Monday Mapping: Making Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Significant

Monday Mapping: Making Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Significant

Posted on by Michele Luck
Celebrating holidays with students can be a tricky task.  When the holiday is dedicated to someone who led a movement, and died as a result of his activism, what tone should be set for the day?  More importantly, MLK's role...Read More
Losing History: My Breakdown at the National Mall

Losing History: My Breakdown at the National Mall

Posted on by Michele Luck
As teachers of History, we are constantly devalued.  Students ask why they must take our courses, administrators take our class time for assemblies or testing, states push the teaching of everything but History, and in comparison to requirements in other...Read More
Seeing the Big Picture: Helping Students Visualize Multiple Perspectives

Seeing the Big Picture: Helping Students Visualize Multiple Perspectives

Posted on by Michele Luck
Teaching from a textbook or singular source can often leave the impression on our students that history is one-sided. After years of this indoctrination to history, our students are blind to the truth about history.  It becomes a battle at...Read More
Analyzing Legislation: A Political or Social Approach?

Analyzing Legislation: A Political or Social Approach?

Posted on by Michele Luck
In my first few years of teaching, I taught with a U.S. History teacher who believed every law was passed simply because Congress saw it as what should be.  He gave no credit to the social movements that encouraged the...Read More