Thoughtful Social Studies

Ten Ways to Get Your Kids to Talk About Content (and not about other stuff) Teachers talk too much, myself included (I apologize to ever...

Doc Strips. No, this blog hasn’t gone “blue”. This is not about a person named “Doc” who does anything NSFW (not suitable for work). Ins...

Do you ever show your kids an image, political cartoon, map, chart graph, etc., and find that kids focus on the One Thing in the image a...

How do people learn? That’s a pretty central question in our line of work. Sometimes we-as-teachers swear that we taught “The Things” bu...