OPPORTUNITIES LOST - TEACHERS LEARNING ABOUT THE NEW-YORK-STATE SOCIAL-STUDIES FRAMEWORK

The recent spate of state and national curriculum policies promote cha nges in teaching and learning in social studies. Yet these policies ar e largely silent on the issue of how teachers win unlearn what they no w know and learn to teach differently. In this student of 16 professio nal development opportunities around the recent New York State social studies framework, I explore three issues: the range of opportunities teachers have to learn about the framework, the content and pedagogy o f those sessions, and teachers' responses to the framework and the pro fessional development sessions they attended.