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TEACHER VOICE: Educators need more resources, skills and partnerships to bring the world into their classrooms

The Hechinger Report

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge.

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South Dakota Teacher of the Year Sees Teaching as a Team Effort

Teaching American History

Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go. I’m super passionate about social studies, but many of my students are not. While studying the Gilded Age, we had them take on roles as oil barons.”