A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As the CEO of Aspire Change EDU , I'm dedicated to research-driven, data-enhanced, and evidence-based services and resources to aid districts, schools, and organizations in transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. This information will then be reviewed at the initial meeting for reflection and goal-setting to grow and improve.

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Artifacts Leadership Digital Resources Lesson Plan 277

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. Primary sources include: Personal correspondence and diaries Government and civil documents Speeches and oral histories Audio and video recordings Photographs and posters Unfortunately, most textbooks provide just facts and figures, not an immersive experience.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Teaching Oral History 52

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Even though teaching online may feel like a different animal than teaching face-to-face, there are many similarities in terms of the building blocks of a lesson. I have included a modified version below for teachers who are looking for a structure to help them organize the building blocks of their online lessons.

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Lesson Plan Tradition Teaching Education 218

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

That leaves a small window of time for all of the other tasks and responsibilities that teachers have to juggle, including planning and designing lessons. . Planning is critical to creating meaningful learning opportunities for students. It can be as detailed and thorough as you want to be, depending on your planning style.

Tradition 218

Tradition Lesson Plan Middle School Teaching 218

Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 14, 2024

So, students must have lessons that focus on teaching the election. Thankfully, teaching the election will be a fun, exciting, and motivational process with The Political Socialization Lesson , Campaign Finance Lesson , and Electoral College Lesson ! Thankfully, there are amazing resources out there to help.

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Teaching Government Social Studies High School 130

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Image credit: https://media.licdn.com/ Worlds of Learning provides a framework that allows any educator to earn micro-credentials for free through learning about a range of technology tools and applications and then putting what they learn into practice in their own teaching.

Pedagogy 230

Pedagogy Lesson Plan Professional Development Educational Technology 230

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary Lesson Plan Sept. This can also be accomplished through a collaborative document or presentation like Google Docs or Slides. 2011) Explicit Instruction: Effective and Efficient Teaching (What Works for Special-Needs Learners). Frayer Model References: Archer, A. Hughes, C. The Guilford Press. Urrutia, K.,

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Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development History 52

Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Lohrding enjoyed this time of socializing a chance to talk with teachers from all over the country who teach different groups of kids. In the next sessions we got to relate what we saw to what we read in the documents.

Junior High 52

Junior High Library K-12 Social Studies 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment!

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching. I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching,” says Sherlock, now 62. Unsustainable’ Asks Why teachers leave has been well-documented, including by EdSurge. I wanted to be good at it.

Teaching 130

Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 130

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

We offer self-contained and behavioral support classes for students with significant exceptionalities, which some of us teach in designated classrooms that have remained intact. I teach 25 students a day, providing a combination of push-in and pull-out support. And there’s the issue of privacy, which is key for my students.

Teaching 98

Teaching Museum Lesson Plan Education 98

Students of History

JANUARY 25, 2022

For years, I ended my unit on Reconstruction by teaching about the controversial election of 1876 leading to the Compromise of 1877. 6th insurrection at the Capitol (I have a lesson for this here ), I came across an article about the only "successful" coup or insurrection in US History. Following the Jan.

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Lesson Plan History Primary Sources Government 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. 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.

Learning Science 145

Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 145

Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

Teachers have to do countless tasks—including lesson planning, teaching, grading, mentoring, classroom management, as well as keeping up with technology and new pedagogical practices, monitoring progress, and other administrative work—all while keeping students’ social and emotional needs in mind.

Classroom Management 159

Classroom Management Tutoring Lesson Plan Humanities 159

Studies Weekly

APRIL 7, 2025

His own records document visits to 87 countries. He also held numerous visiting professorships throughout his career and spent short periods teaching mathematics at universities around the globe. Harary received many awards and honors for his work in mathematics, including six honorary degrees.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Primary Sources American History Heritage 52

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2024

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. Ticking Clock Under the new guidelines, digital text, images, audio, videos, documents, controls and animations must meet a series of “ success criteria.”

EdTech 143

EdTech K-12 Government Social Justice 143

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. Students had to document their learning process as they added their ideas and built a device. Not every attempt at project-based learning worked.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

For almost two decades there has been considerable debate over the importance of fully licensed teachers in ensuring quality teaching and learning (e.g., The disputes over whether a teacher needs a license to teach are not over. They rightfully want to know whether teachers are ready to teach and if they are getting better at teaching.

Leadership 115

Leadership Education Policy Lesson Plan Tradition 115

Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2020

Like these society-transforming innovations, when they first emerge, new approaches to teaching and learning often make us wonder, “What is it?” When schools interview a candidate for a teaching position, they ask for a lesson plan that makes clear what the teacher is doing in a demo lesson and why.

EdTech 97

EdTech Lesson Plan Research Leadership 97

Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Or even teaching fractions in a late-elementary classroom. New toolsets from Edthena allow any district to curate a video library of searchable lesson segments, tagged to teaching standards, and shared securely to all staff members within the district. Getting started with your video library of teaching.

Library 78

Library Teaching Lesson Plan Classroom Management 78

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Despite headlines about teacher shortages and a workforce that must become more diversified, recent federal regulations and a decade of policy has focused on the quality of teaching and teacher preparation to ensure that all teachers are ready to teach and meet high standards of performance from Day One. How do we know this?

Teaching 84

Teaching Pedagogy Tradition Leadership 84

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. READ THE SERIES Price teaches with human-capable technologies in mind, making sure to give students the skills in class by hand.

Tutoring 131

Tutoring Humanities Lesson Plan Teaching 131

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired. I’ve been teaching for 30 years, and now you’re gonna make me do what?”. I didn’t have the mindset to make this shift.

Education 145

Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences. Swan worked as a bank examiner for the FDIC before transitioning to teaching, which she pursued both domestically and internationally for about 10 years.

Social Studies 115

Social Studies Civics Pedagogy Geography 115

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 21, 2019

One way to combat this fear is to proactively teach students how to engage in a discussion with their peers. Provide each group with a list of discussion questions from the StudySync lesson plan to use in their four corner conversations. Level 3: Record & Critique Student Conversations.

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Lesson Plan Teaching 113

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Instead of overwhelming them, I shifted to teaching them how to work efficiently, meet deadlines, and build confidence with every task. The goal wasn’t just to cover content, but to teach them how to learn and apply skills independently. The revised documents were a mix of Jamestown and Plymouth hardships and survival stories.

Primary Sources 126

Primary Sources Geography History Lesson Plan 126

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

For every lesson plan I toiled over while teaching English as a New Language for 16 years in New York City and Tucson high schools, there were at least 15–20 adjustments made as I enacted that lesson plan with real people in real time. All of this was both necessary and a welcome intellectual challenge.

Education 85

Education K-12 Lesson Plan Pedagogy 85

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Teachers, who could use data about their current students to tailor lesson plans and offer targeted support, often get the information they need long after it’s useful, or they see data in formats that are incomprehensible. What an idea, to gather all the relevant data in one place. Thank you, thank you for making a dream a reality.”.

Lesson Plan 105

Lesson Plan Public School Humanities Teaching 105

Studies Weekly

MARCH 11, 2024

How Studies Weekly Uses Scientific Principles to Innovate Science Teaching Mar. The curriculum teaches students about scientific processes like using observations and evidence to draw conclusions and using student inquiry to drive learning. Explore Science is the scientific solution to teaching science.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

When Rebecca Brewer started teaching high school biology 20 years ago, it seemed like everyone trusted science. Teaching topics like the science of vaccinations elicited little controversy. Their parents’ opinions make their way into the classroom,” said Brewer, who teaches in Troy, Michigan. “Of The NGSS was released in 2013.

Controversial Topics 121

Controversial Topics Middle School Lesson Plan Teaching 121

Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do. The lesson I frantically pieced together over my spring break was intended to be used right after we returned to class. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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Lesson Plan Charter School History Library 67

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. In 2019, Jackson started pulling her daughter out of school for part of each day to teach her math at home. “I

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2022

They set up their classrooms, consult the curriculum, make lesson plans and determine their routines. Very often, teachers make well-intentioned and thoughtful plans to encourage their students to read daily in order to practice skills and strategies taught in class, as well as to build a lifelong reading habit.

Library 110

Library Lesson Plan Elementary School Cultures 110

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Carry a clipboard or tablet to document what students are grasping, what is challenging, and who has provided evidence of learning. If you recognize one of these common approaches to group work in your own teaching style, give it a tweak and pay attention to the impact your subtle change makes on the effectiveness of group work.

Pedagogy 130

Pedagogy Library Lesson Plan Classroom Management 130

Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Our worksheets are perfect for helping students with reading comprehension, preparing for the Regents review or state assessment, pairing with a video like the Crash Course US History series, or with your lesson plans throughout the school year. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

History 52

History Primary Sources Lesson Plan American History 52

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

One of my teacher candidates reflected upon his learning as “a meaningful experience, and I created lesson plans for the Underground Railroad museum using their documents and videos on how to rethink language.” In the summer of 2021, Mr. Broccolo and I reconnected to review and refine lesson plans created by teacher candidates.

Cultures 52

Cultures Heritage Civic Engagement Civics 52

Edthena

MARCH 3, 2016

Program resources, like a standardized lesson plan template, are also available. This means an audio file can’t get accidentally uploaded to a document task part. Document management? We’ve built these tools because we’re committed to helping teachers become better at teaching. Dashboards? We do all that, and more.

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Artifacts Lesson Plan Teaching EdTech 63