If you like the @visionsofed.bsky.social podcast in which @alexandercuenca.bsky.social and I discuss my new book with Elizabeth Washington, you'll also like this @c4cpodcast.bsky.social with @liching22.bsky.social and myself. Check out their whole series! Let me know if you can't access it. #sschat

It’s going to be real tough to discuss Japanese American internment without saying something negative. All national parks now have this sign. Sanitizing crimes and erasing memory is one more step towards a white supremacist version of history.

Free open access book! Link in comments. #socialstudies #peaceeducation #socialeducation #globaleducation

In my department

"Rebuilding a Democracy in Ruins," including chapters by LaGarrett King and Richard Williams, Li-Ching Ho Tricia Seow and Xian Hui Tan, Jennifer Hauver, Kristen Duncan, Jillian Carter Ford, Kathryn Ellerhoff Engebretson, and Alexandria Hollett

National History Day has been eliminated.

Head Start has been shut down in the Midwest (probably elsewhere too).

Li-Ching Ho and I just published this article on #hope and #historyteaching in the journal of the New South Wales History Teachers Association. DM for a higher-res version. #SSChat #iteachsocialstudies

Old stuff in Ireland

It is easy to feel powerless in the current moment, when political action seems too risky, too pointless, or both. But there are many things we can, and must, do if we want a better world than the one we’re caught up in now.

Social studies teachers (or history/social science teachers): Help me out with some ideas, even inspiration, by completing this sentence—“As social studies teachers, we…” (do what?) #sschat #iteachsocialstudies @edusky.bsky.social

Social studies teachers (or history/social science teachers): Help me out with some ideas, even inspiration, by completing this sentence—“As social studies teachers, we…” #sschat #iteachsocialstudies @edusky.bsky.social

Teachers and teacher-educators who are looking for hope in these troubled times might be interested in this webinar @liching22.bsky.social and I are doing next week on teaching for #hope. Everyone is welcome to join. @edusky.bsky.social #socialstudies #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #civiceducation

The early dreams about the internet focused on connecting people with each other Now tech companies are using the internet to keep us isolated and divided, talking to phantoms and absorbing lies

I know this: Mark Pope is better at Xs and Os than John Calipari. (Also: Mark Few needs a new haircut.) #BBN

A cold day for activism at Indiana University on this 60th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, but oppression knows no weather, and neither can resistance.

This. A hundred times this.

HERJ's cover captures what we're all about: research exploring how to enthuse children & young people 2 learn about the past & it's traces. If U haven't already, head over 2 our diamond open access @uclpress.bsky.social site - journals.uclpress.co.uk/herj/. Join the conversatoin? #historyeducation

On @secnetwork.bsky.social Richard Hendrix said some people would consider Georgia State’s high-post offense “archaic,” and I’m here for that kind of vocabulary. It almost makes up for his pulling out “differential” in the first half.

Join Carole Hahn, Tracey Alviar-Martin, Jongsung Kim, and myself next Saturday, Dec. 7. at 1100 EST (US) as we discuss our experiences in international research in social studies education. Sponsored by the International Assembly of @ncssnetwork.bsky.social Registration at link.

Indiana University International and Comparative Education Online Master’s Degree Applications Now Open for 2025! This program develops practitioners & scholars who understand the economic, social, political, and cultural forces shaping schooling in regional, national, and international contexts.

Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

On the topic of the FASSE grant from @cufancss.bsky.social and @ncssnetwork.bsky.social : This fund dates back to the 1960s and was originally financed by a bequest from the estate of Mary Kelty, third woman president of NCSS, who was killed in a car wreck in 1964.

If you’re at #NCSS2024 you should go to the Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. There are some powerful works of art, some of them disturbing.

And ain’t!

I’m pretty sure no woman was ever dissatisfied with a portrait of her by John Singer Sargent. #MFAB #Boston #NCSS2024

I’m sure I’m not the first person to have taken (and posted) photos of these contrasting architectural styles in Boston. #NCSS2024

Kristen Duncan with important insights into civic education for Black youth. Catch her newest work at #NCSS24 #NCSS2024 this week @ncssnetwork.bsky.social

A nation is not saved by wars but “by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.”

If you’re at #NCSS24 #NCSS2024, let’s explore the possibilities of teaching for hopeful social action.

We must provide students a sense of hope--a belief that a better world is possible, and knowledge of how human action can make a difference. In our article in the latest Social Education, Li-Ching Ho and I describe what that might look like. #socialstudies #sschat (DM me if you don’t have access.)

“We can work together to shed the nationalism and xenophobia that are holding humanity back from participating in a world community that values all human life.” #socialstudies #sschat Catch Kathryn Engebretson next week at the Boston conference of @ncssnetwork.bsky.social

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

When I pull out the University of Ulster mug, it means it’s time for some serious writing about #historyeducation

I fear that young people today may have a distorted notion of what boxers should look like.

In this climate of despair, is it possible to teach a hopeful history—one that would encourage students’ belief that with thoughtful action, a better world is possible? What are some examples? #historyeducation #socialstudies #sschat

Civics linked to the nation-state will always be a tool of oppression; only an anarchist politics and civics can lead us to a more humane, life-affirming society (Alex Hollett) #sschat #socialstudies #anarchism

King and Williams call for racial healing through a history truth, education, and reconciliation commission.

On this Veterans Day, I’m led to wonder: Could a military coup be in the future for the United States? Two years from now, will we all be posting, “Didn’t have that on my 2026 bingo card!”?

I don’t have a cat anymore. But here’s the cat I used to have, until she passed away after a nice long life. Mr. Potatohead for scale.

It’s too bad this is so timely, but we argue civic education must be replaced.