The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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 Bangladesh’s existence wasn’t even acknowledged in her history classes. live in New York City.”.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Schools that implement comprehensive emotional learning and well-being programs saw a 10% reduction in absenteeism rates within a single academic year, according to a 2019 Journal of Educational Psychology study. The Impact of Social and Emotional Learning on Chronic Absenteeism: A Longitudinal Analysis of the Fast Track Curriculum.”

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

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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Heritage Primary Sources K-12 Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

New EL schools must first go through several months of professional development, classroom observation and co-teaching — both at the schools and at three-day intensive “institutes” off-site. The network was purposefully capped at about 150 schools, because the partnerships rely on intensive, in-person training and coaching.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. “I honestly cannot imagine teaching social studies without providing each student with a copy of their student publication.” 2019, September 27). 2019, August 22). Fernandes, M.

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Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

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. During the mission, Herrington performed three spacewalks, totaling 19 hours and 55 minutes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said. In September 2019, the school office said she had retired. The computer time also let teachers spend more time working with small groups so they could see, precisely, which elements each student understood.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. It’s difficult to find enough teachers with the subject-area knowledge to teach it, and over the years, many of the teachers who’d initially received professional development in the subject had left, Jimenez said. In 2019, then Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Denver high school social studies teacher Nick Childers, right, chants as teachers picket outside South High School on February 11, 2019 in Denver, Colorado. Incentivizing professional development with money is also questionable. But we have to be honest about these inexact pay-for-performance models.

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Professional Development Public School Social Studies Leadership 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Credit: Joseph Bui for The Hechinger Report In December 2019 Morath, the TEA head, sent a letter to the district announcing that the state was taking over and removing the school board. We are not what they’re saying we are,’” said former Wheatley social studies teacher Kendra Yarbrough-Camarena. We need to show them who we are.

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Charter School High School Professional Development Government 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

A new national science test and a new national survey, both due out in 2019, will show whether science achievement has improved and whether time spent on science has increased; in the meantime, the standards are definitely spurring some to action. Read about math , reading and social studies (publishing Thursday).

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

A limping recovery: 2016 to 2024 Flores spent 40 years training future teachers before retiring in 2019. Teacher preparation programs, Superintendent Todd Lile said, are not producing graduates who are ready to do this work, leaving districts like his with steep professional development costs.

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Elementary School Education K-12 History 124

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948. A mixer/mystery activity on Zionism, anti-Zionism, peasant resistance, the Great War, the British Mandate, and more. Independence or Catastrophe?

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Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52