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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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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

Army’s 442nd Regimental Combat Team, a group of soldiers of Japanese ancestry, during World War II. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. He was also Hawaii’s first representative after it became a state in 1959.

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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.

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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. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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