Lessons from Five Years at Thinking Nation
How an unexpected start in 2020 grew into a role of shaping curriculum championing historical thinking The Back-to-School season has commenced and like many of you, I find myself feeling both...
View ArticleA Historical Thinking Mindset for Back-to-School
While some of our partners are still holding on to the dog days of summer, most of us have welcomed back students at this point. You got this! You’re crushing it. Your students are fortunate to have...
View ArticleOur Default Mode Should Be Rigor Through Historical Thinking
And just like that, August is almost over. Honestly, I am a bit shocked. Where did the month go? Thinking Nation led its first back-to-school PD on July 31 and since then we’ve supported partner...
View ArticleConstitutional Moments Matter
Last week, I co-led a webinar with my colleague, Donna Paoletti Phillips, the President & CEO of the Center for Civic Education. For much of my portion of the webinar, I discussed how we must see...
View ArticleThinking Nation Platform Feature: Annotation and Chat
Over the 10 years that I spent in the classroom, I was always looking for ways to improve my students’ essay writing. Using evidence from a text was something that my students struggled with,...
View ArticleThinking Nation Takes Teachers to the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library
It might be early for you as you read this and it is late for me as I write this. Despite my heavy eyes, though, I am filled with joy after a great day with educators from around Los Angeles. It’s...
View ArticleHistorical Thinking Matters (More Than We Think)
What does a commitment to historical thinking look like? Why should it be our goal as teachers? At Thinking Nation’s pedagogical core, these are two questions we continuously try to answer with...
View Article“I Wish I Was Unhappy”: The Price and Promise of Learning
In Chapter 13, “Of the Coming of John,” from The Souls of Black Folk (1903), W. E. B. Du Bois tells the story of John, a Black fieldhand in Georgia, who goes north to attend school. The community...
View ArticleHow Do We Prepare Students for an AI-integrated World?
This week, Axios published an article showing that AI generated 52% of articles on the internet. By next year, that could be 90% (Thank you to Shawn Healy from iCivics for bringing this article to my...
View ArticleThinking Nation’s New Platform Features
In this week’s blog, we’re thrilled to share some of the latest feature releases and platform improvements we’ve been working on to enhance your experience. Our team continues to focus on making the...
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