What’s Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 18: “Ok but how about...”: Having Difficult Conversations in the Classroom
Hosts Mary and Maeve explore how to have difficult conversations with students in the classroom, modeling conversation skills to lead to more meaningful discussions and connections.
18 Nov 2024
What’s Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 17: Diverse Perspectives in Social Studies Education
In this episode of What’s Going On? Hosts Mary and Maeve discuss their experiences with social studies curriculum and how current forms of teaching history make students feel disconnected. Together they brainstorm different ways to integrate and implement diverse perspectives in the classroom. Reminding us of the importance of embracing mistakes as we meaningfully connections.
5 Nov 2024
What’s Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 16: Discussing voting
In this episode of What’s going on? Hosts Mary and Maeve discuss the topic of voting as we approach election day. They go over voting in the classroom, the history of voting, past and present forms of voter suppression, and voting incentives. Together they grapple with the complexities of the voting system and the importance of staying informed and taking action.
22 Mar 2024
What’s Going on? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 15: transforming harm in social studies
In this episode of What’s Going On? host Jae, is joined by Samantha Stearns, a middle school social studies teacher at Roosevelt Middle School in River Forest, Illinois. Together they explore teaching truth in today’s classroom, reflection as an important tool of justice-centered teaching, and transforming harm in social studies
23 Feb 2024
What’s Going on? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 14: AP African American Studies is a very deep & rich history
Season 3, Episode 2: In this episode of What’s Going On? Host, Jae, is joined by Kara Whitley, a Central High School English teacher in Illinois. Together, they discussed her new role as an AP African American Studies teacher and the struggles, alongside the amazing opportunity to learn that comes with it.
9 Feb 2024
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 13: Moving towards free inquiry in Social Studies
Season 2, Episode 5: In this episode of What’s Going On? host, Jae, is joined by Seth Brady, Global Peace Studies teacher at Naperville Central High School in Illinois. Together, they discuss what it means to support, and facilitate, free inquiry in social studies through love, relationships, trust, disrupting schooling’s enclosing functioning, circles, facilitating action, and continuous feedback.
28 Jan 2024
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 12: Art is social studies, Social studies is art
Season 2, Episode 4: In this episode of What’s Going On? host, Jae, is joined by Emily Chyba, preK-3rd grade Art teacher at Bouchet Elementary Math & Science Academy in Chicago. Together they explore the connections between social studies and art in early childhood education. In doing so they discuss students’ natural creativity, creating relevant curricular experiences that connect to students’ lives and communities, respecting young peoples’ brilliance and curiosities, curating experience for students to learn about oppression, and the importance of creating environments that support these inquiry-based and inclusive experiences through interdisciplinary experiences.
1 Dec 2023
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 11: They are alright – positioning young people as leaders through authentic teaching and learning experiences
In this episode What’s Going On? host, Jae, is joined by Jasmine Gilstrap Hunter, Executive Director of Lion’s Pride, a mentorship program for high school students. Together they discuss the role of mentorship in education, creating safe learning spaces, Black women teachers, restorative justice, trust and humanizing relationships, letting students lead their learning, and lessons learned about teaching and learning in the COVID-19 pandemic.
17 Nov 2023
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 10: Student-centered teaching and learning in social studies
In this episode What’s Going On? host, Jae, is joined by Diamond Bell, future social studies teacher. Together they discuss the importance of great social studies teachers, teaching and learning during and following the COVID-19 pandemic, the teachers’ role in student-centered social studies classrooms, pedagogies of curiosity that give students’ the authority to explore their lives, making social studies fun and engaging,
13 Oct 2023
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 8: TikTok and Social Studies
Season 1, Episode 8: In this episode What’s Going On? host, Jae, is joined by Jose Rivera, a student studying marketing at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the content creator for the Social Studies Network’s Tik Tok page. Together they discuss how Tik Tok can support teaching and learning in social studies and K-12 education overall.
14 Aug 2023
What's Going On: A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 7: Community and Life in Social Studies
Season 1, Episode 7: In this episode What’s Going On? host, Jae, is joined by Dr Y’Shanda Rivera, Director of strategy, research and Partnerships at R-City Community Development Center and former K-12 teacher and administrator. Together they discuss the importance of community partnerships, creating classrooms that support learning and healing instead of harm, the joys of teaching, being authentic, letting students share all of their brilliance and power in classrooms, and finding places where are hearts beat well.
17 Mar 2023
What’s Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 6: To Be Social Is To Be Human
Season 1, Episode 6: In this episode of What’s Going On? host, Jae, is joined by Noelle Johnson, a student studying to be a teacher at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. They talk about living through history, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, their futures as Black women navigating a predominately white institution, relevant curriculum that reflects students’ lives and languages, dismantling the school-prison nexus, and social studies as a humanizing act.
24 Feb 2023
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 5: Freedom Dreaming and Prison Abolition in Social Studies
In this episode of What’s Going On? host, Jae, interviews Dr. Rachel McMillian, Assistant Professor of Social Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Together they go back to Dr. McMillian’s high school classroom in Cincinnati, Ohio where she, and her students partnered with the Ohio Innocence Project and Keith Lamar, an incarcerated human being on death row, to study freedom in relationship to the Constitution and their lived experiences in the world. This project led Dr. McMillian’s students to organize each other and their community around issues of wrongful convictions and freedom. Throughout the episode they make connections to teaching and learning in social studies classrooms today and in the future.
To learn more, and support Keith Lamar’s fight for freedom visit https://www.keithlamar.org/
10 Feb 2023
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 4: Perspective is everything!
In this episode of What’s Going On? host, Jae is in conversation with Tina Franklin-Bertrand, an elementary school teacher in Chicago with over 20 years of experience. They talk about the role that perspective plays in social studies, the importance of teachers being emersed into the community, story-telling in social studies, and how to make social studies relevant to the local lived experiences of students.
2 Jan 2023
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 3: kNOw Herstory, kNOw Self!
Season 1, Episode 3
In this episode of What’s Going On? host, Jae is in conversation with Alexis, a college senior who’s studying to become a high school history teacher. They talk about identity being a major factor in the work of creating history, the importance of grace and connection between students and teachers in classrooms, and the understanding that history is continuously changing
22 Nov 2022
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 2: Open, Safe, and Inclusive Social Studies
In the second episode of What’s Going On? host, Jae, a college student studying to become a high school teacher is in conversation with Liv, a college senior who’s studying to become a high school social studies teacher. They talk about the influence of personal experiences in their social studies journeys and their hopes for social studies teachers to create open and safe classrooms.
14 Oct 2022
What's Going On? A Social Studies Network Podcast_Episode 1: What is Social Studies?
In this inaugural episode of What's Going On? host, Jae, a college student studying to become a high school teacher is in conversation with Dr. Asif Wilson, Assistant Professor of Social Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. They talk about the origins of social studies, and how it might be a space of liberation and freedom.
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