Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

How to Celebrate Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month You may feel like you don’t have time to teach students about Asian Pacific heritage, but there are many fun ways to integrate this annual celebration with ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Well-Being.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Now, having taught social studies for two years at Oakcrest School in Vienna, Virginiaan independent girls school in the Catholic traditionshe knew what she didnt know. This organization offers amazing professional development! She needed more knowledge to answer students questions.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

They are advocating for core curriculum changes in social studies — specifically American history — classes. Ever since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May spurred what may be the largest social movement in U.S. In the read aloud for the book “Mr.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

I recently connected with Grace Pai, the executive director of the organization, and Esther Hurh, a professional development (PD) facilitator who has been delivering sessions about the TEAACH Act to educators, to better understand the challenges around putting the TEAACH Act into practice.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Through ConnectED, Esri made a billion dollar offer: any K-12 school in the United States could acquire professional online Geographic Information Systems (GIS software), instructional activities, professional development events, and resources for educators and mentors. Safari Books. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Look for books on behaviors you want students to learn and read them to your class. You can decorate your Calm Down corner with posters or have books on self-regulation skills for students to read. Some children understand behavioral concepts better when explained through stories.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. McIntosh asked, prompting students to draw lessons from the comic books in front of them.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

The 51-year-old teacher racked up 14,000 steps that day assembling bags of books and worksheets for families of her third and fourth grade students to pick up as they were let in, five at a time, to the public charter school in South Phoenix, Arizona. Photo: Alexandria Neason for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

He has compiled his thinking on the issue into a new book, “ Iterate: The Secret to Innovation in Schools. ” And it wasn't just happening in one class, but it was like happening in English, happening in social studies, happening in science. They were describing these new practices of revision and collaborative writing.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The writing and photos would be bound into a book and sold to parents and others, with proceeds donated to a local nonprofit helping new immigrants. The project typifies the mix of personalized and social learning that’s been a mainstay for 25 years at King, a founding member of a school network called EL Education.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“There are incredibly wonderful web-based programs available – Studies Weekly being my favorite – but the number of sites that districts and schools want a teacher to examine, consider and use becomes, in my opinion, counter-productive due to the amount of time it takes to look into and accommodate them all.”

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ACRE

AUGUST 23, 2022

Over the summer, Arkansas Social Studies, CTE, and Mathematics educators attended Personal Finance Day at UCA, an event focused on teaching the Arkansas Personal Finance standards. Primerica: How Money Works The How Money Works guide is available from Primerica, a company that provides insurance, investment and financial services.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

Take some time for yourself to be outdoors, read that book you have been waiting to pick up, or catch up on some much-needed sleep. New Life Skills Curriculum If you would like additional ideas to help you with your students’ well-being or your own, take a look at Studies Weekly’s Health and Wellness curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Schools used their professional development budgets, and were able to use federal money, for teacher training to support work toward the switch. It’s a new innovation lab that combines two different disciplines — social studies and math. Related: When math lessons at a goat farm beat sitting behind a desk.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

If you’ve developed your own lessons and activities for teaching personal finance (or any other social studies topic) consider sharing your ideas on the Social Studies Arkansas blog. Educators receive free resources like books, curriculum guides, and activity kits at all ACRE professional development events.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

To the end of his life, Du Bois never stopped his research, and he published dozens more books, essays, and articles on his own in pursuit of freedom. Learn how Studies Weekly Social Studies can help teach students about history’s humanitarians.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. Then she praised the book “American Born Chinese”. He wasn’t even in math class — he was in Spanish. He stared at her blankly. She didn’t stop.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. Discuss ways to help the hen make her bread, like problem-solving as groups to design something to help carry the wheat to the mill Hands-on Exploration Activities with Sensory Tubs: Test the experiment: will a pumpkin sink or float?

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 16, 2023

To help students explain what they were observing, and to better help them make claims about the evidence, Mitchell and Lott brought in books about the materials found in the balls. As part of their investigation, one of the students suggested cutting all the balls in half to find out what made them all bounce the way they did.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 6, 2024

I recently read a wonderful book on cognitive research about how students learn and remember information. So, I want to share some practical ideas Kate Jones shares in her book, Retrieval Practice: A Guide for Primary Teachers and Leaders, that can help bridge the gap between research and work in the classroom. Really truly!

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Engaging Learning Materials Learning Resources Stock the classroom with books, games, and learning materials that cater to different interests and reading levels. Professional Development Workshops and Training Attend workshops or training sessions now to gain new ideas and strategies for classroom management and design.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. Book that substitute, and then make sure you come! One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. Check the schedule !

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The group’s acronym, RISC, was deliberate, according to a book by its creators, “Delivering on the Promise.” Lee-Winship, who has taught social studies at Portland High School for 21 years, thinks the Great Schools Partnership coaches her school has hired are smart and mean well, but are out of touch with the realities of the profession.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

The visual geography of paper has memory-linking effects that help students connect what they have read with where they saw it on a page or how far into a book it was. Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. Mayo Clinic Health System. Delgado, P.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said. She’ll get home and she’ll read a book,” she said. The Common Core standards emphasize nonfiction, and Johnson had a humdinger of a book to read to the class, about chocolate.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

” She wrote a book on her experiences, titled, The Scalpel and the Silver Bear which discusses this desire to combine Navajo healing philosophies with western medicine. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Science of Reading: Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Aug 26, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Reading has the wondrous power to transport us across time and space. The stories and characters we meet within the pages of books teach us about our world, ourselves, and others. Register for the first webinar, Phonological Awareness, here.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is indeed a worthy goal: we want history and social studies classrooms to be active places where students are doing the intellectual work of our discipline, and often that work is best done in conversation with peers or with a teacher or both. We want them to be moving forward in their thinking. constitution. Why then and there?

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Create a Student Artifact Students can write about a favorite thing they learned or create a project about their learning, such as: a pop-up book, display tray, poster, or puppet to share with class. Keep the anchor charts on display for students to refer to and use. Please feel free to reach out with any questions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergarteners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. Cari Gallagher reads a book about Hurricane Sandy to her third graders at Lawrenceville Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. Lusher enrolls students in kindergarten through 12th grade across its two buildings.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Domingo Morel, New York University professor and author of a book on state takeovers By 2018, four of Houston’s 274 schools, all of them in the city’s economically distressed north and east sides, hadn’t met the standards for four years running, putting the district at risk of a takeover. We need to show them who we are.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2019

A state agency funded by the oil and gas industry pumps money into teacher training and classroom materials, including books featuring a cartoon character called “Petro Pete,” with the goal of promoting fossil fuels. The social studies curriculum at Piedmont Intermediate emphasizes human interactions with the environment.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Saun also wrote the book My Mother India , where he criticized British imperialism in India and narrated his experiences at his homeland. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

But job one is to address the social, emotional and physical issues that will make academic learning more challenging if they are not met, particularly for the students who have fallen most behind. They have not been able to borrow books from the library, take field trips or participate in hands-on learning activities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2024

When Flores was a child, California still had an English-only law on the books from the 1800s. They just made everybody throw away their Spanish books. Childrens books in Spanish and English line the wall of a classroom at Washington Elementary School in Madera on Oct. We were hit with rulers, pinched, our braids were pulled.

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