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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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How Augmented Reality Helps Teachers Reach More Students

ED Surge

Renee Dawson Educational Technology Specialist at Atlanta Public Schools “Augmented reality is when you take something that you can already see in the world and add an interactive or experiential layer on top. As you select a witness, you learn more about history and have language arts stitched in with reading comprehension.

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Can private Pre-K for All providers survive in New York City?

The Hechinger Report

It’s an artifact of the early childhood system; it’s grown up that way. So if you use both public and private providers, the question becomes: How do you nurture and sustain quality across all those different settings when their resources, missions and histories can be so different?”. But we get less per child, and we pay rent.

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Teaching for Black Lives Study Groups

Zinn Education Project

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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How New Orleans Food Culture Shaped My View of School Lunches

ED Surge

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. Very few educators and students spending their days in America’s public schools have affordable access and protected time to eat good, healthy food. I grew up in central Pennsylvania.

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Mississippi’s darkest days on display in new museums

The Hechinger Report

What happened to Emmett Till was brutal, but the tragedy has been sanitized in Mississippi textbooks and in discussions of this state’s violent, racist history. The two museums, under a single roof, are contained in a 200,000-square foot complex that at its completion will house over 22,000 artifacts.

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Pulling reservation schools back from the brink

The Hechinger Report

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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