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Yes, Your School Librarian Can Do That (and More)

Cult of Pedagogy

We know a lot about mathematic tools and apps and different databases for social studies.” The American Association of School Librarians has an Advocacy Toolkit packed with information and links to tools that can help you advocate for school librarians.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

ED Surge

In Illinois, individual districts are ultimately responsible for creating an implementation plan and revising or developing curriculum, but that’s a lot of pressure. Professional development is a key part of building awareness of this absence and a knowledge-base for the educators who will be teaching students directly.

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Come for the computers, stay for the books

The Hechinger Report

based education advocacy group. “It Teaming up with Skyview’s instructional technology facilitator and early-adopting teachers, Chun frequently demonstrates new tech tools at the school’s teacher-led professional development meetings. Often, she backs up these introductions by co-teaching a class or two. “It

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. Lusher enrolls students in kindergarten through 12th grade across its two buildings.

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

Du Bois’ advocacy extended across the world through many Pan-African conferences and an appeal to the United Nations to recognize the suffering of Black Americans, according to the NAACP. Learn how Studies Weekly Social Studies can help teach students about history’s humanitarians.

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. Because of this, Li agrees it is important to retrain teachers and offer professional development classes on changing attitudes towards people of color. “I

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