How do we teach history during COVID-19? Defining Moments Canada's focus on the Spanish Flu can be a way to historicize this pandemic moment.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian Dr. Mary Chaktsiris (McMaster/eCampusOntario) discusses how sharing the spotlight in our teaching with students will make for a smoother transition to online teaching.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Veteran History and Social Studies teacher, Jan Haskings-Winner discusses how we shouldn’t be quick to determine historical significance and that we should always ground our teaching with current events.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian Dr. Sean Carleton (University of Manitoba) reminds us that colonialism doesn’t stop because COVID-19 has started. How can we ensure we are prioritizing nation-to-nation relationships during, and after, this time?

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Archivist and comic book writer Chris Sanagan (Group of 7) asks us to think about the amount (and value!) of the records we are creating during the pandemic.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? History professor and history consultant Dr. Nathan Smith (Applied History) talks about how this moment allows us to reaffirm to our students about how the structures of our country and government function work in our lives. But he also talks about the challenges of teaching history online during this time.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian, history professor, and history Renaissance woman, Dr. Andrea Eidinger (Unwritten Histories) talk about the "truth" of Canadian history: we've always been diverse and that everyone's story is important. If this is our focus, would the pandemic change that?

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Executive Director of the Toronto's First Post Office, Kat Akerfeldt discusses how during the pandemic their small museum is thinking about both programming and narratives. This can shape what is happening today but also in the future.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Oral history expert and historian of education, Dr. Kristina Llewellyn (Renison University College) has used the pandemic to remind her of the power of active and mindful history education practices, such as engaging in oral histories.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? American social studies teacher educator Dr. John Bickford III (Eastern Illinois University) discuss the problems of the "democratization of knowledge" during this time and how an interdisciplinary social studies focus can help balance this.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? GG award-winning teacher Katy Whitfield speaks with Dr. Samantha Cutrara about how we can invite an historical analysis of this moment by looking closer at our homes, communities, and connections to others.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Former high school history teacher and history teacher educator Aaron Stout (University of Lethbridge) discuss the importance of remembering that history is made and written by people. How can we "breath with" the lives and experiences from the past?

How do we teach history during COVID-19? American social studies teacher educators Dr. Andrea Hawkman (Utah State University) & Dr. Sarah Shear (University of Washington-Bothell) talk about their new co-edited collection on whiteness in social studies education to stress how drawing on the past can help us see systems of oppression in the present.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Critical disabilities historian Dr. Geoffrey Reaume (York University) discusses the importance of understanding vulnerability, access, and accommodations through a critical disabilities studies lens during and after the pandemic.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Senior archivist Adam Birrell (Archives of Ontario, The ArQuives, Thornhill Archives) discusses the types of records we are collecting during the pandemic and how this collection is different than collecting from one individual or organization.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Founder of The Slave Dwelling Project, Joseph McGill Jr., talks about the opportunities for museums 'to do the right thing' and redevelop their interpretation to be more inclusive of all the lives who were parts of the sites (or collections!).

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian and women's studies professor Dr. Funké Aladejebi (University of New Brunswick) discusses how Afro-centric approaches to learning can help up revalue community and participate in greater social action during and after COVID-19.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian and archivist Dr. Sarah Glassford (University of Windsor) talks about how the past can teach us how both anxiety and joy can exist at once.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? History teacher Nicole Ridley talks about her pandemic research project on women in the American West and how it will shape her teaching practice once she gets back in the classroom.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? High school history teacher Ian Duncan talks about how COVID is providing teachers an opportunity to break the chains of their own practice and listen to their students more.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Francophone social studies teacher educator Dr. Marie-Hélène Brunet (University of Ottawa) discusses the importance of exploring the ways gender is built into the symbols and narratives we use to make sense of the pandemic.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Digital content creator and #twitterstorian John Heckman, The Tattooed Historian, hopes for a "creative boom" in history during and after the pandemic because historians and historic sites had to engage in the digital at an accelerated pace.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Environmental and digital historian Dr. Sean Kheraj (York University) discusses how there are some good things to hold onto post-emergency online teaching and that a greater investment in thinking about these benefits will help us develop the skills and technologies as we need to move forward.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? History teacher educator Edmund Sosu (University of Newcastle, Australia), discusses the importance of using history to transform students to become moral agents in a world fraught with conspiracy theories.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Elementary school teacher Reshma Konstantinova (OCT) talks about making her teaching more impactful and meaningful for her grade 2 students, especially through her Asian Heritage Month Choices Board.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian and Black Canadian history education expert Natasha Henry talks about how the pandemic has exacerbated long standing issues of preservation and curriculum inclusion related to the experiences and histories of Black Canadians.

How do we teach history during COVID? Digital historian and podcaster Dr. Julian Chambliss uses the commemoration of Juneteenth to talk about the promise of freedom deferred and that the social movements for greater equity happening during COVID reflect the anger at the long-term systematic failure of delivering on this promise for African Americans.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Social Studies teacher educator Dr. Kristen Duncan (Clemson University) discusses how the grassroots Black Lives Matter movement can introduce to students how all people can make change and that teaching these diverse histories should be the goal of educators when they return to the classroom.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Doctoral Candidate Mark Currie discusses the links between anti-racist geographies and teaching and learning history, and argues that these links can help us think about how we enact historical exclusions and inclusions in shaping, and reaffirming, spaces.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Social Studies teacher educator Dr. Casey Burkholder emphasizes the importance of connecting activism with social studies to make change and develop more equity in our communities.

How do we teach history during COVID- 19? Public historian Adam Bunch highlights how COVID and Black Lives Matter shows us how history is something that's deeply important and happening all the time.

How do we teach history during COVID- 19? Historian and former social studies teacher Dr. Bonnie Laughlin-Schultz talks about how much she is thinking of historical evidence during this time: what we have and what we're missing. This has prompted more reflection on whether history is a humanity or social science.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? High school history teacher Melanie Williams says that we can teach history differently after this moment, but only if we are willing to change and broaden our stories.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? History and drama teacher Leanne Young talks about how this moment provides a personal experience for students to work through, and that being a “life preserver” for students understand this moment - and the future to come - should be a history teacher’s task moving forward.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Historian and antiracist education specialist Dr. Tim Stanley talks about the material connections we share with people all over the world, and that focusing on these connections can create better conditions for confronting racism in our classrooms, curricula, and stories.

How do we teach history during COVID-19? Governor General award winning history teacher Diane Vautour talks about how this moment can teach us, and our students, how life goes on during big global events and how people can become change makers.

Many teachers have used the WE Charity to support students' social justice efforts, but it is problematic. Now that it is not in operation in Canada, June Findlay shares her research on "charitainment" and the attributes teachers and students should look for when engaging in school-based social justice projects together.

Join me and YA author Rob Shapiro as we talk about his new fantasy novel The Book of Sam and make the connections between fantasy writing and the teaching of history. We also talk about Blair Witch Project, Paul Bunyan, and the Spice Girls (of course).

Orange Shirt Day began in Williams Lake in 2013 and has since spread to schools across Canada.

The shirt is a tribute to the lives affected and lost through the residential school system, which saw more than 150,000 Indigenous youth sent away from their parents beginning in the 19th century. The last school closed in 1996.

How do we teach history in this moment? Chronicles of Adam creator Dontavius Williams talks about what it means to teach history using tools that empower and invite inclusivity. What does it mean to put students in the driver's seat and listen to the stories they need to navigate - and be seen in - this world together?