Hi bluesky 👋🏼 long time no see lol. Came to ask for recs — I teach English 101 at a community college and I’m looking for readings on the gender binary, trans identity, transphobia, etc that are accessible with very little understanding of queer/trans identity
February 7, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Thank you to @armenianliterary.org for the post!
Told in interwoven historical, contemporary, and fantastical sequences, IALA member @nadinetakvorian.bsky.social's debut, Armaveni, is a gripping graphic novel and a much-needed historical document on the Armenian Genocide. 📕 ✨
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/49YPodK
Learn more 👉 bit.ly/49YPodK
February 1, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Great thread for #USgov teachers as well as everyone with interested in living in a constitutional republic. #iteachsocialstudies
@tribelaw.bsky.social harshly criticizes Jill Lepore's new history of the Constitution in @nybooks.com. Two thoughts about this important exchange.
1. Tribe is entirely right to fault her for effectively dismissing the unwritten elements of the US Constitution. This the center of his whole critique
1. Tribe is entirely right to fault her for effectively dismissing the unwritten elements of the US Constitution. This the center of his whole critique
Is the Constitution ‘Dead, Dead, Dead’? | Laurence H. Tribe
The difficulty of amending the Constitution does not mean that it is a flawed and outdated relic of a distant past.
www.nybooks.com
January 29, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Great thread for #USgov teachers as well as everyone with interested in living in a constitutional republic. #iteachsocialstudies
#iteachsocialstudies In the long tradition of the protest song…Springsteen gives us this: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 29, 2026 at 3:39 AM
#iteachsocialstudies In the long tradition of the protest song…Springsteen gives us this: youtu.be/wWKSoxG1K7w
#iteachsocialstudies Worth a listen for those trying to make sense of foreign policy and the “rupture” of the “rules-based world order.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
The Most Important Foreign Policy Speech in Years
Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 01/27/2026 · 1h 15m
podcasts.apple.com
January 28, 2026 at 5:32 AM
#iteachsocialstudies Worth a listen for those trying to make sense of foreign policy and the “rupture” of the “rules-based world order.” podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...
@kmbellar.bsky.social I added you to the #iteachsocialstudies feed. Welcome!
January 27, 2026 at 2:17 PM
@kmbellar.bsky.social I added you to the #iteachsocialstudies feed. Welcome!
@mdoran.bsky.social I added you to the #iteachsocialstudies feed. Welcome!
January 27, 2026 at 2:16 PM
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@echoesreflections.bsky.social Added you to the #iteachsocialstudies list. You can post to it with a 🗺 emoji.
January 27, 2026 at 2:15 PM
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Erasure is the last stage of genocide.
#iteachsocialstudies
#iteachsocialstudies
"At Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana, exhibit text that described the United States being “hungry for gold and land” and breaking promises to Native Americans was ordered changed or removed." #NationalParks 🗃️ www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
Trump’s censors hit Grand Canyon and 16 other national parks
A new wave of takedown orders from Trump officials targets signs about climate and Native Americans at several national parks, including Grand Canyon, Big Bend and Glacier.
www.washingtonpost.com
January 27, 2026 at 1:41 PM
Erasure is the last stage of genocide.
#iteachsocialstudies
#iteachsocialstudies
January 18, 2026 at 3:40 PM
Vibrant watercolours from the journal of Susan Veeder, who joined her captain husband on the whaler Nauticon for a gruelling five-year voyage visiting places as varied as Tahiti, the Arctic and Cape Horn (1848-53)
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ar...
publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-ar...
January 18, 2026 at 8:25 AM
Fabulous resource for US History teachers. Part of a very interesting thread. #ITeachSocialStudies #TeachUSHistory
On what the US military actually did during Reconstruction - a time when there was hardly any federal civilian police force - I recommend the Mapping Occupation website by Greg Downs
www.mappingoccupation.org#detail
www.mappingoccupation.org#detail
Mapping Occupation: Force, Freedom, and the Army in Reconstruction
Mapping Occupation, by Gregory P. Downs and Scott Nesbit, captures the regions where the United States Army could effectively act as an occupying force in the Reconstruction South. For the first time,...
www.mappingoccupation.org
January 17, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Fabulous resource for US History teachers. Part of a very interesting thread. #ITeachSocialStudies #TeachUSHistory
#educoach #edleadershipchat #iteachEnglish #iteachmath #iteachsocialstudies #iteachscience #teachersky #t2tchat #teached #edusky
"8 Ways I Use Feedback to Drive Student Growth"
"When feedback is a consistent part of classroom culture, students gain a clear understanding of how to improve while building confidence & taking ownership of their progress" says @shortissweet.bsky.social. #edusky
www.middleweb.com/52970/8-ways...
"When feedback is a consistent part of classroom culture, students gain a clear understanding of how to improve while building confidence & taking ownership of their progress" says @shortissweet.bsky.social. #edusky
www.middleweb.com/52970/8-ways...
8 Strategies to Use Daily Feedback to Drive Student Growth
Teacher leader Kasey Short shares eight strategies she uses every day in her classroom to make feedback a driving force for student progress and improvement.
www.middleweb.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Crazy day to be talking about Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (tutoring a US government student) #ITeachSocialStudies
January 7, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Crazy day to be talking about Civil Rights and Civil Liberties (tutoring a US government student) #ITeachSocialStudies
For everyone writing and re-writing syllabi this week, media literacy has to be part of what we do. Students aren’t learning this stuff anywhere else. 🗃️
THREAD: Viral misinformation on US capture of Nicolas Maduro - 4 January
This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture.
In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.
This video, shared by Alex Jones and others, falsely claims to show millions of Venezuelans in Caracas celebrating Maduro's capture.
In fact, it shows anti-Maduro protests in July 2024 over a highly disputed election.
January 5, 2026 at 5:09 AM
Some of us teach social studies what are we supposed to say to the kids tomorrow
January 5, 2026 at 5:08 AM
docs.google.com/presentation...
#iteachsocialstudies
#Venezuela
#medialiteracy
Thanks to Mike Caulfield, (credited on docs as well)
#iteachsocialstudies
#Venezuela
#medialiteracy
Thanks to Mike Caulfield, (credited on docs as well)
January 3, 2026 at 10:34 AM
docs.google.com/presentation...
#iteachsocialstudies
#Venezuela
#medialiteracy
Thanks to Mike Caulfield, (credited on docs as well)
#iteachsocialstudies
#Venezuela
#medialiteracy
Thanks to Mike Caulfield, (credited on docs as well)
If you're working on new preps for the upcoming semester, consider assigning Contingent! In addition to our mailbag and How I Do History series, we've sorted our pieces by theme to make it easier to find something that fits. contingentmagazine.org/for-educators/
For Educators
Contingent publishes accessible, engaging, well-researched pieces on history, the work of doing history, and the community of people involved in that work.
contingentmagazine.org
January 3, 2026 at 10:20 AM
Are you finalizing a syllabus and looking for short, accessible articles to assign on some aspect of American history before 1900? Did you know that Commonplace has a subject tags page that allows you to easily browse our 25 year back catalog? Check it out here: 🗃️
commonplace.online/article/subj...
commonplace.online/article/subj...
Subject Tags - Commonplace
Browse by Subject
commonplace.online
January 3, 2026 at 10:15 AM
I agree that “literacy” is still clunky, especially when we expand it to “literacies.” I wonder if this is what my History / Social Studies colleagues wrestle with… #sschat
January 3, 2026 at 9:53 AM
#iteachsocialstudies
I learned how to make the feed remember posts for more than 7 days without putting each person as a single user. I am excited for this change and apologize for being slow to notice the need!
I learned how to make the feed remember posts for more than 7 days without putting each person as a single user. I am excited for this change and apologize for being slow to notice the need!
January 3, 2026 at 9:39 AM
#iteachsocialstudies
I learned how to make the feed remember posts for more than 7 days without putting each person as a single user. I am excited for this change and apologize for being slow to notice the need!
I learned how to make the feed remember posts for more than 7 days without putting each person as a single user. I am excited for this change and apologize for being slow to notice the need!
These are active #iteachsocialstudies & #historyeducation people:
mattneil.bsky.social
freereed59.net
michael42think.bsky.social
lindarmonkjd.bsky.social
insightersed.bsky.social
hooverstreetrag.org
erbeckman.bsky.social
historyfrog.bsky.social
liberatingnarratives.com
historycomics.bsky.social
mattneil.bsky.social
freereed59.net
michael42think.bsky.social
lindarmonkjd.bsky.social
insightersed.bsky.social
hooverstreetrag.org
erbeckman.bsky.social
historyfrog.bsky.social
liberatingnarratives.com
historycomics.bsky.social
Michael Milton (@michael42think.bsky.social)
Greetings. This is a temporary bio as I get myself together. I teach social studies, watch Bluey, and have a longstanding feud with Tuesdays.
michael42think.bsky.social
January 3, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Happy Haitian Independence Day! 🇭🇹
Celebrating by reflecting on something that I wrote ebeckman.org/2020/06/29/b...
and reading something new (to me) uncpress.org/978146967684...
#TeachWorldHistory
#ITeachSocialStudies
Celebrating by reflecting on something that I wrote ebeckman.org/2020/06/29/b...
and reading something new (to me) uncpress.org/978146967684...
#TeachWorldHistory
#ITeachSocialStudies
Black Lives in an Age of Revolutions
Black Lives Matter, and so history teachers must ensure that students understand the agency and the resilience of African descended people in the past
ebeckman.org
January 1, 2026 at 3:28 PM
Happy Haitian Independence Day! 🇭🇹
Celebrating by reflecting on something that I wrote ebeckman.org/2020/06/29/b...
and reading something new (to me) uncpress.org/978146967684...
#TeachWorldHistory
#ITeachSocialStudies
Celebrating by reflecting on something that I wrote ebeckman.org/2020/06/29/b...
and reading something new (to me) uncpress.org/978146967684...
#TeachWorldHistory
#ITeachSocialStudies
Thinking about teaching contingency in history using Latin American Independence
#TeachWorldHistory #ITeachSocialStudies
ebeckman.org/2025/12/30/c...
#TeachWorldHistory #ITeachSocialStudies
ebeckman.org/2025/12/30/c...
Contingency and Latin American Independence
Students can develop understandings of contingency in the process of Latin American independence by working through groups of events in specific regions.
ebeckman.org
December 30, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Thinking about teaching contingency in history using Latin American Independence
#TeachWorldHistory #ITeachSocialStudies
ebeckman.org/2025/12/30/c...
#TeachWorldHistory #ITeachSocialStudies
ebeckman.org/2025/12/30/c...
🗺 #iteachsocialstudies
Wouldn't this be a great research project?
Write a year in review for a particular year. Read broad overviews, read old newspapers, choose the types of art and sport that stand out to you... Give us the highlights.
A class could cover a whole era.
Wouldn't this be a great research project?
Write a year in review for a particular year. Read broad overviews, read old newspapers, choose the types of art and sport that stand out to you... Give us the highlights.
A class could cover a whole era.
Aaron Boyes and Sean Graham offer their ‘two cents’ on 1925 for their annual Year in Review (100 Years Later) series!
13th Annual (?) Year in Review (100 Years Later)
By Aaron Boyes & Sean Graham We offer our two cents on the events of 1925. Let us know in the comments what you would have ranked as the year’s top event. It’s hard to believe that we’re …
activehistory.ca
December 21, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🗺 #iteachsocialstudies
Wouldn't this be a great research project?
Write a year in review for a particular year. Read broad overviews, read old newspapers, choose the types of art and sport that stand out to you... Give us the highlights.
A class could cover a whole era.
Wouldn't this be a great research project?
Write a year in review for a particular year. Read broad overviews, read old newspapers, choose the types of art and sport that stand out to you... Give us the highlights.
A class could cover a whole era.