The Educators’ Professional Implementation Center (EPIC) is hosting professional learning opportunities focused on American documents and speeches with teaching, content and literacy experts.
Districts and teachers are invited to participate in the U.S. Department of Education’s Promoting Adolescents’ Comprehension of Text (PACT) research program.
This article highlights aspects of Kentucky’s deep – and not so deep – past as revealed by uncommon and often overlooked documents, archaeological sites and the artifacts they hold.
Three Kentucky educators are using role-playing games, like Dungeons & Dragons, to enrich student learning experiences.
The National Women’s History Museum is offering free educational resources to amplify women’s stories.
As social studies teachers, we know that everyone in every community in the United States plays a part in the American story. However, when I was growing up, we did not feel that was the case.
Educational materials for a range of social studies subjects are available through the National Archives.
The National Archives is taking applications for the Civics for All of US distance learning program. Multiple options are available for groups of 10 or more students in K-12, free of charge. Each program is led by an educator at National Archives sites, the federal Center for Legislative Archives and presidential libraries across the country.
How should I teach about Thanksgiving? This is a big (and frequent) question from educators to the National Museum of the American Indian and its national education initiative, Native Knowledge 360° (NK360°).
The Bill of Rights Institute's free Being an American: Exploring the Ideals That Unite Us curriculum has been one of the organization's most popular online resources for teaching middle school civics since the Institute was founded in 1999.