Talking Social Studies: Recent Episodes

Talking Social Studies

A show where you will find conversations about strategies, resources, ideas and more, all designed to help today’s social studies teachers. With hosts @STLinOK, @CHitch93 @ScottPadway, and @cheffernan75. Find our show notes at TalkingSocialStudies.com

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Chris is dropping some ideas on engaging students at the end of the school year with his "Big Paper". Check it out~

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Join Chris and Scott as they interview our guest today from New Hampshire Public Radio and host of the Civics 101 Podcast, Nick Capodice. Twitter - @capodice

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“Welcome to “Talking Social Studies.” You are listening to Episode #52, “Project Based Learning and Social Studies with Guest Host Todd Gragg ” for September 28th 2021. 

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Amy and Chris are “Talking National History Day with Heather Goodenough” for Aug 12th 2021

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Amy, Chris Chris and Scott get back together to see what has changed a year later. 

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This episode was recorded on 12/23/2020. 

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Join Scott Live from Fall Cue and Asynchronous With Amy, Chris and Chris to find out what has been going at their schools. In this episode, we are joined by educators from Fall Cue who contributed their thoughts. 

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This week, Scott and Chris are joined by Lisa Highfill and Kelly Hilton. Creators of Hyperdocs and authors of the Hyperdoc Handbook.  Follow them all @Lhighfill and @KellyiHilton @Sarahlandis @TsgiveTs and find out more at Hyperdocs.co

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As protests against racial injustice spread across the country, Chris, Amy, Scott and Chris share what they are listening to, reading, and learning to help better understand systemic issues of racism in our country. As teachers part of our role is to better understand the injustices and find areas of influence to help make structural changes to practices and polices that are and have been racist. 

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Scott, Chris and Chris are joined by Joel Breakstone the Director of the Stanford History Educators Group to find out more about their program and resources for teachers.

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Chris, Chris and Amy are joined by historian and author Kenneth C. Davis. 

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Join @Chitch94 @Cheffernan75 and @ScottPadway discus civics with special guest Mary Ellen Daneels @daneels_m.

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Scott, Amy, Chris and Chris, discuss teaching remotely. Recorded 3/17/20.

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Chris, Amy and Scott are joined by special guest Steve Heimler of Heimler's History to talk about the Medium of Video and Social Studies.

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Welcome to “Talking Social Studies”. You are listening to Episode # 40 “Building Culture” with Amy, Scott, Chris and special guest host JJ Jedamski @jjedamski from Learning for Living for December 18th 2019. Show Notes

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Amy and Chris Co-host a session on Podcasting at NCSS in Austin with @NewVisionsofEd Michael Milton @42ThinkDeep and Dan Krutka @dankrutka. 

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NCSS is around the corner and Amy, Chris and Scott share their strategies for getting the most out of conferences. 

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Scott Chris and Amy dive into discussing what makes up a quality lesson in Social Studies.

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Today, Amy Presley, Scott Padway and Chris Hitchcock share their best ideas for the first day of school. Happy back to school! bit.ly/talkingSS.

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So, today we are very pleased to have Laura Tavares of Facing History and Ourselves on the podcast with us to share ideas with us about addressing current issues with our students. 

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Chris, Amy and Scott take a break during the summer to look at finding that summer balance. How do you manage being a professional and recharging to improve for the next school year?

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Chris and Scott are joined with Kim Blevins-Relleva from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum as they discuss Teaching Anti-Semitism.

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The crew gets together to discuss end of year reflections and how to take some personal recharge time.

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Chris and Amy interview Jen Goss a facilitator with Echoes and Reflections as we continue discussing teaching the Holocaust.

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Amy, Scott, Chris and Chris start a discussion around teaching the Holocaust.

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Join Chris, Chris and Amy as they discuss flipping social studies with Andrew Swan @flipping_A_tchr

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Scott, Chris and Chris chat about their love of travel and opportunities for teachers to explore the world.

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There is a lot of PD out there. We chat about the Do's Dont's and how to find GOOD PD.

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This week Chris, Chris, Amy and Scott discuss their best ideas for facilitating and managing large group discussions in class.

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Meet Talking Social Studies newest member...Chris Heffernan

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TSS Ep 24) Ryan's Exit

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Tom is a Digital Learning Coach at Carroll middle school in Durham NC. You can find Tom on Twitter at @TomEMullaney (https://twitter.com/TomEMullaney)and on his website at tommullaney.com (https://tommullaney.com/)

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A few conversations Chris and Amy had with some of the attendees sharing their takeaways from NCSS this year.

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Chris chats with preservice social studies teachers about the support they need and how veteran teachers can help support.

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updates to where this podcast is going

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In this episode the Chris and Amy have an interview all about gamification with Amy Garlitz (twitter @meems852 and Instagram @mrsgarlitz) You can check out the show notes here: Show Notes (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UpCJqETmvbkwPzHnZUeBgtRQGJAf3_kQhVpOb582Au4/edit?usp=sharing) and all our resources on our site here:Talking Social Studies (https://sites.google.com/rocklinusd.org/talkingsocialstudies/home)

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In this episode the Chris, Scott and Amy talk about why and how we assess plus address if you able assess without misery. You can check out show notes on our page here: Talking Social Studies (https://sites.google.com/rocklinusd.org/talkingsocialstudies/home)

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In this episode we talk about WHY teachers use music is their classes, HOW they bring it into their lessons and lastly we will share each of our top ten songs we just LOVED to play and share with our students in social studies. Please share back any of your favorite songs you use and tag us on Twitter https://twitter.com/TalkinSS

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In this episode we talk about: Why is it worthwhile to use video in class with students. How do you incorporate video into your teaching. And what are some sources for finding video that fits your needs. Also, what are some of our favorite strategies and tools for using video. Plus we list some of our all time favorite videos.

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Reflecting back on 2017, we look at new content/sources that we loved as well as tech tools we discovered or learned to apply in new ways Talking SS website -  bit.ly/talkingSS Plus you can follow the Talking Social Studies Podcast on Twitter @TalkinSS

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Join us for this special edition of Talking Social Studies where our team recorded conversations and takeaways from educators while at the NCSS conference in San Francisco

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The Talking Social Studies Team talks about how teachers can engage in conversations and dialogue around current events which may at times get complicated. Check out our show notes here: http://bit.ly/talkingSS

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In this special episode co-host Scott Padway shares his many of experiences from his recent trip to Tanzania

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In this episode the Talking Social Studies team checks in at the end of summer to share their journeys and steps in which how they grew professionally. You can find all the links and show notes on our site at: bit.ly/talkingSS

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Group Projects: Where Content Meets Skill In this episode we talk all about how to implement group projects in your class. You can find our show notes for this episode on our page http://bit.ly/talkingSS

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The Talking Social Studies team talks about what being “active” in history or social studies courses means, why is it important, and strategies/activities you can use in your classrooms.

Find all our show notes here: http://bit.ly/talkingSS

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In this episode we talk about ways in which teachers can break away from traditional stand and deliver lectures.

You can access show notes which has all the links we talked about here on our site: bit.ly/talkingSS

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This episode is a collection of conversations Ryan had while at the California Council of Social Studies conference

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This episode the TSS team talk about ways to use images such as National Archives worksheet, Thinglink, P.O.S.E.R.S., Gallery Walks and Student Documentaries. Plus they share where teachers can find images to use in their classes from Flickr, Library of Congress, Met Museum, University of Bristol, and the Google Cultural Institute. Plus others ideas, resources and rabbit holes to go down.

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Join the team this episode as we talk about Media Literacy with guest Julie Smith, author of the book The Master of the Media (https://www.amazon.com/Master-Media-Teaching-Literacy-Plugged/dp/0986155446/ref=la_B001KCB2IG_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484378709&sr=1-2) You can access show notes and how to follow us on our site. (https://sites.google.com/rocklinusd.org/talkingsocialstudies)

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Join your hosts Ryan & Scott this week as they have two guests this week, Pete Spiegel & Chris Heffernan. Pete and Chris co-moderate the #worldgeochat on Tuesdays at 6pm PST and in this episode they join in with sharing their love for using Maps in Social Studies. Here are the show notes from this episode (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1yo4s9t9DwuahrKxM5Mv5JDlfzdlsR4DfCxrSwV3_PcY/edit?usp=sharing)

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In this episode we talk about both where do you FIND cartoons and STRATEGIES teachers can use to have students analyze cartoons. Talking Social Studies site & show notes (https://sites.google.com/rocklinusd.org/talkingsocialstudies)

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In our second episode we go down the rabbit hole of how to teach when faced with difficult conversations such as this Presidential election. Talking Social Studies site & show notes (https://sites.google.com/rocklinusd.org/talkingsocialstudies)

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Join Ryan O'Donnell, Chris Hitchcock, Amy Presley and Scott Padway as they embark on a new podcast where these social studies educators talk about resources, strategies and ideas for social studies teachers. In this first episode they introduce this new show and discuss strategies when teaching with primary sources.