Category: political efficacy
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National Council for the Social Studies Conference 2018
I am proud to announce that my colleague and I will be presenting at the NCSS 2018 Conference in Chicago. Please visit us if you’ll be there! Empowering Students: Teaching Civic Action in American History Engaging students in civic action is both practical and necessary. American history courses can take a hybrid approach to teach…
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School Violence: Student Reflection
Today my class did a rehearsal for their Project Citizen public hearings, which are at the end of this week. In case you missed my post explaining Project Citizen, you can read it here. One of my classes chose to research and create policy about school violence in our home state, New Jersey. Not only is…
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History, Political Efficacy, and PBL
I’ve always known that one of the primary goals of my teaching is for students to understand the philosophy behind their rights as Americans, analyze how people have interpreted and defended their rights in the past, investigate how they continue to do so in the present, and to reflect upon their roles in…