The Teaching History Her Way Podcast

Send us Fan Mail Happy Women's History Month!  This week's episode focuses on women's activism and the importance of women's history in K-12 schools as well as a strong, loud call for an AP Women's History course.  We talk about the ERA, a push for an AP Women's History Course, and the feminist activism of Catholic nuns. This was one of my favorite conversations to da...

Send us Fan Mail ChatGPT, or Chat Generative Pretrained Transformer, is a technology that is sweeping across classrooms worldwide.  How can we better understand ChatGPT and its capabilities and limitations?  How can we leverage ChatGPT for and with our students?  An emphasis on media literacy and open conversations about technology use can go a long way.  Chat (see what I did there?) with me and D...

Send us Fan Mail Black History Month is an opportunity for us to teach students about the rich history and culture of Black Americans.  I am so excited to celebrate Black History Month in my classroom and in my school with my students and colleagues.  There are so many reasons why you should be having Black History Month celebrations!  I share those reasons and some of the ways I celebrate and int...

Send us Fan Mail Debbie Branker and Diane Giangreco worked together to interview their (our) Black and African Amerian colleagues to document their families' experience with the Great Migration, the movement of six million African Americans out of the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970.  The project is a gift to our community and is ri...

Send us Fan Mail Join me and author Kitty Felde as we discuss civic education and her mystery series, Fina Mendoza, which introduces civic education to elementary students.  Our lively conversation will leave you with plenty of ideas and inspiration about how to get kids interested and involved in learning and participating in civics and government.  You are going to love hearing Kitty's insi...

Send us Fan Mail Why is social justice in the classroom so important?  How do we integrate social justice in our classrooms for our youngest learners all the way to our almost-adult learners?  Explore these questions and more with me and educational justice coach Lindsay Lyons in this episode, plus get your free Circle Planning resource from Lindsay by visiting my blog, www.teachinghistoryherway.c...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, I discuss two ways in which I've integrated Indigenous history into my classes.  "Months" are important- they highlight a culture's contributions and history- AND they're not the only time we should be representing different groups of people in the narrative.  I chat about strategies I've used to talk about the Lenape, who...

Send us Fan Mail I love our history and social studies teacher family, and I can't think of a better way for the Teaching History Her Way Podcast to welcome new and preservice teachers to the family than to give them some advice.  Hey, if they're listening (or you are) it technically isn't unsolicited advice, right?!  From building trust with students to gathering and building a per...

Send us Fan Mail The women's history of World War II is diverse and rich.  Dive into the women's history of World War II with Women and the American Story ambassador Mike Ochs.  Learn about some great sources and how to use them to open the eyes of your students to the deep history of women in the war beyond Rosie the Riveter. Visit WAMS: www.nyhistory.org/wams Visit Rosie the Riveter Re...

Send us Fan Mail Teachers are called to defend democracy.  Join me as I get the honor of chatting with Linda Monk, JD about the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, James Madison, and the implications of how the Constitution is interpreted.  We chat about the health of democracy, the political origins of the United States, and of, course, what it all meant for different kinds of people back then and...

Send us Fan Mail Lucretia Mott. Susan B. Anthony. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. When you hear those names you probably automatically think about women’s suffrage. The women’s suffrage movement in the United States was led by far more than the usual names, though. There were women of every color, ethnicity, race, and sexuality that fought hard for universal women’s suffrage. Recently, I was teaching my 5...

Send us Fan Mail Throughout history, including during the American Civil War, women had and made choices.  We can't tell stories by downplaying women in our complicated and messy history.   Using women of the Civil War, as a vehicle, Tracy Garrison Feinberg and I discuss empowerment, agency, and purpose.  Women's drive to improve society in many ways gives them power, and there is no boi...

Send us Fan Mail In a very special episode, master educators Angela Lee and Karalee Wong Nakatsuka enlighten our audience about their experiences as Asian American educators.  Together, they explore themes of empowerment, representation, and stereotypes, and offer suggestions to allies about how to best support our Asian American students, colleagues, and friends.  So much has changed for them as...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, join Neil Wrona, middle school special educator in Howard County, MD.   He has spent most of his 8 years teaching in alternative Special Ed schools helping students whose emotional disabilities have caused them to fall behind academically.  I have never been a special education teacher and talking to Neil about working with students with learning differences gave...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview New York Historical Society Women and the American Story Ambassador, Lee Sharmat, about women soldiers in the Civil War.  In this intervew, we get to chat not only about women as fierce fighters in America's bloodiest conflict, but also about gender and sexuality and what those meant for these women and in the time period.  Lee highlights the brav...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I interview Sarah January, writer, content creator, author for History Collection, and teacher, about untold stories in history.  Join us as we chat about some of her favorites, James Armistead Lafayette,  Sylvia Mendez, Fred Korematsu, and Dr. Susan La Flesche Picotte.  Never heard these names?  Great!  Sarah will tell you all about them and we'll discuss ho...

Send us Fan Mail Amanda Garcia, proud Tejana, chats with me in this episode about her experience and her family's experience as Mexican Americans in Texas.  This leads to an enlightening, reflective conversation about how we as teachers help to shape students' identities through our lessons and our interactions with them.  Amanda gives us ideas about how to be practitioners who honor our...

Send us Fan Mail Women's history, the history of journalism, civic action, the history of treating mental illness, and much more: this is just some of what Nellie Bly's story- both her life story and her epic investigative journalism- can bring to your classroom.  Join us this week as Meredith Forte, an expert educator in the Bloomfield, New Jersey school district, discusses Nellie Bly&a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Karalee Wong Nakatsuka and Laurel Aguilar-Kirchhoff about their upcoming publication, "Bring History and Civics to Life: Lessons and Strategies to Cultivate Informed, Empathetic Citizens."  Their book is an invitation to history, civics, and social studies teachers (and all teachers, actually!) to bring empathy, educational technology, and community into...

Send us Fan Mail This episode continues the conversation of Critical Race Theory and about the manufactured crisis in history classrooms.  Learn more about what CRT actually is, that it is not being taught in history classrooms, and how legislation against supposed CRT  is hurting teachers and students because it eroding trust and relationships between teachers and parents, it is not allowing teac...

Send us Fan Mail You are in for a treat!  In this episode, Dan Lewer of History 4 Humans is here to talk to us all about the importance of storytelling in history classes.  Build empathy, include more student experiences, and draw in learners with some of the storytelling techniques that Dan suggests. Want to get in touch with Dan? Instagram: @history_4_humans YouTube:  History For Humans Let&apos...

Send us Fan Mail As a graduate student I finally realized the importance of historiography, or the study of historical writing.  I kind of like to call it "the history of history."  Brandon Eldridge recently published a paper about the changing historiography of the Civil War.  In this episode he and I talk bout how important it is for teachers to know the ever-changing landscape of hist...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Nathan McAllister, 2010 Kansas and National History Teacher of the Year talks about "Why not"?  When a student has an idea, help them be brilliant even if it wasn't in the plan.  This philosophy led to Nate's students working to successfully enact legislation, to building on the football field, to discovering that Seman school district was name...

Send us Fan Mail If you're a history teacher, you've heard about and perhaps have been subject to laws that prohibit you from teaching Critical Race Theory,  or CRT, in your classroom.   You also may have never even heard of CRT until it became a political buzzword used to divide.  And chances are you were not and are not teaching it considering it is an advanced, complex academic theory...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, I chat with Luiz Bravim about how we speak in our classrooms.  We talk about both our language choices and technique and how those two things influence students' experiences in our classes.  Luiz offers us practical advice for improving how we speak! Get in touch with Luis: Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/luizcr2 Linked In: https://www.linkedin.co...