A Principal's Reflections

MAY 18, 2011

Students making a difference and having a say in the culture of our school are two of the many defining characteristics that make NMHS a special place. History class, students nodded along with their teacher''s words as they took diligent notes. Guest Blog Post New Milford High School Students' In Mr. Tusa''s A.P.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Culturally responsive education is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Developing their own cultural awareness , discussing race , and selecting culturally responsive texts are three strategies, supported by research, that help educators to sustain inclusive learning environments. Developing cultural awareness and discussing race.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Well, another year of writing has passed, and it was a big one as 2019 marked ten years since I began my blogging journey. Well, after begrudgingly agreeing to pen some guest posts for him, I built up my confidence and launched my blog in March of 2019. After that, the rest is history. Here's to an amazing 2020 everyone.

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Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Students will love studying popular culture while immersing themselves in some pretty rad times! Political Culture Politics and culture came together during the 80s. Political Culture Politics and culture came together during the 80s. From political aspects to pop culture, there was always something going on.

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Technology by Terry Heick It’s possible that there is no time in the history of education that our systems of educating have been so out of touch with the communities. Growing populations, shifting communities, and increasingly inwardly-focused schools all play a role. None of this is new, really.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog. “The Civil War in Kentucky” is a 10-part series recently published in my Journey Log entitled “Surrounding Fort Knox, including Southern Indiana.”

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2011

I often talk about change whether it be through this blog or during presentations to various education groups. It is hard work to change cultures, systems, and perceptions that have been firmly entrenched for a long time. This is why I was so pleased to learn about what two of my dynamic history teachers were doing in their classes.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Before touring History Colorado Center’s exhibit, The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever , in Denver this summer, I had never heard of Silas Soule. Ray is a former Teacher Program Manager for TAH and a frequent contributor to our blog. Morrow disappeared forever.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

Here is a really cool interactive Google Arts and Culture site all about the Timbuktu Manuscripts. Click on the history volume and you can learn the history of empire from Ghana to the Sultanate of Massina. In another section, you can click on the different topics that the manuscripts cover and read a summary of what they say.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

This blog is jointly authored by Vic Crooks and Laura London based on a presentation we gave at the Historical Association Conference in May 2024. But how should we approach this in the history classroom? As history teachers we often problematise controversial issues to ‘see both sides of an issue’. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog. “The Civil War in Kentucky” is a 10-part series recently published in my Journey Log entitled “Surrounding Fort Knox, including Southern Indiana.”

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History American History Cultures 52

Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

I present it here as a series of individual blogs for my readers. Links to the previously published chapters will be provided at the end of each blog. “The Civil War in Kentucky” is a 10-part series recently published in my Journey Log entitled “Surrounding Fort Knox, including Southern Indiana.”

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History American History Cultures 52

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2010

We have also seen a movement to extending learning outside of the traditional day through the use of blogs and Google Sites, something that I hope more teachers will experiment with in 2011. Embracing the role of technology in education and successfully integrating it into daily instruction.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2018

Look no further than famous failures throughout the course of history who persevered after many failed attempts to succeed. I read a great summary about Ford on the Intellectual Ventures blog. He was an amazing entrepreneur and as history has shown he optimized transportation forever changing the automobile industry.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

Thoughts of history bring forth lives once living. The Adena People, the Hopewellian traders, the Mississippian maize-based cultures? As I sit with my breakfast, staring out on this river of history, I wonder who was the first European to see it?France It must lead to someplace important, an important place to be exploring.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 26, 2016

Two of our VILS locations are on Maui, Hawaii, which has an extraordinarily rich culture and strong community traditions. Kalama Intermediate School is committed to celebrating and preserving Hawaiian history, culture, and the native language.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. After their visit, scholars will write a piece for the Future of the Past Lab’s blog.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The scholar’s ideas are suddenly having a moment in tech and innovation circles, thanks to a blog post on a website popular among Silicon Valley insiders. The blog, Astral Codex Ten , has been described by The New York Times as “a window into the psyche of many tech leaders building our collective future.”

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

” This volume addresses my inquiries into the Science, Culture and History of various locations in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Each essay has accompanying artwork by Steve Eilers.

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World History Teachers Blog

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Smelting happened all over the place in many cultures. Finally, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel has a fascinating site about iron in Africa (thanks to Eri Beckman for the link) It reviews four main points about iron smelting.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 20, 2025

You will be eating and drinking Kentucky’s authentic cultural history. Turning clay in this way is a work of history and beauty [check out Demi Moore in the Patrick Swayze movie, “Ghost.”]. So the business continues, unbroken, through six generations of Kentucky Cornelison family potters. Now for some science.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

For the purpose of this blog, I will use the lens of situated learning theory, introduced by Jean Lave and Etienne Wenger, to examine the potential effectiveness of online learning. Activity, context, and culture are central to this learning theory, which emphasizes the practical over the abstract.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

2] It was a cultural center for the black community, where dedicated teachers working with the white schools discarded textbooks cultivated black students futures. Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. What activities can I use to help my grade students understand the cultural/historical context of ? In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?”

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

PLATFORM OR PLOY After the release of Hancock’s 2022 Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse , archaeologists contested and condemned his claims through the forums of an open letter , news articles , op-eds , social media , and blog posts. Pseudoarchaeology, or “alternative history,” draws major attention and casts itself as legitimate.

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Passion for Social Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

This examines several factors, such as culture, religion, demographics, media, friends, and family. It even guides students through the history of political ideology and why they must become well-informed and engaged citizens. By joining the email list, you will receive freebies for blog exclusive subscribers!

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

To learn more visit our Holocaust Education Program website and associated student blog. The experience that someone called me a Nazi was very hard for me because I felt like people don''t understand me and the German culture. As you will see, this is an example of an ultimate authentic learning experience available to our students.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 22, 2010

Last month I unveiled the first ever guest post on my blog written by one of my students. In the fall of 2009 I went on a field trip to Wall Street with my AP History class. A school culture that is established based on these principles as well as those mentioned by Diane assists in ensuring the success of all students.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JANUARY 23, 2025

Photo by Victoria Strelka_ph on Pexels.com One of the first blogs I wrote for the mentors of beginning teachers explored why mentees find changing teaching placements so hard. New colleagues, different school cultures, and unfamiliar routines challenge existing beliefs and practices. What is going on and how can you navigate it?

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

If you’ve visited my blog, you know that social studies is my first love. So, this blog post was born. My goal for this blog post is to give you loads of social studies journal prompt ideas and maybe inspire you to create some journal prompts of your own! How have these advancements changed American history?

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Claim-Evidence-Question” routine. Students could discuss topics like the importance of friendship or how birthdays are celebrated differently in various cultures.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2020

One multicultural event for Black History Month will not drive out the hate and systemic racism against people of color. One of my ongoing tips and challenges is to ensure I talk about great Black and Brown individuals outside of Black History Month!). Finally, the resources are not ongoing, so sustaining progress is impossible.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Connect, Extend, Challenge” routine. Exploring Different Cultures: When discussing cultural differences and traditions, the teacher could prompt students to share their initial assumptions and how their views changed as they learned about diverse cultures.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. As you teach students about a culture some may be unfamiliar with, it can pique their curiosity and renew their interest. Math Integration: Ask students to calculate how much food they would need to make a meal for the whole class.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture. Space and culture , 6(1), 9-18. New York: Penguin Random House. Nicolson, P.

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ASHP CML

JANUARY 12, 2023

Making Queer History Public Episode 1: LGBTQ+ Archives with Steven G. Fullwood Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 10:50 In the first episode of Making Queer History Public, we talk with archivist, writer, and documentarian, Steven G. Read a blog post about the Black LGBTQ+ StoryCorps Archive at The Schomburg Center.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We’d subscribe to feeds and listen to podcasts from the U.S.

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