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Summer Reading List?
Love reading. Love summer. Love a good hammock. So . . . perfect time of the year. I had a great two hours on Sunday – wife and daughter gone to a movie, son at work, slight breeze, cool beverage,...
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Tip of the Week – EDSITEment reading list (and a few others)
A couple of days ago I posted my annual Summer Reading List. Of course, I never actually finish the list. There’s always something that ends up changing my direction – usually it’s because a book...
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100 book lists for teachers by teachers
The school year is getting closer and I know many of you are busy working on lessons, gathering resources and finding materials. I recently ran across a site that looks incredibly useful. Scholastic...
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7 great books for your summer reading list
It’s my new equation. (Hb * X) + (Hm * H3C6H5O7) = SMP Where Hb = History Books, Hm = Hammock, H3C6H5O7 = lemonade, and SMP = summer reading pleasure. Pretty simple really. Take a bunch of books that...
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OurStory – American History stories and activities
A project of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, OurStory is designed to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through children’s literature, everyday objects,...
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The Clansman and books that shaped America
We’re in day two of a four day history geek fest. And it’s awesome. Dr. Steven Hahn, Pulitzer Prize winning historian, and Bruce Lesh, teacher and author of Why Won’t You Just Tell Us the Answer, are...
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Try out inklewriter – win an iTunes card!
Okay. I’ll be honest. I just found out about inklewriter but haven’t learned much about it yet. This week will be another busy conference week and I probably won’t have much time to play around with...
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Tip of the Week: Ten Best Social Studies Stuffs of 2012
Yeah. I know. Stuffs. Probably not an actual word. But I use the word stuff a lot and it seemed to fit. I started thinking that I would write about my 10 favorite books of 2012. But wait. What about...
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Teaching What Really Happened and 3 other interesting books you should be...
Like many families, mine spends part of every evening re-hashing the day – sharing experiences, discussing current events, solving the world’s problems, and arguing whether the X-Men are actual super...
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Classroom Clues: K-6 Lit to teach economics
What I know about economics and personal finance? Think of the smallest possible measuring container and what I know about economics and personal finance would probably come close to filling that...
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100 books to read before you die (and a few more)
Amazon phrased it a bit differently when advertising their most recent list: “100 Books to Read in a Lifetime.“ But I think my title puts a bit more urgency into the process. As in . . . get on it. You...
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Books that shaped America. Mmm . . .
As part of the celebration of their 100th birthday, the US Department of Labor recently put together a list titled “Books That Shaped Work in America.” It’s an interesting list. And I will be the first...
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Tip of the Week: Summer Reading List
My wife is smirking at me. She’s feeling her oats. Yup. Yesterday was her last day of school. As a fourth grade teacher, the last week of school for her is usually pretty brutal and starting today she...
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Summer reading list 2015
It’s a Wiebe tradition. The annual summer reading list. For as long as I’ve been in education, I’ve had a summer reading list. Several of my early mentors suggested that the summer is a perfect time...
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Summer reading list 2015
It’s a Wiebe tradition. The annual summer reading list. For as long as I’ve been in education, I’ve had a summer reading list. Several of my early mentors suggested that the summer is a perfect time...
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Tip of the Week: What will you be reading?
I seriously doubt that anyone will actually read this. It’s the final student contact day for many of you and am pretty sure the last thing you’re thinking about right now is my Tip of the Week. But...
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Explore Like a Pirate: #gbl & game-based course design
I’ve gotten to know Michael Matera over the last few years as we both went down the path of using games in the classroom. We read each other’s stuff and chatted once a while via social media. He’s...
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Summer reading list? Epic fail. Fall learning? 3 ways it can still happen
It really is a noble goal. I start each June with the idea of working my way through 4-6 books before September that can help me grow professionally and personally. It’s a habit that started way back...
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Take a nap. Catch your breath. Read a book.
Kori Green, newly installed president of the Kansas Council for the Social Studies, shared a great piece of advice yesterday morning. Over at the KCSS Doing Social Studies site, Kori suggested that...
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The best history books of 2016 and personal professional development
During the glory days of the Teaching American History projects, we handed out books like candy. We’d read. Argue. Reflect. Move on to the next. And I’m sure there were some who didn’t enjoy that...
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