Dr. Chauncey Monte Sano

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Biography

Chauncey Monte-Sano is a social studies educator and researcher whose scholarship focuses on supporting adolescents’ disciplinary thinking, talk, and writing to investigate complex historical and social issues using primary and secondary sources. He explores how social studies teachers learn to support students’ thinking through an inquiry approach to instruction. His research conducts partnerships with teachers, students, and school leaders to produce practical curriculum, teacher education, and professional development materials. Monte-Sano leads the Teaching Reasoning Inquiry Project Social Studies (TRIPSS) lab, collaborating with experts in linguistics and economics education to develop curriculum materials designed for English-speaking and bilingual learners. His work is underpinned by principles that view learning as a social and situated activity and emphasize the importance of students as active sense-makers.

Research Interests

Experience

Professor

2016-01-01 — Present

University of Michigan Marsal Family School of Education • Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lead the Teaching Reasoning Inquiry Project, focusing on developing inquiry-based social studies curriculum.

Awards

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Larry Metcalf Award

2007-03-01
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Early Career Award

2011-03-01
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James Harvey Robinson Prize

Courses

EDUC 431 Teaching Social Studies in PK-6 EDUC 737 Topics in Educational Studies EDUC 780 Research in Teaching History EDUC 430 'Teaching to Transgress': Using Dialogic Thinking in History/Social Science Perspectives