HistoryRewriter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

First, select a primary source for students to interpret via the Retell in Rhyme EduProtocol. See Chapter 15 in the Social Studies Edition. I borrowed this excerpt from my friend, Dr. Mark Jarrett’s work with primary sources. This typically takes one class period.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

As Publications Manager at Teaching American History , I frequently hear the following from our teacher partners: I love teaching with primary sources! My district has dropped our textbook and we are switching to primary sources. I can’t expect a high school student to read an entire Federalist Paper!?

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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. The librarians have created huge sets of primary source images by topic or time period. Example, “Civil War families” or “dogs 19th Century.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Washington University in St.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

Unfortunately, this portrayal isn't unique and reflects a broader issue with how social studies is perceived. As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting."

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

Poor readers are more likely to drop out of high school, earn less money as adults, and become involved in the criminal justice system,” Goldstein said in the New York Times article. This is where Studies Weekly can help. The ability to read well can impact the trajectory of a student’s entire life.

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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.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. EdSurge: Why did you decide to take the ISTE U AI course?

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Primary Sources Lesson Plan Professional Development EdTech 132

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

High schooler Joshua Carter didn’t learn about Black historical figures like Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school social studies textbooks. Carter, a rising senior at Teaneck High School in New Jersey, said the app allows him to see people that look like him in a “good light.”

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

Frank McCormick, at the time the district’s coordinator for social studies instruction, said those inquiry-based standards were a radical shift from the content-based standards that most students and teachers were used to. There was much more emphasis on critical thinking and primary source investigation.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We often hear from schools and teachers that we work with that one of their main goals is to increase or improve the quality of student discourse. The thinking skill associated with Question Two is interpretation, and in high school we’re usually interpreting a primary source document. Meaningful discourse, indeed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? Related: STUDENT VOICE: Here’s why my high school and others must address anti-Asian racism. What stereotypes and misperceptions still abound?

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American History History Teaching Primary Sources 91

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

High school history teacher Amanda Sandoval was one of hundreds of educators who received copies of Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad from the author Matthew Delmont and the Zinn Education Project. We’ll add more once teachers use the new paperback edition.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Amy Livingston, Chancellor High School, Fredericksburg, VA. Grade school had bewildered her. School administrators and teachers never picked up on Livingston’s hearing problem, and she remained in special ed until she graduated from high school. She never expected to teach at all. This was December.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At Bishop Seabury, a small independent school in the Episcopal tradition, high school students take two or more of Czarnecki’s courses. Since all of the projects must incorporate primary sources, students learn how to access online archives such as the Hathi Trus t and newspapers.org. Who gets to construct truth?

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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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History American History Teaching K-12 98

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

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. and Rethinking Schools, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. history and social studies curriculums.

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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. Will students investigate the sources of controversial claims?

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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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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I got the chance to connect with high school students in my breakout room and it was a refreshing reminder that the Black Freedom Struggle is not only being taught despite truth-teaching being criminalized, but also it is being learned and put into practice! And of course, history and social studies teachers.

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