A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Enter the age of standardization and computerized assessments that will test the living daylights out of students in the United States over the course of their lifetime in K-12 education. One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

What he suggests … is that we look at how myths operate as narratives — so we can design an intellectually vivid history curriculum,” Hendrickson writes in his blog post. The idea is that material sticks best when students can see it as part of larger narratives, such as of humans trying to overcome obstacles to survive.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 10, 2010

First a little history on 1:1 laptop programs in Iowa. Here are my observations and thoughts after touring three schools (K-12, 7-12, K-6) located throughout central Iowa: We need to prepare our students to be doers and creative thinkers who can compete with their peers globally for jobs that have yet to evolve.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor. Most voters focused on a point she raised as she introduced herself: that no one then serving on the Dublin School Board had experience as a K-12 classroom teacher.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At Gwinnett, we have a history of preparing students for their futures in innovative and meaningful ways. There is apprehension and perceived risk around talking about AI in K-12 education and what that means for our students, but honestly, I think the greater risk is not exploring it. Thats what led us down this road, honestly.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

history instruction is essential for developing informed, engaged citizens who can navigate the complexities of modern society. Fordham Institute evaluated the state-of-state standards for civics and history across all fifty states. History in elementary and middle school; also require at least one year of U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Mostly an administrator these days, Fisher still teaches honors algebra at Breakwater, a pre-K-8th independent school in Portland, Maine. One pair of kids from his class ended up comparing the person with the most toes in history to the person with the fewest toes. At least, he wants them to feel that way occasionally and temporarily.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 23, 2013

The following is a guest post by Sherry Spier, a K-12 Media Specialist Coordinator in the Cinnaminson School District (NJ). Maybe the path we took to get where we currently are in our pilot is not the same path NMHS took to get where they currently are, but you can not change history. I need to build enthusiasm for this program.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 1, 2024

But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of “anti-CRT” bills. The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Article and Lesson This Day in People’s History Below are a few key events in labor history.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Unfortunately, many college alternatives, especially career and technical education programs, have a complicated history. trillion — up nearly $750 billion in 12 years. Reimagining degrees and other pathways must start early with exposure to career opportunities throughout the K-12 education experience.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The discovery of an Epigravettian layer at Grotta della Lea now provides a new chapter in this long history, capturing a time when small bands of hunter-gatherers were adapting to life at the edge of the Last Glacial Maximum. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609. Related Research Romandini, M., Marciani, G., Benazzi, S., Ronchitelli, A.,

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

After that, the rest is history. The future of work requires new skills, and it is up to K-12 education to lead the charge in this area. For me, the push I needed came from Ken Royal, who, after hearing what we were doing at New Milford High School and then visiting, stated unequivocally that I had to share our story.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

The largest drop in the size of the chewing teeth in the history of human evolution occurred around 1.8 1 Fonseca-Azevedo, K., & Herculano-Houzel, S. Journal of Archaeological Science , 44 , 12–21. Nature Ecology & Evolution , 6 (12), 2016–2028. Ramaswamy, K., Siegmund, K. Basic Books.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Much of that had to do with the fact that I was learning about Black histories for the first time. I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

history and civics curriculum to be more inclusive and equitable? As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2024

After that day, I gathered the courage to sit with some students I knew, and we established a routine of sitting in the corner outside our history teachers classroom. No matter where my family moved during my K-12 childhood, I felt most at home when I found a familiar spot on campus to be myself with my friends.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 27, 2024

But the right to teach about that labor history is jeopardized by the growing number of anti-history laws and high-stakes testing. The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. This Day in History Below are a few key events in labor history.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Over the course of the semester-long class, students research their own family histories, tracing one line back as far as they can through birth, death and marriage records, Census records, and church records, primarily. Reagan is already using her newfound research skills in a history class. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Education Week - Social Studies

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Recent highlights in Black history education, from the Center for K-12 Black History and Racial Literacy Education’s LaGarrett J.

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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. history instruction include an Asian American and Pacific Islander K-12 curriculum. Now, they say, it’s time for their history classes, educators and textbooks to catch up.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Most (94 percent, or 248 letters) supported repeal, citing concerns such as a climate of fear among teachers and the worry that history couldn’t be taught fully and honestly. OF GILMANTON “The Divisive Concepts law has a chilling effect on teachers, who are afraid to teach honest history for fear of losing their jobs.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The directors of the institute, Bob Holschuh Simmons of Monmouth College ( rsimmons@monmouthcollege.edu ) and Nathalie Roy of Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, LA ( fabricatrix@gmail.com ), encourage applications from K-12 teachers of any subject that could incorporate hands-on Classics into its curricula.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Looking for advice on how to navigate teaching inclusive history during this time of divisive rhetoric? –Specialized Workshops and Experiences: Dive deep into strategies, tools, and content relevant to K-12 educators, with special emphasis on hidden histories and innovative, hands-on pedagogical strategies.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

Students are impervious to lies when they know the history and can think critically. Mexico War: “We Take Nothing by Conquest, Thank God” Lesson by Bill Bigelow This interactive activity introduces students to the history and often untold story of the U.S.-Mexico Mexico War. Mexico relations and current border and immigration issues.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. and marched to Chinatown on March 12, 2021. When they look back on that day, many remember feeling very alone. schools in recent years. on March 21, 2021.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2022

The Kentucky Valley Education Cooperative (KVEC) provides free, competency-based flexible, professional learning opportunities for rural K-12 educators via micro-credentials. Funding is being used to develop a digital badging and pathway system that will interface with the K-12 digital badging and pathways system.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills. In the last three years, 17 states have added some sort of data science education course to their K-12 offerings, Drozda said. Subscribe today!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2021

A recent online meme had a striking message: “A year at an HBCU can undo a K-12 experience.”. They typically come from K-12 school systems that lack resources like state-of-the-art learning technology, curriculum and student supports. These approaches are critical to supporting students moving forward.

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NCHE

APRIL 21, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. In the elementary grades, the history content and skills are not developmentally appropriate, nor are they reflective of the historical content training that K-5 teachers receive.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. Schools superintendent Dennis Dupree came to the city 12 years ago, promising innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

No matter whether elementary teachers return to physical or virtual classrooms, this will be a year for the history books. Some teacher educators have pushed back at me on this point, asserting that it is the job of the K-12 system to have provided this basic knowledge. However, it is still higher education’s opportunity to fix.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

History class, approached me after the White House threatened to revoke temporary protected status (TPS) for immigrants from El Salvador. Educating for American Democracy: offers an interactive roadmap for using an inquiry model when teaching civics and history. Service-Learning in Action Jeslyn, a student in my U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. has fully acknowledged its long history of using education as a weapon against tribes. There was nothing like this.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

While the vast majority of the conversations about AI in education have centered on K-12 and higher education, few have considered the potential of this innovation in early care and education settings. This practice is already happening in K-12 settings, said Isabelle Hau, executive director of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images. Given that teachers are charged with imparting the contributions of women to their students throughout Women’s History Month, a special place should be reserved during March for the women teachers who go unrecognized. The lack of credit shows up in lower pay.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2024

History reminds us that counterattacks have followed every advancement in equity and inclusion, from Brown vs. Board of Education to affirmative action. The lack of instruction in these fields in K-12 education can help explain why there are such strong attacks on DEI. DEI instructors are suffering the consequences.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding. But computer science lessons like the ones at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School are relatively rare.

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