ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. Moving the Needle My perspective as a history teacher is that service learning and social-emotional learning are competing initiatives.

Civic Engagement 137

Civic Engagement Civics K-12 Education 137

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.

Primary Sources 124

Primary Sources Social Science Professional Development Critical Thinking 124

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Heather Van Benthuysen, director, Chicago Public Schools Department of Social Science and Civic Engagement.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing-to-learn activities incorporated in math, science, and social science improved the quality of learning in those subjects (Graham, Kiuhara & MacKay, 2020). The Effects of Writing on Learning in Science, Social Studies, and Mathematics: A Meta-Analysis. Kiuhara, S. A., & MacKay, M.

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K-12 Psychology Social Science Social Studies 103

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Since March 2020, Black Americans have experienced a perfect storm of social and emotional stressors, including the unequal death toll from Covid-19 in the Black community, the ongoing resurgence of white supremacy and an onslaught of high-profile police killings of Black people. Related: Last week was tough, teachers say.

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