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Podcast: Teachers in America
Episode: Teaching Impeachment and Controversial Issues Feat. Dr. Emma Humphries (iCivics)
Description: Today's bonus minisode is a follow-up to our last episode about civic education. We're joined by Dr. David Dockterman, a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and host of HMH Learning Moments: Shaping the Future, as he talks about how teachers can facilitate difficult classroom discussions, particularly considering questions that may arise about the impeachment inquiry currently in the news. Students may come across social media posts, overhear conversations, or see major media about all kinds of controversial or politicized topics, and they will naturally have questions and opinions that could come up in class. Dr. Emma...