A New Approach to an Ancient Faith

The adoption of the 2016 History-Social Science (HSS) Framework has brought with it the need to reform history-social science instruction. Common Core literacy, civic learning, and cultural diversity have been embedded with the content and the content has been updated and expanded in many topics for each grade. Of particular significance are the changes in content for the Early Civilizations of India unit. This called for the need to update the resources available to teachers, implement strategies for literacy and cultural proficiency, and provide professional development for teachers. At the history-social science Capacity Builder on January 9, San Diego Unified did just that.

Teachers experienced updated lessons on Hinduism and applied strategies such as Structured Academic Controversy and Save the Last Word for Me to engage students in reading from ancient sources and holding meaningful conversations around topics from Ancient India. We are excited to rollout the new modules, which can be accessed by teachers on the SDUSD HSS Site https://sites.google.com/a/sandi.net/sdusd-hss/home. Please contact jliebke@sandi.net if you have any questions.