Remove Educational Technology Remove History Remove Sociology
article thumbnail

Autonomy Breeds Change

A Principal's Reflections

History teacher Joe Manzo learned how to use iMovie and created a project on the Vietnam War to engage his students in some of the essential concepts. History teacher Rebecca Millan started her own blog and is now having her students blog as well in Sociology. She also re-wrote the entire Honors English 11 curriculum.

Sociology 407
article thumbnail

Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

History 104
educators

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

The Power of Microcredentials and America’s Higher Education Dilemma

ED Surge

This semester, the Community College of Aurora rolled out the first microcredentials in its history. These short courses offer students the opportunity to study behavioral health, which aligns with jobs in our region related to human services, sociology, counseling, psychology and social work.

Education 143
article thumbnail

What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

Even more astonishing, five of my former students decided to become high school history teachers, just like me: Paula Katrina Camaya : a former Chicago Public Schools educator currently teaching civics and humanities at Evanston Township High School (ETHS) in Evanston, Illinois. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year.

article thumbnail

A Fifth of Students at Community College Are Still in High School

ED Surge

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school.

article thumbnail

Why Class Diversity Can Be ‘Invisible’ at Colleges

ED Surge

“Carl” grew up in an affluent and well-educated family, with a father who rose through the ranks to become a colonel in the U.S. And their divergent histories reveal the socioeconomic diversity of Black students who study at the nation’s most selective colleges. Both of these students are Black. colleges since 1999.

article thumbnail

Educators Are Tired. It’s Time to Dream New Possibilities Into Our Schools.

ED Surge

I teach US History and Sociology at a large, well-resourced comprehensive public high school that mirrors the racial and socioeconomic demographics of the United States. If you were to ask me where I’d be at this point in my life as an educator, I would not have imagined it to be this way.

Education 127