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  • Cult of Pedagogy: Great podcast and resource for the latest approaches to teaching from technological tools, to culturally responsive teaching, to strategies for teaching the 5 Cs and online teaching. Jennifer Gonzalez and her team put questions to their broad teaching network and incorporate the most common solutions or the most innovative solutions into the podcast. Gonzalez also interviews innovators in education. 

    Website: https://www.cultofpedagogy.com/ 

    Twitter: @cultofpedagogy

    Facebook: @cult of pedagogy 

  • Teaching Hard History: Amazing podcast that takes deep dives into the history of inequality and racism while also highlighting teachers sharing best practices in approaching this history with their students. Suggestions often include sequencing and use of primary sources for students to engage with and examinine.  

    Website: https://www.splcenter.org/20180131/teaching-hard-history 

    Twitter: @Tolerance_org

    Facebook: @TeachingTolerance.org

  • C3Teachers: An incredible resource for inquiry based learning. Inquiries are complete lesson plans that include a treasure trove of primary sources, a guiding question and supporting questions. Topics are wide-ranging, from Voting Rights and American History, to International, Cultural, and Religious Studies. 

    Website: http://www.c3teachers.org/ 

    Twitter: @C3 Teachers

    Facebook: @c3teachers

  • Stanford History Education Group: This is an excellent resource for teaching students to think like historians. It offers mini lessons, where students evaluate the veracity of primary sources. Students also learn lateral reading the way fact-checkers do. It’s a great resource in the information age, where there are often no fact-checkers between the authors of content and the eyes of our students. 

    Website: https://sheg.stanford.edu/ 

    Twitter: @SHEG_Stanford

    Facebook: @StanfordHistoryEducationGroup

  • #SSChat: Started on twitter, this is a great way to connect with Social Studies teachers around the world and share and receive methods and ideas that make teaching social studies exciting and effective. 

    Website: https://sschat.org/

    Twitter: @SSChatNetwork   #sschat

    Facebook: @socialstudieschat