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Thoughts from 2021 Bootcamp

07/28/2021
Social Studies Bootcamp 2021 Bootcamp this year was great - I always say "It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year!", but after missing...

Updates on the Wisconsin Social Studies Forward Exam Changes

02/20/2020
The number of emails I've gotten the last couple of weeks about the Forward exam shouldn't surprise me, as we're entering testing season in Wisconsin...

Summer 2020 Programming: No Bootcamp this year?!

02/20/2020
Summer 2020...I had plans for Year 3 kickoff of standards implementation... So here's the dirt.  I have gotten SO much feedback from educators,...

November 2019...already?

11/07/2019
I have absolutely no clue how it is already November.   I think we all say something similar, right? There's always so much to do and never enough...

Progress, not Perfection

12/28/2018
Like many people, I've used the end of 2018 to look back at what's happened and how to improve what I do.  At work, 2018 was a year of amazing things...

Witness to War: Preserving the Oral History of Combat Veterans

12/14/2018
I was in Chicago the week of November 26 for the annual National Council for the Social Studies conference, and I found a few interesting resources...

Inquiry & Culturally Relevant Pedagogy: Inquiry in the Upper Midwest Workshops

12/07/2018
The Inquiry in the Upper Midwest (IUM) project is funded through the Library of Congress' Teaching with Primary Sources program. The IUM project will...

FREE Webinars from Echoes & Reflections, the award-winning Holocaust curriculum

09/21/2018
Echoes & Reflections is pleased to offer free professional development webinars for teachers nationwide. The webinars cover multiple topics on...

FREE Webinars from the Council for Economic Education

09/06/2018
The Council for Economic Education is pleased to offer free professional development webinars for teachers nationwide. The webinars cover multiple...

Wisconsin Standards for Social Studies Rollout Brainstorm

03/28/2018
Most of my work lately has been trying to figure out what our districts and educators need from me to help with a smooth rollout and shift to the...