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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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.” I watch them spread their wings.”

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Thrailkill was a third-year teacher happily settled at Skyline High School in Mesa, AZ, when Lindblom phoned to ask her to apply for an opening at nearby Mountain View High. Not only was Mountain View the high school from which she’d graduated; Lindblom was a teacher she admired.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In a lone building flanked by farmland, the Northern Cass School District is heading into year two of a three-year journey to abolish grade levels. By the fall of 2020, all Northern Cass students will plot their own academic courses to high school graduation, while sticking with same-age peers for things like gym class and field trips.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

Virginia Forcucci speaks to students in her 10th grade English class at Sussex Tech High School. On a recent Thursday morning, when most of their peers were busy prepping for the day, a dozen teachers and staff at Delaware’s Sussex Tech High School sat down to talk about race. Photo: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2016

This story is first in an occasional series on the senior class at Match High School, a charter public school in Boston. BOSTON — Just three weeks into the school year, seniors at Match High School are learning why their college counselor Shira Zar-Kessler advises students against applying “early decision.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2024

For James Singewald, a typical week goes something like this: Learn about the history of boarding schools in an Indigenous Studies class. Only about a third of the state’s high school class of 2022 were enrolled in postsecondary education within a year following graduation, according to the Alaska Commission on Postsecondary Education.

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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Memories of the continual improvement he was able to do back then have stuck with him as his career has progressed, including jobs as a high school history teacher, an edtech consultant to schools, a doctoral student and professor, and director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. How well have you seen that approach go?

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Teaching American History

JULY 9, 2024

Sean Brennan Brennan, a frequent participant in Teaching American History seminars , has long promoted civic education and civil cooperation at the local and state level. He carried on this work while teaching government and an elective course in constitutional, civil and criminal law at Brecksville-Broadview High School.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

“There are a lot more considerations that I have to take into account aside from just what is the classic college experience I want for myself,” said Chen, who plans to major in the history of science and East Asian studies. Their 15-year-old brother, Andy, a high school sophomore whose classes are also online, tries to stay out of it. “My

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 9, 2024

In any class that focuses on the Founding era in our MA in American History & Government program (MAHG) , you’re almost certainly going to discuss Federalist #1 and how often human history is shaped by “accident and force” instead of “reflection and choice.” But even keeping in touch virtually brings me happiness.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Classes, which combine liberal arts and a focus on careers, might examine topics such as Newark’s history or residential racial segregation, or teach students about marketing for nonprofit organizations. After moving with his mother from Jamaica three years ago, he graduated from a 1,600-student public high school in nearby East Orange.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Two graduates of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program submitted essays on how they teach these skills to the Bill of Rights Institute’s 2023 National Civics Teacher of the Year Award , placing among the top ten finalists. Peters agreed. Civic engagement involves more than just showing up to vote.

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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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university. She’d spent four years at a high school determined to send minority students like her to college. She actually liked the country song. Plus, she had little to lose.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. As a former high-school social studies teacher and professional development specialist, I have found that connecting with cultural centers (e.g., A second teacher candidate described learning more about local history that he ever knew about.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

George Hawkins , a 2019 graduate of TAH’s Master of Arts with a Specialization in Teaching American History and Government (MASTAHG) program , was named South Dakota Teacher of the Year in October. Instead, he went to law school, graduating as the 2008 housing crisis threw the economy into recession. My name is Susan. What’s your name?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Those connections start with one-on-one mentoring, in which teachers meet with students weekly to discuss short-term goals, such as completing a certain number of units in a history course, and long-term goals that stretch into college and career. The daily schedule for sixth graders at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Organized through new nonprofits and small startups including the Catherine Project, Night School Bar and Premise, they bring together adults who want to spend their free time talking to strangers about literature and philosophy. Yet the rise of Zoom seminars pokes holes in predictions that these disciplines are in decline.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Students in Bruce Hecker’s twelfth grade English class at South Side High School all study the same advanced curriculum regardless of their skill level. and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This model of teaching could be used in a range of disciplines beyond journalism, at both high school and college, to engage students in complex issues and disciplines. To engage students, she will assign student teams – essential to building community in online classes – to research history and context for lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2018

Immigration has always been a difficult issue to grapple with, but we are in the midst of what will be remembered as a particularly dark time in our history. high schools each year. This past year, for example, they researched and discussed the events in Charlottesville, Virginia, as well as gun violence in schools.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Reading, writing assignments, presentations and discussions covered history, cultural difference, environmental manipulation and what was technically possible. And the confluence of language, history and economics on the Seaway provided an ideal – not to mention local – lens through which to view the liberal arts. Just as the St.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

After changing high schools, getting expelled and dropping out, he earned a GED diploma. Contrary to the perception that campuses are awash in carefree 18-year-olds right out of high school, more than one in five college students have kids of their own. He had his son at 17 and dropped out of high school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In high school, Cante Skuya Lonehill-Stover, who is Oglala Lakota, decorated her bedroom wall with a photo of her dad waving goodbye to his grandparents from below their porch as he left for college. Then the pandemic hit, throwing up additional obstacles on the high school-to-college path.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

Both men and women complain that it’s harder to get A’s in college science and math classes than in, say, sociology and history. So he compared men and women who otherwise had similar grades in all their other classes, even similar ACT scores and high school grade-point averages. And they’re right.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Catherine Epstein: We have the papers of some relatively famous alums, and then we have lots of information just on the history of the college. Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Kirk: Nicola Courtright teaches art history at Amherst. Archivist: Great.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Carlos Vega, an admissions recruiter from MIT, sets up a table for a college fair at Stone Memorial High School in Crossville, Tennessee. Rural students graduate from high school at a higher rate (90 percent) than their counterparts in cities (82 percent) and suburbs (89 percent).

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