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Applications open March 10th for Fall Multi Day Seminars!

Teaching American History

Free professional development. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Freedom, Virtue, & Resistance in African American Political Thought at African American Museum and Library at Oakland in Oakland, CA. Discussion of primary documents.

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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

Free professional development. Historic locations. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Fall 2024 Multi Day seminars ! We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The application will be open April 8-April 30.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development.

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A small rural town needed more Spanish-language child care. Here’s what it took

The Hechinger Report

It benefits Latino children to have a Latino provider because they have the same lived experience, same heritage — it’s easier for them to connect to families, to get more family engagement.” Werth recalled the library closing around them one evening as they helped participants use computers for the first time.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

Their classroom libraries stock books by Isabel Allende and other Latin American literary giants. “In Muñiz Academy teachers, 65 percent of whom are Latino, strive to create an environment that celebrates their students’ heritage and allows them to embrace this piece of their identities. For some students, that fills an aching need.

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10 Summer Tips to Prepare a Great Classroom

Studies Weekly

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. In the school’s first year, every child had library every day.