Cultures, Heritage and Professional Development

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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Teaching Irish American History

Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

10, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER You only need to walk into a store and see St Patricks Day decorations to know Irish Americans have profoundly impacted our countrys culture. Teaching Irish American History Mar. But what brought so many Irish immigrants to the United States?

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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Unearthing the Origins of Plantation Slavery on São Tomé

Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

Other objects, including fragments of African ceramics and a cowrie shell, show the perseverance of cultural traditions among the enslaved workers. While most African countries have defined guidelines for obtaining research permits and heritage is closely legislated, São Tomé lacks pertinent regulations.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

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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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here’s what it took

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2024

The group, founded in 2017, helps develop quality early care and education programs in Nebraska communities that don’t have enough of them. “If It benefits Latino children to have a Latino provider because they have the same lived experience, same heritage — it’s easier for them to connect to families, to get more family engagement.”

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We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Karen Kong, 16, has unwavering pride in her Chinese American heritage, rooted in her sense of family and honor.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. Tommy Chang, Boston Public Schools superintendent.

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How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

Soft Skills in Social Studies There is a clear connection between social studies and soft skills like: communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and cultural awareness. Teaching these subjects is vital because each equips students with essential knowledge and both hard and soft skills.

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression. Eventually, Du Bois moved to Ghana to work on the Encyclopedia Africana , an ambitious project to compile everything known about the history, accomplishments, and cultures of African people.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. She liked the people and the culture and the history. A lot of people think you have to go somewhere else to be someone.”

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Charter School History Library Public School

Can private Pre-K for All providers survive in New York City?

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

In a nod to the cultural heritage of its surrounding neighborhood, two displays feature Chinese-themed art, including pretty sprays of cherry blossoms and red and gold lanterns. Yet not a single teacher in this private preschool in Bensonhurst has a master’s degree and nearly half do not return each year.

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Religion Is a Taboo Topic. I Discuss It in My Classroom Anyway.

ED Surge

JANUARY 28, 2025

These restrictions felt particularly challenging in the context of teaching Arabica Semitic and Middle Eastern language intertwined with the culture and religion of its speakers. My students, most of whom came from Somali immigrant families, practiced Islam and carried cultural identities deeply rooted in their faith and migration stories.

Multicultural Education

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

A self-described Southern conservative and man of faith from rural Alabama, Grimes, 48, set about overhauling instruction for English learners, establishing culturally relevant extracurriculars and reaching out to the Hispanic community. The rapid increase in the English learner population had taken Russellville educators by surprise.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Teaching Irish American History

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Unearthing the Origins of Plantation Slavery on São Tomé

Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here’s what it took

We asked Asian American students what they wanted from history instruction. They say including their voices is not enough.

At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

Can private Pre-K for All providers survive in New York City?

Religion Is a Taboo Topic. I Discuss It in My Classroom Anyway.

A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

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