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How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

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Elementary teachers can help students hone these skills through science, social studies, and health. Soft Skills in Social Studies There is a clear connection between social studies and soft skills like: communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and cultural awareness.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

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The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. In 2019, 53,291 Bangladeshis made up just 6.3 Although students seemed to enjoy the school-wide production, Zeng was embarrassed. “It

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The Nationwide Reading Struggle

Studies Weekly

The 2022 Stanford National Assessment of Educational Progress showed that math and science reading test scores dropped significantly between 2019 and 2022. Emily Toronto, a 5th-grade teacher at Bonneville Elementary in Utah, reported that her lower-level reading students also struggle in social studies and science.

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Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

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Promoting Inclusion, Social Connections, and Learning Through Peer Support Arrangements. Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula. TEACHING Exceptional Children , 48(1), 9-18. Gottfried, M. Chronic Absenteeism in the Classroom Context: Effects on Achievement.

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

Herrington honored his heritage by carrying six eagle feathers, a braid of sweet grass, two arrowheads, and the Chickasaw Nation’s flag into space. These spacewalks are commemorated on the reverse of the 2019 Sacagawea dollar coin. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

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It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. We are just saying that it’s for Congress and the executive to resolve these problems, Olson said during a November 2019 hearing before U.S. The BIE hired Vides in 2019 as a kindergarten and first grade teacher. District Judge Steven Logan. public schools.

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