A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 6, 2011

The following is a summary by New Milford High School teacher Colleen Tambuscio on this year''s Holocaust Study Tour. While learning about the history of the Holocaust, we became more than just a group of students and teachers. History is not just about the pages in a textbook. We became a family.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? See a sample itinerary here.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

NEW YORK — There’s a new look to history classes in New York City schools: a curriculum in Asian American and Pacific Islander history. New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Over the past decade, researchers, museum professionals and educators have started to explore the use of virtual and augmented reality in relation to Holocaust education and memory. One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before. It’s intended for larger museum, school and community spaces.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Pandemic closures prompted hundreds of museums, art galleries and zoos around the world to launch virtual field trips in the last year. But a program offered through a museum in Utah sought to offer a different kind of virtual science field trip. Subscribe today! They see that this is a real place,” said Larson.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

One of New Milford High Schools crowning achievements is our Holocaust Study Tour. Her high school principal contacted me recently and we are arranging to meet with Sarah, her classmates, and the principal in Berlin. Authentic Learning h New Milford High School' hours from Krakow.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

On a recent visit with developers and museum designers, she stood on the building’s gutted first floor and described her plans for the center. Almost all of Tate’s years in public school — from first grade to high school graduation — were spent within the turmoil of newly desegregated schools. Board decision.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

This past Friday an exciting event took place at my high school due to the efforts of Colleen Tambuscio, who is a fantastic Holocaust teacher. Department of Education visited with a group of Polish educators to learn more about how our school teaches the Holocaust and genocide.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

On May 31, a school board meeting in Hernando County, Florida, made national news when more than 600 hundred people showed up and the meeting lasted until 2:30 a.m. The county had moved the meeting to the high school auditorium to accommodate a large crowd. Florida Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. It was the summer of 2019, and Nia was 15. Along with four of her classmates from Julia R.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

The Pfeiffer family moved to Piggott in 1913, shortly after Pauline graduated high school. Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages!

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. It was established by Dr. Jack Wann, who was previously a teacher of English and Humanities at Jeffersonville High School, which he once attended when younger.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 15, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. It was established by Dr. Jack Wann, who was previously a teacher of English and Humanities at Jeffersonville High School, which he once attended when younger.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

11, 2001, high school social studies teacher and football coach Robert Lake stood outside with students waiting to get picked up from school. Lake and his high school students watched the world change that day. Robert Lake, social studies teacher at North Plainfield High School. They felt it change.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 1, 2024

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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While pre-Ks, elementary schools and some schools for children with complex disabilities reopened in December, there is still no plan to reopen middle and high schools. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Science in particular is extremely hands-on and almost impossible to grasp virtually.

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Rosie the History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

As a history teacher with a background in museum work, my biggest goal is for my students to learn to curate their knowledge to be able to share it with others. It sounds like a lot to ask of high school students, but here is one simple activity I use throughout the year to help them build skills in curating knowledge.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Source: Alamy.In That’s another one of many examples.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA. high school textbooks give little attention to human biological variation. Higher education does not have the same reach as middle and high school.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. Washington University in St.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. Jesse teaches Ethnic Studies and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School in Seattle. We designed the sessions for teachers and other school staff. Ramsey, Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2016

“It’s more about giving the teachers, the educators, the space to be learners themselves and learn how to use our museum, our facility, in different ways,” said Gerrie Hall, manager of school and teacher progress at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. The Sharswood-Blumberg neighborhood surrounding Vaux, by then a high school, had begun to buckle from poverty, drugs and gun violence.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Roosevelt Montás, who spoke no English when he arrived in New York City at age 12 from the Dominican Republic, leads Columbia University’s Freedom and Citizenship summer program for New York City high school students. The program relies on local high school guidance counselors to find participants, DeSmidt said.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

They attended Loma Alta Elementary, a racially diverse school in Altadena, Calif., that stood out from many others in the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD), especially its high schools, which were more racially homogenous. “I Pasadena High School. Pasadena High School.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations. Kerim was a man in his early thirties, a high school graduate working as a tradesman in construction.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life.

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ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

He graduated from Dyess High School and later returned to perform a concert at the high school gymnasium. For instance, the song “Five Feet High and Rising” was based on the 1937 flood. The history of Dyess Colony, along with the Cash family, hold many stories and learning opportunities.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

13, 2024 • By Studies Weekly History would not be the same without the inspiring lives of Black humanitarians. For Black History Month, we honor four heroes who advocated for civil rights, fought for the underserved, and spoke out for the welfare of others. 4 Inspiring Black Humanitarians Feb.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

My Job Hunt I graduated with my teaching degree in December 2013 and landed my dream job at a children’s museum working as their education director/exhibit designer/volunteer coordinator. Teaching positions for history and biology were rather scarce in my area, so I applied pretty much everywhere in a 50 mile radius.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

In a darkened classroom in Essex Technical High School, Anna Maria Miller takes careful notes while watching a subtitled video sampling from Rwanda’s infamous “hate radio,” which helped fuel the genocide of the minority Tutsi population in 1994. There are only so many hours in the school day, and we fill every one of them.”.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. By March 2000, during her senior year of high school, Ruth Cady was chatting with her assigned freshman roommate. Todd has focused his own research on art history.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

As for the moral imperative, that was speeded up in Canada by last year’s report of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission , which exposed a dark history of what it called cultural genocide against the country’s native inhabitants. “It Related: How free college tuition in one country exposes unexpected pros and cons. Photo: Liam Richards.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Within those revolting revolutions are presented new opportunities; opportunities for time’s past history to reassert itself, cross over, and temporarily connect up with future developments. Several years before, he had established the Franklin Square Players Summer Theatre at the High School.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

For the past three summers, teachers rallied across the country to speak out against anti-history education bills and to make public their pledge to teach the truth. The teacher-led rallies received national media attention, providing a valuable counter narrative to the oversized coverage of the well-funded anti-CRT movement. In Florida, Gov.

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