The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? Wayne Zhang is a graduate student at Northwestern University who will be teaching social studies next year at Amundsen High School in Chicago Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

In October 2020, Digital Promise launched the Center for Inclusive Innovation, as a way to create this support. Frank McCormick, at the time the district’s coordinator for social studies instruction, said those inquiry-based standards were a radical shift from the content-based standards that most students and teachers were used to.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

Many kindergarten and first-grade students missed out on crucial language learning during 2020 and 2021. 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. This is where Studies Weekly can help.

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Heritage Social Studies Primary Sources Lesson Plan 52

C3 Teachers

DECEMBER 22, 2022

My state requires historical thinking skills to be infused within the social studies curriculum. Prior to 2020, I tended to evaluate initial student performance holistically. These seismic shifts impacted the pedagogical practices we use in our inquiry-based and student-centered social studies classrooms.

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Primary Sources Social Studies 52

Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

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. Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. “Using both our print and online together gives the greatest benefits by far,” Bagley said.

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Artifacts Primary Sources K-12 Psychology 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

This year, The Hechinger Report spent time in three different high school classrooms where teachers have prioritized Black history in this contentious political climate, to learn how African American history studies has changed over the years and what it might look like for students to receive a substantive, nuanced education on the topic.

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