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Forget civics class: Students want to make a difference in real life

The Hechinger Report

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. Related: Making America whole again via civics education.

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Making Time for Social Studies and Science Without Sacrificing Literacy

TCI

Reading Integration: Use informational texts, primary sources, and document analysis to enhance comprehension and critical thinking. Writing Integration: Encourage students to document scientific observations, create historical narratives, and develop evidence-based arguments.

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Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

BB2C fosters student, business, and civic relationships to inspire career choice through experience, entrepreneurship, and education. With BB2C’s first micro-credential, they verify the educator’s skill in developing and implementing real world, problem-based learning with community partners.*. Delaware Department of Education.

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Make the Citizenship Test the Best Part of Your Civics Class

Let's Cultivate Greatness

During the 2010s, one specific group, the Civics Education Initiative, made it their goal to have all 50 states make passing some form of the US Naturalization Test (the official name of the test) a high school graduation requirement. The Citizenship Test is the axis my Civics class rotates around. Now over a dozen do.

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5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships

Passion for Social Studies

If something was bothering my student, disciplinary actions, or positive behavior was happening, I would immediately inform the student’s parents. Add to cart Civics and American Government Course $ 125.00 Having communication expectations and procedures in place was helpful when I was teaching.

Sociology 130
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COLUMN: Styrofoam cities and avatars: how the Gehry siblings would redesign education

The Hechinger Report

Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too. Gehry Nelson then became the founding director, in 2019, of the Designed-Based Learner at Center X at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, after Frank endowed a $2 million chair in her name.

Education 105
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Teaching kids not to be scared of math might help them achieve

The Hechinger Report

Wolcott considered this information progress. When students did a problem, he urged them to read it multiple times: once for context, once for the actual question being asked and once to determine what information was being given. That’s when he noticed a curious trend. Hulleman and Kenn E.

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