Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2024

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Active History Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

Have you ever assigned a decades project for your US History class? You’ve finished your US History curriculum and need something engaging for students to go as an end of the year project? It’s time to try a US History end of the year decades project! Join The Active History Teacher Community! Are you like me?

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Sapiens

MARCH 25, 2025

Culture is a force that makes us who we are. Cultural conflicts are at the heart of many crises facing the worldincreasing inequality, persistent bigotry, ecological collapse. Cultural conflicts are at the heart of many crises facing the worldincreasing inequality, persistent bigotry, ecological collapse.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 4, 2025

But beyond their everyday function of fastening and securing, knots hold something deeper: a story about the evolution of human cognition, the flow of culture, and the quiet persistence of shared technique across continents and millennia. The process of Gauss coding a simple knot. Image credit: Roope Kaaronen / University of Helsinki.

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Active History Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

Hexagonal Thinking is a game changing activity when it comes to US History Review time! If you are looking for a way to have your students make connections between concepts in US History and think critically in a hands-on, active way, it’s time to try Hexagonal Thinking! Join The Active History Teacher Community!

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

An anthropologist plunges into the world of Patagonian heavy metal music in Argentina to explore how the genre relates to language and cultural revitalization. Partway through our conversation on Indigenous history, music, and language, Calfunao lit up when he discovered that we were both metalheads. or European thrash metal record.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century. where I teach.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

As part of an ongoing series examining Contributions of Scholars of Color , the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Department conducted a a second set of oral history interviews during the 2024 National Conference of Black Political Scientists (NCOBPS) Annual Meeting held in Los Angeles, California. Watch the full interview series on YouTube.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In Greece and Armenia, steppe ancestry coincided with pivotal cultural developments. Similarly, in Armenia, steppe ancestry paralleled the decline of the Kura-Araxes culture and the rise of the Trialeti culture. Strontium data further emphasize the Mediterranean as a dynamic cultural and genetic crossroads.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My task set me on a path to understanding the history and craft of counting languages. This leads to negative outcomes for communities, including the loss of unique cultural knowledge. In addition, scientists use language statistics to understand why languages and cultures are distributed the way they are across the globe.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Culturally responsive education is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Developing their own cultural awareness , discussing race , and selecting culturally responsive texts are three strategies, supported by research, that help educators to sustain inclusive learning environments. Developing cultural awareness and discussing race.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

MARCH 28, 2025

Few institutions have faced the complexity of their history as directly as UVA. From the shadow of the 2017 Unite the Right rally to the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson, the university has become a place where meaningful conversations about tough topics arent just necessarytheyre expected.

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NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). As of February 2025, NCHE serves as the director of one of the Librarys newest regional granting entities, the Great Plains Region.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

It would be foolish of any speaker or presenter to do so, considering that we don’t really know the people who we are blessed to speak with, let alone the specific culture in which they work. Making people feel good is always crucial, and a critical component of a positive culture. In some cases, this might still be effective.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

The rest is now history. The book also emphasizes the importance of building strong relationships and a positive school culture to support these changes. Personalize is not just a book; it's a movement towards a more inclusive, engaging, and effective culture. That leader was Nicki Slaugh , my co-author of our book Personalize.

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Geography Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

It gets users to analyze the cultural and physical landscapes, relate a stimulus to other places on Earth, use maps at a variety of scales, etc. Guess Where You Are is an alternative to Geogussr without all the bells and whistles, but it also has no time restrictions w But I’m also a history buff and I love a good twist on a geographic game.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions? Through statistical comparisons of genetic distances, geographic relationships, and the distribution of mythological motifs, the study reveals that both population movements and cultural diffusion have shaped the stories we tell today.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2019

Many lessons can be learned from past innovations that have reshaped culture and society. Sure, it might not work, but history has taught us that some of the greatest successes of all time resulted from failure. We tackled the grading culture when it became apparent that we were failing too many kids.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

While AI can provide data-driven insights and automate certain tasks, it needs a nuanced understanding of human relationships, cultural contexts, and complex decision-making processes essential for effective leadership. While observing a 7th-grade history teacher, I saw him telling jokes to build relationships at the beginning of the class.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

A paleontologist journeys through Indonesias Riau Archipelago in search of Homo erectus remains, but uncovers how environmental devastation has erased much of the regions history. This diffuse and varied culture inhabited a vast area from Yunnan, China, to Sumatra, Indonesia, from about 40,000 to 2,000 years ago.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

This ancient group shares ancestry with the 15,000-year-old foragers of Taforalt Cave in Morocco, associated with the Iberomaurusian culture. © Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University of Rome The Spread of Pastoralism: Migration or Cultural Diffusion? View of the Takarkori rock shelter in Southern Libya. ©

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

They want to see themselves and their cultures reflected in the books we read, and they don’t want token representation. As a Colorado secondary school history teacher and former English teacher, I believe, and research shows, that student achievement improves when learners are personally engaged.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, the scale of ochre extraction and the evident skill involved at Lion Cavern marks this site as a unique focal point in the history of human creativity and ritual. Ochre’s Role in Early Human Society Ochre, valued across cultures and eras, was more than a mere pigment; it was a cornerstone of symbolic and ceremonial life.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

While sites in Iberia, Greece, and the Levant reveal a flourishing network of trade, agriculture, and technology, North Africa—except for Egypt—has often been cast as an empty land, a region untouched by the cultural currents shaping the rest of the ancient world. This is a crucial detail.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

This is yet another testament to the culture of learning that has been established. The rest is now history. Before I highlight one teacher in particular, I must say that we saw exceptional personalized practices occurring throughout the school. I was particularly impressed by first-year teacher Brylee Nelson’s English class.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

At NCHE conferences , for example, a glance at the program reveals that most sessions focus on an important moment or a major problem in history and offer a strategy to present it in a new way. This writing tends to be engaging, brief, and pointed, relating history to current concerns, and spanning political perspectives.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. The history and evolution of maize. Kistler, L.,

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

​ Implications for the History of Metallurgy The discoveries at Gre Fılla necessitate a reevaluation of the origins of metallurgy. Rather than a singular origin point, metallurgy may have emerged independently in various regions, influenced by local resources, knowledge systems, and cultural practices.​

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

history instruction is essential for developing informed, engaged citizens who can navigate the complexities of modern society. Fordham Institute evaluated the state-of-state standards for civics and history across all fifty states. History in elementary and middle school; also require at least one year of U.S.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The Maya civilization is celebrated for its monumental architecture, intricate calendars, and cultural sophistication. It offers a fresh perspective on the interplay between environmental adaptation and cultural development in human history. However, new research highlights their lesser-known mastery of aquaculture.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

In the 8th century CE, the Avars—an enigmatic group with roots in the East Asian steppes—settled in Central Europe, weaving a tapestry of cultural cohesion amid genetic diversity. Their findings reveal an intriguing story of cultural integration despite distinct genetic divides.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

The early human settlement of South America stands as one of the last great migrations in human history, yet the environmental conditions that shaped this journey remain debated. 2 ) takes different cultural components and specific lithic traditions/categories into account. The modelling work (e.g., <2,5000 masl = orange.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This suggests that light skin was never an evolutionary necessity but rather one of many possible adaptations shaped by cultural and environmental factors. A Complex, Ongoing Story The history of European pigmentation is far more intricate than previously thought. The population history of northeastern Siberia since the Pleistocene.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Donate Today Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking the very heart of the Zinn Education Project — teaching people’s history in classrooms across the country. Officials in at least 44 states have sought — and in many cases succeeded — to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events.

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