Zinn Education Project

MARCH 28, 2025

The Teach the Black Freedom Struggle online classes launched in March of 2020. Conceptualized by Dr. Jeanne Theoharis, these sessions bring together committed scholars with hundreds of educators to learn illuminating history and discuss its relevance for our time and for our classrooms. The sessions are a gift reciprocated. For K12 educators, the classes offer compelling alternatives to the standard narrative found in most textbooks.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 28, 2025

The human brain stands apart in the animal kingdom, not just in sheer size but in its remarkable cognitive abilities. For decades, researchers have sought to understand what genetic changes fueled the expansion of our neocortex, the region responsible for higher-order thinking, reasoning, and language. A recent study published in Science Advances 1 by Nesil Eşiyok and colleagues sheds light on this question, identifying a crucial genetic duo— NBPF14 and NOTCH2NLB —that orchestra

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try Mar 28, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER Teaching children to manage their emotions is essential in the 21st century. A unique and effective way teachers can do this is by giving opportunities for regulating emotions through proprioceptive input activities. Proprioceptive input, the body’s sense of position and movement, relies on sensory input from joints and muscles.

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Primary Sources American History World History Lesson Plan 89

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

MARCH 28, 2025

Few institutions have faced the complexity of their history as directly as UVA. From the shadow of the 2017 Unite the Right rally to the complex legacy of Thomas Jefferson, the university has become a place where meaningful conversations about tough topics arent just necessarytheyre expected. Louis Nelson, UVAs Vice Provost for Academic Outreach, explains how students are gaining the skills to bridge divides and foster real understanding through the Public Service Pathways program.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 28, 2025

Traditional ancestry reports often provide a static snapshot, indicating, for example, that an individual is "50% Irish." While informative, this perspective oversimplifies the intricate tapestry of human ancestry, which is more akin to a dynamic film than a still photograph. Recognizing this complexity, researchers from the University of Michigan have developed a statistical method 1 that offers a more comprehensive view of our ancestral origins and migrations over time.​ Credit: Science

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Living Geography

MARCH 28, 2025

A new set of videos from Time for Geography explores geographical careers. These were mentioned in my presentation at an RGS Teachmeet earlier in the week and will be added to my growing list of careers related resources. There are some interesting contexts here for teaching about the value of geography to future career prospects. Here's another video: this time from a set of Careers Videos from the Geography Teachers Assocation of Victoria called 'I am a Geographer'.

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O-Level Geography

MARCH 28, 2025

A 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck Myammar and affected Bangkok, Thailand, Hanoi, Vietnam and China on 28 Mar 2025. Where is the epicentre? How deep was the focus? What was the extent of damage? Why are preparedness measures important in disaster risk management? Report of the earthquake on facebook and instagram. Video sent by my former student who was in Bangkok.

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 28, 2025

This week was all about variety, structure, and student voiceanchored by a solid lineup of EduProtocols. I leaned on Fast & Curious for foundational vocab, layered in Annotate & Tell to break down complex readings, used Number Mania to push students toward using evidence, and wrapped lessons with Short Answer and Nacho Paragraphs to bring writing and thinking together.

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Living Geography

MARCH 28, 2025

Last Sunday I went over to Norwich for a nice Sunday roast, and then to Norwich Castle. The long awaited keep restoration project has been delayed again and so it is still not open after around three years so far. I came across a piece which I hadn't seen before as it has been installed since my last visit, called 'An A-Z of Empire' by the Singh Twins that caught my eye.

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Museum History Humanities Geography 52

Anthropology News

MARCH 28, 2025

Migration is not just about getting there but also making it. What does it feel like when you cant fit in your host society as the right kind of migrant? For countless Muslim migrants, Japan represents opportunity and a chance for upward mobility. Yet in a country often imagined as homogeneous and secular, what do opportunity and mobility look like?

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Anthropology Ancestry Government Humanities 89

Moler's Musing

MARCH 28, 2025

This week was all about variety, structure, and student voiceanchored by a solid lineup of EduProtocols. I leaned on Fast & Curious for foundational vocab, layered in Annotate & Tell to break down complex readings, used Number Mania to push students toward using evidence, and wrapped lessons with Short Answer and Nacho Paragraphs to bring writing and thinking together.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2025

The Trump administration says one of its primary goals in education is to expand school choice and put power back in the hands of parents. Yet it has killed the main way to track one of the most rapidly growing options learning at home. The Education Department began counting the number of homeschooled children in 1999, when fewer than 2 percent of students were educated this way.

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ASHP CML

MARCH 28, 2025

Its a season of change: a new year and a new presidential administration; changes in political power throughout the world; climate change; technological changes, and more. The ASHP staff knows that such changes dont emerge overnight; as we look backward and ahead, we remain committed to making our work as history educators help generate greater understanding of the current historical moment.

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