The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

Instead of staying with the same two teachers in the same room for most of the day, students have one teacher for a combined science and math class and another for a humanities class that brings language arts and social studies together. You’re learning it more deeply because you’re actually the one finding information,” she said.

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Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School Social Studies 112

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

I Used to Think…Now I Think…Thinking Routine The “I used to think…Now I think…” thinking routine helps students reflect on how they used to think about a topic, subject, or issue and how their thoughts have changed as a result of a learning experience or engagement with information (e.g.,

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Controversial Topics Critical Thinking Cultures Social Studies 140

HistoryRewriter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

See Chapter 15 in the Social Studies Edition. To recap, when I follow the traditional Retell in Rhyme EduProtocol, I use these steps. This lesson helps students determine the central ideas or information in a primary or secondary source. Our special guest will be Camarillo High School history teacher Mike Hernandez.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Tradition History 130

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

It enables schools and districts to make informed decisions by ensuring diverse stakeholders are authentically engaged throughout the data cycle. We looked at it as an opportunity to hear from other districts and their journeys towards interoperability,” says Justin Hennes, the district’s senior information officer. “It

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Public School Social Studies Leadership Research 145

Thrive in Grade Five

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Will the parents of your students be willing to provide hot entrees, sides, and desserts if you have a traditional feast? The Day Before: Inform the office if you will be expecting parent helpers during the feast, so that they will be prepared to direct them to your room. Or just be a snack?

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Tradition History Social Studies Teaching 130

Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

We need to emphasize that Native American groups were (and are still) unique with distinct language, beliefs, traditions, and dress. When teaching about pre-Columbian or pre-contact cultures, be sure that students understand many of the tribes they are learning about have ancestors today who are still practicing their traditions.

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Cultures Teaching Museum Elementary School 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Without fully informing his mother, the school district pulled him out of the regular education program and assigned him to classes focused on life skills. Try a few questions yourself Many psychologists believe that traditional intelligence tests too often measure what a child already knows, not how well they can think.

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Tradition Public School Psychology Government 126

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. Many classrooms resemble a traditional setup, with a teacher at the front of the room and students sitting in rows, at desks, completing assignments with pen and paper.

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Tutoring Elementary School Middle School Social Studies 110

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. The social studies activity Space Race in McGraw Hill AR How has incorporating AR in your classroom enhanced the learning experience for your students?

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EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2018

But if this civic action is to be sustained and to extend to topics beyond gun violence and school safety, schools need to do more to nurture these students’ dispositions toward political participation so they can continue to engage in informed and effective ways. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Civics Social Studies Critical Thinking History 77

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

The online platform includes a project-based curriculum for science, social studies, math and English language arts for students in grades four through 12, along with additional content in those subjects that students can tackle at their own pace. Now nearly 400 schools use it across 40 states. It’s a mindset shift.”.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Conversational Videos in the Classroom from Social Studies School Service on Vimeo. Previously published by Social Studies School Services. Similarly, ChatGPT, an open AI interface can be used as a brainstorming partner to help students access information and creative avenues that improve their writing.

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Oral History History Social Studies Middle School 100

Digital Promise

MAY 26, 2017

When the bell rings, students rotate to a Reading and Social Studies class where another set of stages await them. They retain the information better than I have seen in years past. Championing Collaboration. The most recent challenge described above was centered around the video game Super Mario Brothers.

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Elementary School Social Studies Lesson Plan Tradition 74

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. They are not merely passive recipients of information but are required to engage with the material on a deeper level.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education.

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K-12 Teaching High School Social Studies 125

TCI

APRIL 30, 2024

Students learn best when they take in information through multiple modalities. Videos cater to different learning styles, allowing students to absorb information through both visual and auditory channels. Learning with video can help students retain more information. Multimodal engagement. Higher content retention.

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Library Social Studies Tradition High School 52

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Academic language includes the key academic concepts, related vocabulary , and syntax needed to navigate reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and other subjects. The Academic Language Gap. Too often academic language is treated as a list of definitions to be memorized, not as complex concepts to be unpacked.

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EdTech K-12 Social Studies Tradition 88

ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I hope no behavioral concerns arise, because if I can avoid a parent phone call I might be able to get some of this done—well, that is if I do a virtual assignment during social studies. At every level, education leaders were panicking about the lack of information around student achievement since the pandemic began. Oh, shoot.

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Teaching Leadership Lesson Plan Professional Development 103

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

Within each subject, schools identified learning targets, clearly explaining what students would need to demonstrate in order to be considered “proficient” — a shift away from the traditional system’s emphasis on logging seat time to earn credits and progress. considered passing. Elizabeth Hewitt for The Hechinger Report.

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Tradition High School Professional Development Social Studies 95

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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Social Studies Tradition American History Government 75

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

on day four of the strike, Nadia Morales, a counselor at Los Angeles High School, and Pedro Martinez, a social-studies teacher at Eagle Rock High School, prepare their children for the day. The “co-location” of charters on the grounds of traditional public schools is increasingly common. At 7 a.m., Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

As a Black woman in a STEM career, Freeman knows the difficulties that Black students, particularly Black women, typically face going into traditional STEM fields. A lot of the time, education and content are in silos—ELA, math, social studies, science—but that's not how the world works," she explains.

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Lesson Plan Classroom Management Professional Development Social Studies 94

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now he’s lobbying his friends who are old enough to vote by informing them how they and their community would benefit if the Oakland Youth Vote passes. The committees are different from traditional student government, she said, because any student can join.

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Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Through ConnectED, Esri made a billion dollar offer: any K-12 school in the United States could acquire professional online Geographic Information Systems (GIS software), instructional activities, professional development events, and resources for educators and mentors. Ordonez presented and review information at their own pace.

Education 75

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 75

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. They are not merely passive recipients of information but are required to engage with the material on a deeper level.

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Teaching Education K-12 Critical Thinking 52

TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. They are not merely passive recipients of information but are required to engage with the material on a deeper level.

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Teaching K-12 Critical Thinking Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Virtual for-profit charter schools got started in the early 2000s, as the companies that run them seized on a business opportunity in online education pioneered by traditional public schools a half-decade earlier. Related : The pandemic’s remote learning legacy: A lot worth keeping. Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc.,

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Charter School Education Policy Public School History 131

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. These can help you bring social studies to life for your students. I love the strategy, but why use them in a social studies class? Stick around, and I’ll show you where to grab it.

Library 52

Library Critical Thinking History Social Studies 52

Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. These can help you bring social studies to life for your students. I love the strategy, but why use them in a social studies class? Stick around, and I’ll show you where to grab it.

Library 52

Library Critical Thinking History Social Studies 52

Teaching American History

JANUARY 5, 2024

He did his student teaching in a traditional classroom. Such cases were even more “soul-sapping” than the rigidities of the traditional education system. Learning of a Social Studies opening in an intriguing, “alternative” public high school, Hawkins considered giving teaching another go.

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Teaching Project-Based Learning American History Historic Sites 52

C3 Teachers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

This blog post delves into the power of inquiry to transform traditional classrooms into dynamic spaces of discovery, fostering critical thinking and lifelong learning skills. Social studies teachers look out into the eyes of a new group of students petrified that the inquiry bridge might not appear.

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Critical Thinking Social Studies Civics Pedagogy 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

A 2015 RAND study , which looked at 62 schools that had received various Gates Foundation-funded grants for personalized learning, found gains of 11 percentile points in math and 8 in reading. Pane predicts that if the personalized learning trend continues, it could upend traditional notions of what a classroom looks like. “I

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Charter School Tutoring Tradition Educational Technology 105

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2016

Students pursuing those diplomas are required to attain industry credentials but are allowed to graduate with fewer foreign language, social studies and science credits.) Those experiences allowed me to see a different perspective, to see what the workplace was really like, and bring that information back into my classroom.”

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Social Studies High School Tradition Education 65

Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities. Submit your info by Aug.

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Heritage Primary Sources Library Lesson Plan 52

TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

In Early Civilizations in the Americas, students examine the Olmec, Maya, Caral, and Mississippian traditions and cultures. Each case study in the program is rich with charts, graphs, and data. Engaging visuals and updated data ensure that students are equipped with the most current information and global trends.

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Geography Global Connections Global Perspectives Civics 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The two had spent nearly seven years designing a new kind of high school meant to address the needs of students who didn’t thrive in a traditional setting. We thought our big contribution could be laying out how to do this in the traditional public school environment,” Resnick said.

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Charter School Project-Based Learning Public School High School 108