HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. I was very pleased with their efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Other such practices include first-year seminars, writing-intensive courses, service learning, internships and study abroad. Jimenez Delgado, an undocumented student who was born in Mexico but grew up in the Los Angeles area, said that “coming to college, I felt like it was going to be a lot of culture clashing — and it wasn’t.”

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Tutoring Social Science Cultures Research 110

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This tendency is first expressed through its course design — three of the four core courses on “anthropology” while the last one on history being arguably a sisterly discipline. For instance, we tried to unpack the history of tombstones based on their minute traces. Could you tell me more about its history? Like a textbook?”

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Darryl Baca — the student who praised Mariscal after his classroom speech — epitomizes the entire history of Pelican Bay. The culture has evolved, We’re like a campus now.” says at times it feels more like a graduate-level seminar than an undergraduate class. He came to the prison in 1990, only months after it opened.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Immigration has always been a difficult issue to grapple with, but we are in the midst of what will be remembered as a particularly dark time in our history. Conversations about food, clothing and language can be the sum total of what they know about just a few cultures. The post The importance of difficult conversations in U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

But for now, it’s focused on training existing educators to become more “culturally responsive,” representing diverse cultures and frames of reference in their teaching. But it also shows how hard it can be to change the culture of a school — and the mindsets of its teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said.

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Transcending Pedagogy

JANUARY 8, 2024

They admit to teaching each other about their families and cultures, their relationships with bosses and friends, and their discoveries and adventures. Usually, that “something” represents a passion or interest or even something the individual is learning themselves. Students can – of course – understand this.

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Leah Cleary

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The following standard is for world history in the Georgia Standards of Excellence : SSWH16 Analyze the rise of nationalism and worldwide imperialism. A valuable assessment would be a Socratic Seminar. If students are engaged, depth of learning is more likely to occur.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Native students are also more likely to face racism and microaggressions than white students, and there’s often a disconnect between their cultural identities and Western higher education institutions, according to Native American higher education experts. Not realizing Cante was Native, the student accused her of cultural appropriation.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

The morning began with Collen providing an overview of our school''s comprehensive Holocaust education program; highlighting the course curriculum, the study seminar to the U.S. Jenny Eisenberg, from the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs arranged for the teachers to visit our school.

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Museum Leadership Pedagogy History 150

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Some experts believe that student fathers’ graduation problems are cultural and connected to the reasons men are less likely than women to go to college in the first place. It prepares men with children for high school equivalency tests and college by providing classes, tutoring, counseling and parenting seminars.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 22, 2010

With this program I was able to comfort frightened incoming freshmen during orientation, raise money to assist victims of the genocide in Darfur, and attend inspirational seminars about leadership and ethical issues. In the fall of 2009 I went on a field trip to Wall Street with my AP History class.

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Leadership High School History Cultures 160

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. It was 7:58 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Classes, which combine liberal arts and a focus on careers, might examine topics such as Newark’s history or residential racial segregation, or teach students about marketing for nonprofit organizations. Honors College students participate in seminars and service projects and take a freshman colloquium.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. By the lunch break, a seminar-style discussion about SDG 6 — clean water and sanitation — was well underway. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

For example, my research is on Parkinson’s disease, using magnetic resonance imaging to understand how comorbidities and health-life histories may change the rate of cell death in a critical region of interest in the brain. Making this change will maintain a culture of excellence while giving all students an alternate pathway to success.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But he spoke up in Romantic Literature, and he helped other students with their African American Religious History papers. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. psychology class. By the second semester, Barnes was on academic probation.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

Its founders were Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Edward SAPIR, all students of Franz Boas, whose influential concept of Culture had implied a psychological dimension they attempted to spell out and translate into research.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding schools in an Indigenous Studies class. Tlingit culture as well as aspects of other Native cultures are being taught in that space. Cook breakfast for a classmate celebrating a birthday. The students are really great.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Reading, writing assignments, presentations and discussions covered history, cultural difference, environmental manipulation and what was technically possible. And the confluence of language, history and economics on the Seaway provided an ideal – not to mention local – lens through which to view the liberal arts.

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Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

Fans of game-based learning or historical simulations will have two options during the first week of on-campus classes, as Progressive Era and Indian Assimilation, Resistance, and Removal are both using a Reacting to the Past game alongside our more standard method of seminar discussions.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. We can and must do more.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

It follows a long history of neglect of rural areas by many colleges and universities. It’s just not part of the culture.” My friends in the cities, their kids start talking about college when they’re freshmen,” said Rob Harrison, a city councilmember who stopped by.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Supalla also treated her staff to lunches and hosted seminars on mental health and financial planning to address their personal concerns. “If It’s 100 percent, I think, against what our culture tends to think for kids,” Turner said. “It It takes a big shift, and I think it takes a lot of education around what is trauma.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst. Archivist: Great.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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Charter School K-12 Elementary School Archiving 103

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. This was pretty normal stuff for a fourth grade history lesson, except for one thing: The entire lesson — from the textbooks to the teacher’s instructions to the students’ short essays — was in Spanish.

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