ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

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. There is no better way to integrate SEL and civic engagement for the next generation of learners. SEL programs are not reported either.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Not Caleb Brown. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Students will carry these basic life skills across any career, any life situation and any form of civic participation for the long haul. These efforts all attempt to incorporate data analysis and computational technology into core school subjects, with a focus on mathematics, science and social studies.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Young citizens need civics education to understand their constitutionally guaranteed rights. The best civics teachers also help students learn the skills they need to protect their rights. Kymberli Wregglesworth, a 2016 MAHG graduate, teaches Civics, World history and social studies electives at Onaway High School in Michigan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The middle school exercise was almost not included in the study because researchers thought it was too easy, said Sam Wineburg, Stanford professor and lead author of the report. “We Information is clearly the basis for their civic agency and civic empowerment. We were stunned,” he said of the overall results.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., In addition, the civic summit afforded me professional learning and the opportunity to collaborate with UGRR educational specialists. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Laci Hargrove, 18, who fell short of the high school credits she needed to graduate, moved straight from high school to a HiSET-prep program that also provides her with needed social supports. When she was ready to return to school, she didn’t want to sit in sophomore-year classes. My grades were perfect.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

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. history, civics and geography (with history scores much lower than in science) should disabuse us of that notion.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

We’ll never forget last year, when survivors of the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, became leaders instead of victims, taking their cause all the way to Washington, D.C., The public high school I attended — River Bluff High School in Lexington, South Carolina — has one answer.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As a case in point, I recently interviewed Danny Cage, a high school student and organizer for the Sunrise Movement in Portland, Oregon. This spring, he and fellow student leaders helped get Portland Public Schools to adopt one of the most ambitious climate policies in the nation.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As we reboot Doing Social Studies, we’d love to introduce you to this month’s author, Nathan McAlister. Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In Texas, a school board recently suspended and then voted not to renew the contract of a popular high school principal, apparently because he declared in a letter to the community that systemic racism is “alive and well.”. Texas’ legislation on teaching social studies , adopted in June, reflects this conservative critique.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

In San Antonio, Texas, high school history teacher Luke Amphlett said he never insists on students keeping their cameras on during virtual instruction. Brian Westlake, a high school social studies teacher in Georgia’s Gwinnett County, also said the pandemic has meant putting restorative discipline on pause.

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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. Lake and his high school students watched the world change that day. Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images. NORTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. — On the afternoon of Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Peyton’s testimony is an example of “action civics,” a growing, if controversial, trend in American education of which Massachusetts is the undisputed leader. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., They liken it to a laboratory in science class, where students learn civics by doing civics.

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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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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Or march to a local civic building. Decatur High School staff member Jennifer Young said at the #TeachTruth, Jennifer Young. What we would love for you to do is cover the sidewalk with whatever you learned today, because that’s not being taught in your school and it can be taught in the Square. events in 2021 and 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Since last school year, I have been advocating on behalf of school children of a top ten, predominantly white, rich public high school. It’s simply harder for individuals to seek redress against what is really a coalition between powerful neighborhood groups, civic leaders and school system heads.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Beginning in fall 2014, the students and teachers at Burbank Elementary School in Hayward, California, embarked on a new and ambitious program to integrate arts across the curriculum. After studying the artwork of pop artist Andy Warhol, fifth and sixth grade students made artwork inspired by his creations. Safari Books.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 27, 2024

Walz, who served several terms in Congress before becoming the governor of Minnesota in 2018, is a former high school social studies teacher and football coach who, to this day, holds those identities close. Jahana Hayes of Connecticut, a former high school history and government teacher.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

But that’s not creating any real meaning for them, especially if your high school Civics students are somewhat familiar with them already. Below is my dig-deeper lesson sequence for teaching the different types of government in my on-level Civics class. So, let’s do better and create fun and engaging of this standard.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Both of the towns in this Oregon school district are tiny. The district is made up of two schools: a high school and a K-8 school, where class sizes tend to be under 20 students. The two schools have a total enrollment of about 200 students combined. Playing it safe”.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Amy Livingston, Chancellor High School, Fredericksburg, VA. Grade school had bewildered her. School administrators and teachers never picked up on Livingston’s hearing problem, and she remained in special ed until she graduated from high school. She never expected to teach at all. This was December.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In recent years, division over how social studies should be taught has plagued school districts around the country.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At Bishop Seabury, a small independent school in the Episcopal tradition, high school students take two or more of Czarnecki’s courses. High school students are not “too young” to probe historians’ methods, Czarnecki said, given what’s at stake. Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement.

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Students of History

JANUARY 6, 2022

The insurrection of January 6th, 2021 is something that will be taught in US History classrooms as long as American History is a part of high school. However, ignoring this tragic day does a disservice to our students and to what we do as social studies teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Last year was a hard lesson in what happens when the public lacks an understanding of science and social studies. We are ailing socially and politically. White supremacy is facilitated by bad history and civic education. That’s why Biden’s fourth step should be to encourage schools to revive history and civics education.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2018

August 15, 2018 — The first day of school at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. School systems are failing their students with outdated and inconsequential civics education that is only focused on facts and memorization. In short, they are demonstrating what real civic engagement looks like.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

secretaries of Education and funded in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is to “transform teaching of history and civics” in ways that (they hope) will diminish political polarization in this country. Related: Can patriotism and criticism coexist in social studies? An admirable goal, and one we broadly share.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

They were juniors at Niles West High School, an economically diverse school serving approximately 2,500 students in the Chicago suburbs. million in state funds for a three-year pilot that would incorporate labor history in civics, economics and history classes, along with simulations like those run by the DePaul center.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. High School social studies teacher. Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter. They got duped.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Davida Walls never thought she would be teaching high school biology, let alone in the first few months after graduating from college at 22. I would hire every qualified licensed teacher, our schools would, that we could find. Students walk the halls of Helena-West Helena’s Central High School between class periods.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2021

Caroline Patrie is a high school science teacher in Maine’s Portland Public Schools; her first day as a teacher was September 11, 2001. Construction had pushed back the new school year at her Vermont high school. Credit: Caroline Patrie. September 11 was Caroline Patrie’s first day teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Related: LISTEN: In this Kentucky town, refugees can choose a separate high school. The answer starts in the classroom, where civics education often fails to inspire and engage students. Far too many schools preach, rather than practice, democratic ideals. We need to learn civics from the ground up.

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Diane Ravitch

MARCH 8, 2024

State legislatures these days tthjnkbthat they should pass laws telling teachers how to teach reading and what to teach in social studies. But we probably should know that when it comes to Republicans, caring about the needs of others might be tantamount to socialism.

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