📢 Calling all #SocialStudies teachers: What activities do you use to bring #Civics to life *and* connect it to students’ lives?🏛️

Do students attend school board meetings, volunteer at polling places? 🗳️

Working on a story for edutopia and want to know what works for you!

I asked a question about closure activities (quick ways to help lock in learning) & ppl from all corners of the edu-world responded back.

1/1,000+ reasons I love writing about education: educators do what they can to help each other. ❤️

For edutopia: bit.ly/3xlhJLP

Working on a list of impactful, effective closing activities for edutopia

Strategies teachers use to tie up loose ends of a lesson, check for understanding, inform next instructional steps, & emphasize key points before the bell 🔔.

What works in your classroom?

They say don’t meet your heroes, but getting face time w/ educators I look up to like Jose Vilson & so many of you has been an honor.

It’s my last day at #SXSWEDU today. Assistant editor Daniel Leonard will be holding down the fort for edutopia tomorrow. Grab us before we go!

A lovely teen in the lobby of the hotel told me that my outfit reminded him of Shrek 😂🤣

Anywho... Day 2 at SXSW EDU - let's get it!