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Moler's Musing

” Map & Tell: Geography & Political Shifts Next, we tied Jacksons election to geographic and political changes through a Map & Tell activity. Students analyzed maps of voter participation in 1824 vs. 1828 to answer: Where did voter turnout increase the most?

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. Despite hailing from vastly different geographies and circumstances, the dozens of educators we talked with shared that they often struggled in their own school communities with feeling both hyper-visible and invisible as Asian Americans.

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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

ED Surge

Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. Some of the students were quick to step into leadership roles and tell their classmates, “Okay, guys, this is how you join a group.”

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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

There is strong leadership from the superintendent and middle school principal, focused on using technology to power personalized learning. Including American History, World History, Civics, and Geography. Piedmont is a small district in rural Alabama, with about 1,200 students total and 300 students in the middle school.

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Open letter to teachers who feel trapped in racist schools

The Hechinger Report

Communities, ones organized by race, socioeconomic class and geography, use schools to cover blatant housing discrimination, school financing bias and white supremacy. Because local unions can reflect the racial attitudes of the confined geographic area, leadership and involvement from the national-level group is almost always necessary.

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Social Studies Strategies for Building Background Knowledge

Social Studies Success

History, Geography, and International Baccalaureate History of the Americas. Kydra has taught a variety of subjects, including U.S. Kydra has used her classroom experience to prepare for presentations at the Texas Council for Social Social and Fundamental 5 National Summit.

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Creative, sensitive and grounded in diverse perspectives: Why we need inclusive climate change education

Geogramblings

Among the initiatives in the strategy is a new GCSE qualification in Natural History to be introduced from 2025, which some teachers hope could be a focal point for teaching on climate change. Similar policy and curricula updates have been seen around the world. Up until 2022, when version 9.0