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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

So when Piedmont is looking for great digital science and social studies programs for its middle school, it’s hard for them to know where to look and what’s out there. WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies.

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Social Studies Strategies for Building Background Knowledge

Social Studies Success

Secondary Social Studies Interventionist As any good teacher does, I often eavesdrop. During my fourteen years of eavesdropping, I’ve heard social studies teachers lament that they are “not reading teachers”. Why is background knowledge important in social studies? By Kydra Hubbard, Ed.

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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. The social studies activity Space Race in McGraw Hill AR How has incorporating AR in your classroom enhanced the learning experience for your students?

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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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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Why Maine’s new high school graduation rules could hurt more than help

The Hechinger Report

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Michelle Adler, social studies teacher and local union president, Gray-New Gloucester High School.

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A principal lost her job after she came out. Her conservative community rallied around her 

The Hechinger Report

She followed her parents into education (her father was a geography professor) and returned to teach social studies at the high school. And it was there in a geography class that she met Shane Dressback, when the two arrived early one day and “started chit-chatting.” You go to Samford to not be different.”