2023 Geography Social Studies 
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. The science and social studies topics should be sequenced so that the ideas build upon each other, and paired with vocabulary that will be useful in the future.
Studies Weekly
JANUARY 30, 2024
Teacher Tips: A Better Way to Think About Social Studies Jan. 30, 2024 • by Debbie Bagley Some of the best teaching advice I received from my mother, a teacher of 30+ years, was a different way to look at Social Studies. Every subject, discipline, and activity teaches Social Studies.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 11, 2024
Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Students were also given related books to read during the summer.
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 24, 2023
In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado. The study, a working paper that has not yet been peer-reviewed, came to two dramatic conclusions. However, U.S. schools, especially those that serve low-income children, have moved in the opposite direction.
Studies Weekly
JANUARY 10, 2024
The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. The Science of Drawing and Memory.
Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. She found interesting geography lessons online. Joining social studies teacher groups on Facebook, she built her own professional learning community (PLC). “I Livingston finished her MAHG degree in August 2023.
Teaching American History
DECEMBER 5, 2023
Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Social studies teachers must lay the groundwork by earning students’ trust.
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