The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Picture of library shelves with “caution do not enter” tape. Elsewhere, a school used caution tape to prevent students from roaming through bookshelves in the library. This event allowed students to safely see some of their teachers in person before the start of the school year online,” she said in an email.

Library 143

Library Charter School K-12 Private School 143

Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2025

If students leaving to go to the library or logging into computers drives you nuts, just have books or printouts already available for them. Activity #2 – Allow Students to Read Lesser-Known History Stories The personal stories behind famous leaders and events make history come to life. This was such a treat for him!

Social Studies 130

Social Studies Classroom Management Museum History 130

Women's History Network

JANUARY 23, 2025

First Call for Papers Womens History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections.

Archiving 140

Archiving Museum Library History 140

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Many young children have been away from peers, caregivers, extended family members and other adults, as well as all manner of stimulating activities outside the home, from playgrounds to grocery stores to story time at the library, for nearly half a year now. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

Library 125

Library Psychology Education 125

Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2021

The focus of Klein Independent School District’s Edcamp Library Promise is to invite educators interested in building strong school library programs to share ideas, lessons, tech tools, and best practices that promote vibrant school libraries for every learner. This makes for a highly personalized day of learning!

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Library Professional Development Education 87

NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Dalton’s students in Oklahoma were equally stunned when they learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre, an event that occurred just an hour and a half from their homes. This quote, etched in stone outside the library at his alma mater, the University of Oklahoma, perfectly embodies Dalton’s philosophy and is evident in his approach to education.

Geography 279

Geography History Library Humanities 279

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

School libraries should be places where students can learn independently and think creatively outside the traditional classroom. This summer, the Houston Independent School District decided to close school libraries and replace them with discipline centers. A library and supportive librarian would benefit them more. Stephanie F.

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Library Tradition Education High School 97

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Nsai Temko pictured in the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in Squirrel Hill. He told me about an awesome teen space at the Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh’s Oakland section. Using the transportation funds from my sister, I convinced my mother to allow me to go to the library. “If In the library, I met a librarian named Ms.

Library 87

Library High School Humanities K-12 87

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Here’s the basic idea: Students recap three prior events or concepts relevant to todays topic. They briefly explain why each event matters and how it connects to the current lesson. This event demonstrated the Churchs vulnerability to internal power struggles, setting a precedent for division. A seismic identity crisis.”

Library 59

Library Critical Thinking History 59

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

The premise is simple: One person narrates a series of events that are acted out by a small group of students as if they are the slides or photos. While the events can start as frozen pictures, you can expand the possibility to include short “video” clips. It builds their persuasive and personal writing skills as well.

Geography 290

Geography Social Studies Pedagogy Library 290

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

There is also a web-based component available to the teachers that contains resource libraries and discussion forums that I plan to use not only with the classroom walkthrough data, but also our PLC''s. Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC) : I have previously blogged about this event, but am compelled to mention it again.

Educational Technology 210

Educational Technology Pedagogy Library Professional Development 210

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In September, Digital Promise launched a series of events to support educators with continuing and growing maker learning opportunities that meet the needs of learners through distance learning and beyond. Identifying the considerations for creating these experiences for learners at home.

Museum 165

Museum Library Education 165

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Middlesex College in Edison, New Jersey, hosts evening events, called Rock n ReEnroll, where prospective students can bring their kids or family members and meet with all the different college employees they need to meet to get enrolled in classes. Despite such challenges, Mims kept pushing herself back toward education.

Advocacy 113

Advocacy Library High School Education 113

Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Traditional communication has typically referred to those we reach out to as parents , as in parent-teacher conferences , or in more specific roles, as in Mother’s Day events. Helping families understand your school’s approach takes more than top-down communication or one-off events. “It breaks down this Us vs. .”

Pedagogy 287

Pedagogy Tradition Library Cultures 287

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. But elementary students sitting in school desks today were not even born when this historically significant event occurred. The primary source.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Social Studies Teaching Oral History 52

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

This strategy seems like a no-brainer when schools are looking to refurbish libraries and comfortable furniture for common areas. These rooms had numerous outlets throughout to power devices so a little innovative design can transform these spaces into power hubs. Purchase furniture and accessories that have built-in electrical outlets.

EdTech 228

EdTech Pedagogy Library Middle School 228

Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Invited to attend a TAH multiday seminar on the Cold War at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, social studies teacher Cade Lohrding was thrilled. Then we went to the Reagan Library and learned more about the era. Participants in the TAH seminar on the Cold War standing in front of the Reagan Presidential Library.

Junior High 52

Junior High Library K-12 Social Studies 52

Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

But after seeing a flyer for Remake Learning Days, she and her daughter attended the event and began to discover a region’s worth of creative learning opportunities like it. The festival will look a bit different this year due to the pandemic—many of the events are virtual or will happen outdoors in a COVID-safe way. Attend an event.

Museum 146

Museum Library Professional Development Learning Science 146

Digital Promise

APRIL 13, 2020

Next, we began building and curating an Online Learning Resources Library , a place where educators can find materials based on type, grade level, and subject. We’re deeply fortunate to be able to continue our work remotely, which makes our mission and responsibility to serve as a source of guidance that much more important.

EdTech 171

EdTech Library Professional Development Education 171

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

CommonLit has made their library easier to search and added text-dependent questions. Teachers can search the library by Lexile level, theme, genre, devices or standards. Now, Remind has made it possible to organize field trips, fundraisers, and special events! Vocabulary.com .

Library 131

Library Research 131

Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

Where to find Remake Learning Days Across America events in your region. Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is a festival of experiential learning events for youth and their families in regions across the country. Events are hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, community centers, and more.

Museum 134

Museum Advocacy Library Research 134

Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. At the end of each course, teacher participants receive a letter of participation for 15 contact hours and a $600 stipend to help defray travel costs or other expenses. Have more questions? Click here.

Historic Sites 128

Historic Sites Museum American History Heritage 128

Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

Hed just returned from a multi-day Teaching American History seminar at the Reagan Library, led by Professor John Moser. Without the pressure to cover everything that might appear on the AP exam, she can choose events and topics centered on her theme. ” New York Public Library Digital Collections.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources American History Library Government 52

Digital Promise

MARCH 11, 2020

School districts and policymakers need to plan now for how to respond not only to this public health event, but future ones as well. Additionally, some schools provide devices and access points for students to check out of the school library to enable home access. Experts believe COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic we face.

Library 157

Library Research Education 157

Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Freedom, Virtue, & Resistance in African American Political Thought at African American Museum and Library at Oakland in Oakland, CA. For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. The Underground Railroad at National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, OH.

Museum 59

Museum Historic Sites Heritage American History 59

Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

For questions or for more information, call the Library at 207-244-7065, visit www.swhplibrary.org , or email programs@swhplibrary.org. Register for the event at: [link] Image Credits Southwest Harbor Public Library logo He summers in a cottage in Deer Isle, Maine.

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Library History Cultures Research 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. Ellison and her dad picked green; Ellison’s mom took yellow, signaling to her daughter it was okay to be a little nervous at the big event.

Research 145

Research Library Community Engagement Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

Civics 145

Civics K-12 Museum History 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Most students in the California State University, Chico library were silently poring over books or computers on a recent afternoon, but one group was tucked into a corner peppering university president Stephen Perez with questions. As the Chico event with the president wrapped up, students mingled and discussed weekend plans.

Library 139

Library Civic Engagement Civics High School 139

Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

First, their memes must be respectful, both to the person or event being portrayed and to the people who will later view the meme. My favorite place to send students to look for history-based images is the Library of Congress. With that being said, I do have a couple of rules.

History 130

History Primary Sources Social Studies Library 130

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. As fun as it is to explore the maps collection of the British Library , it’s even better when we roll up our sleeves and get to work. Let’s take maps, for example.

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2019

We have weekly events like intergenerational library times, which allow Grands and kids to bond over their shared love of reading books and storytelling. Students in the library with a Grand. His grandmother was saved on one of the rescue boats, but his grandfather, a famous author, was last seen on the deck lighting up a cigar.

Library 133

Library K-12 Project-Based Learning Teaching 133

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. Does it offer opportunities to discuss related historical events? When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.”

Teaching 144

Teaching Geography History Library 144

Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is an upcoming festival of experiential learning events designed for learners and their families and hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, after school groups, and more. The events will be held in regions across the country this spring. (If

Museum 126

Museum Advocacy Library Tradition 126

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Type A teachers who may see social events as wasted time may need to be reminded that the bonding and community-building that comes from this time is important and will lead to a more cohesive, productive staff. That sense of belonging has to come from more intentional action, like social time set aside by school leaders. Come back for more.

Humanities 243

Humanities Pedagogy Professional Development Classroom Management 243

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

As the frequency of severe weather events increases and the Earth’s temperature inches upward, emotions have intensified for a lot of students in the United States and it turns out that many keep their concerns about living on a warming planet to themselves.

Civic Engagement 134

Civic Engagement Civics Library Social Science 134

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

The college has set aside “family-friendly” spaces in libraries and lounges and holds events for parents with kids, including movie nights and barbecues. The only time she could study was late at night [in the library], but the library said no.” More than half have children under age 6 , according to the IWPR.

Library 129

Library Advocacy Tutoring Research 129