Wed.Jul 10, 2024

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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

ED Surge

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school.

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Digital Promise Reflections: 5 EdTech Insights from ISTELive 24

Digital Promise

Digital Promise leaders reflect on top insights and learnings around education technology from the ISTELive 2024 conference.

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Can Texas Secede?

History Havoc

Having lived in Texas for a long time, this is my home and I absolutely love it here. However, there is one thing that sticks in my crawl so to speak. Can we stop with the Texas secession talk? First of all, legally and constitutionally the state cannot secede. Plus it would be ludicrous. Texas v. White (1869) This is the Supreme Court case that set the legal president that does not allow a state to secede.

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Aligning Literacy Instruction to Standards: The Key to Success

Heinemann Blog

Understanding how children learn to read is pivotal in designing effective literacy instruction. Dr. Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope metaphorically illustrates this intricate process, depicting reading proficiency as a result of intertwining strands rather than a single leap.

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Get a Free Book for Your Teaching Story on Native Resistance

Zinn Education Project

Thanks to a generous donation of books by Haymarket Books , we can offer you a copy of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance for your story on teaching about a related lesson. It could be a story about using one of these three lessons: Standing with Standing Rock: A Role Play on the Dakota Access Pipeline , ‘Don’t Take Our Voices Away’: A Role Play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change , or

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July 10 Update: Updated Assessment Sharing

TCI

Feature Spotlight: Updated Assessment Sharing Manage your assessments with ease. Our latest update lets you control who can access your shared tests. Easily unshare tests with district colleagues to maintain flexibility and control over your resources. You can unshare an assessment in two ways. First, you can find your shared assessment in the Assessment Library.

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Summer 2024 Teacher Workshops at Heinemann

Heinemann Blog

Amplify your professional development this summer with events at Heinemann. Join some of our authors for half-day, full-day, and multiday virtual workshops. Use Code PROFBKS30E on the Heinemann site for 30% off the event-related texts! *Additional dates to be added if the event is filled.

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Billionaire Politicians: A Global Perspective

Political Science Now

Billionaire Politicians: A Global Perspective By Daniel Krcmaric , Stephen C. Nelson and Andrew Roberts , Northwestern University We introduce an original dataset of formal political participation for over 2,000 individuals included in the Forbes Billionaires List. We find that billionaire politicians are a surprisingly common phenomenon: Over 11% of the world’s billionaires have held or sought political office.

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Activism in/as Scholarship

All Things Pedagogical

Remarks as part of Event2024 NAVSA/BAVS/AVSA Conference “Doing diversity work can mean passing “diversity” around, both as a word and in documents” (Ahmed, 2012, 29) Praxis: “reflection and action upon the world in order to transform it’ (Freire, 1970, 51) I acknowledge that 10 minutes will probably not be enough to say all the things and feelings that I have felt over the last few weeks about my participation in this panel and the important things I feel we should be talking about here, but hop