“Stop crying,” Rick Rescorla told his wife on the phone, on 9/11. “I have to get these people out safely. If something should happen to me, I want you to know I’ve never been happier. You made my life.” https://t.co/hDH8lqX72Y #TNYarchive
This photo of a little girl taking in the #LaBorinqueña display at the @SmithsonianNMAI's #Taíno inspires me to continue doing the work that I do for her and every child that will come after her. She sees herself and through that also embraces the power she's always had.
Last call! Don't miss the last @NCSSNetwork mapping topic webinar - "Mapping Current Events: A Newsela & Google Adventure," 3/22, 7:00pm with @Newsela 's @EmilyLepkowski1 . A lesson plan for classroom applications will be provided. Details & registration: https://t.co/uSnxeUBK9l
Yes, this is #SocialStudiesInAction: when students identify & analyze public problems, deliberate about how to define & address issues, take constructive action together, reflect on their actions, create and sustain groups, & seek to influence institutions https://t.co/g4B1p5CjRt
The social studies have always been contested terrain, with political implications and pressures from many sides. What will be the game-changer, however, is the extent to which student voice and agency are fostered within the class and school. #CivXNow https://t.co/zKwfVEnDsN
U.S. troops have now been in Iraq longer than the average high school freshman has been alive. @NCSSNetworkPresident-Elect India Meissel and other social studies teacher leaders share their insights on teaching about the Iraq war in this @HuffPostEdu: https://t.co/JetBS25PBH
@dropoutnation@natwexler@hiattf “The marginalization of social studies education at the elementary level has been documented repeatedly.” Check out SASS survey data in pics and I’d recommend reading the @NCSSNetwork statement on elementary & the Tina Heafner’s research @unccharlotte. https://t.co/MZiZbSIn46
"The line between civic action and apathy, between hope and cynicism, is not drawn in adulthood. It etches its way through our schools... to divide young people who will help shape public policy from those who will merely be shaped by it."
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Student speaks in front of the U.S. Capitol on #NationalWalkoutDay: “Their right to own an assault rifle does not outweigh our right to live. The adults have failed us. This is in our hands now, and if any elected official gets in our way, we will vote them out.”
Did your students participate in the National Student Walkout today? A study "found that late adolescents and young adults who voted, volunteered or engaged in activism ultimately went further in school and had..." https://t.co/esleDTBWqg #SocialStudies#SocialStudiesInAction
Don't miss the last @NCSSNetwork mapping topic webinar - "Mapping Current Events: A Newsela & Google Adventure," 3/22, 7:00pm with @Newsela's @EmilyLepkowski1. A lesson plan for classroom applications will be provided. Details & registration: https://t.co/svRgHzmLJW
Students from @MTHSTrainer and @DCWard7teacher class face off in the 13th annual mock court simulation. Arguing for 4th amendment rights and protections in school students answer questions from DC justices like Merrick Garland. #CivXNow