Edthena

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Our top picks for important October reads are below, with highlights, article links, and related content for you. The push vs. pull of professional development. But you’ve likely attended professional development sessions that felt like a slog. Read more at ASCD: Pull Versus Push Professional Development.

Professional Development 98

Professional Development Social Justice Cultures Classroom Management 98

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

The Hayward study group decided to “adopt the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework (HRLF) as something we want to develop lessons around to share from the Teaching for Black Lives perspective.”

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2017

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Both wrap themselves up in the mantle of social justice, and they refuse to recognize that in fact, both sides may really care deeply about equity, opportunity, and social justice, and just have different ways to try to achieve those goals.”

Social Justice 64

Social Justice Political Science Middle School Human Rights 64

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

It’s difficult to find enough teachers with the subject-area knowledge to teach it, and over the years, many of the teachers who’d initially received professional development in the subject had left, Jimenez said. That said, the district has had its struggles with the mandatory course.

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

Edthena

MARCH 26, 2021

It’s an effort that calls on educators to “teach a more accurate history that commonly goes untold: the role of grassroots activists and women, nuanced portraits of leaders like Parks and King, and racial and social justice battles that link the past to contemporary issues of inequality,” writes Melinda D. Anderson, a journalist.

American History 52

American History Social Justice K-12 Professional Development 52

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

Professor James wrote many influential articles that are staples of research for students of comedy, elegy, and gender. Her work as Placement Officer set a new model for the field for professional development, and she created the gold-standard format for a Classics c.v.—one one can always recognize a c.v. in the James lineage.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Below are resources to help students probe the long history of colonialism and resistance in Palestine and Israel, the role that our own government has played — and to imagine what justice looks like. Jews for Racial & Economic Justice’s “ Understanding Antisemitism: An Offering to Our Movement.”

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52