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For My Daughters, For My Students: Valencia Abbott’s All-In

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“It came about because I wanted the best for my daughters, and especially being Black, being in the area that we are in, me being a Baby Boomer, it was drilled into me that education was the thing that was going to make your life better.” Valencia passed that drive for education on to her daughters. “It

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When Wartime Plunder Comes to Campus

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IN 2022, the Art Crimes Division of the FBI became interested in a palm-size piece of carved ivory held by Emory Universitys art museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Carlos Museum in 2006 through what curators believed were legitimate channels. The Met Museum in New York, the Louvre in Paris, the Pergamon in Berlinmuseums across the U.S.

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As science denial grows, science museums fight back by teaching scientific literacy

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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. She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so.

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NCHE Partners with the Library of Congress

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The National Council for History Education (NCHE) is excited to announce a new partnership with the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources program (TPS). The Great Plains region is one of six across the country whose role is to provide subgrants to organizations seeking to include Library resources in their educational programming.

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Bantu Migrations: Resources

World History Teachers Blog

One video clip comes from Masaman, who produces educational videos on his YouTube channel. Items in museums are often not dated either or from more recent times. Bantu Migrations: Resources Here are three good clips about the early Bantu migrations, and a terrific site about iron in Africa.

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Critical Literacy Across the Curriculum

A Principal's Reflections

Holocaust Memorial Museum to research their assigned cluster of non-Jewish victims of Nazi oppression. (i.e. Holocaust Memorial Museum through online access of the collections, students will cite in MLA format their sources. To begin, I asked students to utilize a specific chapter in Nazi Ideology and the Holocaust by The U.S.

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Leading the Maker Movement

A Principal's Reflections

To begin to understand the educational value of making we must look at the roots of this movement. Image credit: [link] As the Maker Movement has gained steams schools and educators alike have begun to incorporate makerspaces as exploratory centers for students to invent, tinker, create, and make to learn.

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