NCHE
APRIL 3, 2023
At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! They were students when Smithfield’s Red Brick school closed, and he would enjoy their story.” The gas station: “ Hey Joe, I heard you had a student doing some research about local mines in our community.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 12, 2022
I used to advocate teaching all students Shakespeare, “Nineteen Eighty-Four” and the other books that show up most often on high school reading lists. As educators, we intuitively know that at its core, school is a place that helps us learn about ourselves and our communities.
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ED Surge
JANUARY 10, 2023
But too often, we fail to center our local contexts, and to explore all of the assets that our neighborhoods and communities could bring to our educational mission. Our local histories, our neighborhood green spaces and our students’ extended families offer all kinds of academic connections that can enrich our studies.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 28, 2019
“If students learned something in kindergarten, we weren’t intentional about what they’d learn in first grade, how that would cycle back in second, how that would build the foundation for what they would need to graduate from high school.”. Janise Lane, executive director of teaching and learning at Baltimore City Public Schools.
Dangerously Irrelevant
MAY 31, 2017
We’d add photos to our maps and investigate other mapping tools as well, including possibly making floor plans of locally-significant buildings. We might even take a cue from Michael Hathorn’s high school history students in Hartford, Vermont and use tools like Google SketchUp to make a historical model of our city or town.
Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 10, 2018
A student won’t perform well on a reading assessment if the content in the passage — American television shows or local history, for example — is something she’s unfamiliar with. At the high school level, educators can empower immigrant students to facilitate conversations across difference with native-speaking peers and staff.
C3 Teachers
MARCH 30, 2022
Doing so also offers valuable resources that can be used to help bring history to life. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community. A second teacher candidate described learning more about local history that he ever knew about.
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