A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history. Mr. Stipel took the group to the former Lostice synagogue and gave them the history of the Jews in Lostice. Lostice is a town of about 3,000 people.

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Heritage Artifacts High School History 325

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties.

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Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 127

TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: Focuses on critical thinking, scientific skepticism, and debunking pseudoscience. In Our Time This podcast teaches you a bit more about the history of scientific thought, as well as history, religion, and culture.

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Heritage Psychology Museum History 173

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A Conversation with Sonja Czarnecki Sonja Czarnecki, 2022 MAHG Graduate “In order to understand history, you have to do history,” Sonja Czarnecki insists. I felt like I’d won my own History Day contest!” Research Empowers Students of History Research work benefits everyone, Czarnecki feels. Czarnecki says.

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Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

The goal is to raise awareness about how anti-history education laws and book bans — and their chilling effect — threaten any chance of an informed and engaged democracy. I was teaching for critical thinking. This was 2021, and Iowa had just passed its history censorship law. Here are highlights from the remarks.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

history and to restrict students’ ability to ask questions and think critically. She received an enthusiastic response, with many educators affirming the need to teach banned books and banned history. From there, participants heard about the history and present day efforts to protect the Wyandot burial grounds.

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