Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

One day, I was browsing Facebook and saw a short video, obviously made by high school students, making fun of Parliament’s reaction to the Boston Tea Party. My favorite place to send students to look for history-based images is the Library of Congress. Example, “Civil War families” or “dogs 19th Century.”

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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. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias. Still, my love of history had an outlet in school. Social studies was the class I excelled in because it felt most meaningful.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

JULY 5, 2023

In the five classrooms I’ve had in my career, I’ve discovered the must-haves that make my social studies classes run smoothly. While many of these are universal tips for any middle or high school classroom, several are social studies-specific. Things that go way beyond classroom décor.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. I let kids choose their books.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School seniors (left to right) Hayley Striegel, Olivia Poplawski, Cheri Zheng-Fredericks and Julie Pignataro look for ways to verify information they’ve encountered on social media. High School social studies teacher. Northport, N.Y., Photo: Janis Shachter. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.)

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. Come back for more.

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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. Photo: Chris Hondros/Getty Images. NORTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. — On the afternoon of Sept.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. Catholic Schools performed relatively well too. I went all the time.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

For Johnson, the school was a bid to cultivate the greatness she saw in these local kids, including her own daughters. They were so bright, so eager, and yet if the current statistics held, 25 percent would not graduate from high school. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. he Brown v.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

One school district stands out as a model of implementation: Loudoun County (VA) Public Schools (LCPS). Since 2005, LCPS had participated in the Geospatial Semester program through James Madison University, which taught GIS to hundreds of high school seniors (and even juniors) through a project-based approach.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

Meadowbrook High School students entering the school’s Colt College center, where they can take tuition-free college courses without leaving the campus. Turning around struggling high schools is the toughest work in education reform. Related: The high school grads least likely in America to go to college?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Each class has two teachers, one for each language, and every subject – literacy, math, social studies, science, music, dance and art – is taught in both languages by the mostly bilingual staff. At Dos Puentes Elementary School, kids can browse classroom libraries stocked with books in English and Spanish. public schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

.” But if you happen to live in a place where conversations about race are allowed or even encouraged in school, or if you’ve decided that it’s worth it to try despite the risk — I’m here to recommend two books that will be incredibly helpful companions in that work. ” Come back for more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Senior Remi Savard is part of the last class at Montpelier High School that experienced the system before the school’s switch to a proficiency-based model. Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago.

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TCI

APRIL 30, 2024

Video Activities are available in TCI’s middle and high school social studies programs, while the elementary social studies programs incorporate videos through fun songs, storylines, and inquiry projects. Request a sample to dive into TCI’s rich video library. Interested in exploring TCI’s programs?

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ACRE

AUGUST 23, 2022

Over the summer, Arkansas Social Studies, CTE, and Mathematics educators attended Personal Finance Day at UCA, an event focused on teaching the Arkansas Personal Finance standards. The guide provides an overview of common financial challenges facing individuals and families, as well as financial planning strategies for the beginner.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

While these students — a group we’re calling experienced multilinguals — are probably quite comfortable and fluent with speaking English socially, they may still be unfamiliar with the academic language used in science, social studies, math, and other content areas. We don’t need to help him. My teachers are great.

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Leah Cleary

JUNE 23, 2024

I’m the department chair for social studies at a high school in Georgia and have taught social studies for most of my career (save six in ELA). Two lingering trends in social studies education–and I think this applies to most subjects–are learning facts and making every lesson fun.

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TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Video Activities: We added new video activities for middle school and high school social studies programs. Key Science Concept Videos: In middle school science programs, Key Science Concepts now include a slideshow, video, and interactive questions.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Research shows that when professional learning communities demonstrate four key characteristics, they can improve teaching practice and student achievement in reading, writing, math, science, and social studies subject tests (Vescio et al., educators, and Catherine Lewis, who conducts academic research on lesson study.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

A lot of our kids don’t have internet access,” said Coe, who knows students who routinely head to the library or the town’s McDonald’s to get online. The Federal Communications Commission estimates that about 21 million Americans lack broadband access, with an independent research group indicating the actual number is twice as high. “We

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

One day this spring, Victoria Trice’s high school students in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, peered through virtual reality headsets as part of a lesson on Afrofuturism. LOUISVILLE Just blocks from where hundreds of protestors gathered near the Ohio River waterfront after the death of Breonna Taylor in 2020 sits Central High School.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Jenna Saykhamphone, a senior at Annandale High School in Fairfax County, Virginia, helped start an equity team at her high school to fight stereotypes both inside and outside her school in suburban Washington, D.C. And, she added, “I also have to miss studying for my physics test to be here.”

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As we reboot Doing Social Studies, we’d love to introduce you to this month’s author, Nathan McAlister. Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education. So, you need to design a CBA? You have an idea, check.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. Talbott experienced microaggressions at times.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2023

Austin Senior High School, in Houston. Credit: Joseph Bui for The Hechinger Report Supporters of takeovers say students’ futures are at stake and that the strategies help jolt failing school systems into better performance. The exception was 96-year-old Phillis Wheatley High School. Austin Senior High School.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Distribution of Delmont’s book is a direct challenge to the widespread removal of books from libraries and classrooms across the country. Courtney Bennis High School Social Studies Teacher, Virginia Beach, Virginia A huge “Thank you!” We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

In Pasadena, Maryland, organizers invited people to a banned books “photo booth” at a local library. Decatur High School staff member Jennifer Young said at the #TeachTruth, Jennifer Young. For your event, school, library, office: print this poster. They also made the link to mass incarceration.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2025

Host an information table at a public site (such as a library, bookstore, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. Host an information table at a public site (like a library, bookstore, museum, festival, or farmers market) or organize a gathering at a historic site. Sign up today. The group can be any size.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. The town’s library system stepped in to assist the district in buying books, organizing the collection, and other management tasks.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

But job one is to address the social, emotional and physical issues that will make academic learning more challenging if they are not met, particularly for the students who have fallen most behind. They have not been able to borrow books from the library, take field trips or participate in hands-on learning activities.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No It’s not the first time Alabama officials, educators, parents and politicians have battled over school textbooks and how to discuss history.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. Wells-Barnett, is increasingly becoming a household name and being taught more commonly in high school, especially in Chicago, where I’m from. And of course, history and social studies teachers.

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