Exploring the Past, Looking to the Future 

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(Un)Settling History: Teaching and Thinking Historically in the Age of “Neutrality”
Dr. Carla Peck - Keynote Speaker
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Registration for this year's MSSTA-MTS PD Day,  is now OPEN! 
​👉 Register for the MSSTA-MTS PD Day

History can no longer be treated as a passive survey of the past; it is an active and often uncomfortable practice for questioning the present. MSSTA's Fall 2026 PD Day invites educators to examine how histories are constructed, whose perspectives are centred, and how claims of neutrality shape what becomes knowable, teachable, and contestable in the history classroom. Participants will be challenged to critically examine dominant settler-colonial narratives and instead centre Indigenous perspectives while considering how historical accounts are shaped, challenged, and revised rather than simply received. The conference foregrounds historical thinking as an approach to history education that is rigorous, inquiry‑driven, and that compels students to grapple with complexity, disagreement, and uncertainty.

Featuring keynote speaker Dr. Carla Peck from the University of Alberta, and director of the Thinking Historically for Canada’s Future project, the conference foregrounds history education as a rigorous, inquiry‑driven practice that asks students to grapple with complexity, disagreement, and uncertainty. Together, we will share critical inquiries and classroom practices that position students as active historical thinkers so they may use the past to better understand the present and navigate an increasingly complex and uncertain future with care, responsibility, and purpose.​​

Spring 2026 MSSTA Journal Published! 
The spring edition of the MB Speaks, the journal of the Manitoba Social Science Teachers' Association, is now available! Please click the following link to access it here: Spring 2026 - Vol. 50 No. 2 ​