Lightning Jay
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Getting smarter about teaching and history at Binghamton University, SUNY.
New Article! What do high school students learn about rightwing history? Not very much.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C7MT4...
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The modern political right in United States history standards
The last decade has seen a global rise in the power of the political Right. In some countries, that has meant a shift towards centre-right traditional conservativism. In others, more radical rightw...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/C7MT4BTRCVGAVASQJQ2I/full?target=10.1080/00220272.2025.2548299
about 1 month ago
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To The Past
about 2 months ago
Good thinkers having good discussions. As we gear up for another year in the classroom, how can we make our classrooms hubs of rich discussion?
#sschat
#cdnhistory
#historyeducation
#historicalthinking
#bced
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Should Project 2025 be required reading for high schoolers? In our new article,
@abigailrd.bsky.social
and I explore two ways for teachers to bring challenging texts into the classroom.
www.socialstudies.org/social-educa...
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Social Education September 2025
https://www.socialstudies.org/social-education/89/4
about 2 months ago
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Joshua Weishart
about 2 months ago
Even as oppression descends, a democratic education campaign can uplift.
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New podcast!!! You can listen to
@abbyreisman.bsky.social
and I discuss the importance of discussions in the social studies classroom! It get meta!!
visionsofed.com/2025/07/21/e...
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Episode 216: Observing Classroom Discussions with Lightning Jay & Abby Reisman
In episode 216, Dan and Michael chat with Lightning Jay and Abby Reisman about their article published in Theory & Research in Social Education, âThe social studies discourse instrument: ValidaâŠ
https://visionsofed.com/2025/07/21/episode-216-observing-classroom-discussions-with-lightning-jay-abby-reisman/
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New paper! Real Talk: Designing Practice-Based Teacher Education for Family Communication
www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15...
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https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/15/7/814
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#AERA
is such an intense conference. I always come back with so many ideas. This year, I'm also coming back with an award! So grateful to the Social Studies SIG and my co-authors for the Outstanding Paper recognition.
6 months ago
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Adam "I Was Hoping We Could Keep It" Laats
6 months ago
School people, bad news from SCOTUS. This case is a big deal. Yes, LGBTQ rights, but much more: It threatens basic school functions: 1.) Children's right to get the best knowledge; 2.) Schools' ability to do basic administration. Here's an explainer thread: (1/)
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/u...
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Supreme Court Seems Set to Allow Opt-Outs From L.G.B.T.Q. Stories in Schools (Gift Article)
In a lively and sometimes heated argument, the Supreme Courtâs conservative majority appeared poised to rule for parents with religious objections to storybooks with gay and transgender characters.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/us/politics/supreme-court-lgbtq-books.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Bk8.DnIR.mCnF64ZaAvCD&smid=url-share
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Some great news!
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6 months ago
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History Education Research Journal
7 months ago
HERJ has a
#CallForPapers
on Shifting Practices in
#HistoryEducation
in Africa: Critical Perspectives and New Directions. For more information, including how to contribute, read the full call here:
journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/news/25/
Articles will publish
#OpenAccess
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7 months ago
A little louder for the people in the back! Sourcing, close reading, and questioning without robust historical knowledge is unlikely to generate robust demonstrations of historical thinking.
@lightningjay.bsky.social
directing us appropriately towards "skills, practice, AND knowledge".
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So smart of my alma mater to comply in advance with all the administration's demands. Can you just imagine what kind of capricious attacks on Penn's funding might have happened otherwise?
whyy.org/articles/pen...
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Trump administration freezes $175M in funding to Penn over trans athlete policies
âThis is immediate proactive action to review discretionary funding streamsâ to the University of Pennsylvania, a senior White House official told WHYY News.
https://whyy.org/articles/penn-trump-trans-athlete-funding/
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Fun detail about writing in 2025. This article came out yesterday. The same day, I saw an AI slop version of my writing on a different website. An obvious "rewrite this article in worse language" prompt. Same pictures and everything.
theconversation.com/why-history-...
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Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation
Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.
https://theconversation.com/why-history-instruction-is-critical-for-combating-online-misinformation-248528
7 months ago
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New Article! Better thinking about online information requires skills, practice, AND knowledge. I make the case that this new crisis highlights just how badly we need great history classes.
theconversation.com/why-history-...
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Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation
Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.
https://theconversation.com/why-history-instruction-is-critical-for-combating-online-misinformation-248528
7 months ago
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The Conversation U.S.
7 months ago
Chess masters and physicists show how expertise, not innate talent, enables flexible thinking. For evaluating online info, that means knowing
#history
and civics. A scholar explains:
buff.ly/gFAFTB3
@lightningjay.bsky.social
, Binghamton University, SUNY
#highered
#psychology
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Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation
Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.
https://buff.ly/gFAFTB3
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Dear Higher Ed: It won't help to take away faculty control of academic departments. It won't help to ban masks or empower campus cops. It won't help to overhaul admissions to favor white students. .... ... ...They were always going to shoot the puppy no matter what.
www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...
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Exclusive | Columbia Is Nearing Agreement to Give Trump What He Wants
The school faces a deadline to yield to administration demands in negotiations over federal funding.
https://www.wsj.com/us-news/education/columbia-is-nearing-agreement-to-give-trump-what-he-wants-14315bb3
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Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation
@us.theconversation.com
@lightningjay.bsky.social
theconversation.com/why-history-...
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Why history instruction is critical for combating online misinformation
Critical thinking involves specific skills for assessing evidence, but background knowledge about the subject is also essential.
https://theconversation.com/why-history-instruction-is-critical-for-combating-online-misinformation-248528
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7 months ago
Young-earth creationism: social-studies edition.
www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/u...
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Oklahoma Proposes Teaching 2020 Election âDiscrepanciesâ in U.S. History (Gift Article)
The Oklahoma Board of Education recently approved a new, more conservative social studies agenda that has irked even some Republicans.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/us/oklahoma-2020-election-history-standards.html?unlocked_article_code=1.304.TQXh.wWE61fPOQ0B-&smid=url-share
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Christopher Martell
8 months ago
Social studies teachers: Working on a research study about right wing movements in U.S. history. What historical figures or documents do you use related to that topic and 20th and 21st histories?
#sschat
#edusky
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sr_toliver
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Hereâs the second op-ed!.
www.newsweek.com/its-2025say-...
ââŠtoday's rhetoric proposes that a substandard education is a small cost for maintaining racism, homophobia, trans violence, and antiblackness.â
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It's 2025âSay No To Historic Racist Goals in U.S. Education | Opinion
Schools must be a place where students can question, debate, and think critically about the world around them. But the White House's K-12 executive order pushes the education system in the opposite di...
https://www.newsweek.com/its-2025say-no-historic-racist-goals-us-education-opinion-2033392
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8 months ago
Trump's ed orders are a dumpster fire. But the real looming school-tastrophe is different: SCOTUS agreed to decide about a religious public school. It's confusing, so here's a weekend thread of explainers. First:
@drprestongreen.bsky.social
lays out the case: (1/4)
today.uconn.edu/2025/01/make...
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Makeup of Charter School Governing Board Could Impact Whether They Offer Religious Education - UConn Today
Charter schools were codified into law with the intent of defining them as public institutions, says UConn's Preston Green, therefore secular and unabl ...
https://today.uconn.edu/2025/01/makeup-of-charter-school-governing-board-could-impact-whether-they-offer-religious-education/
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New Paper! The first validated observation tool for social studies classroom discussions! Introducing the SSDI (social studies discourse instrument)
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ETANM...
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The social studies discourse instrument: Validating an observation tool for classroom discussions
This article introduces the Social Studies Discourse Instrument (SSDI), a novel observation tool for capturing whole-class discussions in social studies. This tool assesses three domains of classro...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/ETANMUUUPRN4TIRGYP7C/full?target=10.1080/00933104.2025.2453513
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I got a couple quotes in this Fortune piece. It's not easy being a young person today, but I'm not sure growing up has ever been easy. For the profs, employers, and parents, let's be generous.
fortune.com/2025/01/23/g...
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Professors teaching Gen Z say they're more anxious than millennials and have already given up on the American Dream
Gen Z really are different from their millennial predecessors professors say. But employers are party to blame for their lack of pizzazz.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/23/gen-z-are-anxious-professors-say-giving-up-american-dream/
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9 months ago
Asking for all us history teachers: What do we tell US high-schoolers about Jan. 6?
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/u...
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The Jan. 6 Rioters, 4 Years Later (Gift Article)
Hundreds of rioters accused of nonviolent crimes during the attack on the Capitol have wrapped up their cases. Hereâs what some of their lives look like now.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/06/us/politics/trump-capitol-attack-jan-6.html?unlocked_article_code=1.nE4.ivd8.5QPi-vb5H_UK&smid=url-share
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A special issue on Social Studies Teacher Education? I love to see it! We need more of this! Here's my contribution to issue, where I argue that we need to think more deeply about how social studies teachers learn.
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JRARR...
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Social Studies Teacher Education and the Legacy of PCK: Exploring Situated Theories of Preservice Teacher Development
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has framed teacher education for decades, despite the difficulty of demonstrating that teacher preparation effectively develops PCK. Social studies educators hav...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JRARRCIB8GJEZYF7H6IB/full?target=10.1080/08878730.2024.2420217
9 months ago
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Exciting news! Binghamton's Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities is going to be supporting my research into teaching about fascism and Nazi supporters in the United States. It happened here and we need to learn how to talk about it! Very grateful that the IASH is part of the effort.
10 months ago
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As we close the door on 2024, I want to bump this project. Free resources for Social Studies Teacher Educators.
@socialstudies.org
and
@librarycongress.bsky.social
were generous enough to support a few of us in thinking about deepening teaching practice.
www.socialstudies.org/tps/teaching...
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Teaching with Primary Sources to Prepare Students for College, Career, and Civic Life Volume 2
https://www.socialstudies.org/tps/teaching-primary-sources-vol2
10 months ago
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As the semester wraps up, I'm watching videos of preservice teachers facilitating student-centered text-based discussions. In September, they all thought this was too hard, that their kids weren't ready, that it wasn't necessary. And now they're doing it!
10 months ago
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Really enjoying this article. I'd add the word "controversial" to other terms that I think deserve this kind of close scrutiny and thoughtful reconsideration.
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10 months ago
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Peter Greene
11 months ago
Well, on the one hand, Linda McMahon is completely unqualified to lead the Department of Education. On the other hand, unlike some others considered, she hasn't devoted her entire adult life to trying to dismantle and destroy public education, so she'll have to learn that part from scratch, too.
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Obligatory travel song for this year's conference?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BMv...
@ncssnetwork.bsky.social
@cufancss.bsky.social
#CUFA2024
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Dropkick Murphys - I'm Shipping Up To Boston [OFFICIAL VIDEO]
YouTube video by Epitaph Records
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BMv4kecwEQ
11 months ago
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Staunchly against AI for grading, but kind of open to emojis for grading. These essays are largely đ with a few đ„° and hardly any đ±. Is that an edtech product? Can I patent that?
11 months ago
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Christopher Martell
11 months ago
Social studies education professor colleagues: Feel free to put this bar graph I created in your tenure and promotion file to explain why you don't get grants like your STEM colleagues do. đđ
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New Teacher Ed. Paper! How are we thinking about what social studies teachers need to know?
www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JRARR...
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Social Studies Teacher Education and the Legacy of PCK: Exploring Situated Theories of Preservice Teacher Development
Pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) has framed teacher education for decades, despite the difficulty of demonstrating that teacher preparation effectively develops PCK. Social studies educators hav...
https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/JRARRCIB8GJEZYF7H6IB/full?target=10.1080/08878730.2024.2420217
12 months ago
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Thrilled to be included in TRSE's Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education collection. Some wonderful thinking about the work of preparing teachers, now open access!
www.tandfonline.com/journals/utr...
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Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education
Explore the article collection: Rethinking Social Studies Teacher Education. Published in Theory & Research in Social Education.
https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/utrs20/collections/Social-Studies-Teacher-Education
12 months ago
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I got to talk with Parents Mag again! We can do to support reading, but let's not forget that "In many classrooms students are diligently working their way through tough texts and in many homes families are finding delight, meaning, and connection through books.â
www.parents.com/why-kids-are...
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The Real Reasons Why Kids Don't Seem to Love Reading Full Books Anymore
Anecdotes and evidence point to a decrease in the love of reading among students bound for college. Here's what parents need to know.
https://www.parents.com/why-kids-are-no-longer-reading-full-books-8724446
about 1 year ago
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Teach the Conflicts: Itâs naturalâand rightâto foster disagreement in the classroom
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Teach the Conflicts - The American Scholar
Itâs naturalâand rightâto foster disagreement in the classroom
https://theamericanscholar.org/teach-the-conflicts/
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New teacher education research. What are we talking about, when we talk about practice? This framework helps explain some of the nuanced choices teacher educators make.
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A framework for approximations of practice: Variations in purpose, approach, and opportunities for learning
Approximations of practice are common in preservice teacher education, but there is currently no shared language to describe how teacher educators facâŠ
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0742051X24003287?dgcid=author
about 1 year ago
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I had the chance to chat with Parents Magazine. The punchline? We've got to rally behind teachers, now more than ever.
www.parents.com/teachers-are...
#EdusSky
about 1 year ago
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If you're more of a TV person, here's me talking about supporting civic dialogue in classrooms.
www.wicz.com/story/512986...
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BU Experts Hold Panel to Discuss Classroom Controversies
https://www.wicz.com/story/51298653/bu-experts-hold-panel-to-discuss-classroom-controversies
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New short piece! If we want history to be meaningful, we've got to teach the Right!
historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-...
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Why Does American History Feel Like Ancient History to High School Students?
An argument for returning the recent past, and the history of modern conservatism, to classrooms.
http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/why-does-us-history-feel-like-ancient-history
over 1 year ago
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We're doing work! Very excited about this project bringing preservice teachers and social workers into dialogue with families.
www.binghamton.edu/news/story/4...
over 1 year ago
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Brand new paper on coaching history teachers with Abby Reisman. We know student-centered discussions are critically important for students, but so challenging for teachers. So how do you help teachers learn to lead discussions?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
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https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/00224871231223443
over 1 year ago
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