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Reaching Today’s Students (and CCSS) with Today’s Resources

Posted on September 30, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Teachers face great challenges as they try to create or find resources to address the ever-changing standards for their ever-changing students. In addition to finding the resources, rising costs and other teacher financial obligations often keep teachers from accessing the...Read More

Teaching the Standards on Data and Comparison in Social Studies

Posted on August 26, 2013September 9, 2023 by Michele Luck

We are almost to the end in this series on Teaching the Standards in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom. Now we tackle two in one! Teaching the standards on data and comparison actually go well together. It only makes sense...Read More

Teaching Perspective and Point of View in Social Studies

Posted on August 19, 2013September 9, 2023 by Michele Luck

Welcome to my series on Teaching the Standards in the Secondary Social Studies Classroom! I hope this series will help you address the standards while being able to keep the course your own. In this post, we will focus on...Read More

Surviving, Thriving, & Building Community in the First Days of School

Posted on August 16, 2013July 5, 2021 by Michele Luck

Surviving the Back to School rush and the rest of your 280+ days to come begins with advanced planning, thorough preparation, and skillful implementation starting well before the very first days of school. But more important than anything else...Read More

Teaching Text Structure in the Social Studies Classroom

Posted on August 12, 2013September 9, 2023 by Michele Luck

Welcome back for more on Teaching the Standards in the Social Studies classroom! In this post, we will address text structure. Historically, it was left out of our lesson agendas. However, the importance of students understanding text structure has come...Read More

The First Day of School! The Middle of the Road

Posted on August 2, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Referring back to the words of Wong and Wong, "The first day of school is the most important!" It is the day that sets the pace for the rest of the school year. This means different things for different teachers. ...Read More

Back to School Common Core eBook on TpT!

Posted on July 27, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Knowing that teachers are headed back to school, and stressing about the implementation of the Common Core Standards, a bunch of TpT sellers have teamed up to bring you the Common Core Back-to-School eBooks! eBooks are divided by subject area...Read More

Curriculum Mapping The Easy Way!

Posted on July 25, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

One of the most feared responsibilities for new teachers, or even teachers changing courses, is preparing the dreaded curriculum map. In the ole days, we taught with lesson plans, knowing the big picture, but unsure about when we would get...Read More

A Quick Planning Tip: Course Bookmarks!

Posted on July 19, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

Planning to teach World History or U.S. History this fall? Need an easy tool to organize yourself and your students? Want to set your students up with a quick reference for understanding the chronology of the course? Consider creating (or...Read More

Supporting CCSS with the Interactive Notebook

Posted on July 4, 2013July 25, 2020 by Michele Luck

In my university Education program my professor stressed the idea of using an Interactive Notebook for teaching Social Studies. She loved this idea so much that our entire Masters level course was implemented through the creation of an Interactive Notebook! ...Read More