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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

. * * * My most recent connection with a cultural center occurred over a year ago when BSC social studies teacher candidates worked with the Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center (UGRR) during an informal service-learning project. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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The Nationwide Reading Struggle

Studies Weekly

Many kindergarten and first-grade students missed out on crucial language learning during 2020 and 2021. Students across the country are falling more than one grade level behind where their reading scores should be. Help your students improve their reading scores! Get a Studies Weekly free trial today!

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Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

Studies Weekly

Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance May 28, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Education in the United States has changed since the 2020 pandemic and still faces many lingering challenges due to the shutdown. One of the most pervasive issues is chronic student absenteeism. Tracking State Trends in Chronic Absenteeism.

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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. 2, 2020, for AIP.org. In 2002, Herrington was selected as a mission specialist for STS-113, the 16th Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station.

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Curating a More Inclusive Library

Cult of Pedagogy

I’ve invited three exceptional librarians to share their expertise and recommendations in curating more inclusive collections: Julia Torres currently serves as a public librarian in Colorado and was named as a 2020 Library Journal Mover and Shaker. He has clinical depression.

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OPINION: How a new generation of students are responding to Black America’s echoes

The Hechinger Report

I first encountered the singularity in that civics classroom in 2014 in the rural town of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, when my months of careful lesson planning filled with Black historical texts weren’t enough for my bereft students the day after Brown’s death. They were disgruntled about my standard lesson on the Bill of Rights.

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

By 2000, it had grown to 13 percent, and in 2020, it was almost 40 percent. Russellville’s Hispanic population has grown from close to zero in the late 1980s to nearly 40 percent in 2020. Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning.