ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. With my days long and rigid, this profession hasn’t given me the space to be a balanced, whole human. It’s about more than tests and grades.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

A study of project-based learning found that social studies scores were higher for second-grade students who learned this way, compared to students who were taught traditionally. studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Spierenburg, whose company helped support the development of the app explains that every activity is directly aligned with a standard and has an accompanying lesson plan in Verizon Innovative Learning HQ , a free online education portal empowering educators to help bring new ways of learning and next-gen tech into the learning experience.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

We need to read texts by Asian American authors in English classes and learn about Asian American history and community leaders in social studies classes. When planning for this course, I met with a group of 12 peers from six different high schools. This raises a necessary question: Who is going to teach these classes?

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 23, 2024

My day begins with teaching two 65-minute social studies periods, followed by a plan period, co-teaching a reading workshop with an ELA teacher, and ending the day with two more 65-minute social studies classes. So far this school year is flying by. I’m really enjoying my new schedule.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

They help students understand what real people of the past saw, felt, and heard as they lived through the events we study in school. Letters, photographs, postcards, journals, and other first-hand accounts add detail, humanity, and relevance to our picture of the past.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The National Women’s History Museum documents how Truth advocated for voting rights for all and argued that gender or race should not restrict any human rights. Learn how Studies Weekly Social Studies can help teach students about history’s humanitarians. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

Step 2: Aligning with Standards With student needs in mind, the next step was to ensure that the unit was aligned with Ohio’s educational standards for 8th-grade social studies, specifically focusing on Native American history. It also emphasized the importance of adaptability and continuous improvement in lesson planning.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Many dedicated, brilliant, and diverse trailblazers have illuminated our path and brought their findings to the forefront of humanity. She found the skull of a giant sloth next to early human tools. Discover more perspectives and experiences through Studies Weekly’s social studies and science products.

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4QM Teaching

MARCH 19, 2023

Teachers of history and social studies on all grade levels know they want students to do more than just memorize facts; they want students to practice thinking about history as well. Humans remember what we think about, so actually engaging intellectually with history will help students to remember more of it.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Bagley encourages teachers to use Studies Weekly print publications with the Studies Weekly Online learning platform. “I honestly cannot imagine teaching social studies without providing each student with a copy of their student publication.” Kaufman, G., & Flanagan, M. 2021, December 21).

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Department of Health and Human Services defines affordable child care as no more than 10% of a family’s income; however, the Care Index reports that childcare costs account for as high as 19% of a family’s income in some states. 2021, May 10). What is Universal Pre-K? Alliance for Early Success.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

The standards, which went into effect this fall, introduce students as young as kindergarteners to the subject, not just in science class but in the arts, world languages, social studies and physical education. She said it was up to humans to drive less and recycle and protect other species from climate disaster.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Eager to help plug these gaps, Sanchez began drafting course materials on labor for Rethinking Schools, a publisher that co-launched the Zinn Education Project to develop curriculums on workers, women, people of color and social movements. “You “But really it is totally ignored.”. Weekly Update.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Allyson Saladino High School Social Studies Teacher, Ridgewood, New Jersey I used the lesson titled, How Red Lines Built White Wealth , in order for students to learn about red lining and institutionalized racism.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C. Many states require lessons on the Civil War as part of U.S. history and social studies curriculums.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Last spring, when the odds seemed far longer, Bob Cousineau, a social studies teacher at Pennridge High School, predicted that whatever happened in his embattled district would become a national “case study” one way or another. Bob Cousineau teaches social studies at Pennridge High School, in Pennsylvania.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

According to the report, American Lesson Plan: Teaching U.S. Conditions havent improved for social studies teachers since. Michelle Nystel, high school social studies teacher in northeast Iowa The piece I struggle with as an educator is how do you teach the truth when the truth is all relative?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Chris Tims, a social studies teacher in Waterloo, Iowa, says he won’t stop teaching the 1619 Project, despite political pressure. Skyler Wheeler, a conservative, has a different view on the Pulitzer Prize-winning project, which has been expanded to include reading guides and lesson plans. and African American history.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I also wanted to let folks know that we at the Zinn Education Project offer free, downloadable people’s history lessons that many of you have probably used for middle and high school students, and we also have an important report on Reconstruction that we hope you all will check out and think about how to use in your classrooms.

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