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The American Sociological Association's Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology

The American Sociological Association’s Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology (TRAILS) is a cutting-edge educational tool to promote high-quality teaching that also offers professors a new form of evidence of teaching excellence to support their promotion and tenure.

10/29/2026

This assignment, created by Brooke Johnson, uses a structured reflective approach to help students identify sociological specific skills alongside those developed through work, volunteer activities and lived experience. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/making-skills-visible-transferable-skills

10/22/2026

This activity, created by Sarah Blake, asks students to critically engage with sociological theories of the environment in order to analyze environmental and health disparities disproportionately impacting residents in “Cancer Alley”, Louisiana. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/connecting-environmental-health-and-critical

10/13/2026

This applied learning activity, created by Casey Errante, is
designed to provide students with the opportunity to recognize the relevance of public sociology through learning about social issues on their own campuses.

https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/using-public-sociology-to-understand

10/06/2026

This activity, created by Katherine Castiello Jones and Erynn Masi de Casanova, is designed to help teach students about grants, grant proposals, project feasibility and budgets, and factors shaping the grant selection process. https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/the-grants-game-how-to

08/13/2026

Congratulations to our most recent TRAILS author, Jinhyuk Kim, who has been recognized with the ASA's Section on Teaching and Learning Graduate Student Contribution to the Sociological Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award! The resource is linked in the comments.

08/13/2026

Did you know that TRAILS resources have won awards? I just put together a resource collection to highlight them:

The items in this collection are award-winning resources. They have each been recognized by the ASA's Section on Teaching and Learning in Sociology and recieved their Graduate Student Contribution to the Sociological Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award.

08/04/2026

This activity, created by Dakota Dougherty, is designed to help students strengthen their understanding of key sociological theories and concepts through analysis of the 2004 film Mean Girls.
https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/learning-social-processes-through-mean

07/28/2026

Trenton Ellis and Michael Hollingsworth created an activity that facilitates critical investigation of theories that explain the causes and experiences of disability in society and can be completed by individual or groups of students via in-person or online class modalities.
https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/grocery-run-teaching-the-social

07/21/2026

Chengguang Hu created this activity to teach students that politics are not limited to elections or public protests but also appears in everyday conversations, decisions, and moments when people choose to speak or stay silent.
https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/between-voice-and-silence-political

07/14/2026

In this activity, Hannah Judson designed it to help students learn core sociological concepts through analysis of and application to a short game show TV episode
https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/what-are-the-rules-of

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