World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Here is a terrific site that features biographical stories of specific slaves, slave owners, and traders. It comes from the same people who created the "Slave Biographies: The Atlantic Database Network." You can read dozens of short sketches about specific slaves like Felisberta who was born in 1820 in Central West Africa. She was a household slave and wet nurse who served a wealthy family in Southeastern Brazil.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Calling all secondary educators! Mark your calendars for a high-energy and inspirational professional development opportunity. On April 26, 2025, the EduProtocols Roadshow will take over the Hiller Aviation Museum in Northern California. The location is close to the Redwood City Residence Inn and the Blue Oak Brewing Company in San Carlos. This intimate, one-day event is designed to help you teach more and grade less.

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

by TeachThought Staff In a world filled with noise, division, and endless demands on our attention, Wendell Berry’s poem The Peace of Wild Things offers a rare invitation: to step back and find solace in nature. ‘The Peace Of Wild Things,’ read slowly enough, can remind us of the deep, quiet refuge that exists in the natural world, beyond the reach of our everyday stress and anxieties.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

What was life like in Cairo in 1321? Coptic Christians and Mamluk Muslims did not get along. In fact, in 1321 violence broke out and spread throughout the city. According to this fascinating essay on the Medievalistsnet website written by Peter Konieczny, "over a couple of weeks, eleven Christian churches would be damaged or destroyed in Cairo, and another 49 in other parts of the country.

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Geography Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

I love introducing Geoguessr to my students; I love the practical geographic skills that it combines in a games that can get the competitive juices flowing. It gets users to analyze the cultural and physical landscapes, relate a stimulus to other places on Earth, use maps at a variety of scales, etc. Guess Where You Are is an alternative to Geogussr without all the bells and whistles, but it also has no time restrictions w But I’m also a history buff and I love a good twist on a geographic g

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Passion for Social Studies

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Are you always searching for ways to make your lessons more engaging? Similarly, are you constantly trying to get students to be active in the thinking process? Honestly, both of these questions make teaching overwhelming! Teachers want students to enjoy school and be the ones thinking, but there is a lot to get through! There are so many standards and not enough time to teach everything.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Like learning to read by third grade, taking eighth grade math is a pivotal moment in a child’s education. Students who pass Algebra 1 in eighth grade are more likely to sign up for more advanced math courses, and those who pass more advanced math courses are more likely to graduate from college and earn more money. “Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further opportunities,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist who studies education at the American Institutes for Research, in a recent

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Many people think of school nurses as the people in a school building responsible for patching up a scraped knee, confirming a fever and checking students for lice. It’s not that they don’t do those things. It’s that those tasks are only a very small part of what Eva Stone views as a significant role within a school. Stone, manager of district health at Jefferson County Public Schools, a large district in Louisville, Kentucky, with about 100,000 students, has served as a school nurse for more th

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C3 Teachers

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I’ve been using the C3 Inquiry Design Model (IDM) for over a decade. Generally speaking, I’ve felt successful and have shared my best practices with others in the field. But despite my students’ success in producing rich products from their work on formative performance tasks, arguments, and taking informed actions, the sensory experience of walking into my classroom did not reflect the intellectual energy that I knew was pulsing in my students’ heads.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Through Socratic Circles, students are able to explore and experience how conflict creates space for their identities, interests, and perspectives.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Nathan Smith has already sent three kids to college. But he’s never seen anything like the volume of recruiting materials pouring in since his fourth child reached her senior year in high school this fall. “If you put the other three together and multiplied it by four, that’s how much mail she’s gotten,” said Smith, who takes a professional interest in this as chair of the Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Last year, I presented a paper on using technology in my Arabic class at the Ohio Foreign Language Association summer conference. At the end of my session, a Spanish language teacher opened the discussion by talking about students dismissing her work because it is not an essential subject in the state. This hurt her teaching time, and she wanted to know if I experienced the same phenomenon in my teaching career; without hesitation, I admitted to facing the same problem.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Decades ago, anthropologists dispelled the myth of biological race. Lagging behind in scientific understandings of human diversity, the medical profession is failing its oath to “do no harm.” ✽ Doctors lie daily. The moment a patient enters our care, a simple checkbox starts the deceit. By checking “Patient’s Race,” we health care providers pretend to know something that we cannot possibly know: the patient’s ancestry and associated medical risk.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

A couple of weeks ago I gave my reasons for leaving ‘X’ (Twitter) , despite the fact that I have cultivated so many useful teaching tid-bits, useful links and resources and insights from colleagues. For me, staying on that platform is akin to continue banking with a finance insitution that invests my money into weapons of war or fossil fuel endeavours… but I can understand way folks might stay put due to the lack of choice or losing access to such a resource bank.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

This blog series explores three projects inspired by the Mapping Civic Measurement report, examining how we can redefine “citizenship” in a modern context.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This school year, districts across the country will engage in collaborative learning around student voice and engagement, high school redesign, and digital equity.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A Window Into Humanity’s Past Hunter-gatherer societies represent the foundation of human history, defining how humans lived for 99% of our existence. A recent study led by Washington State University, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , sheds light on how children in these societies acquire essential cultural knowledge.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

As moose populations multiply in the Southern Rocky Mountains, decision-makers are questioning whether the animals are endemic or invaders. Archaeology can offer answers—and potential solutions. ✽ Along the twisting roads of Rocky Mountain National Park, visitors periodically encounter a unique type of traffic jam. Tourists park perilously close to steep roadsides, standing on the asphalt with heavy digital cameras and phones, and aiming their lenses at a nearby critter.

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Women's History Network

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Sources taken from Karen Harvey’s Social Bodes project which contains transcribed letters between c.1680-1820 categorised by state, emotion and body part.[1] Why do we study old letters? What is it about them? Or as historian Susan Whyman asks, ‘filled with mundane details and commonplace language, why have ordinary letters captivated readers for centuries?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. I was part of a cohort of about 100 first-year educators, all united by a common mission: to serve under-resourced and underserved schools. Entering the classroom for the first time, I was filled with hope and passion, believing I could make a positive difference.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In California’s Central Valley, one innovative school district serves as a model for learner-led pathways, deep community involvement, and more.

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Strange Maps

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Deep in the Blue Mountains of Oregon lives what is possibly the largest, oldest, and heaviest living thing on Earth: a giant mushroom dubbed the Humongous Fungus. The word “possibly” didn’t weasel its way into the previous sentence by accident. Estimates of this organism’s extent, age, and weight vary hugely. On either end of the scale, though, the numbers are impressive.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

A Remarkable Discovery In the late Middle Pleistocene, approximately 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, early hominins in the Kashmir Valley encountered the massive Palaeoloxodon , an extinct genus of elephants. A groundbreaking study reveals how these hominins utilized tools to extract marrow from the remains of these prehistoric giants, marking the earliest evidence of butchery in India.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been heralded as a transformative force. I am one of the biggest proponents of this viewpoint! However, recently, I attended EDUTech Asia and have connected with many vendors. My recent interactions with these vendors at conferences and through social media reveals that many AI applications are merely reinforcing outdated pedagogical practices, particularly in areas like exam preparation.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Tim Lum is one of millions of students who returned to college as an adult, getting a two-year degree at his local community college. And this year, at the age of 36, he's one of 13 percent of the nation's college students who transferred institutions in fall of 2023. He describes the shift from a two-year college to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, which has about 20,000 students, as one of culture shock.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The post Designing With, Not For: How We Co-Designed a New Product Certification for Ethically Designed AI Tools appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Public trust in higher education has reached a historic low. A major reason is that rising student debt is undermining the return on investment many students expect from a college degree. However, researchers at Georgetown University project that by 2031, 72 percent of jobs will require some type of education or training after high school. Now is the time to change the way we think about meeting immediate labor shortages and future work demands, as well as delivering opportunities to all student

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Discovering Prehistoric Circles on Dartmoor Two newly identified Neolithic stone circles on Dartmoor, Devon, offer compelling evidence of a “sacred arc” of ceremonial monuments built in the region's rugged uplands. These discoveries, spearheaded by archaeologist and stained glass artist Alan Endacott, enrich the understanding of Dartmoor’s prehistoric significance and its parallels with renowned megalithic sites like Stonehenge.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Fifty years ago, the remains of an Australopithecus afarensis ancestor, named “Lucy” by archaeologists, rewrote the story of human evolution. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ On November 24, 1974 , on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a gully.

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Becoming a History Teacher

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Seb felt like he had spent all night making the activity the children were about to attempt. He had made source cards he was going to hide under the tables and stick under chairs. He wanted the students to work in pairs or small groups of three to answer questions which would gradually allow them to acquire access to clues as they got questions right.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

The post Micro-credentials on the Rise: National Policy Map Showcases New Developments appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

California Governor Gavin Newsom recently signed a law prohibiting the consideration of legacy and donor status in admissions decisions. The impact will be most felt at a small handful of private colleges and universities, including my own, the University of Southern California (USC). I view the new policy with the same skepticism with which I viewed the fervor around eliminating test scores and eliminating affirmative action.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Uncovering Tool Use in Early Hominins A recent study 1 into the hand bones of Australopithecus afarensis — the species that includes the famous "Lucy" — suggests that early hominins may have been adept at using tools more than 3 million years ago. Researchers from the University of Tübingen have found that australopithecine hands exhibited the necessary muscle attachments for complex object manipulation.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated. While mastering technical skills is essential, students must also develop soft skills like communication, collaboration and critical thinking to thrive beyond the classroom. But as pressures to deliver future-focused curricula grow, how can educators ensure that students build these important life skills alongside their technical expertise?

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Learn for Living

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

This is an oldie, but goodie from last year! PEPPERMINT IN YOUR POCKET. Looking for a quick inspirational way to help your staff connect? Consider a seasonal all-staff competition. You can learn all the fun details on the inspiration by checking out the Pumpkin in your Pocket activity HERE. Our favorite add recently: Challenge your staff to ask a specific questions before they can steal, such as: What one gift do you hope to get this year?

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Zinn Education Project

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Right wing attempts to criminalize and ban the teaching of people’s history make the Zinn Education Project’s work essential. With a small staff, the Zinn Education Project helps teachers teach the truth about civil rights, Reconstruction, and other struggles that students need to know about. Your contribution (small or large) will help ZEP continue its work in response to the right wing’s well-funded censorship campaign.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Sentinel-News: Local author explores Kentucky’s surroundings in new book While countless books have been written about the historic Fort Knox, Shelbyville native Ronald R. Van Stockum Jr. chose to focus his narrative on the surrounding areas. His new book, “Surrounding Fort Knox, Including Southern Indiana,” showcases Van Stockum’s journey through the counties around Southern Indiana and Fort Knox and details the area’s rich natural and cultural history.

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