Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. A 2017 article by Edutopia states that students do not retain memorized facts and dates very well but they do remember first-person accounts that emotionally connect them to the subject. For example, most people over 30 can remember where they were on Sept.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. One former student who appreciates what he learned from Messick now serves on the school board for the district in which Messick teaches. Some of them encourage her.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me. Teaching has consumed me.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Instructional monitoring: Monitored student progress and adjusted their teaching strategy as needed. This teacher makes lessons interesting.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

As a sector, we are being bombarded with reports of our failings in the teaching of maths, which leaves teachers and principals across the country feeling uncertain of what to do, and how to teach maths effectively, Rodgers wrote in a report to her school community at the end of the sabbatical. Not any more.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

The ability to use complex language would have given early Homo sapiens a crucial advantage, enabling cooperation, teaching, and planning in ways that no other species could match," Miyagawa explains. The researchers propose that language might have played a key role. Further Reading & Related Research Tattersall, I. Palgrave Macmillan.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

Though he has experience managing fast-food restaurants, he struggled to get even lower-paying work as a cook or cashier after his release from prison in 2017. It’s part of a trend of colleges teaching entrepreneurship to inmates and ex-inmates. So Bell, now 43, decided to open his own catering business.

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ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching. I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching,” says Sherlock, now 62. For a long time, I lived and breathed teaching. Julie Sherlock She meant it, too. I wanted to be good at it.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. Teaching With a Broken Heart They say teaching is “a work of the heart,” and indeed, it is. I was always completing tasks for other people.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Schools brag that they teach it on their websites and in open houses to impress parents. But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2021

Cynthia Stretch and John O’Connor, who teach English and sociology, respectively, at different campuses in the Connecticut State University System, are among faculty protesting a proposal to increase their teaching loads from four courses a semester to five. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 4, 2018

Tom Murray and I have watched many book studies and Twitter chats unfold since the release of the book in June of 2017. The key to change is not telling, but showing how ideas can transform teaching, learning, and leadership. The reaction to Learning Transformed has been truly humbling. We can't stop here.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2024

Those possibilities became a reality for Nakia and her classmates when Chilhowee became a Verizon Innovative Learning School in 2017. These six schools were part of Cohorts 4 and 5, first joining the program in 2017 or 2018. “We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow, I wish we had those possibilities.’”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. And all three have been working with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. . According to the 2018 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report , law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. Incidents of hate are on the rise in the U.S.,

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2020

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic closing schools across the country, districts are scrambling for ways to teach children who might be home until the end of summer. Moving instruction online and preparing teachers to use technology in their teaching is a massive undertaking. Edtech coaches know your district goals.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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Becoming a History Teacher

MAY 26, 2024

However, while it is vital to ascertain a candidate’s potential to undertake the subject knowledge enhancement required to teach a new curriculum, is an interview question the best way to do this? It is becoming more common, even in teaching, for interviewers to make the interview questions available to candidates prior to the interview.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 21, 2020

In 2017, we partnered with Google and EdTechTeam to launch the Dynamic Learning Project (DLP), a classroom-based coaching program with the goal of increasing educational equity and the impactful use of technology. As such, coaching is becoming more prevalent in schools and districts in the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The development of a social presence in a class has been shown to positively impact both engagement and learning outcomes (Richardson, Maeda, Lv & Caskurlu, 2017; Swan, 2019). Teaching online has made building community even more challenging, so I suggest starting each class with a check-in activity or a fun question.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

Research has shown that the way furniture is arranged in a classroom can significantly impact student behavior and learning outcomes (Granito & Santana, 2016; Parks, Corno & Cozzone, 2017). Teachers can easily move around the U-shape to provide targeted instruction and support as needed.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We think the best kind of science that happens at that level is real-world based,” said Jeanne McCarty, CEO of Out Teach , a national nonprofit that promotes new approaches to science education and builds outdoor learning labs at schools. “We Schools that get an outdoor learning lab also get coaching on teaching science in the lab.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2024

Valerie Brock Computer Science Education Manager, NYC Public Schools Computer Science for All Brock: In 2017, after 10 years of teaching in NYC Public Schools, the largest school district in the country, I transitioned to an “out-of-classroom” position. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

Research shows there is a clear need for this: A 2015 survey found only 20 percent of early-career principals in schools with pre-K classrooms felt “well-versed” in early ed; and a 2017 nationwide scan by New America found in most states, principals start without “the knowledge and skills they need to best serve young students.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. This community in rural Lewis County made headlines in 2017 when all 43 of its graduating seniors were accepted into two- or four-year colleges. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Off camera, their mother, Erica Stack, supervises while preparing to teach her own school class online. Brian Stack is principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire, and co-author of Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work (2017). Photo: Brian Stack.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Fourth-graders didn’t improve in 2017 in either subject. The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

The ability to learn and grow is part of what made teaching dynamic and energizing for me. The way sessions were facilitated often contradicted research-based teaching strategies. In 2017, I formed an after-school student activism and leadership club with a small group of seventh grade students. another student added.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Those are four of the top five emotions K-12 teachers reported feeling back in 2017 — well before the pandemic and 18 months of unfinished learning, trauma and economic instability. High-quality professional development in remote teaching practices and technology can help. Our teachers do more than teach — they model behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

WWC refers to the What Works Clearinghouse, a library of evidence-based teaching practices. Again it worked with different types of students in different parts of the country, and BARR received a third grant to scale it up across the nation in 2017. Source: IES , February 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Philanthropist and former Microsoft CEO Bill Gates popularized the notion in a 2009 TED Talk when he said “ once somebody has taught for three years, their teaching quality does not change thereafter.” Higher test scores, in this case, would probably not be a sign that the teacher is getting a lot better at teaching.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Research suggests that when technology is effectively used in schools, access may help to bridge educational and social gaps (Warschauer & Matuchniak, 2010; Eccles, 2009; National Science Foundation, 2017). Explore stories of powerful teaching and learning with technology on the Digital Promise blog.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

But now, after five years of high schools teaching to the Common Core standards (now slightly revamped and called Next Generation Learning Standards in New York), there’s a sudden spike in the high-school failure rate. English Language Learners accounted for 3,000 of the 13,000 additional students who failed the algebra test in 2017-18.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

West, an associate professor, and Professor Carl Bergstrom teach “Calling BS: Data Reasoning in a Digital World” (although the actual course listing uses the more colorful language). Launched in 2017, Calling BS became an instant hit at the University of Washington; it fills its 150-student capacity quickly each year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In 2017, public interest lawyers sued California because they claimed that too many low- income Black and Hispanic children weren’t learning to read at school. The state initially agreed to give an extra $50 million to 75 elementary schools with the worst reading scores in the state to improve how they were teaching reading.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

This staffing figure is through 2017, the most recent year available, and includes a 16 percent jump in the number of administrators and support personnel — a perennial target of critics — but also a 7 percent increase in the number of full-time faculty. percent from 2009 to 2017, a period during which the S&P 500 index gained 11.2

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