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How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

Studies Weekly

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. After students make their artifacts, they can practice listening and speaking skills by using the visuals as teaching tools.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. Celebrating Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month can also help you keep students engaged toward the end of the school year. If you can’t find one, don’t worry. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead.

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The Impact of Micro-credentials on Educator Practice

Digital Promise

The artifacts educators are collecting to demonstrate their skills and the narratives that are coming out of the classroom prove how micro-credentials support educators in ways that impact their students’ learning and their school communities.

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OPINION: The arts help refugees, other students to master academics

The Hechinger Report

The Academy is a magnet elementary school is located in a U.S. At the same time, the historic and cultural nature of art provides students a great platform to explore traditions of their own and others so they’re encouraged to learn how ancestral narratives and artifacts influence beliefs and dispositions.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

If possible, your group will share photos, videos, and other artifacts that reflect your work. They organized to change the name of an elementary school where three study group members work. All study group members will attend at least three invitation-only events, including the national welcoming event and closing event.

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STUDENT VOICE: Don’t call me ‘Indian’ — A line of strong Ojibwe women inspired my journey to college

The Hechinger Report

Whether it was from elementary school teachers, elderly white neighbors or history textbooks, the label has always defined me. When people use the term in my classes, it makes me feel like an artifact of the past. While my mother’s family and I identify as Ojibwe, I have always been an “Indian” in the eyes of non-Native people.