Studies Weekly

MARCH 28, 2025

Classroom Behavior Management Ideas to Try Mar 28, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER Teaching children to manage their emotions is essential in the 21st century. A unique and effective way teachers can do this is by giving opportunities for regulating emotions through proprioceptive input activities. They are not available for homeschools.

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Primary Sources American History World History Lesson Plan 89

Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Or even teaching fractions in a late-elementary classroom. New toolsets from Edthena allow any district to curate a video library of searchable lesson segments, tagged to teaching standards, and shared securely to all staff members within the district. Getting started with your video library of teaching.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment!

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Teach for Tomorrow’s Job Market Many parents want their children to study computer science. Yet, in the United States, just over half of high schools actually teach it. And enjoy access to an educator portal with lesson plans, tutorials, activities and other resources. We’re on a mission to close that education gap.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. When my library is quiet, that’s a red flag,” said Chun. Wayne Grimm, Library Instructional Technology Teacher at Westview High School, Beaverton, Oregon.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Hau shared that K-12 educators are using the technology to improve efficiency in a number of ways, including to draft individualized education programs (IEPs), create templates for communicating with parents and administrators, and in some cases, to support building lesson plans.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

As dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Services at the University of New Mexico, I lead a team of over 120 faculty and staff members. For educators, who have carefully cultivated their teaching methods over the years, the suggestion of a radical shift of any kind, can trigger profound unease.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

“I am excited,” says Brunswick kindergarten teacher Stephanie Lucas, who describes herself as slow to get on board with technology, but more experienced after teaching remotely. “My We have such close relationships with other city agencies, and local libraries and community centers. But there is only so much that the schools can do.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2022

They set up their classrooms, consult the curriculum, make lesson plans and determine their routines. Very often, teachers make well-intentioned and thoughtful plans to encourage their students to read daily in order to practice skills and strategies taught in class, as well as to build a lifelong reading habit.

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Library Lesson Plan Elementary School Cultures 112

ED Surge

JANUARY 5, 2023

We explored new efforts by school districts to address staff shortages and other ongoing fallout from the pandemic, including four-day school weeks and more flexible, better-paying teaching programs. What emerges from our list of most-read stories of 2022 is a clear theme: Teaching is in crisis. Teaching Broke My Heart.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

OER Commons defines them more eloquently as, “teaching, learning, and research resources that reside in the public domain or have been released under an intellectual property license that permits their free use and re-purposing by others.”. Teachers have been surfing the Web for lesson plans and ideas for their classroom for years.

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K-12 Education Library Digital Resources 88

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This strategy of tapping into students’ own experiences as part of a lesson plan is an increasingly common one in U.S. In Henrico County Public Schools, near Richmond, Virginia, the district is building new libraries and stocking them with books whose characters reflect the demographics of the student body.

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Cultures American History Tradition Lesson Plan 110

ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Now, we're ready to help teachers seamlessly create lesson plans and send them out to all students — even those who don't have broadband. We will package all of that content, whether it's an ebook or an educational video, along with the notes from the lesson plan and send it where it needs to go. Can you explain that?

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

She was talking about how my website and podcast sometimes make her feel like she’s not doing enough, she’s doing it all wrong, her teaching is never quite good enough. Something like teaching. Do they seem excited about the thing they’re teaching? The opposite is also true. Do they ask challenging questions?

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

In my role as school librarian, for example, it has affected everything from the library checkout schedule to my collaboration with teachers and even my direct interaction with students. As students returned to the library in person, many seemed lost when it came to choosing books. Jemisin, just to name a few.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2022

He’s encountered subs in the hallway, looking for the library or a place to make copies of classwork. In January, the school district hired Roberts and about two dozen other “ floaters” as part of a broader effort to improve the quality of substitute teaching and alleviate a staffing crunch that grew dire during this winter’s Covid-19 surge.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. She is the co-author, along with Valerie Tagoe, of the 2022 book Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens ( Amazon | Bookshop ). It’s a win-win-win-win-win.”

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Dr. Shannon Doak

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By fine-tuning the prompt, teachers could use the bot to generate custom vocabulary lists that catered specifically to their current lesson plans, allowing for a more targeted and effective approach to language acquisition. I have also created some great bots just for fun.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2023

Its tutors all have a college degree or are completing college and have at least a year of experience teaching or tutoring. There, he tutored fellow undergraduates the old-fashioned way, in person, in the library. An elementary school teacher, she was suddenly teaching five-year-olds online.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The free tool, called SkillsEngine , contains a large digital library of skills—more than 20,000 of them—needed for all the jobs you can think of—and, importantly, for occupations that don’t even exist yet. But by the 2010s, teaching so much copyright law to future web developers seemed unnecessary. What do we need to stop teaching?”

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ACRE

APRIL 15, 2024

This one-day lesson plan was developed in Spring 2024 by Dr. Marcus Witcher and covers the 1932 election, the transition of power from the Hoover to FDR administration, and early economic policies designed to combat the Great Depression. The election would mark the first of Franklin D.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

What I found during my research to create the lesson drove home the whole purpose of why we teach history and why I teach history the way I do. The lesson I frantically pieced together over my spring break was intended to be used right after we returned to class. For a copy of my lesson, follow this link.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

If you recognize one of these common approaches to group work in your own teaching style, give it a tweak and pay attention to the impact your subtle change makes on the effectiveness of group work. Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun. Come back for more.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. Young gets the utility of online lesson plans geared to math standards and targeted to students at any level.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Many parents think a Montessori education encourages creativity and benefits children by providing unique teaching methods aimed at respecting young children and giving kids more control of their learning. Rachel Rodriguez teaches a small-group lesson in her classroom at Hill Country Montessori. But authenticity matters.

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Library Middle School Teaching Psychology 111

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. Related: How can states better support and keep new teachers?

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History Social Studies Museum Civics 75

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

The goal is to stop tethering teaching to “seat time” — where students are grouped by age and taught at a uniform, semester pace — and instead adopt competency-based education, in which students progress through skills and concepts by demonstrating proficiency. According to Baesler, however, “We were too often teaching to a test.

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Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

ATLANTA — School had already let out for the day, but the teachers at Hollis Innovation Academy in northwest Atlanta were gathered around tables in the library, laptops open, strategizing. Hall teaches fifth grade and Blaché teaches art, so they share students. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

In a windowless room in the library, first- and second-graders experiment with a strange teaching device that’s half computer and half wooden play table. Nesra Yannier, the inventor of this teaching machine, confidently smiles. Toymail has invented a two-way communications device that can be used to transmit lessons.

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Elementary School Museum Tutoring Humanities 80

History Tech

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The guy was teaching US and Canadian special ops guys to ski as part of […] I got the chance this week to chat a bit with my kids – both now in Minnesota. And during the convo with the youngest, we ended up talking about a letter written by a Norwegian ski instructor in 1943.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 30, 2024

30, 2024 • by Debbie Bagley Some of the best teaching advice I received from my mother, a teacher of 30+ years, was a different way to look at Social Studies. Her perspective on Social Studies taught me that it is not an isolated area of study but exists in everything we teach.

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Rosie the History Teacher

DECEMBER 14, 2019

You might have seen all of the memes about the full moon, Friday the 13th, and the week before winter break all happening in one big whirlwind – and I hope you are making it through this eventful season of teaching! So many teachable moments come up unexpectedly – something I love about teaching.

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Global Perspectives Library World History History 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

In others, schools use PBS’s “Nova” program to help teach science. At the same time, many districts have raised the bar for teaching and learning as it became clear that closures would stretch deep into the spring, and potentially for the rest of the academic year, as has now happened in 35 states.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

. When technology is offered to schools free of charge, it always comes with the promise of improving teaching and learning. Lisa Petrides is founder and CEO of the nonprofit ISKME , an international leader in information-sharing and innovation in the education sector that manages OER Commons , a public library for open education resources.

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K-12 EdTech Lesson Plan Library 56

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

It breaks up traditional courses into specific skills and abilities, called “competencies,” that students master through a personalized blend of traditional lesson plans, offline projects and real-world experiences. What kind of teacher will you get to teach those kids?”.

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