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Making Social Studies Fun to Teach | Teacher Testimonial

Studies Weekly

Manda's Story In Manda Rensels 25-year teaching career, she never enjoyed teaching history. Studies Weekly has changed my outlook on history, she says. She recalls not having much of a social studies curriculum: only one set of heavy textbooks with very few resources. Mandas advice to other educators is: Give Studies Weekly a try!

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Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies

Studies Weekly

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. The attacks on 9/11 affected millions of people, and informed much of the public policy in action today but for these children, that event is history. The primary source.

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Meeting the Core Human Needs of a Teacher

Cult of Pedagogy

Every teacher shows up with their own histories and insecurities and flaws. The Need for Competence “One of the ways that I hear the need for competence expressed by teachers is I’ll hear them say things like, If we focused on classroom management, if the school was calmer, then I could do my job. It can be lonely.

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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

ED Surge

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. Earlier this year, I was facilitating a series of three lessons about classroom management.

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PROOF POINTS: Borrowing a page from marriage therapy in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

Experts argue over whether the best classroom-management approach is a consistent, strict discipline or a more forgiving response where students discuss their grievances with an adult’s guidance, a process called restorative justice. Credit: Photo by Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for EDUimages. The paper, “??

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Lesson 8: How Do You Register to Vote (Grades K-3)

Studies Weekly

Learn more about history. Create a graph or chart displaying what students learned. Have a class discussion. What could be done to get more people to register to vote?

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Former educators answer call to return to school

The Hechinger Report

That’s why Murray said Jackson is also stepping up efforts to hire new teachers by increasing starting pay and offering curriculum support and professional development opportunities. Related: A ‘civil rights camp’ teaches kids a history they’re not learning in school. Mayers said the veterans and beginners learn from each other.