Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I often use class competition games in my US History classroom – you could say it is part of my classroom culture. It’s important as a teacher to build that classroom culture before you add the competition. For example, students can race to complete primary source analysis, vocabulary matching, map activities, and more.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2025

It became clear that we needed a core resource that was rigorous and culturally relevant and accessible to our student population. These pilot experiences were invaluable we observed firsthand how students engaged in compelling questions, analyzed primary sources, and developed their own interpretations of historical events.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

She believes encouraging a culture of grace and continuous learning allows educators to explore new strategies, take risks, and refine their practices in ways that uplift students. To tackle these barriers, Frances emphasizes the power of relationships.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2022

One of the primary sources we referenced to support our efforts is the Liberatory Design Framework by Stanford d.school. We strived to create conditions that allowed cohort participants to co-design the learning environment and culture collectively.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The study was published in the Journal of Human Genetics 1 and offers a refined perspective on the genetic diversity and ancestral composition of modern Japanese populations, which have long been thought to derive from two primary sources: the indigenous Jomon people and continental Asian migrants. Matsushita, T., Matsushita, M.,

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

They are connecting across cultural and national borders to promote global awareness and tolerance. With the internet, students can access primary source documents, research just about anything, and support their own understanding with explanations accompanied by video, animations, or other helpful visualizations.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

will ultimately shift the country’s power base: Nearly one in three Americans say they are extremely or very concerned that native-born Americans are losing “economic, political and cultural influence” in this country because of the growing population of immigrants. Use primary sources.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Students could discuss topics like the importance of friendship or how birthdays are celebrated differently in various cultures. We: The class explores the cultural or historical significance, discussing the work’s impact on society or a particular community.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — not only to foster more understanding and tolerance, but also to show the beauty and complexity of cultures often neglected. There are signs of progress.

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ED Surge

JULY 21, 2022

Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? I want it to be something useful, interesting, and (perhaps most importantly) memorable, but I'm not sure what it should be.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Intersection of Less Funding and Less Employment As it currently stands, tribal child counts help divvy up dollars from the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the primary source of child care funding in the U.S. Baesler has seen firsthand the impact that culturally relevant curriculum has on older students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

A lot of these things were 100 years ago, 200 years ago, and maybe if you're reading about it from a primary source, it can be really difficult to understand,” Cella explains. It’s a lack of connection to the past that Cella sees as a barrier to students finding their own love for history. “A

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Although Black Americans reinvented and established a unique culture, we’re eternally connected to the sub-Sahara. It opens with an explanation of its title and its connection to Black culture. She retells history with expert analyses of historical artifacts, primary sources and thorough research. King, Ph.D.

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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.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

To ensure that instructional materials are easily accessible to educators, AAAJ Chicago convened a working group of Asian American educators and community leaders that compiled a database of Asian American history resources that showcases a range of materials from picture books to documentaries and primary sources.

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Civics for All of US

MAY 4, 2023

Kennedy, most Presidents have had an official photographer, resulting in a wealth of primary source material. But what can students of all ages learn by taking a deeper look, past the subject matter and into the backgrounds and material culture represented in these photos, to learn more about how the lives of our leaders are presented?

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Still, some students had difficulty differentiating between ChatGPT’s outputs and reliable sources of information, which led to discussions about trustworthiness, primary sources, and peer-review. Ultimately, students wrote reflections on their use of ChatGPT, including both creative and practical aspects.

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C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

So I asked myself, what is this source attempting to accomplish? The more you read, the more you see the cultural dichotomy he is creating between white American settlers and the current inhabitants. This template can now be corroborated or even challenged as you add more and more sources to your student’s repertoire.

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Leah Cleary

DECEMBER 10, 2022

How can primary sources help us to understand the rise of the nation-state in Germany under Otto von Bismarck? How can primary sources help us to understand the rise of the nation-state in Japan during the Meiji Restoration? How did imperialism shape the way Africa developed?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

It’s the primary source of federal funding for childcare subsidies in states around the country, and it is designed to encourage qualifying parents to work or go to school by enabling them to send their children to quality childcare centers. Photo: Della Hasselle.

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C3 Teachers

JULY 1, 2024

So I asked myself, what is this source attempting to accomplish? The more you read, the more you see the cultural dichotomy he is creating between white American settlers and the current inhabitants. This template can now be corroborated or even challenged as you add more and more sources to your student’s repertoire.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

lessons on the history of Black people often focus on “trauma and tribulation,” said Erica Buddington, founder and CEO of Langston League, a firm that specializes in creating culturally responsive instructional materials. And while social studies curricula differ vastly across the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

She cited the film Black Panther as one example, combining images of various African cultures with advanced technology. Victoria Trice, who teaches the pilot AP African American history course in Jefferson Public Schools, Kentucky Those kinds of discussions also require a supportive school culture and administration, she said.

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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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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

See how Studies Weekly Social Studies teaches world history from different cultural perspectives by requesting a sample. Determined, she continued to argue her case and finally joined an Antarctic expedition in 1955. Her work during that time contributed to the first Antarctic atlas.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Goldman said a resource guide that includes vetted primary sources from different perspectives can give students and educators a way into difficult discussions without shutting anyone out. We will have had this meaningful scholarly discussion that’s based in history and primary sources,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Last summer, Danielle Creel hoped to tackle a sweeping unit on civil rights with her Yazoo County fourth-graders this school year, relying on the new resources from her summer training, including copies of photographs and primary source documents. She wanted to center the unit not only on the famous names — Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

We must rely on primary sources to learn about this historical period. Should Americans, or any people group for that matter, have the right to visit these tribes for cultural or religious reasons? Why might a colonist have chosen to remain neutral while people around him/her were choosing the Loyalist or Patriot point of view?

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NCHE

MAY 5, 2025

Rural schools are often the heart of their communities, playing a vital role in the social and cultural life of the areas they serve. To support this vision, the National Council for History Education (NCHE) received funding from the Library of Congresss Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) program.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The primary and secondary sources are perfect for middle school readers at multiple levels. I think it is important that the categories include culture, music and family. The culminating project of creating a poem from the sources never fails to amaze me and surprise the kids.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 3, 2025

This week, administrator and multimedia producer David Scheckel shares a primary source. Stay tuned for more documents in the coming weeks both on our website and on our primary source database, Social History for Every Classroom. Theres a constant tension to this story.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

Rowan University history professor William Carrigan has written that students are unfamiliar with Reconstruction because popular culture focuses on the Civil War — not the post-war era. Historians estimate that as many as 2,000 blacks were elected to local, state and federal offices during Reconstruction. history and its legacy today.”

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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. The most important thing they did is they redefined their crime, not as crimes of nationality, of an innate culture. Her solution was not to denigrate the cultures of these people. Thanks, T.

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