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Two Books to Help You Hold Healthy Classroom Conversations About Race

Cult of Pedagogy

It was written in 2018 by Philadelphia high school English teacher Matthew Kay, and he based it on his experiences having these conversations with his own students. The first book is called Not Light, But Fire: How to Lead Meaningful Race Conversations in the Classroom.

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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

Therefore, when I learned that I would be teaching a social studies assessment course as part of a cross-content assessment course this spring, I started thinking about some of the tension points surrounding not only teacher education, but also student assessment. 6; Love, 2019).

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How do we teach Black history in polarized times? Here’s what it looks like in three cities

The Hechinger Report

DeSantis, has grown increasingly skeptical that the class will spread to other Kentucky schools, even as her politically liberal district doubles down on a commitment to African American history it made as part of a curriculum revamp in 2018. Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. history and social studies curriculums. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

The Hechinger Report

Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. Almost 1 in 10 of the state’s educators left the classroom from 2010 to 2018. Hi, I’m Amia Bridgeford, your student’s social studies teacher. I haven’t seen them.