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Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

ED Surge

In 2020, California’s State Board of Education adopted criteria and guidance to award a State Seal of Civic Engagement to students who demonstrate excellence in civics education. In my 20 years as an educator, I have seen firsthand how service-learning engages students as they become leaders in their communities.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

ED Surge

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

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Call for Proposals: 2025 APSA Teaching & Learning Conference, February 7-9 | Deadline: September 25th

Political Science Now

How can we reconsider and reimagine our own programs, curriculum, and pedagogy? Roundtables facilitate participants to discuss and debate on a specific topic. Roundtables facilitate participants to discuss and debate on a specific topic. The deadline to submit proposals is September 25, 2024, 11:59 p.m.

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GeoDem AI - back to working 'in Europe'

Living Geography

GEODEM-AI addresses democratic principles, civic engagement, and social responsibility of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in geographic information, by offering interactive multimedia training materials for teachers and educators based on real-world civic applications, with the aim to foster active citizenship and civic participation.

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OPINION: Our schools must figure out a way to teach this presidential election

The Hechinger Report

Discussion of controversial topics is now a core subject in their efforts, along with teaching media literacy and giving students the opportunity to engage in hands-on civic engagement projects.