Moler's Musing

JANUARY 24, 2025

This week in 8th-grade social studies, we brought history to life with engaging EduProtocols that helped students dive deep into the Early Republic and key moments like the Whiskey Rebellion. The establishment of key government structures. For example: A chain symbolizing the unification of state debts under the federal government.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Electoral College process respects the federal character of the United States, giving certain roles to the states and others to the federal government. Much of the discussion during the Constitutional Convention revolved around measures needed to balance the powers of the state and national governments. How does the process work?

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Roti Collective, a community-based research project, explores the layered histories that brought a flatbread from the Indian subcontinent around the world. In Calcutta on Your Plate , her book on Bengali cuisine and gastronomic history, she points out the absence of roti in Bengali meals until the mid-20th century. where I teach.

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

This week, we dug into the foundations of the United States government and explored how early laws shaped the country’s growth. EduProtocols were front and center as we kept students engaged and active in their learning: Monday: Introduced The Tier List to rank government systems and used Iron Chef with Padlet to analyze types of governments.

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Moler's Musing

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then Breaking Down the Crisis We kept coming back to our main unit question , using it to frame our discussion on how tariffs and nullification created tension between the federal government and the states. To break things down, we used a Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then chart to map out key players and their perspectives.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. But I did enjoy teaching. I was always interested in history.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

While she wasnt teaching during the pandemic, she saw friends and family struggle to replicate the way teachers motivate students to work. The federal government funneled millions of dollars into schools up until recently, in hopes of turning the tide of falling scores and keeping students on grade level.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 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. Connecting Kids to History Studies Weekly uses primary sources to share real accounts. The primary source.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Image credit: [link] A Biology Teacher’s Thoughts on Critical Literacy by Lynne Torpie Science teachers can tend to be myopic, focusing on acquiring content detail and teaching the steps of the scientific method instead of fostering the investigative, critical thinking and written communication skills that embody real-world scientific endeavors.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

With his monotone voice and lack of enthusiasm, he could convince anyone that history is incredibly boring. As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting."

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.”

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But We Can’t Teach? Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. At least 44 states have passed or proposed legislation to prohibit teaching about structural racism. But educators around the country continue to pledge to teach the truth about structural racism.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Without this, as well as with it, we could have declared our independence of Great Britain; but without it, we could not, I think, have secured our free government and consequent prosperity. The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Sea Islands experiment, as it was known, marked a positive moment in the fraught history of Black education, notes education law expert Derek W. Government doesnt rely upon the good intentions of individuals. Government creates a system and an infrastructure to extend education to all. Religion cant do that.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. government as well.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Instead of that essay, I reflect here on the problematic my response in this anecdote highlights: balancing the patterned resonance of history and the total singularity of each life, in attempts to name and redress harm done at Mother and Baby Institutions (M&BIs) and in ethnographic work. Good material for an essay like this one.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. I teach from a mindset and lens that I want to make sure my students are becoming activists, and it’s not enough just talking about it,” the science and math teacher said. “

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

This is a thought that recurs throughout history — this question of how do we tell what's real? Lots of little kids play around with the boundaries between reality and dreams, reality and make believe, in just the way that philosophers have throughout history. Is that something you see in the college students you teach?

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. Although “Congress” alone is mentioned, the First Amendment applies to any agent of the national government, including the president. The Court’s decisions may be sidestepped or ignored.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

The three countries share more than a common language: For several decades, their governments forcibly removed Indigenous children from their families and relocated them to distant boarding schools. This is the one area left in the federal government, unfortunately, that is very much bipartisan,” she said of Native American issues.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

History indicates that violence is a tool of white supremacy: From the slaughtering of Native Americans to the lynching of Black Americans in the Jim Crow era , racial violence has been used to defend the status quo of white supremacy and racism in the U.S. There is only one way: teaching anti-racism. racism and global colonization.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. I found that I spent a lot more time teaching to the test than I’d like,” she said. “I

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Moler's Musing

MARCH 1, 2025

The combination of these strategies helped students interact with history in meaningful ways while reinforcing critical thinking and writingexactly the kind of skills they need as we approach testing season. government? What does this headline tell us about how history is remembered? Why or why not?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

It’s not the first time I’ve cried after class,” the professor, Romi Hitchcock-Tinseth, said later, although she was teaching only her fourth session at the prison. Being the first program the federal government authorized to use Pell Grants for incarcerated men put a spotlight on Humboldt’s work. “That’s some raw stuff right here.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

The stigma against job candidates with criminal records is so strong that, even with the skills they may have learned behind bars, many find it easier to start a business than get hired by one, said Marc Howard, a professor of government and law who helped start Georgetown University’s Pivot entrepreneurship program last year.

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Living Geography

JUNE 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog, which has over 300 posts. A new article in 'Teaching Times' by Mary Colwell gives a bit of an update into the state of the GCSE Natural History, and its possible introduction in 2026. Textbooks will need to be written and teacher training and resource provisions put in place.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 13, 2024

We were sad to learn last week that Mike Bisenius , a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, has passed away after a brief, intense illness. Last fall we ran a story about Mike, who’d been named 2023 North Dakota History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Foundation.

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Passion for Social Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

So, it is essential to teach students about forming political individualities while respecting other viewpoints. government critically using their own minds! It even guides students through the history of political ideology and why they must become well-informed and engaged citizens. Government. Teaching about the U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2022

It still teaches preventive and protective physical and mental health, but the content has broadened to include climate and technology defenses. Schools have an educational obligation to teach people about meeting human needs and coexisting. Home Econ then became Family and Consumer Science, and now it’s called Human Ecology.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. What more could you ask for?

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

We need to counter the tide of fake news, which is lifted by AI and the actions of governments in more than one country. They need to be experts in the subjects they are teaching." So what knowledge we teach now will retain its power during the students' life time - let alone beyond. As Richard says on p.22,

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

For two years, they have been meeting over Zoom as part of a seven-member Teaching Circle. The mission of the Teaching Circle, envisioned by Lac Seul First Nation co-author George Kenny, is to articulate a worldview held by Indigenous cultural Insiders. The Teaching Circle is cast wide. 3 in 1874 with the Canadian government.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2019

With that being said, I also enjoy teaching writing and I’m constantly looking for ways to combine writing and social studies. Does this sort of approach to government and daily life make a better settlement? Unfortunately, many of their names and personal stories are lost to history. Explain your answer! Why or why not?

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

As a teacher, celebrating President’s Day with your students is a great way to help them understand the role of the presidency in our government and past presidents’ impact on our country. history teacher, you can continue to use these baseball cards throughout the year to correspond with the presidents in office during each unit!

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University.

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