Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Efforts to enhance these relationships should include culturally responsive teaching and creating a sense of belonging to ensure that each student can participate at the fullest level. Be laser focused on building strong and lasting relationships among students and teachers, students and their peers, and teachers and parents/caregivers.

Teaching 140

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Nate combats this by consciously working to build — and maintain — a culture of respect in his classroom. Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. Research reliably points to this emotion derailing kids’ ability to learn (Immordino-Yang & Damasio, 2007). Come back for more.

K-12 256

K-12 Teaching Pedagogy Library 256

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. “I think my voice was heard at Lusher—until it was something they didn’t want to hear.”

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

After studying the artwork of pop artist Andy Warhol, fifth and sixth grade students made artwork inspired by his creations. Students were prompted to find images that represent contemporary pop culture, and then to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to create their own Warhol-inspired work. Safari Books. Read more about Safari Books’ work.

Education 101

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 101

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 5, 2023

When they are first introducing this approach, teachers are advised to make the thinking tasks non-curricular, fun challenges that will help develop a culture of thinking. “Language arts, social studies, science. In a Thinking Classroom, in order to get students to think rather than mimic, we have to remove the I do.”

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy K-12 Library Tradition 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

There were a handful of other Black kids in Corey Robinson’s seventh-grade social studies class, including a friend whom Corey considered his ride or die. But in social studies, Corey felt compelled to keep upping the ante. On the cusp of an A in the class and eager to claim his $100, Corey had studied hard.

Education 104

Education Social Studies Library Private School 104

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The kind of behaviors that we get in this ‘gotcha’ culture of social media are directly the opposite of what is productive in conversation. But I think now it’s especially important because we have so many things that they’re exposed to that are teaching like the wrong lessons. ” Come back for more.

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Library Social Studies Social Justice 130

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.”

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

She liked the people and the culture and the history. They would have science and social studies, because you can’t read if you don’t know anything about the world, she said. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day.

Charter School 108

Charter School History Library Public School 108

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Principal Kaplet found it difficult to create a culture of academic achievement when her school’s most motivated learners were spending the bulk of their time on a college campus. Rural ones.

High School 92

High School Social Studies Leadership Political Science 92

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Mamie Till-Mobley, Library of Congress Mamie Till-Mobley In 1955, Mamie Till-Mobleys son, Emmett, was tortured and killed because of his race. See how Studies Weekly Social Studies teaches world history from different cultural perspectives by requesting a sample. In 1931, she co-won the Nobel Peace Prize.

World History 98

World History History Archaeology Social Studies 98

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Slideshow Landmarks Don’t Look Behind You Magic Elevator Game 1: Slideshow Slideshow is a great game for students to recall and re-interpret literature, social studies, and science content. Science: 8th graders studying cells name different types of cells and make a pose demonstrating their function. Come back for more.

Geography 273

Geography Social Studies Pedagogy Library 273

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Another approach is to look into our curricula to find places where the contributions of many cultures can be more fully acknowledged. We’ll be doing this here with a specific focus on Arab cultures. “And the reality is that the Arab heritage and the Arab culture is something that is across content areas.

Social Studies 130

Social Studies Cultures History Pedagogy 130

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

K-12 92

K-12 Social Studies History Archiving 92

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In fleeing the dustbowl conditions of the Midwest, the migrants had “left behind many of their material possessions,” Czarnecki writes, but the folklore collectors “reasoned that they brought instead an intangible cultural heritage in their stories and songs.” Unidentified Others, Will Neal, Robert Sonkin, Charles Todd, and Robert Hemmig.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. She cited the film Black Panther as one example, combining images of various African cultures with advanced technology. On the Wednesday following the A.P. Santana goes deep.”

History 98

History American History Teaching K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Each class has two teachers, one for each language, and every subject – literacy, math, social studies, science, music, dance and art – is taught in both languages by the mostly bilingual staff. At Dos Puentes Elementary School, kids can browse classroom libraries stocked with books in English and Spanish.

Elementary School 121

Elementary School Middle School Library Research 121

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Saykhamphone and other Black students at the school found this lesson offensive, but their teacher did not understand why until students talked to Fairfax County’s culturally responsive pedagogy specialists to intervene. The school board representing the 1,700-student Madison County district voted to ban 21 books from its high school library.

History 97

History American History Ancestry Pedagogy 97

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No A stack of Alabama history books at the University of Alabama McLure Education Library. Many are no longer used in Alabama schools.

History 101

History K-12 Library Social Studies 101

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

What we do have is a culture of respectone that honors the dignity and diversity of all students, families, and educators. She is the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , which I’ve referred to many times on this site, and one of the most respected voices on the topic of equity-driven education.

Teaching 171

Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Social Justice 171

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And as we extend that definition to larger groups of people, as we introduce power, we begin to understand that who gets to decide what those rules are and what those norms are becomes much more complicated, and often an expression of political, economic, and cultural power. Her solution was not to denigrate the cultures of these people.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2025

The father of three is also not keen on the states newly proposed social studies standards that would require biblical lessons starting in first grade. Walterss mandate has also sparked concern because of the proposed social studies standards that followed. Bibles, he noted, are accessible to students through the library.

Public School 131

Public School High School Social Studies History 131

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

Education Policy 143

Education Policy Education Advocacy Social Studies 143

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. But over the twenty years before that, a lot of social scientists who were self-defined liberals and progressives tried to help them, and they did a pretty good job of it. Thank you so much for being with us. Thanks, T.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Schools are afraid of dividing and triggering their students amid the fraught, frenzied, hyperpartisan, superpolarized and downright ugly political culture of our country right now. Related: PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies. I understand — but urge these schools to reconsider.

Controversial Topics 139

Controversial Topics Teaching Civics Civic Engagement 139