Engage in structured problem-solving around challenges districts are facing with inquiry-based, disciplinary instruction. Participants will surface patterns of difficulty in task design, source identification and use, formative assessment, and classroom implementation, and collaborate on practical strategies to address them.
Develop tools and strategies for observing social studies instruction through a disciplinary lens. Participants will learn what to look for in classrooms, including evidence of student reasoning, effective use of sources, and alignment between tasks and the disciplinary thinking represented in the benchmarks.
Explore how expanding global connections between 1400 and 1800 transformed societies, economies, cultures, and systems of power across the world.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching this era.
Explore the revolutionary transformations that reshaped the Atlantic World during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, examining how slavery, resistance, empire, and struggles for freedom changed societies on both sides of the Atlantic.
Focus on strengthening how sources are selected, used, and taught. Participants will explore strategies for helping teachers move beyond surface-level source activities, and primary source work that confirms pre-taught narratives towards using sources as evidence, perspective, and tools for reasoning. Emphasis will be placed on improving opportunities for student analysis and argumentation.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching this era.
Examine how revolutions, imperial expansion, and social change unfolded across Latin America, the Ottoman Empire, and South Asia, highlighting the diverse experiences of people living through this transformative era.
Examine how formative tasks can be used to build and monitor disciplinary thinking throughout a unit. Participants will learn how to give feedback on and refine formative activities that make student reasoning visible, and support instructional adjustment in real time.
Building on the content and sources from this era’s Content Session, experienced classroom educators will lead a hands-on workshop exploring inquiry-based, standards-aligned instructional approaches and classroom applications for teaching Era Five B.
Explore how global conflict, migration, and war reshaped societies during the twentieth century, examining experiences across the Pacific, Europe, and East Asia.
Explore what authentic learning in social studies truly means. Participants will analyze how tasks can reflect real disciplinary practices, meaningful problems, and genuine applications of learning. This session will distinguish between projects that seem fun and deep engagement with authentic intellectual work.