ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Back then, remember your why felt like a genuine invitation to reconnect with the passion that first brought me to teaching; this made it easy to hold on to purpose and to find meaning in the day-to-day connections and small victories. Together, their legacies have shaped my teaching practice.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

He lives a two-and-a-half hour drive from the tribe’s reservation, which makes it hard for him to help his two young kids learn about their Native heritage. As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

During Hispanic Heritage Month, our colleagues came together to support two of our affinity groups. We are not just teaching them how to hold a pencil, play with the lines and curves of letters, and build structures using shapes. As an affinity group lead facilitator, I run my group every week with two of my other brilliant colleagues.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This feeling drives her to continue sharing these memories, turning what could be mere nostalgia into an active practice of care that connects her children to their heritage. There, he prepares the dishes that root them to their heritage: paruppu, chicken fry, shrimp curry, and hard-boiled eggs with rice. Im teaching her!

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

History teacher Lauren Cella's "Gen Z Teaches History" series has earned about 30 million views on Instagram and TikTok combined. All three of these historic royals have been the subject of “Gen Z Teaches History,” a viral video series created by Lauren Cella, who teaches 10th grade history. And they're like, ‘No, Miss, they do.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Meanwhile, some tribal communities have already forged ahead with new school partnerships to reclaim and restore their heritage languages, which could serve as models for the White House effort. “In The post Native communities want schools to teach Native languages. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. appeared first on Teaching American History. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony & Reform at Susan B. Have more questions?

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

For years we have embraced the effective integration of technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The application will be open April 8-April 30. See a sample itinerary here. Have more questions?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. There are signs of progress.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

One could say that a classroom of “heritage learners” is full of swans mistaken for ugly ducklings. The term “heritage learners” is defined as people whose proficiency or knowledge of a language (and culture) comes from their community or family. They understand what you say in Spanish from Day One!

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. King, Ph.D., Johnson Jr., King, Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

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. Barraza teaches Native literature at the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque. These teachers weren’t doing that.”

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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. She is a 2023-24 Teach Plus Colorado Policy Fellow.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. Teaching these subjects is vital because each equips students with essential knowledge and both hard and soft skills.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The report calls for more investment in training Native educators to teach computer science and related fields, and integrating Indigenous culture, traditions and languages into those classes. Correction: This sentence has been updated with the correct version of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s name.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

Teaching students about their heritage, and about other groups’ heritage, allows students to break free of stereotypes and appreciate their challenges and triumphs. Now, the things my school was teaching me started to mean something very different. Education is. The only option was to flee.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community. Teachers of Color After student teaching on the US continent in a high school, I felt so isolated as the only Asian adult on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

MAY 24, 2022

Getting to Know You Flag Activity This flag activity is a fun way to get to know your students, specifically where they are from (in terms of family heritage) and where they want to go. Are you looking for some new teaching ideas to engage your students in your social studies class? There are three different themes to choose from!

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

For example, many math lessons focus on teaching the one correct path to reach the one right answer to a problem. How can educators transform their approach and teach math in a way that effectively addresses learner variability ? Incorporate Productive Struggle and a Sense of Belonging to Improve Math Learning.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Even before enslavement, teaching and learning existed in Africa. Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Karen Kong, 16, has unwavering pride in her Chinese American heritage, rooted in her sense of family and honor.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Both of us were making sense of material traces of the past, creating explanations based on our teachings and experiences. But the work also produces knowledge relevant for the Wajãpi people: I share with them information about federal laws related to cultural heritage and environmental protection.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

As a newcomer specialist, I teach students who have been in the United States for less than a year. There are at least four languages spoken by the students I currently teach, so people are often surprised to learn that I’m monolingual.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Optional topics do not appear on AP exams, and AP coursework teaches to the test. Related: OPINION: Growing up in the South, I had no chance to learn my own heritage and culture Excluding or treating essential components of African American studies as optional is negligent education.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We talked with folks who strongly identify with their heritage ancestry, language and culture and others who navigate the complex nuances of diasporic reality. such as Black, Indigenous, Pacific Islander and Latino students—often teaching and working at the heart of these communities for decades.

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Pedagogy and Formation

MARCH 21, 2022

The stories were written to teach me, rather than being provided to engage, enrich and transform me through the power of story. For example, some teachers see it is as a vehicle for sustaining our cultural heritage. This had not been generated by my school readers.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

“We don’t have to teach them how to open their locker or how to get to the cafeteria. and isn’t even fluent in their heritage language, this can be heartbreaking. Here is the process they describe in the book for integrating academic language into what you already teach. They have friends. You’re pulled out.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

To them, loving and teaching our youth was a great honor despite the devaluation educators often experience. With this vision in mind, each teacher was instructed to develop annual classroom goals that were rooted in culturally responsive teaching strategies. Aunt Puddien is like another mother to me and I trusted her wisdom.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

I teach Spanish through a lens of history and justice because, for our students, it’s mind-opening to study Latin America and gain an understanding of its people. I want to help students in my Spanish classes gain an awareness of that experience and get beyond their bubble.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Desert’’ for his knowledge of this area, also gives tours of the golden forts and palaces of Rajasthan when he isn’t teaching or pushing villagers to keep children in school. The primitive school where Ballani teaches has few amenities. “Your kids will have a better life if they are educated. No one will cheat you.”. With over 1.3

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

But to pursue a teaching degree at a public, comprehensive university, she’ll need to commute four hours roundtrip or leave the town she grew up in and loves. It could also help stem the region’s brain drain and alleviate a teaching shortage that has forced the school to hire a growing number of career changers, she added.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

But as I walk by these images, I wonder how the fresh-faced teacher who promised to never “teach” Black History Month has now decorated the whole school with Black images. I needed to change the way I was teaching. Now, using inquiry, I celebrate each and every cultural heritage month, including Black History Month.

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Heritage American History Pedagogy History 52

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Uncharted doesn’t stand alone in the narrative it serves, but it is a notable entry in a long line of pulp fictions that treat tangible cultural heritage as objects that can be removed from their context with no change in significance. This is how Nathan interacts with treasure and heritage sites.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

Maggie Anderson teaches sixth grade at Greenfield School. That’s because she didn’t have a teaching license, even though she should have qualified and she and Wilson tried for months to get her one. “I Maggie Anderson never considered a career in teaching until she stepped into a classroom at Fairfield, Montana’s Greenfield School.

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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.

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