The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2022

When the pandemic first hit in March 2020, Bartlett wanted to document the lives of teachers. Along with some like-minded colleagues, she quickly formed an ad-hoc research group, “ Suddenly Distant ,” to capture this moment in history. One high school history teacher in a Florida city described juggling three devices in the study. “I

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

To do that, I took the primary sources straight out of the textbook and ran them through Claude AI with a simple prompt: “Keep the primary sourceness of these documents but make them so 8th graders can understand them.” The revised documents were a mix of Jamestown and Plymouth hardships and survival stories.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

It’s been a huge time saver, especially since it allowed me to focus more on the classroom and less on the stress of documenting every detail. They discovered how geography—land and sea routes—was integral to understanding exploration. These methods helped students break down complex historical concepts into simple, creative outputs.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

Additionally, social studies encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including history, geography, civics and economics, each with its own set of disciplinary practices. The C3 Framework is the equivalent of our national standards document, but it's not a set of standards. The foundation is so well established.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

My Twitter notifications have been growing over the last few days because I was copied into a tweet from Jo Coles regarding challenges facing geography. What would you say have been the biggest challenges to geography’s place in education, or to geog’s curriculum, in the last 20 years? The text above is taken from this document.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

A cross posting from my 'At the Home of Geography' blog. As you'd imagine, we are preparing to submit evidence and support the consultation for the new curriculum review to discuss what we hope to see in a future curriculum with respect to the geography entitlement and the nature of what is studied. (PDF

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 5, 2019

Our study documents some of the ways that the historical processes of colonization and displacement are reproduced in the United States, specifically through the education system. history of violent and destructive military interventions in Southeast Asia and its subsequent refugee outcomes. Cold War history.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to research, document, interpret and present the heritage of the people of the Arkansas Delta. This mission is carried out through activities in four areas: Interpretive exhibits, public presentations, educational programming and documentation.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

It also cut English chemistry, math, history, finance, accounting, art and other majors — 21 of them in all, or a third of everything it used to teach. Just after she finished the university cut the English program along with math, chemistry, biology, history. But since this performance, the university has ended its music program.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

This graph from the statistical unit of the Education Department shows the history of the Long-Term Trend NAEP with the sudden plummet in test scores since the start of the pandemic. The NAEP test implies and the MAP test directly documents that children continued to get better in reading and math during the pandemic.

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Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Picture Walk A picture walk is a pre-reading activity where students will take a look or a “walk” through the documents of a unit. These documents can include images, maps, charts, diary entries, or other primary and secondary sources. History, Geography, and International Baccalaureate History of the Americas.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. My intent as an UGRR participant was to stretch my local history knowledge and to sharpen my historical-geographical thinking skills.

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ACRE

JANUARY 17, 2023

Analyzing world, continent, and country maps, students consider how natural resources and natural geography influence economies. Adam Smith’s Pin Factory & Division of Labor Pipe Cleaner Activity Adam Smith ’s Pin Factory is one of the most famous examples in the history of economics. Constitution Geography: WSP.2.G.2

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Social Studies Interactive Notebook-Geography Some of the geography activities in the social studies interactive notebook include types of maps, landforms (shown below), the seven continents, and hemispheres (shown below). symbols (digital version shown below).

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He did, and Livingston soon found herself sitting in an introductory college course in US history. The next semester, she took two more US history classes, then realized she’d found her major. When a position teaching geography to ninth graders at a private high school opened, she took it. The professor’s lecture fascinated her.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By integrating traditional ethnographic methods with those from classic ethology, geography, and the humanities, I answer novel questions related to the co-production of multispecies conviviality. Ethology was an invaluable tool used to document and interpret javelina behaviors.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

The program also accepts Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) participants and students who lack citizenship documentation. The region’s geography and culture give the program key advantages when it comes to recruiting local students. People don't understand how these students come in,” Castineyra says.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

I also love my 3D relief United States map , which is really helpful in explaining events and helping my students study for their semester-long US geography test series. Founding Document Posters – Post poster-sized replicas of key founding documents related to your US History and Civics classes.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

This would allow both the “expert groups” and the “Jigsaw groups” to document and share their learning. Jigsaw Strategy Oct. In this setting, providing the students with a teacher-created digital template or collaboration page would be ideal.

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Living Geography

MAY 28, 2024

A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which now has over 300 posts in preparation for supporting teachers if and when it appears as an option. Earlier today, this diagram was shared on Twitter, which looks from the formatting to be a panel from a recent copy of the i newspaper.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

MAY 28, 2024

For instance, in a history class, instead of merely memorizing dates and events, students could analyze historical patterns and their impact on current societal issues. Projects and assessments can be designed to require students to document their use of AI, explaining how it contributed to their learning and problem-solving process.

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Ben Newmark

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It became an on-trend word – appearing on documents, lesson plans, quality assurance, lesson observation forms and lots of other places too. But there are issues with the word ‘misconception’ – a misconception of misconceptions if you like, and it’s a particular problem in history. It was a part of the greater focus on curriculum.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I mention this because I will be talking about geographies of activism and exclusion in a bit, and it is important to remember geographies help inform who we are and our responses and responsibilities to activism, scholarship, who we acknowledge in our citations, and the work that I do in accessibility awareness and inclusive practices.

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Anthropology News

APRIL 24, 2025

This local geography of caste is more visible to me because I, too, belong to an allegedly lower caste community. The struggle for access to water is a key issue in Dalit history as water distribution has been historically maligned by caste-based discrimination. Where are the documents? Who was the lawyer? We dont know.

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Ben Newmark

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Flourishing Schools document acknowledges the need to value all children and wisely concludes unless schools do this it is impossible for them to flourish. Like the poor in Matthew 26:11, those who find learning harder will always be with us, How do we help these children? How do we value them in a world that doesn’t?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

Students first learn about Mississippi history in fourth grade, and that’s the first time they are supposed to delve deeply into the history of the movement to end racial segregation and discrimination. The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”.

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Anthropology for Beginners

APRIL 29, 2021

Contemporary situation: There was a death and rebirth of urban anthropology in the 1990s and 2000s through the addition of spatial theories drawn from geography and a fuller understanding of the political economy of place.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

While an individual or group may think that they are an island, the geography teacher in me can see that their island, like everyone else’s, is in the middle of concentric circles of scale. The guidance document for promoting British Values in SMSC development splits these four values into seven objectives.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Kids are often satisfied with fairly simple answers to their questions, Roffman said, and parents shouldn’t feel the need to dive into the history of sexism when answering questions about boys and girls, or the issue of infertility when answering questions about reproduction.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I’m also a member of the science communication community and the educator community, particularly the geography educators community here in the United Kingdom. Events like Pride and Black History Month matter because they remind us that we exist. You can always find me here on my blog and the Coffee and Geography podcast.

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