ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. It recognizes the individual journey of every student.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

My middle school choir teacher recorded and released an acclaimed gospel album. My high school English teacher starred in commercials and made a name for herself as a voice actor. In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me.

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 106

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

“I myself have kind of been more fortunate in a lot of standpoints, because I feel like the public education system itself really does do the minimum,” Ta says. Still, the path was winding and not limited to school. School also taught Ta to conduct research, which was helpful. That’s how he got involved.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. Credit: NEA Foundation.

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Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

For the educators working with elementary- and middle school-aged students, many described turning microaggressions into opportunities for learning by using pointed but neutral follow-up questions to prompt student self-reflection, like “Why do you want to know?” There is a way we can connect."

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Education K-12 Psychology Cultures 111

ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Being in a small school, they needed help taking on extra elective sections, so I also started teaching eighth grade art in my fourth year. Finally, this year, I’ve added sixth grade math, so now I have a hand in all three grade levels at our middle school. At Bush, I teach technology applications, computer science and robotics.

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Teaching Middle School K-12 Social Studies 126

ED Surge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. As Bronx middle school teacher Roxanne Leak put it during an interview, “It’s unfortunate. Because as an educator, they just say, "Oh, you're just tired.

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Middle School Psychology Teaching High School 117

ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

But, yes, at the end of the day, if more people, more Americans understood what teachers are teaching in history classrooms, theyd have a very different attitude about how to fix some of the problems of public education. Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. We feel so polarized right now.

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History Civics Museum American History 103

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

In Philadelphia, seventh grade in particular is, for many, an important time for another reason: the grades students earn that year largely determine whether they will be chosen for one of the city’s admissions-only high schools. Deadlines for assignments in social studies in particular were tight, and he stopped handing them in.

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