A book that explores the delicacy and critical importance of getting history right, and teaching it in an age-appropriate way in the classroom, every time.
Hot Button: Teaching Sensitive Social Studies Content explores the difficulty, delicacy, and ethical obligations of teaching accurate history to all students. It names and explores the issues with being the 'tip of the spear' in the classroom?after a long line of generally bureaucratic and political decisions are made and how to apply appropriate logic and decision making into what constitutes your scope and sequence and lesson plans as a social studies teacher. It features contributions from Alysha Butler, Kelly Reichardt, Gerardo Muñoz, Chris Dier, and accomplished author Bart King.
About the Author: Bart King has written more than twenty-eight books, including The Big Book of Boy Stuff, The Big Book of Spy Stuff, and The Pocket Guide to Mischief. His books for Gibbs Smith have sold more than 830,000 copies combined. He is also a 2019 winner of the Bulwer Lytton Writing Contest's "Vile Pun" award. He lives in Silverton, Oregon.
Giacomo Calabria is an award-winning educator, a scholar with Humanities New York, and an author whose works include one play, two novels, various book chapters, and more than 200 published articles. His writing has been featured on BBC America, Business Insider, CNN Money, Folger Magazine, The Huffington Post, Politico Magazine, Reader's Digest, Slate, WAMC's The Roundtable, and Princeton University's Electronic Bulletin of the Dante Society of America, among others. He lives in Albany, New York.
