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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

Coming in 2026🤞: Amy and I explore how we're recentering learning in our methods classes through reading, writing, and discussion--and doing away with digital technology.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Free publication (link in comments) supports educators teaching global citizenship education from Asia-Pacific perspectives, through concrete activities, stories, cases, examples, and instructional strategies. ##sschat #gce #globalcitizenshipeducation

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you're at the National Council for the Social Studies, come to Li-Ching Ho's and my presentation on teaching for hope! Saturday, Dec. 6, Room 201. #sschat #socialstudies #teachingsocialstudies @socialstudies.org

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 02/12/2025

Great opportunity for high school social studies teachers in the United States! #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #historyteacher

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

National History Day has been eliminated.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Li-Ching Ho and I just published this article on #hope and #historyteaching in the journal of the New South Wales History Teachers Association. DM for a higher-res version. #SSChat #iteachsocialstudies

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Teachers and teacher-educators who are looking for hope in these troubled times might be interested in this webinar @liching22.bsky.social and I are doing next week on teaching for #hope. Everyone is welcome to join. @edusky.bsky.social #socialstudies #sschat #iteachsocialstudies #civiceducation

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

I know this: Mark Pope is better at Xs and Os than John Calipari. (Also: Mark Few needs a new haircut.) #BBN

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

A cold day for activism at Indiana University on this 60th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, but oppression knows no weather, and neither can resistance.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

If you’re at #NCSS2024 you should go to the Democracy and Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts. There are some powerful works of art, some of them disturbing.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m pretty sure no woman was ever dissatisfied with a portrait of her by John Singer Sargent. #MFAB #Boston #NCSS2024

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I’m sure I’m not the first person to have taken (and posted) photos of these contrasting architectural styles in Boston. #NCSS2024

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Kristen Duncan with important insights into civic education for Black youth. Catch her newest work at #NCSS24 #NCSS2024 this week @ncssnetwork.bsky.social

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

A nation is not saved by wars but “by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swiftly; by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.”

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

If you’re at #NCSS24 #NCSS2024, let’s explore the possibilities of teaching for hopeful social action.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We must provide students a sense of hope--a belief that a better world is possible, and knowledge of how human action can make a difference. In our article in the latest Social Education, Li-Ching Ho and I describe what that might look like. #socialstudies #sschat (DM me if you don’t have access.)

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

“We can work together to shed the nationalism and xenophobia that are holding humanity back from participating in a world community that values all human life.” #socialstudies #sschat Catch Kathryn Engebretson next week at the Boston conference of @ncssnetwork.bsky.social

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

When I pull out the University of Ulster mug, it means it’s time for some serious writing about #historyeducation

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

I fear that young people today may have a distorted notion of what boxers should look like.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Only briefly during a joint session last year.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Civics linked to the nation-state will always be a tool of oppression; only an anarchist politics and civics can lead us to a more humane, life-affirming society (Alex Hollett) #sschat #socialstudies #anarchism

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

King and Williams call for racial healing through a history truth, education, and reconciliation commission.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

I don’t have a cat anymore. But here’s the cat I used to have, until she passed away after a nice long life. Mr. Potatohead for scale.

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Keith C. Barton @kcbarton.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

It’s too bad this is so timely, but we argue civic education must be replaced.

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