New from Source Squads: Geo Groups. A learning strategy built around place, context, and connection. Details for 2026–2027 subscriptions are now available.

Accessibility is at the heart of what we do.

When source analysis puts students in the driver’s seat, real engagement happens. Teachers are seeing it. Students are owning it.

When curriculum is built by educators who understand students, the result is real impact.

This is why we do what we do. Hearing directly from educators about real impact in their classrooms is what drives us. We're proud to support schools in bringing our learning frameworks to classrooms, ensuring that all students have access to explicit instruction in literacy in Social Studies.

As the year comes to a close, we just want to say thank you to the educators and schools who trust our work. Seeing learners dig into sources and build real historical understanding is why we do this. We’re grateful to head into the new year alongside such committed educators. -Erin & Andrew

All set for #NCSS2025. Please come see us at Table 17. We can't wait to see familiar faces and meet new social studies educators... because democracy depends on it! #sschat #edusky #sourcesquads

We are looking forward to NCSS this week. Stop by the table 17 in the Exhibit Hall to say hi!

Today and every day, we’re grateful for the partnerships that make our work possible. To the school districts who opened their doors and helped us bring Source Squads to thousands of students—thank you for your trust, collaboration, and commitment to student success.

We are thrilled to be at the NJCSS annual conference! Erin is a NJ native, so it feels good to be home. Look for Andrew next month at his home conference on Long Island!

Our 2nd big announcement of the week: introducing History Puzzles, a brand-new historiography curriculum designed to deepen students’ understanding of historical interpretations. 🔍History Puzzles will be available with 2025-2026 subscriptions. Get ready to piece together the past like never before!

NEW for 2025-2026: Introducing Document Duos, a brand new pair-based learning strategy from Source Squads! Designed to enhance collaboration and critical thinking, Document Duos integrates seamlessly with our existing curriculum.

Teachers! Don't forget to submit your feedback forms after each Source Squads lesson for a chance to win a $25 gift card! Shout out to @colonialschooldistrict teachers who have given us some outstanding feedback so far! #sourcesquads #historyeducation

📜 Unlock the Past with Historical Literacy 101! 🎥 Now Streaming on YouTube 🔍 Curious about how to decode primary sources and understand historical bias? Our series gives you the tools to think critically and engage with history like never before. 👉https://www.youtube.com/@SourceSquad

The next installment in our Historical Literacy 101 series is live! Check out our YouTube channel to watch “What is Corroborating?” #sschat #edusky #sourcesquads youtu.be/FxVCd2ASSmc?...

The next installment of our Historical Literacy 101 series is Close Reading. Be sure to check out our YouTube channel to see all of our videos! youtu.be/AtjL97ZN37Y?... #edusky #sschat #historicalliteracy

Each teacher subscription of Source Squads comes with 8 classroom sets of roles cards, all conveniently shipped in tote bags to help you stay organized! It’s not too late to get a 2025-2026 subscription and become eligible for special Founders Discounts for subsequent years. #edusky #sschat

We’re excited to share the latest installment in our Historical Literacy 101 YouTube Series: “What is Contextualizing?” This short video introduces students to essential questions historians ask when exploring the historical context of a source. #sschat #edusky

Our world history curriculum is now live! Built with input from teachers and supervisors, this engaging approach to historical literacy will reinvigorate your classroom. If you’ve been thinking about subscribing, now is the time to take advantage of our 2025 prices before it is too late!

This summer we will be releasing Historical Literacy 101, a series of videos to introduce students to different historical literacy skills. First on the menu is Sourcing! Check it out and be sure to like, subscribe, and share! youtu.be/6qZStxbvvH4?...

Action shots of order fulfillment. Tahoma and Federal Way, your Source Squads orders are shipping out today!

“There’s a lot of evidence that having knowledge about the world is important for reading comprehension…Students who have broader bases of knowledge about the natural & social world do better on reading assessments, even when controlling for other things.” #sschat www.edweek.org/teaching-lea...

The first step in the Source Squads process is sourcing. Students work collaboratively through a series of prompts, thinking about the author and the values and limits of a document. #edusky #sschat

Source Squads in action! We love seeing students in Tahoma, Washington work through our new lesson about Camp Harmony. Did you know that we are creating a new curriculum for WA state history? We are happy to customize curriculum to meet your state standards! #edusky #sschatn

We are excited to share that we have launched our YouTube channel to help teachers learn about and implement Source Squads in their classroom. #soucesquads #historyeducation #sschat #edusky

Our goal with Source Squads is to develop historical literacy while also promoting collaboration with peers. #edusky #sschat #sourcesquads

We have 3 new World History lessons complete! 🌏📚🗺️ ✅Women in Ancient Mesopotamia ✅Geography of Ancient Egypt ✅Religion in Medieval India

We are looking to develop some more lessons for our US History curriculum, and we would love your feedback. What lesson would you like to see next? Take our short survey: forms.gle/SknxcawTsox9...

Spring is finally upon us, and it has our teaming doing lots of thinking and planning for next year. We are excited to get started on our new World History curriculum, and we have been working on a new learning strategy, which we hope to reveal soon

Source Squads is looking to hear from you! What do you want to see in a World History curriculum? Please fill out our survey to share your feedback! forms.gle/UBp6NgY1Ry4N...

We are excited to offer special pricing to our new customers for the 2025-2026 school year: Subscribe by June 15, 2025, and you'll get access to both the U.S. History and AP African American Studies supplemental curriculums!

Did you know that Source Squads has an AP African American Studies curriculum? We have 10 lessons all using required source material from the CED. Visit our website to learn more! Image Source: Collection of the Smithsonian/Gift of A'Lelia Bundles / Madam Walker Family Archives

Over the weekend our co-owner, Erin (left), was honored by the Middle States Council for Social Studies with their Teacher to Teacher award for creating innovative curriculum! Congrats to the other award winners as well! #sourcesquads #edusky #sschat

Day 2 at MSCSS annual conference. We have loved chatting Source Squads with folks!

One of our company values is to caffeinate often! If you’re at MSCSS annual conference, please stop by and say hello!

We are looking forward to the 2025 Middle States Council for the Social Studies annual conference in Lancaster this weekend. If you’ll be there, please stop by our booth and say hello!

A very happy birthday to Andrew, the founder of Source Squads!

Check out our new Universal Source Material format designed to make source accessible while also giving students exposure to the original text. #edusky #sschat #sourcesquads

One of our favorite resources for primary sources related to Dr. King is the online collection from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History & Culture, which is a treasure trove of photographs, letters, objects and ephemera. #teachblackhistory #edusky #sschat

We are excited to have added two lessons to our U.S. History Curriculum this month! Both of these lessons were designed to bring Indigenous voices and experiences into the classroom with topics across American history. #edusky #sschat #sourcesquads

Last night we were students in a NHD webinar led by the incredible Dr. Tara White and Dr. Renee Romano. Both scholars shared practical tools to better equip educators to teach African American history (which is, as Dr. White pointed out, American history). #edusky #sschat #nhd2025 #sourcesquads

While researching sources for a new Source Squads lesson about women in music during the 90s, I read about a Lilith Fair documentary coming out this summer. Amazing! #buildingamystery #edusky #sschat

Congratulations to Thavolia Glymph on her term as AHA President, and this brilliant address! #aha2025

Happy New Year! Big things are coming in 2025!

One of us is spending the holiday reading fiction and the other is reading non-fiction. What are you reading?

Wishing everyone the very happiest of holidays. -Erin and Andrew, Source Squads co-owners

We got to witness history today at Delaware’s Electoral College proceedings where our 3 electors cast their votes for a woman of color. Thanks @decivics.bsky.social for this special opportunity! #sschat #edusky

Source Squads isn’t the only thing we’ve been up to lately. Erin is the faculty advisor for @socialstudies.org Rho Kappa and this morning they broke ground in Vietnam on the construction of the club’s 2nd Peace Home. #sschat #edusky #rhokappa

What part of the historical literacy process do your students find the most challenging? For mine, it would be the contextualizing or corroborating!

It is wild how much joy it brings me to be able to check things off a list. I hope students appreciate this feature of Source Squads as much as I do!