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April Croy and Michelle Palmieri discuss the importance of a coherent, chronological history curriculum and how their research influences their new social studies curriculum.

Coherent history curriculum is chronological. That’s the conclusion of April Croy and Michelle Palmieri, former English language arts curriculum writers now developing a new social studies curriculum, Tapestry. The sisters, who co-founded Lumina Learning, explain their thinking in an engaging conversation with host Ebony McKiver on this episode of the History Matters Podcast. The conversation explores how research on the science of reading has shaped their approach to history instruction, in ...

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