Embracing ALL learners in social studies classrooms, Mark Newman and Xiaoning Chen provide important insights into how to make social studies teaching and learning more inclusive, equitable, and engaging. Blending an embrace of students of every background with their visual framework, Teaching Social Studies to Multilingual Learners in High School: Connecting Inquiry and Visual Literacy to Promote Progressive Learning adds important and engaging approaches to every social studies teacher’s toolkit.

Benjamin R. Wellenreiter, assistant professor, Illinois State University, and 2019 president of the Illinois Council for the Social Studies

Mark Newman and Xiaoning Chen do a great job of addressing the challenges multilingual students face while weaving together best practices and the visual literacy framework, all the while staying rooted in the inquiry-based learning model. Being a novice not only to the visual literacy framework but to teaching in general, I was able to walk away with a firm understanding of the visual literacy framework and how it can be applied in the classroom with my multilingual students. Furthermore, the authors explain why it is beneficial for students. It provides a level of authenticity and mirrors what teachers encounter in the classroom.

Jorge Rios, ESL/Bilingual Social Studies Teacher, East Aurora High School, Aurora, Illinois