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Hero’s Journey Simplified

HistoryRewriter

Adam truly excels at simplifying pedagogy and combines it with an instinctive gift for self-reflection at a depth that I am incapable of. These frameworks help students classify and organize components of a historical event into mental models for higher levels of understanding.

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Four Theater Games that Make Learning a Blast

Cult of Pedagogy

Slideshow Landmarks Don’t Look Behind You Magic Elevator Game 1: Slideshow Slideshow is a great game for students to recall and re-interpret literature, social studies, and science content. While the events can start as frozen pictures, you can expand the possibility to include short “video” clips.

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The Intersection of Inquiry-Based Learning and High-Quality Instructional Materials in Social Studies

ED Surge

While the concept of HQIM has been established and embraced in other core academic disciplines, applying this concept to social studies has been more complex. Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

When people outside of school ask you what you do say, at a social event how do you describe your work? I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. I'm an educator. I also teach media literacy.

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Two Books to Help You Hold Healthy Classroom Conversations About Race

Cult of Pedagogy

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Apart from discussions that arise from current events, Kay says, “These aren’t conversations that pop out of nowhere. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

Pedagogy 130
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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Saykhamphone and other Black students at the school found this lesson offensive, but their teacher did not understand why until students talked to Fairfax County’s culturally responsive pedagogy specialists to intervene. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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CRT debate repeats past battles about state history textbooks

The Hechinger Report

There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No State officials have received complaints about Black History Month events and a teacher diversity training. Learn more here and contribute here.

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