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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. Then in 1992, Congress passed a law that designated May as Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

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Teaching Irish American History

Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

See why over six million students across America love using Studies Weekly Social Studies. While Irish immigrants were not perfect, their legacy of hard work and sacrifice can inspire your students to rise above their circumstances and create a better future.

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TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

In her research paper this year, a student named Briana who picked Cesar Chavez wrote that she had never been given so many choices before, and that “the choices have never included topics that make me feel like I am learning about my own heritage at the same time. I am so proud to be Hispanic and loved researching a personal hero of mine.”

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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. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

Elementary teachers can help students hone these skills through science, social studies, and health. Soft Skills in Social Studies There is a clear connection between social studies and soft skills like: communication, emotional intelligence, teamwork, and cultural awareness.

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You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

Engage your students in studying the past with Studies Weekly’s pre-K–6 Social Studies curriculum. Family-sourced primary sources can help students see themselves in the past and realize just how important and relevant history is to each of us.

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The Nationwide Reading Struggle

Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

Emily Toronto, a 5th-grade teacher at Bonneville Elementary in Utah, reported that her lower-level reading students also struggle in social studies and science. Though helping students with reading in small groups helps a little, Toronto says, “it can get more difficult when doing content reading for social studies or science.

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Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center. In the summer of 2021, Mr. Broccolo and I reconnected to review and refine lesson plans created by teacher candidates.

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3 Ways to Keep Students Engaged When Summer Is Calling

Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

March 15, 2024 How Studies Weekly Uses Scientific Principles to Innovate Science Teaching March 11, 2024 The post 3 Ways to Keep Students Engaged When Summer Is Calling first appeared on Studies Weekly. We have strategies for dealing with anxiety, overcoming fears, learning how to utilize a growth mindset, and much more.

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Double Duty Teachers

Studies Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2024

We also teach gifted students and we find that all the extra activities that Studies Weekly gives us are so great for our higher learners. Studies Weekly really adds to our Social Studies lessons and it makes it so easy for us to teach! We’re so happy with Studies Weekly and think you will be too.

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Help Calm your Elementary Students with these Breathing Exercises

Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

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Heritage Primary Sources Lesson Plan Elementary School

Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula. Tracking State Trends in Chronic Absenteeism.

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10 Summer Tips to Prepare a Great Classroom

Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

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4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

He believed that African Americans should embrace their heritage and culture and work together to overturn oppression. Learn how Studies Weekly Social Studies can help teach students about history’s humanitarians.

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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. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products.

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The Science of Reading: Phonemic and Phonological Awareness

Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

Onset Rime Strategies — PreK/Kindergarten. Unraveling the differences: Phonological awareness vs. phonics. Voyager Sopris Learning.

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Teachers are first responders to the opioid crisis

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

It’s Cruey’s job to keep track of these particulars, even more than lesson planning or standardized test preparation. “My My job as a teacher is to be a first responder to poverty,” said Cruey, a 58-year-old middle school social studies teacher at Southside K-8 school. “If They’re proud of their heritage.

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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

It had no textbooks for math, science or social studies. 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. That same year, the late Arizona Sen. public schools.

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

Teaching Irish American History

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TEACHER VOICE: Students deserve classroom experiences that reflect their history

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family

The Nationwide Reading Struggle

Building Relationships: Connecting and Reconnecting with Cultural Centers

3 Ways to Keep Students Engaged When Summer Is Calling

Double Duty Teachers

Help Calm your Elementary Students with these Breathing Exercises

Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance

10 Summer Tips to Prepare a Great Classroom

4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians

Four Trailblazing Native American Scientists

The Science of Reading: Phonemic and Phonological Awareness

Teachers are first responders to the opioid crisis

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

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