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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

ED Surge

Perhaps it is because I am Mexican American and colonization is a part of my ancestry. When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history.

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

Joining social studies teacher groups on Facebook, she built her own professional learning community (PLC). “I Her husband was promoted to a new position in Tennessee, where Livingston began teaching fifth through eighth grade social studies and, later, eighth grade US history. Livingston uses her own influence carefully.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Saykhamphone, who has Laotian and Nigerian ancestry, said there are not many other Black or Hispanic students in her accelerated International Baccalaureate (IB) classes, even though 85 percent of the student body is Black, Hispanic or Asian. Glenn Youngkin, a conservative Republican. Teachers are afraid of what they can show,” he said.

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