Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Through ConnectED, Esri made a billion dollar offer: any K-12 school in the United States could acquire professional online Geographic Information Systems (GIS software), instructional activities, professional development events, and resources for educators and mentors. Vista Innovation & Design Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

In South Burlington, Vermont, Christie Nold, a sixth grade social studies teacher at Tuttle Middle School, said her district’s information technology expert was available for small group and individual help two weeks before her school’s closure. They created a shared document so others could see the solutions.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

Documents, photos, and videos from their great-grandparents, their parents, and even themselves are all primary sources that can help them understand the past. Engage your students in studying the past with Studies Weekly’s pre-K–6 Social Studies curriculum. Their family stories are history!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Schools used their professional development budgets, and were able to use federal money, for teacher training to support work toward the switch. Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. It’s a new innovation lab that combines two different disciplines — social studies and math.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Have a class discussion. What could be done to get more people to register to vote? Learn more about history.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The National Women’s History Museum documents how Truth advocated for voting rights for all and argued that gender or race should not restrict any human rights. Learn how Studies Weekly Social Studies can help teach students about history’s humanitarians.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Vocabulary and Definitions: constitution: the document that sets up a system of fundamental principles according to which a nation, state, corporation, etc., first appeared on Studies Weekly. Students will identify the officials who lead the three branches. Students will describe how the Constitution was written. is governed.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers. For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our social studies program. We got some useful feedback, which will help us to set our agenda for professional development and materials acquisition. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This can also be accomplished through a collaborative document or presentation like Google Docs or Slides. January 17, 2024 Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students January 10, 2024 How to Teach Children Goal Setting January 8, 2024 The post Vocabulary Lesson Plan first appeared on Studies Weekly.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 11, 2024

Researching and Creating the Curriculum Studies Weekly’s curricula undergo an intensive blueprinting and specification process. Before any content is developed, specialists collaborate to analyze standards and unpack documents and frameworks, ensuring that research, legislation, and standards inform the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

New EL schools must first go through several months of professional development, classroom observation and co-teaching — both at the schools and at three-day intensive “institutes” off-site. The network was purposefully capped at about 150 schools, because the partnerships rely on intensive, in-person training and coaching.

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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. In this setting, providing the students with a teacher-created digital template or collaboration page would be ideal.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Your Studies Weekly Online classroom contains digital versions of your publications and more online resources like digital lesson plans, videos, and presentations you can project to the whole class.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is indeed a worthy goal: we want history and social studies classrooms to be active places where students are doing the intellectual work of our discipline, and often that work is best done in conversation with peers or with a teacher or both. We want them to be moving forward in their thinking. constitution. Why then and there?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Lee-Winship, who has taught social studies at Portland High School for 21 years, thinks the Great Schools Partnership coaches her school has hired are smart and mean well, but are out of touch with the realities of the profession.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. “I honestly cannot imagine teaching social studies without providing each student with a copy of their student publication.” Literacy statistics. Salmerón, L., Sampietro, A., & Delgado, P.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. It’s difficult to find enough teachers with the subject-area knowledge to teach it, and over the years, many of the teachers who’d initially received professional development in the subject had left, Jimenez said. Credit: Christina A.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

With documentation and clear explanations, Muhammad challenged prevailing stereotypes about race and crime. We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. And of course, history and social studies teachers.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A social studies teacher uses conflicting narratives to engage students in studying the history of Palestine and Israel, focusing on the events of 1948. ” While this piece was written primarily for adult education, an adaptation for middle and high school teachers is included at the end of the document.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Chris Tims, a social studies teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, says he won’t stop teaching the 1619 Project, despite political pressure. Some call this teaching conflict — now more than a century old — the “ social studies wars.”. The substance of social studies. and African American history. Credit: Chris Tims.

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