TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Integrate Science and Social Studies into Literacy Blocks Embedding content-rich instruction within literacy blocks allows students to develop reading, writing, and speaking skills while gaining essential knowledge. Planning Support: Provide common planning time, cross-grade collaboration, and resource-sharing tools.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

Scaling Up: Bringing Inquiry to Every Classroom With a vision to implement one full inquiry in every K-6 classroom, we knew that professional development and support for teachers would be critical. As an administrator in a very large district, I found my content competing with other disciplines for professional development time.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

Polites, who testified before the legislature on the need for media literacy, said the subject goes “hand-in-hand” with a recently passed state civics-education law , that will help students to become well-informed voting citizens, regardless of political party. It’s about civic responsibility,” Polites said. “I

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Teaching Civics

MAY 15, 2023

…Using Children’s Literature to Teach Economics and Civics Tuesday, June 20 | 8:30AM-2:30PM CST | Gr. K-5 Join us as we consider how economic and civic concepts and skills foster reasoned decision-making for ourselves and our community. Copyright (C) 2023 Minnesota Council on Economic Education. All rights reserved.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 4, 2025

This certificate program is designed to provide high quality professional development opportunities to political science faculty and graduate students. The first cohort of our Pedagogy Fellows will work in collaboration with the PSE Section and APSA to launch a new Certificate in Political Science Pedagogy Program.

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Teaching Civics

APRIL 17, 2024

SUPER CIVICS SUMMER INSTITUTE–Free! Join the elementary Super Civics Team to explore the new standards, discover resources and consider ways to integrate children’s literature to support ELA and social studies standards. We will also investigate the Super Civics Toolbox to find lessons on voting and the 2024 Election.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Past Events include: Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Civic and Campus Engagement Engaging the 2024 U.S. Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

Related: Marjory Stoneman Douglas students give legislators a civics lesson In the aftermath of this national tragedy, I was tasked to take over leadership at Stoneman Douglas to guide the school in its recovery. It’s a fear that still lingers in the halls of Stoneman Douglas and in the hearts of our community.

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Teaching Civics

MARCH 2, 2014

MCSS Workshop, March 2, 2020 Super Civics Workshop Super Civics MCSS 2020 Slides More information The post MCSS 2020 Super Civics Workshop Powerpoint and Website Resources appeared first on Teaching Civics.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

For example, we grouped together “creating authentic learning opportunities,” “challenge-based or problem-based learning,” and “developing civic knowledge through hands-on community engagement” because they all use hands-on, collaborative activities that are based on real-world conditions.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

PRESS RELEASE De Gruyter and American Political Science Association (APSA) Announces Partnership Agreement on New Political Science Professional Development Book Series WASHINGTON D.C. Providing resources for teaching and learning, civic engagement and professional development for political scientists is a key part of APSA’s mission.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

It’s a natural fit for a school community whose mission includes cultivating and cherishing “an environment that supports the academic, social-emotional, creative and civic learning” of all students. Teachers received training and professional development to fully integrate technology into their classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Teach not just basic skills, but also arts, crafts, music, civics, ethics, home economics and life skills. It is time for the United States to launch major new partnerships with Finland to collaborate on teacher training, professional development and educational research and innovation. 6) Make homework efficient.

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Civics for All of US

JANUARY 11, 2024

Teaching Presidential Elections with the National Archives Katie Munn Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:02 Body Join education specialists from several Presidential Libraries and Museums for this professional development program for educators on teaching elections with the records of the National Archives.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I

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Edthena

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Maybe you’re looking for ideas for a strong 2023 start in the classroom or ways you can provide better professional development to teachers. Civic Responsibility. The end of the year is here and perhaps you’re catching up on good reads from December 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Both teachers and students develop the skills that are in demand in settings that foster higher-order thinking. Related: Go vote. No one is certain what the future holds, but we know we shouldn’t prepare all students to work on assembly lines and in mines.

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Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

Teaching the Bill of Rights for Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:50 Body A virtual professional development workshop for K–12 educators. This online workshop will explore how to engage learners of all grade levels in the active exploration of primary sources that teach about the rights embodied in the Bill of Rights.

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Political Science Now

JUNE 3, 2024

Dr. Michelle Allendoerfer has led the American Political Science Association’s Teaching and Professional Development Programs for the past three years. You can check out the recording of our first webinar, Preparing Students for the 2024 Election: Campus Engagement and Civic Education Webinar , and the supplemental resources here.

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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., Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development. From there, he went on to the University of New Mexico and now works for an Albuquerque nonprofit that includes land-based and outdoor education in civic leadership programs for young people.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Students not only build cities, they create governments, infusing civics into the curriculum, too. To Gehry Nelson, that means having students design, build and run their own cities, which isn’t always an easy sell; California is the only state with districts that use her method. Expansion is more complicated than it sounds.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight English Language Arts Lesson Plans Press Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts Possible Sentences Vocab Strategy February 26, 2024 Lesson 4: How Does Our Government Work?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

To support staff, we model digital citizenship during professional development, showing teachers things they can do with their students to promote good online behavior. Our approach to engaging families has been a learning process.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Jigsaw Strategy Oct. Tip: When using Jigsaw for the first time, it might be a good idea to walk the students through a trial run and model each step of the process.)

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Hudson set out to build an organization that could help aspiring teachers on multiple levels: In addition to tutoring for teacher candidates, she offers professional development opportunities for teachers and sponsors conferences on how to alleviate the teacher shortage. Eric Shelton for Mississippi Today/Report for America.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

The Hayward study group decided to “adopt the Historically Responsive Literacy Framework (HRLF) as something we want to develop lessons around to share from the Teaching for Black Lives perspective.” The ideas above are suggestions.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Bradshaw wishes more teachers would teach civics and history through Studies Weekly. Sadly, many teachers simply overlook the importance of social studies in a student’s development. Students love having success with their work, and Studies Weekly lays a good, solid foundation for learning such skills.”

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Doing Social Studies

JULY 23, 2020

It can be tough finding the silver lining in all the disruption to student learning and teacher professional development caused by COVID-19. But every once in a while, a little glint of silver appears.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Without social studies, we lose the civic mission of public schools,” said Stephanie Serriere, a former early-grade teacher who is now an associate professor of social studies education at Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus. Related: It’s time our educational institutions instilled some civic-minded values in students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

percent of teachers agreed that they needed more guidance from school leadership and more opportunities for professional development around the promotion of civil exchange. For educators committed to the civic and political education that Baldwin described over 50 years ago, this fight requires the support of others.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Professional Development Manager. I think in 2015 we're going to see more schools place a larger emphasis on civic learning and engagement – in the classroom, in the community, and powered by digital technologies – to prepare students for college, career, and citizenship.” Krista Moroder.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. At its core, social studies aims to equip students with the knowledge and skills needed to actively participate in civic affairs.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Instead of letting groups form organically, assign clear roles like: Discussion Leader Recorder Timekeeper Presenter “I assign roles to make sure everyone is responsible, but I also give students a chance to own their role and adapt as they go,” says Kati Hash , a high school world geography and civics teacher.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Kati Hash , a high school world geography and civics teacher, echoes this sentiment, emphasizing that teachers dont need to dive in all at once. It can be a little scary, especially if you are afraid of the classroom management part of it, she says. But the biggest challenge is just getting started.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Although the school in Tulsa demands a lot from teachers, many were eager to sign up for the school’s two-year professional development program. Not as a professional steppingstone opportunity but as an opportunity to make a difference.”. I blame the education reform movement for making teaching an unattractive profession.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

history and civics since at least Reconstruction, the turbulent period that followed the Civil War. Their “ Roadmap to Educating for American Democracy ,” which calls for a massive federal investment in history and civics, is an attempt to reach a consensus on the key questions teachers should tackle. Such disagreements are hardly new.

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