Description: Social studies education as it should be - LOUD AND PROUD!
Social studies education as it should be – LOUD AND PROUD!
It’s been a while since I have posted – amazing, since it seems I have more time than ever – but I have been pushing myself to take advantage of as much of the great free online PD as possible this summer – more on that later… However, the 4th of July is always a huge day for me, and as I reflect on what it means – actually, what I personally think it should mean to everyone – I feel this July 4th may be as important as any I can remember.
I’m that guy that noses into 4th of July conversations and asks people what happened on July 4, 1776 – and I rarely get the accurate response. I usually hear that independence was proposed (nope, that’s June 7, by Richard Henry Lee), or the Declaration of Independence was written (Jefferson did that between the 7th and June 30, with some help from Adams and Franklin), or that the vote for independence took place (July 2, actually, in a 12-0 vote that Adams felt would be celebrated by Americans for years to