Cult of Pedagogy
FEBRUARY 16, 2025
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NCHE
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
Hello teachers. Im reaching out today as a fellow educator and historian, and as Executive Director of the National Council for History Education, to affirm your professionalism and the importance of your role as history educators. As you know, history is not the past its the study of the past. We, and our students, make sense of individuals, groups, and events by studying primary sources and the work of scholars.
World History Teachers Blog
FEBRUARY 22, 2025
The Guardian has a terrific interactive site about the global nature of World War I. It has interactive maps, original news reports, and videos exploring the war and its effects from many perspectives. Ten historians give a brief history of the war through global lenses in a video that takes the viewer through the war. My colleague and I put together a hyperdoc that takes students through the site and helps them understand the global nature of the war.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
Reading fluency the ability to read accurately, automatically and with appropriate expression remains a critical yet often overlooked component of literacy development. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), 68 percent of U.S. students are not reading at proficient levels. By fourth grade, students transition from learning to read to reading to learn.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
Theres a half-billion-dollar federal program that is supposed to help students with disabilities get into the workforce when they leave high school, but most parents and even some school officials dont know it exists. As a result, hundreds of thousands of students who could be getting help go without it. New Jersey had the nations lowest proportion roughly 2 percent of eligible students receiving these services in 2023.
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
In November 2024, Digital Promise and Verizon Innovative Learning hosted the third annual Elevating Innovation Virtual Conference. The event attracted educators from across the country and around the world. Attendees had the opportunity to learn about the latest educational trends, emerging technologies, and innovative strategies shaping education directly from education and edtech experts like 2022 Hawaii State Teacher of the Year Whitney Aragaki; Hey, Mrs.
Cult of Pedagogy
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
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World History Teachers Blog
FEBRUARY 12, 2025
Atlantic Magazine published 45 black and white stunning black-and-white photographs of the interwar period around the world. Among the 45 images are Hitler and Mussolini shaking hands in Germany, Japanese aircraft carrying out air raids over China, Chinese General Chiang Kai-shek sitting with the chairman of the Yunan provincial government, and four Italian soldiers taking aim in Ethiopia in 1935.
Teaching Anthropology
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Chloe Beckett, M.A., Nightingale College, South Dakota, US As I grade my Cultural Anthropoloy classs Emic and Etic Perspectives of Halloween essay, two things strike me: 1. How often I write the comment Capitalize proper nouns, and 2. How the Turnitin AI scores keep creeping higher and higher. For anyone who has been teaching anthropology over the last two years, the latter will be of no surprise to you.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Over the past decade, a majority of states have passed new science of reading laws or implemented policies that emphasize phonics in classrooms. Yet the 2024 results of an important national test, released last month, showed that the reading scores of elementary and middle schoolers continued their long downward slide, hitting new lows. The emphasis on phonics in many schools is still relatively new and may need more time to yield results.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
The recent unveiling of national reading and math scores revealed some disheartening trends about learning recovery with the collective main headline: Students Are Doing Worse Than Before the Pandemic Started. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The factors behind the continued dip in scores are multilayered, but teachers might tell you that the key reason why some students arent making progress is that parents arent making schoolwork a priority at home.
Moler's Musing
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
When I think of teaching the Early Republic, I think about political parties, presidential decisions, and how those decisions shaped the federal government. I think about how the first five presidents kept us out of wars, expanded federal power, and navigated political tensions. I think about how political parties influenced those choices and how the nation evolved under their leadership.
Sapiens
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
New analyses from Iron Age burials reveal that women remained in their natal communities and provided the key to kinship. The findings offer essential clues about gender roles and social structures in ancient Europe. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. A scientific study with important implications for archaeology in Britain and France was published in January.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
For decades, the story of how human pigmentation changed as Homo sapiens spread across Europe has been told in broad strokes. Early humans arrived from Africa with dark skin, and as they adapted to lower UV radiation in northern latitudes, their skin lightened—a simple narrative of evolutionary selection. But a new study, conducted by researchers at the University of Ferrara and published as a preprint on bioRxiv 1 , challenges this oversimplified account.
The Effortful Educator
FEBRUARY 10, 2025
Heres hoping as many as possible read the book and action the ideas getting these learning ideas on the front foot is a tough ask (weirdly) and moving teachers from their obsession about teaching to add an obsession about learning is the aim of the game. This line was written in an email to me from Dr. John Hattie recently where we were talking about my book on memory processing, attention, and learning.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
ATLANTA Students gathered around a bright blue number board in Melissa Williams kindergarten class at the Westminster School, gazing at the bank of 100 blank squares, organized in rows and columns of 10. Their assignment was to pick a numbered tile and figure out where it should go on the board. The task seems simple, but Williams goal was to bolster students number sense a difficult-to-define skill, but one that is nevertheless essential for more advanced mathematics.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
When he teaches a math class, Tom Fisher wants students to feel confused. At least, he wants them to feel that way occasionally and temporarily. Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. For Fisher, its important to mingle math and play. Its not the conventional way to teach the subject, Fisher says.
Anthropology News
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
When Shanthy left her coastal home in Jaffna, Sri Lanka, in 1970 for Chicago, she carried ways of caring that would reshape her familys bonds through war and displacement. Over the next fifteen years, as violence against Tamils escalated, her eight siblingsShakuntala, Chandran, Babu, Nala, Saddan, Kala, Amutha, and Thushyand their parents would scatter across temporary homes in Europe, Africa, and the United States, each finding their own way to maintain connection through food.
TeachThought
FEBRUARY 1, 2025
Gamers often throw around "escapism when talking about their hobby, but this is a hollow explanation for what motivates us to play games.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
A Pivotal Clue in the Inner Ear Neanderthals have long been a mystery. They were our closest relatives, yet they disappeared while we thrived. For decades, scientists have debated whether their extinction was the result of dwindling genetic diversity, climate pressures, or competition with early Homo sapiens. A new study published in Nature Communications 1 adds a surprising twist: the key to understanding Neanderthal population decline may lie in the shape of their inner ear.
TCI
FEBRUARY 13, 2025
Selecting high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) for social studies is one of the most impactful decisions a district can make. It influences not only student achievement but also teacher effectiveness and overall district success. With the right HQIM, students develop critical thinking skills, engage meaningfully with historical content, and become informed citizens ready to tackle complex societal issues.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Last weeks reaction to the dismal scores on the nations report card, also known as NAEP, was familiar: panic and calls for reform. Heres an alternative response: Just say nope to NAEP. For decades, education policy has lurched from one test score panic to the next, diverting resources from what we know matters building students socioemotional skills, fostering strong relationships with teachers and peers and supporting enriched home environments that drive long-term success.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 3, 2025
Its that time of year when seemingly everyone has the sniffles, and many people are laid up with a cold, the flu or some other unsavory affliction. While staff absences are rarely seamless in any setting, in K-12 schools, there is at least a system designed to support such occurrences. Public school districts have a reserve of substitute teachers they can tap into when sickness spreads and staff begin to call out.
Teaching American History
FEBRUARY 4, 2025
One of the many letters Abraham Lincoln received after being elected president in November 1860 was from Alexander Stephens, a former congressional colleague of Lincoln and the future Vice-President of the Confederacy. He urged Lincoln to make a public statement regarding his intentions as president. It would be, Stephens wrote, “the word fitly spoken” that might “save our common country.” Lincoln deliberated on the phrase and jotted down some thoughts on the essential pu
Passion for Social Studies
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
When was the last time you solved a Rubix Cube? How about listened to a cassette on your boom box? Honestly, I miss everything about the 80s! This transformative decade left a lasting impact on the entire world. There were technological innovations, political changes, and tons of new obsessions. Luckily, we get to bring some of this excitement back with the 1980’s Game Show.
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 19, 2025
The Mystery of the Transitional Industries For decades, archaeologists have puzzled over a key moment in prehistory: the transition from the Middle to the Upper Paleolithic, a period marked by the gradual disappearance of Neanderthals and the spread of Homo sapiens across Europe. Central to this debate are two enigmatic stone tool industries, the Châtelperronian and the Uluzzian, both dating to roughly the same period—between 44,000 and 40,000 years ago.
APSA Educate
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 2 The Teacher-Scholar By Elizabeth A. Bennion ( ebennion@iusb.edu ) According to a recent survey of more than 100,000 students at nearly 200 U.S. colleges, the prevalence of depression, anxiety, and has decreased in … The post Preventing a Crisis in the Political Science Classroom: De-escalation Tips for College Instructors appeared first on APSA.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
When I was 12, my family lived adjacent to a small farm. Though I was not old enough to work, the farms owner, Mr. Hall, hired me to man his roadside stand on weekends. Mr. Hall had one rule: no calculators. Technology wasnt his vibe. Math was my strong suit in school, but I struggled to tally the sums in my head. I weighed odd amounts of tomatoes, zucchini and peppers on a scale and frantically scribbled calculations on a notepad.
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.
TeachThought
FEBRUARY 25, 2025
it's important to realize that a "culture" is comprised of tangible factors (students) and intangible factors (curiosity), and ever-present.
Teaching American History
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Why is Lincolns Fragment on the Constitution and Union one of our favorite documents? This document is short enough to be used in younger classrooms, but its profound enough to be worth discussing with older students as well. Near the start of his presidency, Lincoln was thinking about the relationship between the Constitution and the Declaration. Reflecting on a passage from Proverbs that says a word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver, he found an analogy for how to under
Anthropology.net
FEBRUARY 14, 2025
An Arctic Genetic Mystery, Unraveled When you look at Greenland on a map, it appears as a vast, icy landmass, remote and untouched. But beneath its frozen surface lies a complex history of human migration, isolation, and adaptation. Now, an ambitious new genetic study has decoded the hidden story within Greenlanders' DNA, shedding light on how their ancestors braved one of the harshest climates on Earth—and how their unique genetic makeup could shape their health today.
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.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
In an era when artificial intelligence increasingly shapes decisions in education, its critical to examine how these technologies impact historically marginalized communities. AI offers both promise and peril, and parents have the power to drive this change. By engaging with schools, collaborating with their communities and advocating for transparency and inclusivity, they can ensure that AI serves as a tool for empowerment rather than exclusion.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 24, 2025
Debi Ryan insists that bad days are few and far between in her line of work as a school-based speech language pathologist. The good days, she says, are abundant thanks in great part to her ongoing enthusiasm for and belief in the power of communication in the lives of children and adults. She calls her job soul-filling, and she has anecdotes to back it up.
TeachThought
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
By challenging applicants to think critically about real-world money issues, it helps them develop better financial habits and professional skills.
APSA Educate
FEBRUARY 20, 2025
Political Science Educator: volume 28, issue 2 Reflections By Debra Leiter ( leiterd@umkc.edu ) and Danielle Joesten Martin ( danielle.martin@csus.edu ) Everyone loves a nail-biter, a close competition where the winner is left in doubt until the very last minute. … The post Super Bowl Forecasting: Turning the Big Game into a Big Lesson appeared first on APSA.
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