Summary
Seeking a qualified and reputable partner who can design a semester-long (approx. 4 months) 8th grade social studies course, ensuring that students develop historical thinking and critical thinking skills while also receiving ample opportunities to practice and deepen skills in reading and writing. The course will cover the time periods from Reconstruction until the Modern Civil Rights Movement and should feature a liberatory design that reflects both DC
State Social Studies Standards and a commitment to providing students with learning experiences that allow them to deeply interrogate power constructs, race, systems of both oppression and liberation, and see themselves as change agents and advocates when exploring how the past impacts our current realities.