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.
Join fellow educators for a special screening of The Making of America, followed by an opportunity to share ideas about how it could be used in K–12 classrooms and professional development.
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.
K-12 Educators will receive 2.5 clock hours. Join Native Governance Center, a Native-led nonprofit, for a practical and interactive session on building authentic partnerships and taking actionable next steps. This session is designed to support Bdote trip participants as well as anyone seeking guidance in developing authentic, respectful relationships with Native Nations.
Join the Minnesota Humanities Center for a free, daylong professional learning workshop exploring We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution, the Center for Civic Education’s nationally recognized civic education program.
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.
Explore how expanding global connections between 1400 and 1800 transformed societies, economies, cultures, and systems of power across the world.