’s your “most famous American?”
If you ‘ve had a chance to spend any amount of time with me, you know what I think of historian and author Sam Wineburg. Class? That’s right. He’s a stud. And I recently ran across some work he did...
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