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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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STUDENT VOICE: The path to health equity begins in K-12 classrooms

The Hechinger Report

We know that these disparities can shrink when patients are cared for by doctors who share their cultural backgrounds and lived experiences. To mitigate these disparities, we must look beyond our hospitals and medical schools and into the places where young minds are shaped: our K-12 classrooms. The problem?

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Preparation for the New World of Work

A Principal's Reflections

This applies not only to K-12, but also higher education. Thus, schools and education in general need to create a learning culture that not only inspires students, but also prepares them for success in their future. Change is not coming, it is already here beating down the door. Speaking of change.

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TEACHER VOICE: Instead of assuming kids won’t read novels anymore, build a curriculum that showcases books’ worth

The Hechinger Report

If we want students to invest in the great, global conversation of the humanities, its going to take a bit of salespersonship. What we mean is that the success of novel instruction hinges not just on the quality of the books we teach but on the intellectual culture we surround them with. Sign up for Hechingers weekly newsletter.

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Neanderthal Ingenuity: The Tar-Burning Hearth at Vanguard Cave

Anthropology.net

Such tasks likely involved collaboration and the transmission of knowledge within the group, suggesting that these skills were culturally shared over generations. This discovery supports growing evidence that Neanderthals possessed the cognitive abilities and social structures necessary for cultural innovation. A., & Langejans, G.

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What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?

ED Surge

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

ED Surge

by Dominik Dresel Amazon’s efforts to expand its footprint in K-12 education through digital tools have largely fizzled. We Need to Make Schools Human Again. Her solutions include real listening, real change and learning to recognize one another’s humanity. Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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