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Prepare for Fall Multi Day seminars!

Teaching American History

The seminar also includes a visit to a local historical site. Meals, materials, double-occupancy rooms, and historical site visits are covered 100%. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. See a sample itinerary here.

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APSA’s Summer Rise High School Intern Program: Meet the Cohort

Political Science Now

This summer, the American Political Science Association partnered with Montgomery County Public School (MCPS) District’s Summer Rise Program to offer three high school students the opportunity to gain experience in political science knowledge production and higher education non-profits.

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TEACHER VOICE: Educators need more resources, skills and partnerships to bring the world into their classrooms

The Hechinger Report

I teach at Zama American Middle-High School , a Department of Defense school in Kanagawa, Japan. Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) dependent schools are run by the U.S. schools more broadly. Related: Schools on U.S. Pope, I used to live near there. I went all the time.”.

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Teachers of the Year Say Educators Deserve More Trust

ED Surge

Now she’s a high school biology and environmental science teacher in Hawaii who integrates lessons about public service into the curriculum. Welch and his colleagues traveled around the mid-Atlantic and used a phone, a small router and a computer to broadcast themselves teaching from historic sites.

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Dyess Colony: Johnny Cash’s Boyhood Home

ACRE

He graduated from Dyess High School and later returned to perform a concert at the high school gymnasium. Explore them further by visiting [link] / For information on booking a class field trip to this these historic sites, reach out to site director Penny Toombs at ptoombs@astate.edu.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024

Zinn Education Project

You can plan a virtual event or gathering at a historic site, bookstore, famers’ market, or other public location. It could be identified by a historic marker, statue, archive, burial ground, or museum. Teachers read pledges and/or students testify at a historic site. Or march to a local civic building.

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South Dakota Teacher of the Year Sees Teaching as a Team Effort

Teaching American History

Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go. As he sat in the principal’s office of Sioux Falls’ two-year-old New Tech High School, waiting to be interviewed, a student walked up to him and introduced herself. My name is Susan.