The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Though the past year has put a spotlight on the limits and possibilities of using technology for teaching and learning, we began exploring the utility of using virtual reality as a medium for Holocaust education before the pandemic reshaped the educational landscape. One even said she had “never wanted to learn history’’ before.

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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. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law.

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Technology by Terry Heick It’s possible that there is no time in the history of education that our systems of educating have been so out of touch with the communities. The idea is that teaching and learning are anchored through the process of authentic projects constructed over time.

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Artifacts Project-Based Learning Museum Cultures 289

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But We Can’t Teach? Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. At least 44 states have passed or proposed legislation to prohibit teaching about structural racism. But educators around the country continue to pledge to teach the truth about structural racism.

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Teaching American History Museum Library 111

Anthropology.net

MARCH 15, 2025

But behind every collection of bones stored in laboratories and museums lies a deeper story—one of power, consent, and ethics. These were once living people, with families and histories. The Ethics of Teaching with Human Remains: A Bioarchaeological Perspective." University of Chicago Press. de la Cova, C.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. What happened to Emmett Till was brutal, but the tragedy has been sanitized in Mississippi textbooks and in discussions of this state’s violent, racist history. The museums are vast, engaging and traumatizing. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT.

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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. Washington University in St.

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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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Historic Sites Museum American History Heritage 128

Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

However, there’s not much guidance for teachers on how to teach about Native Americans with sensitivity and respect. The following suggestions will help you to teach about Native American cultures respectfully and sensitively. Be careful when teaching the history of the United States. Now that I know better, I do better.

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Cultures Teaching Museum Elementary School 130

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 population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Looking for fresh ways to teach about the American Revolution? Want to connect with fellow classroom teachers and museum educators? Looking for advice on how to navigate teaching inclusive history during this time of divisive rhetoric? Sessions will be led by dynamic classroom teachers and museum educators.

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Museum Education Museum K-12 American History 130

ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. EdSurge spent a morning with the teachers as they toured Smithsonian museums in small groups. The teaching seed was planted in Autumn Rivera’s psyche when she was quite young. Photo by Rebeccca Koenig.

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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

Thoughts of history bring forth lives once living. As I sit with my breakfast, staring out on this river of history, I wonder who was the first European to see it?France There is a good loading ramp at the park, and an ambitious array of bicycle paths planned and constructed for your visit through the city’s history.

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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. KELLEN ZENG.

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History Heritage K-12 American History 108

Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Hundreds of PreK-12 teaching and learning resources that support developmentally appropriate skill-building and leverage both well-known and lesser-known stories in American history are freely available online for use in the classroom and at home

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American History History Cultures Museum 71

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

Department of Education visited with a group of Polish educators to learn more about how our school teaches the Holocaust and genocide. They spent 10 days in the United States traveling between New York and Washington, DC specifically for the teachers to learn more about the American approach to teaching the Holocaust and genocide.

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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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Civics K-12 Museum American History 145

Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. As you teach students about a culture some may be unfamiliar with, it can pique their curiosity and renew their interest. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. If you can’t find one, don’t worry.

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Heritage Museum Social Studies Artifacts 98

Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

The series, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, is focused on six themes that are at the heart of SNCC’s history of grassroots organizing: the organizing tradition, voting rights, Black Power, women and gender, freedom teaching, and art and culture in movement building.

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Museum Human Rights Tradition History 92

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Implement and Assess: Implement the chosen options in your teaching practice and assess their effectiveness in helping students apply and transfer their learning. Review and Customize: Review and customize the chatbot’s suggestions to meet your classroom context and student needs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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Pedagogy to Share

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The third session, led by Professor Hanna Ragnarsdóttir from the University of Iceland and Professor Mila Schwartz, focused on linguistically and culturally responsive teaching. Here again, we heard inspiring stories of inclusive teaching alongside stories of indifference and ignorance the teachers had witnessed in their schools.

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Education Museum Cultures History 130

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 139

Rosie the History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Depending on what subject you teach, we all have a goal in mind for how our teaching impacts students. As a history teacher with a background in museum work, my biggest goal is for my students to learn to curate their knowledge to be able to share it with others. See an example of my collection below: 9.

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History Primary Sources Museum Artifacts 52

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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History Social Studies Museum Civics 75

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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. In MAHG, Postell often teaches courses on Political Parties and on the US Congress.

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American History Library Museum Government 119

Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

Around the world, countless people and organizations are taking steps to ensure all students get a high-quality education by leveraging innovative technology and teaching practices. Winners will be notified in October and invited to attend our gala celebration on November 20 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

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K-12 Museum Library Leadership 123

Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. Wann was raised in Jeffersonville on Meigs Avenue, just one block down from the Jeffersonville High School building in which he would later teach.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A widely-published writer, he’s the author, co-author, or editor of four music history books and many essays and articles. Jesse teaches Ethnic Studies and is the co-adviser to the Black Student Union at Garfield High School in Seattle. The post The History of Black Music — A Love Supreme appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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History Museum American History Leadership 52

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. Mostly forgotten by history, thousands of Chinese immigrants, who came to the U.S.

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Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In the face of Georgia’s HB 1084 Protect Students First Act, often referred to as the “divisive concepts” act, many teachers are being told to avoid teaching about race, gender, class, climate change, and other topics. But this cannot happen if there is a culture of fear that leads teachers to discourage conversations and inquiry.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 15, 2025

Seeking a moments hesitation within which water-based life can again be certain, before resuming its race to the final destination and obliterating its history. Wann was raised in Jeffersonville on Meigs Avenue, just one block down from the Jeffersonville High School building in which he would later teach.

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Museum High School History Humanities 52

NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Since 2017, NCHE has offered professional learning colloquia that focus on “Technology’s Impact in American History (TIAH).” With Francis’s help, we began to frame a colloquium to focus on the pre-19 th century period and chose the title, “ Uncovering Lost Voices in American History.”

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Primary Sources Archiving Library American History 100

Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

At the American Museum of Natural History, a 2001 digital representation of the human genome presents color coding for the four chemical components of DNA. Educators can either perpetuate or dispel misconceptions, depending on how they teach genetics. However, few secondary and undergraduate textbooks offer updated content.

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Ancestry Education Humanities K-12 145

ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2023

Are you using the technology to spark new learning interest, teach a new concept or reinforce a difficult one? The first was designed to explore terraforming Earth and the second was developed to learn about Egyptian history by exploring a virtual museum. Identify Your Goals Starting with your goals is the best way to begin.

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