The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is seeking feedback on the incorporation of the components of Kentucky Revised Statute (KRS) 158.196 into the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Social Studies.
The Bill of Rights Institute's free Being an American: Exploring the Ideals That Unite Us curriculum has been one of the organization's most popular online resources for teaching middle school civics since the Institute was founded in 1999.
In 2018, with the passage of House Bill 128, Kentucky joined over a dozen states in the United States that officially mandated the teaching of the Holocaust and other genocides.
The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) is seeking social studies teachers of all grade levels to apply to participate in a social studies standards review to meet the requirements of Section 4(3)(a) of Senate Bill 1 (2022).
The Filson Historical Society, founded in 1884, is a privately supported historical society located in Louisville, Kentucky. The Filson’s mission is to collect, preserve, and share the stories of Kentucky and Ohio Valley history and culture.
As educators, we want our students’ learning to be enduring and transferable: enduring in that they can recall information they learned in the past and flexible in that they can apply this learning in different situations and transfer it to a new problem or domain.
Teaching about the Holocaust, genocide, human rights, and related topics is challenging, even without a pandemic.
How should I teach about Thanksgiving? This is a big (and frequent) question from educators to the National Museum of the American Indian and its national education initiative, Native Knowledge 360° (NK360°).
GBH Education is seeking feedback from educators on the usage of an existing collection of digital resources for teaching literature, English language arts (ELA) and history in grades 6-12.
Justin Mitchell, a social studies teacher at Franklin-Simpson Middle School in Simpson County, has been named the Kentucky Historical Society (KHS) 2021 Kentucky History Teacher of the Year.