by David Russell | Mar 20, 2019 | 11/12th Grade, Social Studies
This semester I am teaching Constitutional Law to our 11th and 12th grade students at Essex Street Academy. In my class, largely driven by independent student work, we are exploring, investigating, and formulating opinions around some of the landmark Supreme Court...
by David Russell | Jan 7, 2019 | 9/10th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Social Studies, Solutions
In my first post I posed two Problems of Practice: How might I ensure that what all students are doing is an activity or task that a historian, in the midst of gaining new knowledge through research and analysis, would actually do in the course of their work? How...
by David Russell | Oct 10, 2018 | 9/10th Grade, Authenticity to the Discipline, Social Studies
Worlds Collides, a combined 9th and 10th Grade Social Studies Class, is an exploration of the indigenous people of Central America and the Caribbean and the eventual clash with European aggressors. Students are digging in to both primary and secondary sources to...
