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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

History 101
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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

While shows like Abbott Elementary – which I especially love as a graduate of Philly Public Schools – try to show teachers as real, dynamic people with complexities and contradictions, few educators get to narrate the true power of the relationships we’ve been able to cultivate with our students. History class.

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Waiting for the traveling teacher: Remote rural schools need more hands-on help

The Hechinger Report

Eventually the school superintendent, who doubles as a special education teacher and a substitute, asked if he’d be interested in doing more; the schools have been short-staffed for years. million students go to public schools in rural areas , more than the combined total of the nation’s 85 largest school districts.

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Teachers, cafeteria workers and school bus drivers should be next in line for the Covid vaccine

The Hechinger Report

14 not only boosted her immunity for the virus, it lifted our collective hopes that this tragic period in world history would soon pass. Prioritizing schools recognizes the close connection between keeping schools open and getting people back to work. To date, the coronavirus has killed approximately 1.7

Geography 131
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Kids Don’t Learn What They Aren’t Taught

4QM Teaching

Most of us who work in schools are motivated at least in part by a desire to make the world better, and it’s nice to know that our work actually makes a difference in what young people know and can do. And many elementary schools have basically not been teaching history for some time now.

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Activist students go to summer camp to learn how to help institute a ‘green new deal’ on their campuses

The Hechinger Report

The Green New Deal for Schools is so important right now in the U.S., where our school buildings are crumbling, where our students are not being adequately prepared to face the realities of the climate crisis, where there are vast inequities across race and class.”

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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Now a middle school technology teacher at S.P. Arnett, a public school in nearby Westlake, she can relate to her students. Tiffany Guillory is a middle school technology teacher at S.P.