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

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In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. Let’s get them to recognize there is an absence.”

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Students Want a Better Education Experience. First, Teachers Must Master Deeper Learning.

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At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. After looking silently at the image, our professor gave us one hour to uncover the details of what happened before and after this photo was taken.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.

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Reflections on 50 years of Game-Based Learning (Part 1)

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A little over 50 years ago, a student teacher in Minneapolis hit upon a novel idea to engage his eighth grade American history class in a unit on westward expansion. Flash forward 50 years; the franchise has sold over 60 million units, inspired multiple generations of students and become a part of popular culture.

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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education

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As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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There Is An Elephant in the Classroom and It Taught Me About My Black History.

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Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy" by Gholnescar Muhammad called for teachers to redesign their learning plans by looking to the literary practices of people I’d never heard of. We must ensure that their portrayals accurately celebrate their past and present influence.

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How to Encourage Viewpoint Diversity in Classrooms

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The external forces have to do with the conversation that the culture is having about cancellation, about what authors are OK, about what books are OK and what content is OK. And this seeps into the college culture within the context of a classroom. They might have been in AP African American history.

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