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.

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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. Unfortunately, this portrayal isn't unique and reflects a broader issue with how social studies is perceived. However, if taught with the intent to inspire and engage, history is far from boring or monotone.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

History class, students learned about the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and had to determine if Jackson was a highly successful president or a corrupt leader. Students in Mr. Tusa’s history class investigated the history of Europe through painting (1500-1800). History teacher Ms. Image credit: [link] In Ms. Levy’s U.S.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. Among the banned books were children’s stories about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., Texas’ legislation on teaching social studies , adopted in June, reflects this conservative critique.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I’ll never forget when my 5th-grade teacher had our class reenact a scene from the book "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry". I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

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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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Social Studies Success

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The first place you have to start is with questions about content – What is your history standard? In my experience, I love using lap books to tie content together. Students complete a section of their lap book in a station, then an activity to process the information. What are you try to teach? Let me know how it goes!

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 12, 2015

I’ve written Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology to support English, history/social studies, and science teachers as they shift to the new Standards using technology. Here are just a few of the creative ideas included in this book: Using Instagram for research and narrative writing.

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Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Secondary Social Studies Interventionist As any good teacher does, I often eavesdrop. During my fourteen years of eavesdropping, I’ve heard social studies teachers lament that they are “not reading teachers”. Why is background knowledge important in social studies? By Kydra Hubbard, Ed.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

This has generated some of the most challenging discussions I’ve seen in my class. — Lena Amick, social studies teacher, Baltimore This widely used lesson was revised last year in collaboration with Taíno community members. In appreciation for your feedback , we’ll send you a people’s history book.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. In a class with teachers , Delmont explained the relevance of learning this history. Delmont’s book asks readers to rethink what they know about the war by centering Black protagonists.

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Social Studies Success

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

If you are like me, you are always looking for new and exciting ways to engage your students in Social Studies. Students are having in depth conversations about their content and that is always a win in my book! I try at least one new strategy a year to expand my own teaching craft. You can find them here.

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Rockin Resources - Social Studies

MARCH 16, 2021

“The work of today is the history of tomorrow and we are its makers.” With the help of her sister, The post Amazing Books and Collections for Women’s History appeared first on Rockin Resources. Juliette Gordon Low ——– ‘No’ was a word Amelia Earhart wouldn’t accept.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to. Still, my love of history had an outlet in school. Social studies was the class I excelled in because it felt most meaningful.

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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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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. The books are archived here.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. A look at the courses required by teacher preparation programs reveals scant attention to the broad social studies knowledge aspiring elementary teachers need to provide essential context to world events.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

In the five classrooms I’ve had in my career, I’ve discovered the must-haves that make my social studies classes run smoothly. While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. Again, I point at them daily in my US History and Civics classes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school. and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

JANUARY 16, 2023

Job Skills in History Classes The ideas previously described work great in a careers class, but what if you teach history, social studies, or even language arts instead? The post Teaching Job Skills in Middle School appeared first on Mr and Mrs Social Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. In the read aloud for the book “Mr.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms. The mom looked unconvinced.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. I fixated on the missed opportunity to honor the Indigenous histories and peoples of North America.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

As a history major in college and former Social Studies teacher, I am aware of the racial abuses that have permeated our nation’s history and continue to be present. Books: Anti-racism. Books: School leadership for social justice. Books: Culturally-relevant pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

And yet, I have never had the opportunity to discuss anti-Asian racism in the classroom, learn about Asian American history or engage with educators who understand my experiences. We need to read texts by Asian American authors in English classes and learn about Asian American history and community leaders in social studies classes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Using See, Think, Me, We…at the Elementary Level Analyzing a Picture Book See: The teacher shows an illustration from a picture book and asks the children what they see. History and Social Studies See: Students analyze details of a primary source, like a historical letter or photograph, including date, author, and content.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Questions about what we can learn from the history of education are familiar to Larry Cuban, a longtime education historian and school reformer. He looks back over nearly a century of change in his new book, “Confessions of a School Reformer.” He started his career teaching high school social studies for 14 years.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Be careful when teaching the history of the United States. Give preference to books written by Native authors. It is certainly preferable to read to your students from books written by Native Americans when teaching Native cultures or stories. I will be the first to admit, I’m guilty of this too.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The town’s library system stepped in to assist the district in buying books, organizing the collection, and other management tasks. Much like how town librarians stepped in to save the school libraries in 2017, they also provided crucial space, books, Wi-Fi, and activities to students during the pandemic.

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