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Seminar Series on SNCC and Grassroots Organizing

Zinn Education Project

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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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

Example 1: A Classroom in a Competency-Based School One unit Messer teaches is a 9-week seminar called Global Zoo. It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective?

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Cuts at the NEH

ASHP CML

Last week, the ASHP was one of many organizations and individuals suddenly notified about the termination of grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its state humanities councils bring reading programs, traveling exhibits, and authors to some of the country’s most rural corners.

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My School Learned The Hard Way That Edtech Saves Time, But It Can't Solve Human Problems

ED Surge

A former student of mine shared this opinion in a class seminar about Transcendentalism. Using Technology to Solve Human Problems Shortly after implementing the packaged SEL curriculum, students became noticeably wary about entering these conversations. I’m so sick of hearing about self-care and feelings.

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We Can’t Keep ChatGPT Out of the Classroom, so Let’s Address the ‘Why’ Behind Our Fears

ED Surge

Teachers tested prompt after prompt, and while the essays ChatGPT spit out weren’t exemplary, it was human enough for students to pass the work off as their own. I prepared a few Socratic Seminars about their impressions of AI and its potential implications for the future of writing and education. It’s totally simplifying it!”

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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

Preservice teachers take an ethics seminar provided by the Athens State college of education, Tuesday, Oct. The seminar aimed to help prepare prospective teachers for real-world issues in the education workplace. Preservice teachers listen closely at an ethics seminar provided by the Athens State college of education, Tuesday, Oct.

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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education

ED Surge

When I was a full-time history teacher at Stella Middle Charter Academy in Los Angeles, my eighth graders had just finished a Socratic seminar discussing several questions about race and immigration in 19th-century America. By empowering our students to think historically, they can redefine the political sphere.

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