Jazzing Up History Class
Educators teaching history may find guidance in the genius of Miles Davis’ advice to musicians, “Don’t play what’s there, play what’s not there.” In 2011, while I was working ...
Social Studies and History
Why Don’t Teens Care About Politics?
We’ve all heard the moans and groans about youth who don’t care about their society, teenagers who can’t tell you how the political system works, and citizens who don’t bother ...
Finding Hope: How I Taught the Rwanda Genocide
There really is no particular set of texts that tell you how to teach genocide so I began by talking about my own experience. As a 14-year-old kid, I watched the nightly news ...