ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

AR can be used in the classroom to create interactive learning experiences that enhance traditional instruction. Those lesson plans are actually what stood out to my teachers,” adds Dawson, “They felt like the plans provided the support they needed to implement AR in the classroom without a lot of training.”

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The project was simple for me because it came with the guidance like a rubric, a model and examples to help with lesson planning.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We’ve loaded it with free lesson plans and resources for teachers, plus a learn tab with videos and guided activities for students to practice on their own. Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. It’s about having the right content, support and resources to help everyone use it effectively.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

When I was nine years old, my mother enrolled my brother and me in folklorico — a traditional cultural dance that emphasizes Mexican folk culture — at our local recreation center. Others were denied opportunities to develop their artistic self-expression and learn about different histories and cultures through art.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Johnsrud: We have a lot of history of technology in the classroom that we can learn from. Johnson: We have an obligation to think about transforming traditional assignments into something more interactive and problem-solving-based.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. If you lose a day of carefully planned lessons, that’s losing a key building block.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. Traditional Foods Fascinate your students with not only what people eat in Asian and Pacific Island countries, but how they prepare their meals.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

We are constantly experimenting,” said Catherine Arnold, a Boston Latin history teacher who oversees the environmental club that runs the farm as an extracurricular activity. Most of them don’t think about technology and food going together, when clearly they do, even in traditional farming.”.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I These improvised or newly created tabletop games do have to go through a fair bit of testing before being introduced as a lesson plan.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

And the pandemic’s fits and starts in instruction are unprecedented in the history of American public education and have affected students unevenly. Teachers are going to need a lot more planning time for lesson plans. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students. LOOKING AHEAD.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Northern Cass students Jaenna Wolff (left) and Abby Richman work on history and physical science, respectively, at the Jaguar Academy. Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We Nor are seniors.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

I was also fortunate to find colleagues and peers who challenged me to try new things that, from the outside, had nothing to do with traditional librarianship or my background in English and history. Gaelyn: I heard about makerspaces three or four years ago and, like any good librarian, I started doing some research!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level. Ten schools began using the model in 1993.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

I am one of the lucky teachers who did not have to figure out how to change all of my lesson plans and adapt to online teaching overnight, because I have been teaching at a virtual school for a couple of years now. History classes from this amazing location in Costa Rica in February 2019! I taught my U.S.

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Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

I designed the digital pages I created to look like traditional notebooks - vertically aligned and in the style of the "cut-and-paste" activities we were already doing. Plus there’s lesson plans for every day, flipped classroom videos, Google Slides, primary sources, worksheets, and more for every unit.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The hope is that by providing students access to resources they did not previously have, including after school programs and individualized lesson plans for students in need of remediation, the district can help every student reach his or her full potential. Jones came to Starkville High in 2015 from East Oktibbeha County High School.

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Letters and Ink Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I also usually want to cover my butt in case admin wants to see a lesson plan or know what standard I am teaching! This tradition began as a way to satirize key political figures, and remains a tool of satire today! Halloween Language Arts Mini Unit on TpT 3. No Prep Calaveras Literarias Activity 4. What Makes a Monster?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The answer does not lie in a good lesson plan. Educators should be able to come to a place of understanding about the BLM movement to connect what’s happening now with the context and history that has brought us here. It’s not a matter of if, but when. So, how does a teacher prepare? Like what your reading?

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Ben Newmark

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

It became an on-trend word – appearing on documents, lesson plans, quality assurance, lesson observation forms and lots of other places too. But there are issues with the word ‘misconception’ – a misconception of misconceptions if you like, and it’s a particular problem in history. It still pops up everywhere.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

15 Women from World History Who Made a Difference Mar. 7, 2022 By Studies Weekly World history is full of remarkable women who changed the way we live today. During Women’s History Month or any time of the year, their stories can inspire your students to dream big and make the difference they want to see in the world.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 21, 2017

Ocon describes lesson plans that were based around presenting content and then giving quizzes and tests at predetermined intervals. All the traditional method does is sort students. In a history class, for example, imagine two students taking a test based on a chapter reading on the Vietnam War.

Geography 95

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

For millions of students, this is a summer like no other in the history of American public education. The last day of the school year was followed by just a brief pause before classes started again for a wide range of programs financed by more than a billion dollars in federal funds under the American Rescue Plan.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

With thousands of teachers using Zinn Education Project lessons each year, we hear amazing stories about the impact these lessons have in the classroom. History students. Paradoxically, teaching people’s history leaves more room for hope than any other educational framework. Here are just a few.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2016

It is just one of a slate of waivers approved by lawmakers, including class size, teacher preparation time, hiring and firing rules, and others, allowing traditional public schools to operate with the same educational requirements as their area charter schools. She is 35, and this wasn’t exactly her plan. “My According to U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

They can include textbooks, lesson plans, digital resources and other materials carefully crafted to meet the needs of diverse learners and facilitate meaningful learning experiences. How does the C3 Framework differ from traditional sets of standards, and what factors contributed to its widespread adoption in social studies education?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Lessons like these help students gain critical thinking skills and give them an opportunity to learn about workers’ rights and labor history, subjects that are often missing from classroom discussions, educators say. At least two states have tried to ensure that students receive an introduction to labor history.

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Education Economics Civics History 85

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Related: What do classroom conversations around race, identity and history really look like? In Texas, where the governor’s order is being challenged in court, Adrian Reyna, an eighth grade history teacher in San Antonio, said he won’t be “intimidated” into reporting his transgender students to state authorities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A It’s a big challenge,” said McPherson, who also co-authored the book “Lesson Plan: An Agenda for Change in American Higher Education.”. It’s hard to expect the same level of loyalty.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Initially, Honani put some blame on herself as a mother, chiding herself for failing to stay on top of her son’s teachers and deprioritizing traditional schooling during a hectic time. Out of this activity comes respect for history, science, land and the weather, she said. There was no follow-up.”. Credit: COURTESY OF SAMANTHA HONANI.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2017

There were Somali, Iraqi, Burmese, Bhutanese, Ethiopian and Latin American teenagers — all learning English, math, history and science in an eleven-room, domed building. Students at GEO International High School, who are all recent immigrants or refugees, present their history projects to the class. Photo: Meredith Kolodner.

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High School K-12 History Heritage 85

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

history, and knew none of the literature her peers had read years earlier. Teachers now must use lesson plans, and they finally have a curriculum to use in English, science and math classes. A year later, the Nations Report Card found Native students in traditional public schools performed much better than those in BIE schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

By the 1960s, the American Petroleum Institute was looking to shake its reputation as a “monopoly which reaped excessive profits” and set out to cultivate a network of “thought leaders” that included educators, journalists, politicians and even clergy, according to an organizational history copyrighted by API in 1990. The idea caught on.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Whitaker to talk about his book, The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America , a history of the idea of Black criminality in the making of the modern United States. I appreciated hearing about the history of how data has been (mis)used to construct a narrative of Black criminality.

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