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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

Teaching American History

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. One former student who appreciates what he learned from Messick now serves on the school board for the district in which Messick teaches. Some of them encourage her.

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Promoting Literacy: Cultivate a Reading Culture

Catlin Tucker

Reading logs are a controversial topic. Amy Tobener-Talley teaches ELA, ELD, and Digital Technology at a dual-immersion language school in Sonoma County. She is bilingual (Spanish), Google certified, and passionate about leveraging her 15 years of experience to modernize teaching and learning.

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Teaching Lessons I Learned From Mom

ED Surge

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. I remember my childhood as a time of mutual exploration, where you encouraged us to discuss any manner of potentially controversial topics. This was not the way you raised me, though, mom.

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Responding to a summer of riots: Principles for teaching about sensitive issues in the history classroom

Becoming a History Teacher

Photo by Mathias Reding on Pexels.com We both began our teaching careers shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. It also constitutes really good history teaching.

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Could AI Give Civics Education a Boost?

ED Surge

He still has that concern, but as he stepped back to think about it, he also saw a way to “leverage” the tool for a goal he had long fought for — to help bring social studies education, and especially the teaching of civics, to broader prominence in the nation’s schools. Cote is not alone in pinning hopes on AI to help the teaching of civics.

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A ‘summer camp’ for teachers fills a gap in environmental education

The Hechinger Report

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship. Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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We shouldn’t pretend neutrality in the face of injustice

Dangerously Irrelevant

Following up on my previous post , I’m going to share a fantastic blog post from Michael Kaechele : I have grown weary of the call to avoid controversial topics and stay neutral. Teaching and leading for higher student engagement … even during a pandemic (aka How I spent my summer). Silence is compliance.