ED Surge

JANUARY 28, 2022

While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and school board meetings. We choose books to show them they belong and to help them see that others belong too.

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Library History Tradition Educational Technology 103

Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. We are excited to share their story as the second in our series of Maker Promise videos.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

History class, students learned about the rise of Jacksonian Democracy and had to determine if Jackson was a highly successful president or a corrupt leader. Students in Mr. Tusa’s history class investigated the history of Europe through painting (1500-1800). History teacher Ms. Image credit: [link] In Ms. Levy’s U.S.

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Library History Cultures Educational Technology 261

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. Brunelle taught the students how to do genealogy research online, in libraries and at the local city hall.

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Women's History Network

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches.

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TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

” – Harper Lee “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.” ” – Lloyd Alexander “The library is inhabited by spirits that come out of the pages at night.”

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

Below are some examples of how my teachers made this shift when I was the principal at New Milford High School: Mr. Groff’s history classes utilized Paperlet , a participatory technology platform where students created digital stories that incorporated various multimedia elements including video, sound, and image files.

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Pedagogy Library History High School 426

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was always interested in history. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. This month, we are featuring Caleb Brown.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

He also investigates the history of Classical scholars in America. For questions or for more information, call the Library at 207-244-7065, visit www.swhplibrary.org , or email programs@swhplibrary.org. Register for the event at: [link] Image Credits Southwest Harbor Public Library logo

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Teaching American History hosts Multi-Day seminars at no cost to American history and government teachers. appeared first on Teaching American History. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? See a sample itinerary here.

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Historic Sites Museum American History Heritage 127

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. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms. Her desk would be in the hall.

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Charter School History Library Public School 109

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 14, 2014

Mr. Groff’s US history classes piloted Paperlet , a new educationally based technology platform where students create digital stories that incorporate various multimedia elements including video, sound, and image files. The students worked with Mrs. Fleming on new Google Chromebooks in the library to design their e-books.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

Click on the history volume and you can learn the history of empire from Ghana to the Sultanate of Massina. Learn about the Mosque of Djenne here and its importance as a library for manuscripts. In another section, you can click on the different topics that the manuscripts cover and read a summary of what they say.

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Cultures Library History 130

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past.

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Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

Instead, I decided to try something new and share a story about one of my first experiences with deeper learning during a history course I took in college: My stomach twisted when I saw the 9 inch by 12 inch, black-and-white picture my professor was holding. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library.

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Education Library History American History 123

History Tech

MARCH 15, 2023

I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people who work at the Library of Congress. And they’ve all been awesome. I’m sure there’s probably one or two who work over there who are Las Vegas Raiders fans or who will tell you that they don’t like Kansas City Joe’s burnt ends. And other […]

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Research Library Primary Sources Lesson Plan 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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History Elementary School Library Civics 73

HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students. I hope it is well-stocked in school libraries. I remember skimming it in Barnes and Noble and putting it down because it starts off with a romantic triangle between Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus in a New York City hotel suite in 1942. I was wrong.

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World History Library History 130

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. There is evidence that teaching such skills has some benefit, but what students really need in order to read with understanding is knowledge about history, geography, science, music, the arts and the world more broadly.

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Teaching Geography History Library 141

Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

history designed to maintain white supremacy that receive little attention in corporate curricula. The Zinn Education Project provides free resources to teach outside the textbook about the Tulsa Massacre and the continuing history of institutionalized racism and displacement. This is one of countless massacres in U.S. Learn more.

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Teaching Archiving Library History 111

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.

Civics 144

Civics K-12 Museum American History 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2020

The lesson featured two art historians, a microbiologist, a writing specialist, the library director and me, a historian in sports studies. Along with weekly discussions, we crafted assignments to help students understand their roles in creating what will be the history of this moment.

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Artifacts Library Social Science History 130

HistoryRewriter

DECEMBER 1, 2023

As a Plus member, you can stream our growing library of shows on demand. Join us on EduProtocols Plus at 9 pm EST/ 6 pm PST.

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Library Social Studies History Education History 130

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. It’s going from the front pages of the newspaper to the history books.”. But even then, teachers of traditional U.S.

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History Social Studies Museum Civics 73

NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” Given the Library of Congress’s mission to connect its archives with others across the nation, we were excited to add another dimension to the current Library of Congress resources for teachers.

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Primary Sources Archiving Library Museum 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to.

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Heritage Artifacts Local History Social Studies 133

Sapiens

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Using the same fossil material, curators and paleoanthropologists commissioned this bust , “The Neanderthal Man of La Chapelle-aux-Saints,” for the American Museum of Natural History in 1915. Keith’s nearly European Neanderthal figured into human history. Credit: Wellcome Library, London.

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Museum Humanities History Library 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2020

It was startling, Nia thought, how studying history could leave her feeling the same heaviness she’d felt scrolling social media after police had killed Michael Brown, Tamir Rice and Laquan McDonald, young Black people of her own generation. Tatiana Bennett was studying the history of hip-hop. Credit: Courtesy of Helen Gym.

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Archiving Museum History Primary Sources 140

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Homan is compiling an archive of Chatfield’s history. It really has a lot of history.”

Education 134

Education Archiving Library High School 134

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. Wayne Grimm, Library Instructional Technology Teacher at Westview High School, Beaverton, Oregon.

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Joseph Postel l is Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College and a faculty member in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University. Congressional row, in the U.S. 5, 1858 Feb.

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American History Library Museum Government 118

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Library of Congress. Library of Congress. Not only is Bates important to the history of Central High’s integration, she is also a significant figure in the national Civil Rights Movement. In his recent history of the modern Civil Rights Movement, historian Thomas E. Simple Justice: The History of Brown v.

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Oral History Library History American History 105

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol M.

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Teaching American History Museum Library 111

Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces A free talk on Friday 4 October 2024 at 4.00pm at Senate House Library ‘The Petticoat Peril’ exploring women in pharmacy history Today, over 60% of British pharmacists are women, and women’s involvement in pharmacy has a very long history.

History 52

History Library 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history. Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. On special occasions, they’d make the trip to downtown Dallas, where the towering library building has a dedicated children’s floor.

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Elementary School Library Middle School Tutoring 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

She planned to major in digital media arts, but before she could start, Delta State eliminated that major, along with 20 other degree programs , including history, English, chemistry and music. Holly Buroughs sits in front of the Jackson Library on the campus of the University of North Carolina Greensboro.

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Geography Political Science Sociology History 131

C3 Teachers

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

I wanted discussion in the context of disciplinary tasks, and I found a new opportunity with the Library of Congress’ “Primary Source Analysis Tool.” I have implemented this tool with my students in a high school World History classroom and feel good about the outcomes.

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Primary Sources Pedagogy World History Library 111