Passion for Social Studies
JANUARY 18, 2024
It is crucial to have a positive parent-teacher relationship with our students and staff when becoming a teacher. They are not the only ones we have these relationships with. When I stepped foot into the classroom for the first time, I quickly realized how important it was to keep a positive teacher parent relationship with the parents and guardians of the students.
ED Surge
JANUARY 18, 2024
At the beginning of her now nearly 30-year career, Leslie M. Gauna was given a warning: Bilingual education wouldn’t be a viable career option in the long term. Yet nowadays the need for Spanish-speaking teachers in the United States is as strong as ever, with districts around the country struggling to hire them fast enough. The dearth of bilingual teachers is especially counterintuitive in Texas, where Gauna is a professor and where she conducted a qualitative research study on what she calls t
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Education Week - Social Studies
JANUARY 18, 2024
In Connecticut, students and teachers worked together to develop model lesson plans for K-8 Asian American and Pacific Islander curriculum.
ED Surge
JANUARY 18, 2024
NEW YORK — Loyal Harmoni Harris travels every day to Bronx Regional High School, where she learns emotional, motor and language skills. Loyal is a bit younger than the other students at the high school — in fact, she’s only 2 years old. That’s because Loyal is part of a unique New York City program called LYFE — Living for the Young Family Through Education.
Sapiens
JANUARY 18, 2024
An archaeologist traces how rubble from World War II bombings helped turn London marshlands into a footballing utopia. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ DURING WORLD WAR II, German forces dropped 28,000 bombs and almost 3,000 V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets on London. Nearly 30,000 people were killed.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 18, 2024
The post Nurturing Teacher Well-Being: Advocating for Time and Energy appeared first on Digital Promise.
Strange Maps
JANUARY 18, 2024
Squint at this map and you’ll see the Blue Banana : the European megalopolis that stretches from Manchester to Milan. It’s home to 100 million people and represents the developed world’s largest concentration of wealth, population, and international airports. Six of Europe’s 10 busiest international airports are in or near the Blue Banana, including two of London’s six: Heathrow (LHR) and Gatwick (LGW).
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ShortCutsTV
JANUARY 18, 2024
A short set of Notes looking at crime trends and patterns in England and Wales over the past 50-odd years. While students don’t require a detailed factual knowledge of trends and patterns they do provide a useful introduction to the next set of Notes covering theoretical explanations for crime and deviance.
Heinemann Blog
JANUARY 18, 2024
The writing workshop is an opportunity to ensure every student feels safe and welcomed into your classroom community and empowers students by inviting them to be all-in on learning. And when students know that they are seen and heard—that they have a voice in your classroom—then everything in a school year can change for the better.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 18, 2024
(1928–2023) Oswald Werner, who was with the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University for over 30 years, died at the age of 95 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on March 26, 2023. Known simply as “Ossy” to his family and friends, as well as to generations of colleagues and students, he was a linguistic anthropologist who specialized in Navajo semantics through an approach to the study of cultural knowledge that he called “ethnoscience.
Society for Classical Studies
JANUARY 18, 2024
The 2024 David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship kskordal Thu, 01/18/2024 - 13:06 Image In 2024 the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) will again award the David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship for study and travel in classical lands. The Fellowship was established in 2004 by the friends and students of David and Rosemary Coffin to honor the skill, devotion, learning, and kindness with which they educated students at Phillips Exeter Academy for more than thirty years.
Life and Landscapes
JANUARY 18, 2024
SURROUNDING THE GREAT SALTPETRE CAVE There is another way to penetrate the mountains of Kentucky and reach its river’s beginnings. A flank attack, rugged as all get-out, but a route that follows the path that the Long Hunters took to get in. The first was Skaggs Trace, and it was cut by the brothers who would explore the Upper Green River and the Barren Rivers below.
Political Science Now
JANUARY 18, 2024
Introducing the Minimum Standards Developed by APSA’s Committee on the Status of Contingent Faculty in the Profession By: Jonathan Ring , Deborah Toscano , Isaac Kamola , John Holder , and Eunsook Jung, 2022-2023 Committee on the Status of Contingent Faculty in the Profession) [Download] Guide to Professional Ethics in Political Science The past several years have witnessed a profound “adjuntification” of professoriate, within the discipline of Political Science and across the profession.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 18, 2024
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! In 2021, there was a sudden shift in how school board meetings around the country were conducted: Routine meetings turned heated, with angry community members often accusing educators of teaching their kids about critical race theory without their knowledge.
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