As social studies educators, we are often tuned in to the patterns of the past and the present. We can see the effect of the past on the present. Our role is to bring those effects to light for our students so that they can engage thoughtfully with the complexities of the present.

In Canada, we are fortunate to live in peace, thanks to the service and sacrifice of those who have served in uniform across our military history. Leading up to Veterans’ Week (November 5-11), help your students better understand the present by examining the past. Our free print and online resources are designed to help students of all ages remember and recognize Canada’s Veterans.

The Ukrainian Canadian Congress’s National Internment Committee, along with SSENC, is inviting teachers to bring an often-overlooked chapter of Canadian history into their classrooms: Canada’s first national internment operations (1914–1920).

How do governments make decisions that shape our everyday lives? And how can young people better understand and engage in those decisions?

As a Social Studies teacher in Alberta for the past 33 years, I have never felt the weight of our profession quite as acutely as I do today. Political polarization is reshaping our communities, an “age of distraction” fights for our students’ attention, and the coming wave of artificial intelligence promises to fundamentally challenge our perceptions and understandings of teaching and learning. In these challenging times, where many of us are experiencing a sense of moral distress as we struggle to preserve and sustain the foundational project of our liberal democracy, Dr. Carla L. Peck and Dr. Alan Sears have delivered a timely call to action with Rescuing Reason: How History Education Can Help Save Democracy.