World History Teachers Blog

MARCH 2, 2025

The archive includes primary sources such as images, cartoons, and documents. Here is a cool new online archive of 20th-century resources surrounding Winston Churchill. One of the most interesting parts of the archives is the investigations of significant issues designed for high school students.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

They note that popular tools like Adobe Acrobat now have “AI assistant” features that can summarize documents with the push of a button. But as she tried the tool more, and put in documents on complex subjects that she knew well, she noticed occasional errors or misunderstandings.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 22, 2020

I often recommend the use of this tool in History as a way to explore primary source documents. Suppose you want to develop a literacy lesson for your learners. ThingLink could be used to curate content (text, video, images). After kids review the content, Google Forms could be used for them to answer higher-order questions.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

You can align critical feedback to current research by keeping a document of effective pedagogical techniques found in your readings. It also enables you to have more effective conversations with teachers about their own growth, adding credibility to post-conference feedback.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2017

During this reflective process, it is expected that school leadership teams collect and document aligned evidence for each item. Step 5 : On-going professional learning is implemented and progress monitoring through the online Pillars of Digital Leadership Questionnaire is documented to determine the efficacy of the digital transformation.

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Passion for Social Studies

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Topics include foundational documents, amendments, the branches of government, political parties, and more! Government Review Games Get ready to accelerate and engage your students with these games! Specifically, 10 editable Socrative review games for social studies lead your students to success.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

As you come across research that supports the types of effective pedagogical techniques you wish to see in your classrooms, archive it in a document that you can refer to when writing up observations. I made an effort to align every point of critical feedback to current research.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

Pascarella arranged for her to pay for some of the remaining coursework through Buchwald fellowships, grants provided through the generosity of Jim Buchwald, a donor who recognized the unique value of a Masters program conducted through conversation about the primary documents of American history.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to modern ancestry documentation. The plaques likely documented the genealogy of socially prominent individuals, reinforcing hierarchical structures.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Why is Lincolns Fragment on the Constitution and Union one of our favorite documents? This document is short enough to be used in younger classrooms, but its profound enough to be worth discussing with older students as well. The Constitution is the silver frame around the more important document from our Founding.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces 3 talks and document display on Saturday 12 0ctober 10-1.00pm: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the London School of Medicine for Women: Talks by Claire Brock, Mary Chapman and Victoria Rea at The London Archives. Organised in collaboration with Claire Brock and The London Archives.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 8, 2025

This means that users can upload sources such as documents, slides, websites, videos, and text. NotebookLM notebooklm.google.com NotebookLM is designed to help users understand information by asking questions of the information itself. It allows users to create a custom chatbot based on the sources provided.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The vote of the electors is recorded on a document called the Certificate of Vote. Both documents are then sealed up and sent to the National Archive. Check out this related blog: A Conversation with John Dinan, Editor of our core document collection, Federalism. Each Senator has a vote.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

To ease the burden as a principal, I would spend my summers developing a document containing concise commentary on virtually every strategy addressed in our observation and evaluation tool. Project-management tools with embedded AI can help to track progress, manage tasks, and collaborate on documents.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

School leadership teams are expected to collect and document aligned evidence for each item during this reflective process. Step 5 : On-going professional learning is implemented and progress monitoring through the robust questionnaire is documented to determine the efficacy of the transformation efforts using innovative approaches.

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Artifacts Leadership Digital Resources Lesson Plan 266

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 29, 2021

Using Devices to Document Learning. Teach students to use their devices to capture visual media documenting their learning. Use audio capture to record notes, capture realizations, or document interviews. Organize and Save Documentation in a Digital Notebook. What is their documentation revealing about their learning?

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Have students keep this log in a binder or online document and have them reflect on what they have done to incorporate the feedback. The most important aspect is to unpack the standard(s) into learning targets and ensure that the feedback that is verbalized helps students advance to these goals.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2025

The goal is to keep children safe, but these tools raise serious questions about privacy and security as proven when Seattle Times and Associated Press reporters inadvertently received access to almost 3,500 sensitive, unredacted student documents through a records request about the districts surveillance technology. According to a U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The journey to improve is a process that requires various strategies that are aligned to a specific focus as outlined in a mission statement or vision document that describes the why. When we think about change, more often than not, a plan is developed, implemented, and evaluated with the goal being improvement.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 10, 2016

You can see the resulting document HERE. Going back to the grading example, we openly discussed and agreed on a failure floor, no zeros, and a process of retakes/redos. However, I then established seven criteria that had to be supported with evidence before any student could receive a failing quarter grade.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Documenting over 1,300 plant species, the research underscores how biodiversity sustains cultural practices and emphasizes the need for sustainable land management in the region. It documents the uses of 1,319 plant species, detailing how specific parts—roots, leaves, sap, and bark—are used in daily life.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

Whether you did or didn’t make a planning guide, you can use this document to record your favorite activities of the year, reflect on the outcomes, and record your thoughts about what changes you want to make next year. At this point, most of us rely heavily on Google Drive or the equivalent to manage our documents.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In addition, they’ve got a couple of other useful documents under their tips for fostering teacher connections series you can check out as well. It was designed for younger students (head start/kindergarten), but with the exception of 4, 17, 21, and maybe 40, they’re actually useful for K-12 in general.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Still, that is a big improvement over the original 1978 study, which documented that only 1 percent of instructional time was spent on reading comprehension. More time was spent on reading comprehension instruction in reading or English class, but it was still just 23 percent of instructional time.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

This requires a nice sense of judgment and caution in reading into the document one’s own ideas and interpretations. It also requires some ability to go beyond mere rephrasing of parts of the document to determine the larger and more general ideas in it.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 3, 2024

Benefit 3: Collaboration Cloud-based platforms facilitate seamless collaboration among students and educators through shared documents, discussion forums, and real-time feedback, enhancing the learning experience.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 14, 2020

I'll tell you that I have personally experienced this as a principal and seen in many districts school staff who are asked to print, collate, distribute, collect, read and process all kinds of paper forms and documents. Often these are in multiple languages!

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Create an overview of the rotations with links to resources and documents. I suggest adding the link to this overview document to your digital planner. Feel free to make a copy of the documents and tailor them to your needs. Feel free to make a copy of the documents and tailor them to your needs.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Teachers can bring multiple students together for shared tasks on documents, slide decks, drawings, or spreadsheets. The Google Suite can be a great complement to breakout rooms by creating a shared online space where students can access directions and document their work. for a unit or text. for a unit or text. for a unit or text.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I am fortunate to be involved in several long-term projects where I have been able to document growth over time. The reason being to coach the individual(s) later on providing feedback and to ensure interrater reliability (do we see the same thing). Other schools and districts are beginning to follow suit.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

color-coding, setting reminders, embedding links to planning documents) made it exponentially more effective as a planning and organizational tool. Provides a platform where you can organize calendar events and attach links or documents, so everything you need for your lessons is in one place. Please relax and enjoy your summer.

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Tradition Lesson Plan Middle School Teaching 218

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Digital graphic organizers make it possible to give students the option to complete their work offline and insert an image of their work or use the features inside of a digital document or slide deck to complete the activity. Daily Reading Record.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

I also curated a document that had comments ready to go aligned to sound pedagogical practice and research where applicable. You can view the template HERE. Note that this template was nowhere near as detailed as the actual tool uses, but it did greatly assist with the write-up process afterward.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Hand stencils of unknown age document ancestral human presence on the Raja Ampat Islands. Ongoing excavations by our project aim to provide further information about how people adapted to climatic and environmental changes in the region.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Create and Share a Planning Document in Advance of the Conversation. One way to help students prepare for an online discussion is with a planning document that is shared like any other assignment at the start of the week. Students may be shy or need more time to process the questions.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It is ideal if both the teacher and student have access to the planning document during the conference. I have created the template in Google Documents so that it is easy to share a copy with every student. During the Conference. Post-conference. I want students to own this conversation whenever possible.

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TeachThought

APRIL 5, 2024

Padlet Padlet takes the approach used during in-person learning a notch higher with students having the chance to post images, videos, documents, and ideas during discussions or brainstorming sessions. With such a tool, you can efficiently prepare students for exams or monitor their learning progress during or after a lesson.

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