TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). ’ History and AI: Study the history of technological advancements and their societal impacts.

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Teaching K-12 Critical Thinking History 241

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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History Teaching Artifacts K-12 107

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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History K-12 Social Studies Public School 64

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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Museum Education Museum K-12 American History 130

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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Teaching Social Justice K-12 History 132

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elementary grades, the history content and skills are not developmentally appropriate, nor are they reflective of the historical content training that K-5 teachers receive.

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Social Studies K-12 Pedagogy History Education 100

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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K-12 Social Justice History Teaching 144

NCHE

JUNE 25, 2023

The National Council for History Education stands in support of history teachers in Florida. The social studies standards focused on African American history, recently approved by the Florida Board of Education, sanitize historical acts of violence against Black Americans. Slavery is, and was, wrong.

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Social Studies K-12 American History History Education 100

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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K-12 Education Museum Library 136

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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K-12 Social Studies Lesson Plan History 100

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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K-12 Sociology Social Science Education 88

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

A law passed in Idaho in 2021 not only required all districts to teach reading using “evidence-based” instruction, it also required K-12 teacher preparation programs housed at any state institution of higher education to prepare teachers according to that reading plan. It gives me understanding of what’s going on,” Omar said.

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High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. We are trying to reach every high schooler in some way,” McElroy says.

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High School K-12 Sociology Psychology 143

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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Ancestry K-12 Education Geography 130

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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K-12 Heritage Cultures Tradition 102

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Our conversations spanned the gamut of topics that are top of mind for educators in all corners of the U.S.

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K-12 Education Professional Development American History 120

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics. One of Robinson’s fellow panelists at the conference, Hayley McCulloch, a U.S.

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Civics Museum K-12 History 140

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 2, 2024

These are tuition-free opportunities for K–12 educators to study a variety of humanities topics. The institutes featured below are a few of the ones that could be of interest to people’s history educators. Each year, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) funds summer institutes for teachers.

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K-12 Geography American History History 52

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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History Ancestry Heritage Project-Based Learning 130

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

Our K-8 school scored in the top 10 percent of the state’s public schools on a comprehensive evaluation that considers proficiency, growth and other key indicators. This global phenomenon emerged about 12 years ago, but is playing out differently worldwide. Copper Island is careful about what it borrows from Finnish education, however.

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K-12 Charter School Government History 142

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 19, 2024

It is important for young people to learn about the roots of the crisis and the long history of resistance. news segments on Haiti Social Justice Books recommended books for K–12 and educators The post Teaching About Haiti appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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Teaching Social Justice K-12 History 52

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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Civic Engagement Civics K-12 Education 134

ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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Civics Education Civic Engagement History 106

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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K-12 Professional Development Economics Learning Science 140

ASHP CML

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In July 2022, ASHP/CML hosted the first LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States summer institute for k-12 teachers. Three educators describe specific materials and topics that were presented during the 2022 Summer Institute, LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States, which they have incorporated into their own teaching.

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Primary Sources K-12 History Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Back when my mom attended Westwood in the early 80s, students made the typical walk from class to class, learning from one teacher in math and another for English or history or science. (My And the national superintendents association last year launched a learning cohort for K-12 leaders interested in the idea.

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Teaching K-12 Middle School High School 121

ACRE

JUNE 9, 2023

The history of Dyess Colony, along with the Cash family, hold many stories and learning opportunities. Students can imagine what life would’ve been like living with their families in one of the 500 Dyess homes and think about how the land, home, and history inspired Cash’s music.

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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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K-12 Pedagogy Leadership History 226

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

And a lot of our history in education is written through with racial and social class-based exclusion, where people have been excluded from school settings and from selective school settings as a function of race and class. How does this play out in a K-12 setting? That's a massive effect.

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Research Psychology K-12 Artifacts 134

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Since then, states such as Arkansas and Texas have also opposed the true teaching of the history of Black people in this country by dropping African American history courses and eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. We must be deliberate in the ways in which we prepare teachers to serve the community. This is dire.

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Civic Engagement Civics Education K-12 96

ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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K-12 History American History Pedagogy 90

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It turns out my skillset helps map places and histories that are significant in Wajãpi Oral Traditions. Together, we record every mark of the past as a relevant piece of history on Wajãpi Indigenous Land. We document their places and histories through GPS mapping, audio recordings, drawings, and photographs.

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Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 104

Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2020

Kim Dawson, grades K-5 Technology and Robotics teacher at West Allegheny School District, Pennsylvania. Elayne Hollander, grades K-5 Media and Technology teacher at Broward County Public Schools, Florida. Steve Isaacs, grades 7-12 Game Design teacher at Bernards Township Public Schools, New Jersey.

Teaching 138

Teaching K-12 Social Studies Public School 138

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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K-12 Civics Social Studies Geography 101

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2023

According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, these ancient human relatives possessed distinctive physical traits such as larger noses, angled cheekbones, and sturdy physiques. A model of a Neanderthal male on display at the Natural History Museum in London. 1 Velazquez-Arcelay, K., Colbran, L.

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Museum K-12 Heritage Humanities 52

ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

DCC even offers an interactive Escape Room exhibit, where students answer questions about Arkansas history while racing to solve puzzles and escape the room. They also offer student competitions like an annual essay contest, a poetry out-loud event, and an Arkansas history film competition.

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Cultures Heritage Museum K-12 52

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Now my students know that if I am wearing my BLM shirt or Black History Matters shirt at school it is not a performative act — it means that they can hold me accountable to what I have done in and out of class to show that I am living up to that belief. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52