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Poor Pedagogical Choices: When task design derails your lesson

Becoming a History Teacher

In this situation, Seb’s lesson plan is thwarted from the get-go by his preoccupation with the HOW rather than the WHAT and the WHY. He therefore thought the students should be considering how to categorise causes as social, economic, political and intellectual, as well as grappling with notions of short- and long-term causation.

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TEACHER VOICE: Why we are being driven straight out of our classrooms

The Hechinger Report

In a similar vein, Indiana recently passed House Bill 1134, which requires teachers to submit their lesson plans and curriculum materials in advance of instruction so that parents can preemptively opt their children out of any undesired lessons, as though school is an a la carte menu and their children can bypass the broccoli.

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2022 Kansas Social Studies Conference (Did I mention it’s free?)

Doing Social Studies

So whether you’re wanting to dive deeper into learning about indigenous Identity with Dr. Brandon Haddock, explore geography through the lens of a zombie apocalypse, dive into economic policy, or attend a wide variety of other breakout sessions with teaching strategies to help you “take it up a notch,” we’ve got something for you.

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‘Not waiting for people to save us’: 9 school districts combine forces to help students

The Hechinger Report

Covid disrupted much of that work, but in late 2022, tapping federal relief dollars for education, Colorado Gov. In 2022, the collaborative began piloting summer institutes, employers started hiring students directly from those programs and Pueblo Community College began offering electrical certification at its southwest campus.

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PROOF POINTS: Many schools are buying on-demand tutoring but a study finds that few students are using it

The Hechinger Report

Take-up remained low,” the researchers wrote, in an October 2022 working paper of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, titled “ The inequity of opt-in educational resources and an intervention to increase equitable access.”. At first glance, on-demand online tutoring would seem to be more economical.

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Focus on Finance: Inflation, Interest Rates, & Arkansans

ACRE

Recently, Dr. Jeremy Horpedahl, UCA Economics Professor and Director of the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, wrote a short explainer on the topic of interest rates for the Winter 2022 Issue of Arkansas Flavor by Arkansas Times. Below are some of the connections you can make: Economics: NE.6.E.1 Government: SFG.6.USG.1

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Hidden toll: Thousands of schools fail to count homeless students

The Hechinger Report

Some 2,400 districts — from regions synonymous with economic hardship to big cities and prosperous suburbs — did not report having even one homeless student despite levels of financial need that make those figures improbable. Lesson plans for teachers help high school students understand if they qualify.