Hot Button by Bart King

Hot Button by Bart King

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 Mu oz, Chris Dier, and accomplished author Bart King.

Bart King is a funny--and educational--writer. (His book The Big Book of Boy Things was once the best-selling children's book on Amazon.com.) When he was a kid, Bart learned he could punch people into space. Unfortunately, he lost a lot of friends as a result of this. Bart is now regarded as one of the world's foremost superhero experts. (As a long-serving middle school teacher, he's also in high demand from supervillains!)