Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class. Theres also so much tradition behind the speech that its fun to invite students into the ritual of the event since its the one time of year when the nation comes together politically to hear a single message.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

SEL Programs Support Students to Be Better Friends and Citizens Our review of SEL teased out the differences between prosociality and civic behaviors and it turns out, the distinction matters. Civic behaviors and attitudes support the broader community. There were 46 school shootings in 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

I taught my students to respect the power of civic engagement and social activism. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. Recent politics has made it hard to extend that work. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education?

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

McCoy says he prizes them primarily for instilling moral and civic virtues in students. Civic learning is just too important an issue to abandon because of “bad actors,” McCoy says. McCoy published a survey of classical learning schools in 2021 for Manhattan Institute, which painted it as an “attractive option for parents.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. “This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. When a classroom of second graders in Waterford, Mich.,

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Our new information landscape requires citizens and workers who are fluent with technology tools and online environments and is reshaping how we learn, interact, gain the attention of others, and engage in civic togetherness.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. Collaboration among all education stakeholders, including researchers, entrepreneurs, community members, and educators, is needed to alter traditional teaching and learning processes and successfully meet these challenges. Why is this important?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

Research shows that math anxiety is prevalent, and the effects of this can linger long after students finish school, interfering with their ability to use quantitative reasoning in their professional and civic lives. The math taught in high schools often doesn’t align with the needs of many fields or the expectations of many colleges.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Then there's the more constructivist orientation: games as sites for meaning-making, in the Piagetian tradition. In these, socially networked players are not only competing and generating creative content, but contributing to communities and participating in civic life. What, in your opinion, makes good game-based learning?

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

Supporting teachers in shifting from traditional instruction to an inquiry-based framework required ongoing encouragement, classroom modeling, and troubleshooting challenges as they arose. Throughout this process, administrative coaching was essential.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. We cannot wait.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Related: COLUMN: Making America whole again via civics education.

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Civics U

JULY 18, 2022

As traditional leaders they opposed attempts to bring running water and electricity into their village. But they also knew that these developments would impact and weaken the traditional “Hopi Way” of life which they were committed to maintaining. This author recalls meeting Hopi tribal elders John and Mina Lanza in the 1960’s.

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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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Civic Engagement Teaching Civics Political Science 68

ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2023

Together, we explored how to engage in civic life with love and wisdom. Roberts continues that tradition for his students at Amherst. Let’s continue this tradition.” She will forever be one of my greatest teachers. His former professor gave books away to students who visited during office hours. All they need to do is ask.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2022

Enrollment marketers piggybacked on the traditional practice from our colleagues in admissions of buying lists of names of students who have taken the ACT and SAT. Higher ed serves as one of the country’s cornerstones of democratic ideals and as a breeding ground for civic engagement and civil dialogue.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2023

Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement. This article is a partial transcript of an episode of the EdSurge Podcast. They've thought through them.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Ignatius, in addition to the traditional 18- to 22-year-old students, particularly low-income and first-generation college students. Making the shift isn’t easy, particularly for centuries-old institutions built from the ground up to focus on traditional baccalaureate and graduate programs. We ignore this at our own risk.

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Civics U

JUNE 2, 2022

Of course, the freedom of religion now also legally protects the freedom to believe in various non-Christian religions and religious traditions as well as the freedom “from” religion as found in atheism and secular humanism. But this, too, is subject to differing interpretations and applications.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All three strategies are in large part a reproach to traditional higher education, which has often failed to provide the right programs to the people who increasingly need them. Some of these new efforts are dramatically different from traditional higher education experiences, and their focus is almost entirely on nontraditional students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students. YouthForce is an education, business and civic collaborative that helps prepare public school students in New Orleans for in-demand career pathways. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2018

Election results confirm a big bump in civic interest and participation among college and university students. In this election season, however, there were issue-based reasons that may have played a bigger role than traditional predictors of turnout. The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered. For him, the lessons students learn in this program are as important as the ones they learn in the traditional curriculum.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 9, 2025

Immigrant integration and refugee resettlement policies and their implementation, including immigrant and refugee civic engagement, political incorporation, and citizen-making. Border and security studies as well as studies on intranational, regional, transnational, and international cooperation on the management and control of migration.

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Civic Engagement Civics Economics Professional Development 46

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Students who have high-quality arts learning opportunities may be among tomorrow’s great artists, and they also may be among tomorrow’s health care professionals, engineers and civic leaders. No matter the path, arts education provides a way to creative careers of the future.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2020

He argues for recovering America’s common school tradition, and reminds us that the founding principle of American public education was preparation for citizenship, not the private ends of “college and career.” He also taught civics at Democracy Prep Public Schools, a network of high-performing charter schools based in Harlem, New York.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. Constitution, and quizzes to teach civics. According to U.S.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

"With the strong push toward alternative online learning opportunities in 2014 – like Coursera/Udacity, General Assembly, traditional online courses, Google ‘Helpouts’ – a complementary way of measuring and recognizing what students learn in these environments must emerge in 2015." Project Manager.

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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. Now she sees herself preparing students for lives of civic engagement. Then she muses, “More graduate students should submit their research papers, because you never know.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced. A new book by a high school history and civics teacher collects innovative strategies, and argues that getting the issue right is crucial for building a strong democracy.

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Civics U

DECEMBER 22, 2021

From an anthropological as well a historical viewpoint, religion- that is, a people’s world view – is at the core of traditional cultures around the world. On one hand traditional Christian activities continue. Christmas is obviously an important custom in American culture.

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Diane Ravitch

JANUARY 31, 2023

Conservatives are creating “civics” institutes as a vehicle for patriotic indoctrination, not as a means to think critically about how to improve democracy. Censorship, which DeSantis practices, would be condemned in any genuine civics class. The letters refer to diversity, equity and inclusion programs and critical race theory.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

The best civics lesson requires you to leave the classroom. Like many online schools, students at the school took self-guided, online lessons at home or somewhere with adequate broadband and the support of an offsite teacher who could also work outside a traditional schoolhouse. Related: Go vote.

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Humanities K-12 Civics Professional Development 110

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2020

This year is anything but usual, of course, and the pandemic’s ramifications for in-person civic engagement could make voting harder for young people than it already was. Aiyana Edwards, student and voter-drive organizer, Spelman College.

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Civics Civic Engagement Advocacy Research 84

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2018

We now know that formative or “real-time” assessment can support student learning better than traditional evaluations. There’s no doubt about the importance of social and emotional competencies in college, civic, career and life success. Related: How to sort the good from the bad in OER.

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