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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

At NCHE conferences , for example, a glance at the program reveals that most sessions focus on an important moment or a major problem in history and offer a strategy to present it in a new way. This writing tends to be engaging, brief, and pointed, relating history to current concerns, and spanning political perspectives.

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Chrome Extensions for Educators

A Principal's Reflections

Diigo : An educator friendly social bookmarking service, this extension allows you to highlight portions of web pages, add sticky notes, archive, and bookmark. Click & Clean deletes typed URL''s, browsing history, Flash cookies, and other types of online activity. A must have for educators! It blocks ads from all over the web.

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Critical Literacy Across the Curriculum

A Principal's Reflections

A Social Studies Teacher’s Thoughts Critical Literacy by Colleen Tambuscio Learning about history offers meaningful and authentic opportunities for students to express their knowledge of the subject matter through writing and discourse. Gather 4 archival photographs to provide documented proof of the specific abuse towards the victim group.

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Internet Archive: Go Back in Time with the Wayback Machine

Catlin Tucker

Although tertiary sources provide an overview of historical events, I encourage teachers to use the Wayback Machine , an internet archive. I asked them to select a moment in history from the last 17 years and conduct a Google search to learn about that event.

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The Surprising History of Google's Push to Scan Millions of Library Books

ED Surge

Schonfeld, co-author of the new book, “Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization.” We came away wondering why people don’t talk more about this bit of recent edtech history, and what lessons could still be learned from it. The Internet Archive was active. And that's something that's really important to bear in mind.

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries and Museums

Women's History Network

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches.

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The Real World, Not MTV Style

A Principal's Reflections

Tusa of the Social Studies Department guest lectured on the history of racism in America in Mrs. DePoto’s AP Language and Composition class. To see other guest instructors that have visited NMHS check out the archive of my monthly Principal''s Report. Change Innovation Opinion real-world connections Student engagement'