Thrive in Grade Five

MAY 16, 2019

History Book Clubs are a fantastic way to get your students reading and engaging with history! Do you love teaching history? Do you try to integrate history into your reading block? I couldn’t believe I’d never thought of making my Literature Circles into History Book Clubs.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Through these practices, they could not only evoke the flavors of home and pass down traditions but also begin mending wounds left by separation. Nala: Care as Reconceptualizing Tradition Payasam is the sweet, so it has to be sweet, Nala says of this creamy tapioca dessert, traditionally made for celebrations. Im teaching her!

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But We Can’t Teach? This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. 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. Source: Alamy.In

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

Jon had been teaching a graduate seminar just across from the shooting and hunkered down with his students as the campus locked down. It named the empirical complexity of human differenceits clines, overlaps, and histories, without collapsing those patterns into racial categories. Jon wasnt rejecting science.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

True, the Bill of Rights incorporated much of the English common law and the colonial due process tradition, but it also shed much of this traditions feudal and monarchical features. The post The Bill of Rights appeared first on Teaching American History.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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History Tech

JULY 10, 2023

And one consequence of the altered agenda is that my summer reading list, a treasured tradition dating back to the summer following my first year of teaching middle school, is now […] Let’s just say that my May and June did not go as planned and leave it at that.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2022

She is teaching me how to properly introduce myself in our Lakota language, Lak?ótiyapi. Generally rooted in place-based knowledge, oral traditions and kinship, Indigenous Knowledge Systems reflect the unique experiences of each community, while sharing common traits. I repeat the syllables in a much slower and deliberate voice.

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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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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? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

We see a lag between when the genetic evidence tells us language capacity was present and when symbolic artifacts appear in the record," notes Ian Tattersall, a paleoanthropologist at the American Museum of Natural History and co-author of the study. Fossils do not speak, and ancient DNA does not carry recordings of conversations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For the past year, Teaching American Historys webinars have been about the presidential election. We spent this fall diving into the rhetorical traditions of American politics. So lets take a step back and look back at an entirely different aspect of US history. Last spring, we broke down the presidential election cycle.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’d already read many stories about ChatGPT in the news, and initially, I wasn’t concerned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact my teaching. The reality is, as much as I love teaching my content, I don’t have the capacity to do the individualized planning to support every child’s learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2010

During this school year we have collaboratively been a part of some integral reformations that in time will ultimately have a positive impact on teaching, learning, and achievement. As we move into 2011 let’s continue to make waves, break down traditional barriers, take risks, and collaborate for the benefit of all learners.

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ED Surge

MARCH 2, 2023

Colleges found new ways of scaling, rethinking how teaching is done online. teach remote students. The institution was built with online in mind, and focuses on a so-called competency-based teaching method, where students work at their own pace and get credit when they show they know the material. It turns out he was right.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

Can teachers who are teaching an AP course use blended learning models and cover the extensive curriculum? I teach AP Psychology, blended and traditional, at a high school in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. I get asked this question frequently as a blended learning coach. My answer is a resounding “Yes!”

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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. Elephants aren’t anomalies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

They also aim to open traditional students’ eyes to the stigmas and systematic barriers to employment former prisoners like Omar face. Even more importantly, the program gave him the confidence that he could succeed, despite his history. It’s part of a trend of colleges teaching entrepreneurship to inmates and ex-inmates.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

In their new book, Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making , my friend, Jay McTighe , and his co-author, Harvey Silver , write about an active reading strategy that encourages students to engage with texts before, during, and after reading. Yet, reading is like any skill that we can improve with practice.

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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 In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. You know how Ms.

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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 Transportation in such a river town is a tradition. I am honored when I am periodically asked to teach there. But I think they misread his journal.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

These traditional approaches to review are problematic on three fronts. Given that my focus is on designing and facilitating student-centered learning experiences utilizing blended learning, I suggest that teachers rethink their traditional approaches to helping students prepare for assessments. I thought it was a brilliant idea!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. The post Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching. Educators are no different.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

For most of history, survival depended on relationships on families, communities and shared responsibility. Thats why some of the most effective initiatives dont look like traditional schools at all. Related: What aspects of teaching should remain human? Family hubs in the UK and the U.S.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 21, 2025

His I Have a Dream Speech does not answer this question, but does make its appeal on the basis of traditional American principles of equality, fairness, and brotherhood. appeared first on Teaching American History. I Have a Dream speech, which ranks among the most famous speeches of the 20 th century.

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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. But even then, teachers of traditional U.S.

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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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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It is a tradition I have continued through the years. We all have unique interests, learning preferences, histories and life experiences, family dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses. These goals are hard, if not impossible, to achieve with traditional, teacher-led, whole group lessons. I thought about skipping it altogether.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights. Teaching is inherently activist. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement.

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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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

When I taught United States history at a high school in New York City, I had a discussion with my students about finding sources for their upcoming research projects. How do we teach students to vet endless sources when we may not know ourselves? The responses mainly echoed, “just Google” and “stay away from Wikipedia.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

It’s all about giving teachers the tools to teach effectively and students the means to show off their skills to colleges and employers. It’s all about giving teachers the tools to teach effectively and students the means to show off their skills to colleges and employers. With AI, we’re teaching them to surf in an ever-changing ocean.

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