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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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We the People: Teaching the Constitution Workshop for Elementary Educators

Civics for All of US

We the People: Teaching the Constitution Workshop for Elementary Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 07:46 Body Looking closely at the Preamble of the Constitution, teachers will work with primary sources from the National Archives and consider how the interpretation of “We the People” has changed over time.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

In contrast, James K. This summer, Creel joined a dozen other teachers from across the state at a weeklong training institute at the state’s Department of Archives and History. Books over 12 years old should not be on the district’s ‘active listing’ of books,” Spears said via email. Her assigned ninth-grade textbook back then?

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People’s History Teaching Stories

Zinn Education Project

To activate their interest, I spent the first class period showing the Freedom Archives’ COINTELPRO 101 documentary. The Forks in Winnipeg, Manitoba As a rural K12 school, we rarely get opportunities to connect with students and teachers from urban schools in our province. Thank you to Louis Riel School Division!

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Senate, Blanche K. Several organizations are providing information to help educators teach about Reconstruction.

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Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

So what started in the public arena of K12, and extended to higher education and Florida public college and universities, has now extended to private universities. Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. This literally was an uninterrupted campaign of anti-Black terror that was sweeping the South, of which Ida B.

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The Condemnation of Blackness: Lies We’re Told About Crime

Zinn Education Project

So what started in the public arena of K through 12, and extended to higher education and Florida public college and universities, has now extended to private universities. Muhammad: It’s another part of the archival record. Polls showed participants included 31% K12 teachers, 20% teacher educators, and 11% K12 students.