Investigate the origins of humanity through the evidence early people left behind, exploring how historians, archaeologists, and scientists reconstruct the earliest chapters of human history.
Explore disciplinary literacy as the core goal of social studies instruction. Participants will deepen their understanding of what it means for students to think, read, write, and reason like historians, geographers, economists, and political scientists.
This two-day workshop series (July 29 and August 17, 2026) is designed to equip K–12 teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and tools needed to successfully implement the new social studies standards for the 2026–27 school year.
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.
Learn how to evaluate summative tasks for true rigor and disciplinary alignment. Participants will analyze whether tasks genuinely require students to engage in disciplinary reasoning, use evidence from sources, and demonstrate authentic understanding.
Explore the emergence of cities, societies, and empires across Africa, Asia, and the Americas while examining how religious, political, technological, and social developments shaped the ancient world.
This two-day workshop series (July 29 and August 17, 2026) is designed to equip K–12 teachers and school leaders with the knowledge and tools needed to successfully implement the new social studies standards for the 2026–27 school year.
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.
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.
Investigate the trade routes and networks of cultural exchange that connected Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas, shaping societies through the movement of people, goods, ideas, and technologies.
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 […]
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.