Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

The video made me laugh and think about how much the teacher of those students must have inspired a love of history! So, the history meme project was born in my classroom. What are my rules for making history memes? It’s seriously easy to make history memes. Why do I ask my students to create history memes?

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In the very first minute of my first day teaching at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, I received a rude awakening. And if you have new lessons to teach, you may struggle to help them catch up. Its important to note here that you dont need to transform your entire classroom or stop teaching the way youre used to.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

c1903 from photo taken on May 16, 1861) Library of Congress. The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History. It is there to adorn and preserve the principles within the Declaration, and that makes it worthy of saving. Abraham Lincoln. It has a philosophical cause.

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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! Unlike textbooks, we won’t tell you what to teach or how to teach it. The post A 3000+ Document Library: A Blessing or a Curse? But which one should I use?

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TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

You can also read best quotes about knowledge , quotes about critical thinking , quotes about life , quotes about teaching , and quotes about learning. ” – Harper Lee “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Below are dozens of quotes–hopefully inspirational quotes–about reading.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. Connecting Kids to History Studies Weekly uses primary sources to share real accounts. The primary source.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. Before touring History Colorado Center’s exhibit, The Sand Creek Massacre: The Betrayal That Changed Cheyenne and Arapaho People Forever , in Denver this summer, I had never heard of Silas Soule. Ray Tyler The post The Sand Creek Massacre appeared first on Teaching American History.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

The reason for this is that we have put a premium on creating a teaching and learning culture that better meets the needs of our learners while enhancing essential skills such as collaboration, communication, creativity, media literacy, and global awareness. History teacher Ms. Image credit: [link] In Ms. Levy’s U.S. Students in Ms.

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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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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.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. history (why was the Berlin wall built?) I let kids choose their books.

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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. But We Can’t Teach? Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. Source: Alamy.In

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Perez is hard at work in the Brownsville Public Library. While she wasnt teaching during the pandemic, she saw friends and family struggle to replicate the way teachers motivate students to work. BROWNSVILLE, Texas Its nearly 5 p.m. on a Friday, and Dolores S. Shes also one of the people having the most fun. Perez, known as Ms.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth.

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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. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. But I did enjoy teaching. I was always interested in history.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try Mar 28, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER Teaching children to manage their emotions is essential in the 21st century. A unique and effective way teachers can do this is by giving opportunities for regulating emotions through proprioceptive input activities.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

History to Spanish immersion, more students means more funding. Nationally, there aren’t enough bilingual educators , or educators certified to teach English as a second language (ESL). But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 16, 2024

In this election year, the Zinn Education Project developed an interactive Teach Truth pop-up display to raise awareness about the growing threat of anti-history education laws and book bans. Predicting that question, we prepared a postcard with Teach, Vote, Organize on one side and a range of actions one can take on the other.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 14, 2014

Not only are they working extremely hard to adjust to the many new mandates enacted in NJ, but in the face of this adversity they have not departed from what makes NMHS a special place to teach and learn. The students worked with Mrs. Fleming on new Google Chromebooks in the library to design their e-books.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Social-Emotional Learning as Part of Whole Child Learning.

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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? Click here.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Freedom, Virtue, & Resistance in African American Political Thought at African American Museum and Library at Oakland in Oakland, CA.

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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. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. But this meant also integrating the teaching staff of Reid School, which served the black community, into the formerly white schools. 4 [October 1988], 387 444.))

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

They need to be experts in the subjects they are teaching." So what knowledge we teach now will retain its power during the students' life time - let alone beyond. When I first started teaching in 1988, the Key Geography series was the choice. they're teaching particular students rather than that person.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

I really did not expect to make it home,” she said during a recent conference on teaching difficult topics in the current partisan political environment, particularly in Florida. Before she left her house that evening, she printed out her will and put it on the table, along with a letter to her family. “I Florida Gov.

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Teaching American History

JULY 30, 2024

Little wonder that Dunn’s course in this year’s summer residential Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, “From Courthouse to Schoolhouse,” drew teachers from urban and rural areas across the country. In its opinion, the court ruled that a school board could not ban books it deemed offensive from school libraries.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Teaching American History is excited to announce the release of our latest core document volume, the second edition of Free Speech. The incorporation doctrine authorized the Supreme Court for the first time in its history to review state laws that potentially infringed upon the First Amendment. Interested in bulk purchasing?

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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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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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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Teaching is intense, vulnerable work. Every teacher shows up with their own histories and insecurities and flaws. We can look at student data and try new instructional strategies all day long, but until we learn to navigate all of these complex feelings, the work of improving our teaching will always be limited at best.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Cunha resided in Lajeado and served as a tenured professor at the Federal University of Santa Maria (UFSM) , where he worked in the Department of Education Foundations and in the Graduate Programs in History and Education.

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TCI

JANUARY 6, 2025

TCI, a leader in K-12 educational content and curriculum, is proud to announce that its K-6 and 7-12 Social Studies programs have received favorable reviews in the latest textbook adoption reports released by the Office of Instructional Materials & Library Services within the Mississippi Instructional Materials Review Board.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

I think one of the hardest parts of teaching something like that is, because you were there and you saw it happen, you know what it felt like and you know what it was like to see it,” said Neil Thompson, also a social studies teacher at North Plainfield High School. Related: How can states better support and keep new teachers?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

” Teaching aide Hannah Chancey faces the same problem in second grade classrooms at Rehobeth Elementary School in a small low-income community in southeastern Alabama, a state with reading scores near the bottom nationally. Students need to read in order to learn other subjects, from science to history.

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