Remove Heritage Remove Social Justice Remove Social Studies
article thumbnail

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

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.

article thumbnail

Integrating Arab Narratives Across the Curriculum

Cult of Pedagogy

Now she returns with three other educators — Fatma Elsamra, math, Reem Fakhry, science, and Abeer Ramadan-Shinnawi, social studies — to focus more specifically on the curriculum piece of this work, approaches we can take to integrate Arab narratives into our teaching and curriculum. “They tend to be overlooked. . at that time.

article thumbnail

Tears, sleepless nights and small victories: How first-year teachers are weathering the crisis

The Hechinger Report

Her seventh grade social studies class, like every other in Jefferson County Public Schools, the largest school district in Kentucky, would be online. Hi, I’m Amia Bridgeford, your student’s social studies teacher. As the sun bore down, she hoped to see the faces of the students she was now responsible for.