ED Surge
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
I first realized I wanted to be a teacher around the same time I received my first mental health diagnosis. At the time, I was at an elite institution reckoning with class, imposter syndrome and chronic loneliness. I went through states of ruthless insomnia, dissociation and brain fog. I was tired and anxious all the time while feeling heartbroken over my condition.
World History Teachers Blog
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Show your students the extent to which World War 1 was global with this excellent Twitter thread from Eileen Cheng-yin Chow, Director of the Shewo Institute of Chinese Journalism. She notes that China contributed much to the war effort and outlines the untold story of over 140,000 Chinese laborers who fought on the European frontlines beside French, Russian, and British troops.
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ED Surge
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
The Creativity with AI in Education 2025 Report, based on insights from over 2,800 educators across the United States and UK, reveals how AI technology is transforming classrooms by enhancing creative thinking, supporting multimedia content creation and developing essential communication skills. The findings demonstrate AIs potential to foster academic success, career readiness and personal growth while nurturing students well-being and sense of purpose.
Social Studies Success
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Getting kids to read informational text is always a challenge. Why not turn the challenge back on them? I have recently started writing a series of lessons that includes reading challenges – basically puzzles embedded into the readings that can only be solved with the key content of the informational text. These reading challenges will keep students engaged as they solve a series of puzzles to complete a map with images and summaries.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Join the APSA Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession for a virtual workshop on best practices for funding your research with small gra nts. 3-4:30 PM Eastern | Monday, February 10, 2025 Register Here This webinar brings together faculty mentors and graduate scholars with experience winning research funding to share strategies for finding grant opportunities, crafting applications, managing funds, and more.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Nearly half of the world’s population speaks a language that traces back to a single ancestral tongue. From English to Hindi, Russian to Farsi, hundreds of languages—known collectively as Indo-European—share deep linguistic roots. For more than two centuries, scholars have debated who first spoke this ancient language and where it originated.
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
This is a new find for me when I was looking for a site to show data on energy production and mix within different countries. Electricity Maps is a web tool with mapping API developed by a Swedish organisation. At first glance it shows the percentages of energy sources in countries. Down the right hand side of the map are various settings which can be tweaked to add extra functionality to the map.
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Living Geography
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
A very special new job has now been advertised which I've been aware of for a while in my position as a member of the RGS Council. It is a new role as Deputy CEO of the RGS-IBG. This will be to support the work of current Director (also CEO): Professor Joe Smith. As the job description and advertisement says: "As the Society approaches its 200th anniversary in 2030, with ambitious associated goals, we are looking to strengthen our executive team with an exceptional, entrepreneurial leader with p
APSA Educate
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
The Political Science Education Section seeks applications for an APSA-PSE Generalist Pedagogy Fellow. As a member of our first cohort of Pedagogy Fellows, the Generalist PSE Pedagogy Fellow will help the Political Science Education Section, working in collaboration with APSA, … The post Call for Applications: APSA Political Science Pedagogy Fellow – Generalist appeared first on APSA.
Women's History Network
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
CALL FOR PAPERS Voluntary Action History Societys 8THInternational Conference:New Ways of Doing Voluntary Action History?University of Liverpool, UK, 2-4 July 2025 The Voluntary Action History Societys 8thInternational Conference will take place at the University of Liverpool between 2 and 4 July 2025.
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
This project was shared on the final day of the GTE Conference. I'd gone home by then, but looking at the presentation slides and the project website it's easy to work out what the project is about. It was presented by Petr Knecht and Michaela Spurn. Answer the questions to find out what sort of a geography teacher you are. Here are the types of teacher they have identified.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
State Municipal Associations as Intermediaries in Service Learning By Eric S. Zeemering , University of Georgia Service-learning courses help students to identify career opportunities and foster civic engagement, but links to projects with local governments may be difficult to forge. State municipal associations are well positioned as intermediaries to link local governments and higher-education institutions, and their historic roots affirm their capacity to invest in the professionalization of
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Details of a very interesting sounding lecture tomorrow evening.
Political Science Now
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Project Title:A Culture of Consensus: Congruence and collective choice among the Tswana Julio S. Sols Arce, Harvard University Julio S. Sols Arce is a PhD candidate at Harvard University in the department of government. His research focuses on the cultural foundations of political and economic development across human societies. Specifically, he studies historical decision-making processes in non-state societies and how they shape preferences and expectations regarding the functioning of formal
Living Geography
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Another term-time Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday. One of the first tasks on my list was to publish the latest LivingGeography newsletter on Substack. This didn't happen as early as usual as I had a deadline to finish some writing for a Teacher Guide to accompany a forthcoming Student Book. This took me a little longer than planned, but I got there in the end. #5 can be read here.
Social Studies Success
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Are you serious about teaching Social Studies skills, but looking for new ways to incorporate them? One of the hardest set of skills to teach are inferencing and drawing conclusions – both require background knowledge, and with drawing conclusions, multiple examples to draw conclusions from. These skills can be successfully practiced with History Labs!
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
In the days following President Donald Trumps executive orders aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration, Christina Valdez, a child care provider in Minnesota, hung signs at the entrance to the building that houses her 36-child program, reminding visitors that it is private property. The signs are part of a new safety protocol Valdez has put in place to make sure her staff and the children they serve feel safe while theyre in the building: She will be the one talking to any officials who sho
Let's Cultivate Greatness
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Even though the USs largest political party by far is independents, Democrats and Republicans influence everything about how government in the US operates. Its just a fact. Thats why its essential to cover them in your high school Civics & Government class. Especially since students always have strong yet limited or incorrect beliefs about them.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Nine days after President Donald Trump signed executive orders intended to crack down on illegal immigration, Damaris Alvarado-Rodriguez closed a classroom at one of her child care centers in Philadelphia. Despite having green cards, the teachers in that classroom, which serves 1-year-olds, were too nervous to come to work. Since Trump took office, his officials have targeted Philadelphia and other so-called sanctuary cities that limit their cooperation on immigration enforcement.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 5, 2025
Jenni Hernandez asiste a la Universidad Estatal de Sacramento, ubicada en una ciudad santuario en un estado santuario , y en un campus que acoge a los inmigrantes. Pero debido a que vive en el pas sin autorizacin, el temor intenso que siente ahora la transporta a cuando tena 7 aos y se enter por primera vez de que sus padres podran ser deportados en cualquier momento.
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