Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? “We’re not getting the results we’re hoping to see from our digital content in middle school social studies and science. Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2025

Alabama state law previously required students to take at least four years each of English, math, science and social studies to graduate from high school. Keep up with our free newsletter on K-12 education. The problem, Lloyd said, is most K-12 industry credentials have little use to employers.

High School 97

High School K-12 Economics Advocacy 97

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Experts say that requires regular and high-quality social studies lessons, starting in kindergarten, to teach kids to be critical thinkers and communicators who know how to take meaningful action. Most states either don’t test social studies, or the social studies test doesn’t really count toward adequate yearly progress.”.

Social Studies 111

Social Studies Civics Controversial Topics Elementary School 111

Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

Seth Brady, Grades 9-12 Teacher (Illinois). Robert Cannone, Grades K-8 Coach & Consultant (Ontario). Megan Edlefsen, Grades 9-12 Fashion, Interior Design, and Personal Finance (Texas). James Ewing, Grade K-5 STEM/Science and Grade 4 Special Education (New York). Morgan Keena, Grade 7 Social Studies (Idaho).

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Teaching K-12 Social Studies Middle School 149

Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2020

Kim Dawson, grades K-5 Technology and Robotics teacher at West Allegheny School District, Pennsylvania. Joseph Filiplic, grades 7-9 Computer Science and Social Studies teacher at Edmonton Catholic Schools, Alberta. Elayne Hollander, grades K-5 Media and Technology teacher at Broward County Public Schools, Florida.

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Teaching K-12 Social Studies Public School 147

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lesson 12: Election and Electoral College (Grades K-3) Oct. 12, 2020 • Studies Weekly Background Knowledge for Teachers: In the beginning of the United States, the Founding Fathers didn’t want a direct election for the new president and vice president. At the time, many people lived in distant rural areas.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Elementary School Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We suggest that computational thinking — which applies concepts from computer science — provides a framework for pre-K-12 educators to integrate and apply computational methods to solve interdisciplinary, complex and/or everyday problems. This is a big change and must be prioritized by district leaders.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Social Studies 141

Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The directors of the institute, Bob Holschuh Simmons of Monmouth College ( rsimmons@monmouthcollege.edu ) and Nathalie Roy of Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, LA ( fabricatrix@gmail.com ), encourage applications from K-12 teachers of any subject that could incorporate hands-on Classics into its curricula.

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K-12 Middle School Social Studies Humanities 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills. In the last three years, 17 states have added some sort of data science education course to their K-12 offerings, Drozda said. Subscribe today!

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K-12 Social Studies Lesson Plan Middle School 134

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

In K-12 schools, students are facing an onslaught of emerging technologies — new developments arrive by the day — and yet we’re still teaching many of our core school subjects as if our daily lives are unchanged by these tools. Despite these efforts, programs in data science at the K-12 level remain few and far between.

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K-12 Civics Lesson Plan High School 142

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

A look at the courses required by teacher preparation programs reveals scant attention to the broad social studies knowledge aspiring elementary teachers need to provide essential context to world events. Only 42 percent have said they felt very well prepared to teach social studies.

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K-12 Civics Social Studies Geography 128

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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High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

He took that proclivity to the next level a few years ago, when he accepted a position as a K-12 technology coach in a small school district in western Michigan. When I was studying to become a teacher, I had to choose a major and a minor, and I picked social studies as my major and computer science as my minor.

Teaching 121

Teaching K-12 Social Studies Museum 121

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

But one thing has become clear as more elementary school schedules have been released: unlike an in-person school day which is relatively predictable across K-5 schools, distance learning schedules vary greatly. while the other attends from 12:30 to 3p.m., thus keeping group sizes small. Credit: Screenshot. Credit: Screenshot.

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K-12 Elementary School EdTech Public School 143

ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

In 2013, the STEM and Computer Science (STEM+CS) team was created to implement an interdisciplinary grades K-12 STEM program outside the grade-level core disciplines of ELA, math, science and social studies, and separate from the standard Career Technical Education (CTE) programs to reach all students.

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Education K-12 Critical Thinking Public School 136

Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

For the fall, district leaders are working with Dr. Hasan Jeffries, associate professor of history at The Ohio State University, to modify, update, and provide cultural relevance and accuracy for the Social Studies curriculum. The knowledge of these tenets will then be infused into other core content areas as appropriate.

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Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 140

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Some universities and some K-12 school systems have developed media literacy courses and standards to help. At the K-12 level, states have begun incorporating media literacy into their standards and programs have begun cropping up aimed at training students to be better consumers of news.

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K-12 Civics Critical Thinking Middle School 145

TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Active learning strategies have transformed K-12 classroom instruction, shifting away from passive lectures to interactive, student-centered learning experiences. By 2014, a large-scale study found that students in active learning environments scored 6 percent higher on exams and were 1.5

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K-12 Education Critical Thinking Tradition 52

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards. That’s up from 12 states in 2013, when Code.org launched, aiming to expand access to computer science in U.S. Fifteen states now require all high schools to offer computer science courses.

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Humanities K-12 Tradition Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2024

There are multiple hurdles facing K-12 schools in teaching civics. After the No Child Left Behind Act, social studies and civics were sidelined in favor of reading and math. This will involve reallocating school time to social studies and civics.

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Civics Teaching K-12 Social Studies 125

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

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. So being open about ‘this is why I'm asking you to do it.’” So they quit.”

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K-12 Teaching High School Social Studies 128

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

This work supplies essential questions to hook K-12 students in thematic instruction. Moving the Needle My perspective as a history teacher is that service learning and social-emotional learning are competing initiatives.

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Civic Engagement Civics K-12 Education 137

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

While there has been considerable focus on developing K-12 computational thinking pathways in major U.S. The Floyd County and Pikeville teams got a glimpse of SFSD’s comprehensive K-12 computing pathway through the eyes of the students.

K-12 124

K-12 Middle School Elementary School Social Studies 124

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? From music such as K-pop and Mando-pop to Asian-produced TV shows and movies, our cultures are gripping the imaginations of my students.

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American History History Teaching Primary Sources 117

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

High School social studies teacher. Fortunately, long-neglected civics education seems to be on the rebound in many states, which has helped groups like the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University get their message into K-12 classrooms. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.)

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K-12 Primary Sources Civics Social Studies 103

Edthena

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Suzanne McGahey, a K-12 social studies coordinator, noted that there are many methods for supporting teachers wanting to leave the classroom. Through an initiative called L.A.D.D.E.R. , However, there often isn’t a way for teachers to grow continually in their classrooms and simultaneously develop leadership skills.

Leadership 97

Leadership K-12 Social Studies Education 97

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them.

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K-12 Teaching Pedagogy Library 262

ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education.

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Civics Education Civic Engagement K-12 129

TCI

JANUARY 21, 2025

Explore TCIs high-quality, standards-aligned programs: K-12 Social Studies | K-8 Science The post Using Games Effectively in the Classroom appeared first on TCI.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Critical Thinking Social Studies 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2020

In an ideal world, schools would adhere to the standards agreed on for K-12 online learning. “Our recommendation is for schools to pause for a minute to take a couple days to think about the learning experience they want to create.”. Related: Reframing ed tech to save teachers time and reduce workloads.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Charter School 142

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

In 16 letters opposing the repeal, most argued there was a need to keep teachers from indoctrinating students in critical race theory (a legal concept not typically used in K-12 schools) and that only parents should teach children about political doctrine. Kids are not born racists.

History 91

History K-12 Social Studies Public School 91

The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

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Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 123

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2024

Fans of the rural alliance model hope legislation to reform the state’s K-12 funding formulas will add flexibility for rural schools to share costs, revenues and students. In Colorado, lawmakers next year must contend with the upcoming findings of a school finance task force.

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K-12 High School Social Studies Research 112

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Paula Stamey, a seventh-grade social studies teacher in Benton, Tennessee, taught for 20 years before her school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School and adopted one-to-one technology in 2017. Initially, she resisted this change, feeling it was unnecessary and distracting. “I

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Professional Development K-12 Educational Technology Social Studies 128

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These innovative art programs are the brainchild of Robert Hoang, who joined the Burbank team last year to teach visual arts to K–6 students, and to work with his colleagues to plan arts integration lessons. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection.

Education 102

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 102

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111