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Cultivate your gift for empowering students, improve your instructional delivery, and change the way you teach social studies. My goal with this passion project is to bring you realistic advice, actionable tips, and use-tomorrow lessons.

If we’ve just met, welcome! These popular blog posts are great place to start changing the way you teach.

Make primary sources the centerpiece

Analyzing a historical primary source
Analyzing a news media source
Analyzing a historical poem
Analyzing a political cartoon

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Shift your whole approach

Designing and teaching US history thematically
Creating a project-based learning social studies classroom
Creating a DBQ-centered classroom

Add meaning to your leadership program

Designing a service leadership program
Teaching meaningful leadership skills
Implementing kindness projects

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Dive deeper into content area

US History
Government & Civics
Global Issues
Student Council & Leadership

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