The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

Incoming first-year students missed out on community when the coronavirus canceled their high-school graduation ceremonies, proms and chances to say goodbye to their favorite teachers. Along with weekly discussions, we crafted assignments to help students understand their roles in creating what will be the history of this moment.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2023

WIMA is the Washtenaw Educational Options Consortium’s (WEOC) middle school program in Ypsilanti, Michigan. WIMA shares a campus with WEOC’s high school program, Washtenaw International High School (WIHI). Science teachers were engaging students in virtual lab experiences.

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Middle School Artifacts High School History 156

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before. Teams from the USHMM and the Rowan Center developed and deployed and then gathered feedback about these projects from a number of stakeholders, including scholars, museum professionals, middle and high school teachers, college students and a general audience.

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Museum Teaching Primary Sources Human Rights 133

Rosie the History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

As a history teacher with a background in museum work, my biggest goal is for my students to learn to curate their knowledge to be able to share it with others. It sounds like a lot to ask of high school students, but here is one simple activity I use throughout the year to help them build skills in curating knowledge.

History 52

History Primary Sources Museum Artifacts 52

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. That's a massive effect.

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Research Psychology K-12 Artifacts 140

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

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Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 119

ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Memories of the continual improvement he was able to do back then have stuck with him as his career has progressed, including jobs as a high school history teacher, an edtech consultant to schools, a doctoral student and professor, and director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. How well have you seen that approach go?

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., A second teacher candidate described learning more about local history that he ever knew about.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We often hear from schools and teachers that we work with that one of their main goals is to increase or improve the quality of student discourse. The thinking skill associated with Question Two is interpretation, and in high school we’re usually interpreting a primary source document. Meaningful discourse, indeed.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting."

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History Primary Sources Artifacts Social Studies 137

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting is long associated with endeavors to unearth concealed artifacts, illustrated best by buried troves of gold left behind by past communities. Accidents happen in dangerous sites, the promised artifact eludes hunters, or suspicion and disagreements turn violent. May engagements with the past be a part of the picture?

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Artifacts Heritage Archaeology Cultures 95

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

High schooler Joshua Carter didn’t learn about Black historical figures like Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school social studies textbooks. Carter, a rising senior at Teaneck High School in New Jersey, said the app allows him to see people that look like him in a “good light.”

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Archiving Primary Sources Archival Research Artifacts 138

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

While many people can trace their family history back to a great-great-great-great grandfather who traveled across the Atlantic Ocean in search of the famed “American Dream,” my ancestors inhabited the lands and waters in the Great Lakes region since the beginning of time itself.

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ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

He graduated from Dyess High School and later returned to perform a concert at the high school gymnasium. For instance, the song “Five Feet High and Rising” was based on the 1937 flood. The history of Dyess Colony, along with the Cash family, hold many stories and learning opportunities.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. This contentious relationship between New Orleans students and school lunch wasn’t always the case.

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Cultures Artifacts Charter School Library 80

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

There is a very long and very clear history of scholarship that shows that many common approaches have minimal or no effect on student writing growth, and it is so widely disliked by students and ignored by many teachers that Brock Haussamen (2003) famously called it the skunk at the garden party of the language arts (p.

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