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TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

“I appreciate that my teachers try to offer different narratives,” a student said at one of our sessions discussing teaching materials featuring history and stories from all continents, “but they always seem to be about hardship or having to overcome an obstacle. We are never just the average main character.”

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A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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4 Arab American Scientists to Know

Studies Weekly

APRIL 7, 2025

4 Arab American Scientists to Know Apr 07, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER April is Arab American Heritage Month, a time to recognize the impactful contributions and achievements of Arab Americans in history. Celebrate this month by learning about these four Arab American scientists and their monumental impacts on their fields.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. Many cultural centers curate history, geography, and civic exhibits that connect the past with the present. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. Image via Step Out Buffalo.

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You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. Their family stories are history! Family-sourced primary sources can make history seem especially relevant to students.

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How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

When students learn about history, they see social skills in action. Soft Skills in Social Studies There is a clear connection between social studies and soft skills like: communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and cultural awareness. How you teach social studies can also help your students develop soft skills.

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb.

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Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Herrington honored his heritage by carrying six eagle feathers, a braid of sweet grass, two arrowheads, and the Chickasaw Nation’s flag into space. Elliott-High Eagle, Oral History, interviewed by David Zierler Oct. He became the first enrolled member of a Native American tribe to fly in space. Lori Arviso Alvord,” retrieved Nov.

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Teaching Irish American History

Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

Teaching Irish American History Mar. This overview of Irish American history can help you teach students why they see so many Irish influences today. 10, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER You only need to walk into a store and see St Patricks Day decorations to know Irish Americans have profoundly impacted our countrys culture.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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OPINION: How a new generation of students are responding to Black America’s echoes

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2021

I first encountered the singularity in that civics classroom in 2014 in the rural town of Helena-West Helena, Arkansas, when my months of careful lesson planning filled with Black historical texts weren’t enough for my bereft students the day after Brown’s death. They were disgruntled about my standard lesson on the Bill of Rights.

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Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On Rusinga Island, a grassroots group is celebrating the field assistants who helped find famous fossils and inspiring future generations to study science and ancient history. The group shares information about the islands ancient history and the role of local collaborators in discovering that heritage. Next come the questions.

Oral History

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. Teachers used no lesson plans, in any subject, and the school had no librarian.

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Refugees can choose a separate high school in this Kentucky town

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

There were Somali, Iraqi, Burmese, Bhutanese, Ethiopian and Latin American teenagers — all learning English, math, history and science in an eleven-room, domed building. Students at GEO International High School, who are all recent immigrants or refugees, present their history projects to the class. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

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4 Arab American Scientists to Know

Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

Teaching Irish American History

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

OPINION: How a new generation of students are responding to Black America’s echoes

Connecting Local Communities to Paleoanthropology in Kenya

How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

Refugees can choose a separate high school in this Kentucky town

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