A summary of curriculum developed by Christopher Martell: 

Open Social Studies

This curriculum was built to help teachers in K-6 schools regularly enact powerful and authentic 
social studies in their classrooms that will also meet essential literacy goals. It leverages the 
richness of social studies content to help students learn to read, write, and think critically while 
exploring the past and present world around them. It aims to make every single lesson culturally 
relevant, connecting to the racial, ethnic, gender, class, language, and immigration experience of 
the increasingly diverse United States. Originally, this curriculum was designed to help teachers 
in the Boston Public Schools regularly integrate social studies into their classrooms. It is now 
available to all teachers for free and open source with the hope of improving social studies 
learning for elementary students.

Link:
www.opensocialstudies.org/K-6.html 


Boston Public Schools Ethnic Studies Curricular Materials

These syllabi and case studies were created through a partnership between the Boston Public
Schools and the Institute for New England Native American Studies, the Institute for Asian
American Studies, the Mauricio Gastón Institute for Latino Community Development and Public
Policy, and the William Monroe Trotter Institute for the Study of Black Culture at the University 
of Massachusetts Boston, which are collectively known as the Collaborative of Asian American, 
Native American, Latinx and African American (CANALA) Institutes. UMass Boston is one of 
only two universities in the country with free-standing research institutes dedicated to four major
communities of color (African American, Asian American, Latinx, and Native American) in the 
United States.

Links:
bit.ly/bpsethnicstudies
bit.ly/bpscasestudies


Investigating History

This curriculum was developed in collaboration with Primary Source and the Massachusetts
Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide an accurate, culturally
responsive, and inclusive curriculum. Investigating History is an open-source curriculum for 
originally grades five through seven (now expanded by to three through seven), offered at no 
cost to schools, with opportunities for robust teacher support and professional development 
for adoption and implementation.

Link:
www.doe.mass.edu/investigatinghistory/