History Social Studies Tutoring 
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.
The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 28, 2020
This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. Will history repeat? Simply telling students to “work together” or “discuss” often didn’t generate learning improvements for students in the studies.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2016
In the middle of all this activity, seventh-grader Jacob Higuera sat alone with his laptop, intently typing out a social studies assignment. Jacob Higuera, a seventh-grader at the Innovation Academy, completes a social studies assignment on his laptop while students take part in other lessons in the background.
The Hechinger Report
MAY 30, 2018
A 2017 study by the RAND Corporation found that 17 percent of teachers in the personalized learning schools surveyed said they devote a least a quarter of class time to tutoring students one-on-one, compared to just 9 percent of teachers surveyed nationwide. Once again, the technology acts as a placeholder.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 5, 2022
Sometimes, Talbott says, she was the first Black teacher her students had had at Lusher, even after she began teaching sixth-grade social studies in 2013; it meant a lot to her to provide students with that self-recognition and affirmation. She has worked in Mississippi for years, first as a tutor and then as an assistant teacher.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 15, 2022
We have classroom tutors now. Sharahn Santana, African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. The school has lost a bunch of teachers, but three of my son’s core subject teachers — English, social studies and science — have all left since Christmas. Every day there are more adults.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 16, 2020
Teachers valued her blackness, she said, and taught her the history of African and African-American strength. She’d found, in Ghana, a community and history that affirmed her strength as a black woman. She tutored at two D.C. But what Pierre-Floyd described was something different than what I’d experienced.
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