This on-demand video library showcases classrooms across the country putting the Educating for American Democracy (EAD) Pedagogy Companion principles into practice and exploring best practices for teaching and learning social studies.
Are you interested in fostering an inquiry-based civics classroom? We are offering district cohorts a free asynchronous course that explores some foundational best practices needed for inquiry in the social studies classroom. If you are a District Coordinator, send an inquiry for more information about how to enroll a group of teachers as a Learning District.
In this video, you’ll see practices to:
- Support teaching and learning full and multifaceted history and civic narratives so that every student sees themselves in our nation’s plural yet shared story
- Focus on inclusion and equity in both content and approach.
In this video, you’ll see practices to:
- Cultivate and sustain a learning environment by conducting deep inquiry about the multifaceted stories of American constitutional democracy while setting expectations that all students know they belong and contribute to the classroom community
- Support students establishing ownership and responsibility for their learning through mutual respect and an inclusive culture that enables students to engage courageously in rigorous discussion
In this video, you’ll see practices to:
- Embrace a growth mindset for teachers and students, meaning that they engage in continuous self-reflection and cultivate self-knowledge
- Learn and adopt content as well as practices that help all learners of diverse backgrounds reach excellence.
In this video, you’ll see practices to:
- Utilize assessments to ensure all students understand civics content and concepts and apply civics skills and agency
- Ensure students have the opportunity to reflect on their learning and give feedback to their teachers in higher-order thinking exercises that enhance as well as measure learning
- Analyze and utilize feedback and assessment for self-reflection and improving instruction
In this video, you’ll see practices to:
- Employ content knowledge and classroom leadership to model our constitutional principle of “We the People” through democratic practices and promoting civic responsibilities, civil rights, and civic friendship in the classrooms
- Deepen students’ grasp of content and concepts by creating student opportunities to engage with real-world events and problem-solving about issues in their communities by taking informed action to create a more perfect union
In this video, you’ll see practices to:
- Use the EAD Roadmap inquiry prompts as entry points to teaching full and complex content, but also cultivate students’ capacity to develop their own deep and critical inquiries about American history, civic life, and their identities and communities
- Help students cultivate empathy across differences and inquisitiveness to ask difficult questions, which are core to historical understanding and constructive civic participation