Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Thanks to a donation of 25 books from the University of North Carolina Press, we can offer you a copy of historian Kate Masur and illustrator Liz Clarke’s new graphic history, Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region , for your story on teaching about Reconstruction.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 2, 2023

I want the books to be different from a traditional History or ELA class reading so that students understand the purpose of Ethnic studies is supposed to bring students and communities together. This book contains a great deal of emotional content that students can use to empathize with the characters in the story.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

Here are two excellent clips about the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a book written mostly in hieroglyphics with vignettes and stories about the deceased and their journey into the afterlife. It includes some of the entries in the Book of the Dead and asks students to create categories for the entries.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Some see it as the holy grail of education, and this has manifested in countless books and presentations, especially at technology conferences. Now, I am not trying to diminish any books or presentations on the topic. No matter what education circle you are in, AI is likely a topic of conversation. I am not going to mince my words.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

They want to see themselves and their cultures reflected in the books we read, and they don’t want token representation. As a Colorado secondary school history teacher and former English teacher, I believe, and research shows, that student achievement improves when learners are personally engaged. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 25, 2024

Memorial Day Massacre Check out the documentary and companion oral history collection, Memorial Day Massacre: Workers Die, Film Buried about the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, when police in Chicago shot at and gassed a peaceful gathering of striking steelworkers and their supporters, killing 10 people, most of them shot in the back. segment.

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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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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 1, 2024

But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of “anti-CRT” bills. The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Article and Lesson This Day in People’s History Below are a few key events in labor history.

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History Social Justice K-12 Teaching 98

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I started learning about the diaspora through books and archives when I attended a historically Black university (HBCU) for graduate school. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Each has been a disruptive force that has changed how people watch movies, book hotels, listen to music, access information, get assistance, store files, or get from one place to another. Sure, it might not work, but history has taught us that some of the greatest successes of all time resulted from failure.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Donate Today Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking the very heart of the Zinn Education Project — teaching people’s history in classrooms across the country. Officials in at least 44 states have sought — and in many cases succeeded — to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 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’. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Below are some examples of how my teachers made this shift when I was the principal at New Milford High School: Mr. Groff’s history classes utilized Paperlet , a participatory technology platform where students created digital stories that incorporated various multimedia elements including video, sound, and image files.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 2, 2024

On Monday, September 16, 2024 , historian Kellie Carter Jackson will discuss We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones. Reading this book will cause discomfort in some folks, provoke cheers in others.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 25, 2018

I never imagined I would have authored or co-authored a book, let alone six. The rest is history. One day in 2010 I received a Twitter message from Bill Ferriter asking if I would be interested in co-authoring a book with him and Jason Ramsden titled Communicating and Connecting with Social Media. I am no author.”

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Leadership Pedagogy History Teaching 237

HistoryRewriter

MARCH 4, 2024

Thick Slides (although not in our book) are a flexible and popular EduProtocol that should be in every Social Studies teacher’s toolbox. They have used this protocol with middle to high school grades covering history and government topics.

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TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

” – Mason Cooley “A room without books is like a body without a soul.” ” – Frederick Douglass “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” ” – Stephen King “In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

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HistoryRewriter

JANUARY 17, 2024

The Archetype Foursquare EduProtocol (Chapter 13) helps students at all levels demonstrate that they can transfer their learning from one subject (English) to another (History). Here is a free book preview that guides teachers on how to integrate interdisciplinary instruction with ELA and Social Studies. Was it George P.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

In an education landscape awash in technology, what impact could something as analog as a coloring book make? The “Black Girls Code the Future” coloring book was created by Nia Asemota, a New York University student and mentor with the nonprofit Black Girls Code. The interview has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time. The fact that there is no valid research base to support these mandates just builds greater resentment for the change process. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works.

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Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2024

Here are some books, documentaries, websites, and social media accounts to help you teach Black history in all its complexity.

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Active History Teacher

JULY 18, 2024

Most of the time, students are just copying off a website or book and aren’t doing any critical thinking! But if you know me, you know I want every US History timeline activity to be fun and interactive! They asked to do it again the day before we took our US History End of Course exam. Let’s be honest.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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Women's History Network

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Since paracetamol won’t be invented for another several hundred years, Jean reaches for the next best thing: a handwritten recipe book. The year is 1649 and Lady Jean Wemyss has a headache. The cure, written down in her mother’s neat hand, suggests the use of some trusted betony water.[1] 1] Jean soaks a length of cloth […]

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

“ People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ” – Maya Angelou When I was asked a while back to write a book for Jossey-Bass, I was relatively non-committal. To model this, we wrote the book using a conversational tone. Define before being defined.

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History Tech

JULY 19, 2024

The Stanford History Education Group has been around since 2002. Sam Wineburg, SHEG’s founder, one year earlier had published a book titled Thinking Historically and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 Basic Books. At the same time, Homo erectus experienced a significant reduction in the size of their chewing teeth, another evolutionary marker indicating a dietary shift towards softer, cooked foods. Homo erectus : The First Cook?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up. KELLEN ZENG.

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History Heritage K-12 American History 113

Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This blog post is a brief introduction to my research on Marie Stopes’ children’s books written under the pseudonym ‘Erica Fay’ between 1926 and 1937, including A Road to Fairyland by Erica Fay (a twelve fairy story collection […]

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Research 89

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For the past year, Teaching American Historys webinars have been about the presidential election. So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history. So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history. Last spring, we broke down the presidential election cycle.

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Primary Sources American History Professional Development History 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

I let kids choose their books. Kids slipped their phones between the pages of the books they selected. There is evidence that teaching such skills has some benefit, but what students really need in order to read with understanding is knowledge about history, geography, science, music, the arts and the world more broadly.

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Teaching Geography History Library 143

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 27, 2024

But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of anti-history laws and high-stakes testing. The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. This Day in History Below are a few key events in labor history.

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K-12 Social Justice History Teaching 144

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

In their new book, Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making , my friend, Jay McTighe , and his co-author, Harvey Silver , write about an active reading strategy that encourages students to engage with texts before, during, and after reading. Yet, reading is like any skill that we can improve with practice.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The Sentinel-News: Local author explores Kentucky’s surroundings in new book While countless books have been written about the historic Fort Knox, Shelbyville native Ronald R. He explained that these locals know so much about the history of the areas, and to them, it is no big deal, but to Van Stockum, it is a wondrous discovery.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

For example, a social science teacher covering early American history could complement that work with a question like, “ What did it mean to be an American? ASCD posted the chapter from his book on essential questions titled “What Makes a Question Essential? ” which has a collection of excellent examples.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

Students are impervious to lies when they know the history and can think critically. Mexico War: “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God” Lesson by Bill Bigelow This interactive activity introduces students to the history and often untold story of the U.S.-Mexico Mexico War. Mexico relations and current border and immigration issues.

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