Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

They congregated in Vondelpark, close to the citys famed museums and canals, and also in Oosterpark, where I jogged daily. rose-ringed or ring-necked parakeet) was included in The Naturalists Library , an illustrated natural history series popular in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a.

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Museum Humanities Library History 128

ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

The shrinking of the NEH comes in addition to cuts to the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the Smithsonian, and other organizations that support humanities, cultural and educational institutions, and they follow the new restrictions on projects deemed to promote DEI or gender ideology.

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Museum Archiving Library American History 52

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Together, they applied for a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. We also did a special report about the impact of COVID-19 on school libraries and employment. We hoped to answer whether there is a full decline or an evolution of library positions.

Library 138

Library Museum Social Justice K-12 138

Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

Some of our topics include: The Underground Railroad at The Underground Railroad Heritage Center in Niagara Falls, NY West Coast Immigration at the Angel Island Immigration Station on Angel Island, CA Contested Elections: 1800, 1824, 1874, 1960 & 2000 at the JFK Presidential Library and Museum in Boston, MA The World Wars and the American State (..)

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Historic Sites Museum American History Heritage 128

Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, NY. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Anthony & Reform at Susan B.

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Museum Historic Sites Heritage American History 59

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This cohort is open to educators representing schools, out-of-school-time programs, libraries, museums, and other organizations serving youth. Digital Promise is excited to announce the Maker Learning @ Home Cohort, a professional learning opportunity for educators committed to designing maker learning experiences at home.

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Museum Library Education 165

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

A child enjoys free time at the Museum School after-school program in Greenville, South Carolina. A former parent, with ties to a children’s museum in Greenville, suggested Edwards-Gandsy move south and use the museum space for in-person programming. “Enrollment was like half of what it was before,” she said.

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Museum Advocacy Government Library 142

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3 million book images from the Internet Archive. .

Social Studies 76

Social Studies Teaching Archiving Geography 76

Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

The Learning Ninja award recognizes an administrator who expands the concept of the library and/or the role of the librarian or media specialist to harness the vast resources of the internet. Winners will be notified in October and invited to attend our gala celebration on November 20 at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.

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K-12 Museum Library Leadership 126

Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. The National Museum of African American History and Culture offers the digital resource, Juneteenth: Celebration of Resilience. Photo by Carol M.

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Teaching American History Museum Library 111

NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

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Primary Sources Library Archiving Museum 100

Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

Events are hosted by a wide range of organizations in each community—from churches to tech companies, rec centers to sewing shops, libraries to schools, makerspaces to barbershops, parks to museums, restaurants to laundromats, and everywhere in between.

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Museum Library Professional Development Learning Science 146

Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

Events are hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, community centers, and more. Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is a festival of experiential learning events for youth and their families in regions across the country.

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Museum Advocacy Library Research 134

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Originally designed as an academic conference to share research, the event brought together Florida K-12 and college teachers and students, national journalists and professionals from libraries and museums whose work focuses on history and civics.

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Civics K-12 Museum American History 145

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. I also explored possibly working in curation or some kind of a museum setting, but always found myself coming back to teaching.

History 128

History Museum Social Studies Geography 128

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2018

In Colleen Graves’ library, they make use of a much cheaper resource. Libraries sometimes provide free tech kits to check out, and if they don’t, the Institute of Museum and Library Services can provide a grant. It’s trash,” she said. But don’t call it that.”. Local businesses can also be partners.

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Library Museum Civics Humanities 111

Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Library of Congress. Courtesy of the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum. Congressional row, in the U.S. House of Representatives, midnight of Friday, February 5th, 1858. Illustration in: Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, v. 5, 1858 Feb.

American History 119

American History Library Museum Government 119

ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

This technology can also help educators support families, Kang added, by scanning publicly available community resources and identifying relevant library events, food banks, free clinics and the like.

K-12 139

K-12 Education Museum Lesson Plan 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

So what happens to young children when “stranger danger” becomes a health mandate, schools and libraries close and anxious parents desperately try to juggle work-life balance? Five-year-old Ellie sensed things were very wrong when schools closed, museums were no longer available and library story time was absent from her weekly routine.

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Library Museum Psychology Humanities 114

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The exemptions — which apply to universities, museums and other nonprofits — are nearly 200 years old and part of the state constitution. The amount the schools save annually has soared in recent decades as the two have bought more properties, and the value of their properties has also increased. We have to stop those leaks.”

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K-12 Museum Economics Library 130

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Easily access real-world learning materials like video tutorials, primary and secondary sources for research projects, museum collections, historical sites, and digital books, available online and often for free. Ask your local library about access to free digital or audio books.

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Historic Sites Museum Library Interactive Learning 117

ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Knowledge organizations, ranging from libraries and museums to media companies and software makers, have entered the postsecondary marketplace, offering content, instruction and certification.

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Education Museum Tradition Library 120

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

Art galleries, museums, or historical sites were popular with almost two-thirds of non-poor families, while less than a third of poor families took their kindergarteners to these locations in the summer before first grade. We must continue to provide access to software, online libraries and educational videos.

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Historic Sites Museum Library Elementary School 131

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

In addition, museums, recreation centers, libraries and other places that offer alternatives to schooling will also be closed, as they have been in Seattle and other parts of the country hit hard by the virus. Some 70 percent of the city’s 1.1 million students come from low-income families, and thousands are homeless.

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Museum Economics Library Public School 144

Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

Remake Learning Days Across America (RLDAA) is an upcoming festival of experiential learning events designed for learners and their families and hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, after school groups, and more. The events will be held in regions across the country this spring. (If

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Museum Advocacy Library Tradition 125

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

million by the USDA to expand and renovate its student center at what a spokesman said was 2 percent interest, but he said it had declined another $61 million to build a fossil park and museum. Rowan University in New Jersey was loaned $26.4

Economics 139

Economics Library Government Museum 139

Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 18, 2024

In addition to Harvard's own museums and libraries, visitors can take advantage of greater Boston's rich dining, entertainment, and cultural resources, including the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, and the Boston Public Library, all easily reached by the MBTA subway from Harvard Square.

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Museum Library History Cultures 52

ED Surge

JULY 7, 2022

Todd Burks teaches students to navigate the University of Virginia library. The exercise aims to get students comfortable using the university library. The Almost-Librarian On the first floor of the Clemons Library at the University of Virginia, there are stacks of bookshelves that expand and contract. That’s cool.’”

Library 113

Library Psychology Primary Sources Humanities 113

Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Bush Presidential Library & Museum in College Station, TX.

Historic Sites 52

Historic Sites Museum American History Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2017

The ACTA classified “instructional costs” as including academic support, academic deans, libraries, and museums.

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Museum Library Government Research 70

Digital Promise

JUNE 10, 2019

High-SES children were increasingly more likely to visit to museums, zoos and aquariums, new cities, amusements parks, and beaches and lakes. Parents can make the most of summer simply by visiting a library on the weekend, talking about baseball statistics or gas mileage in the car, and reading together for half an hour before bed.

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Tutoring Museum Library Education Policy 91

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge.

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Historic Sites Education Museum Tutoring 96

Civics for All of US

JANUARY 11, 2024

Teaching Presidential Elections with the National Archives Katie Munn Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:02 Body Join education specialists from several Presidential Libraries and Museums for this professional development program for educators on teaching elections with the records of the National Archives.

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Archiving Teaching Civics Museum 52

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

We limit students’ educations when we curb their access to museums, libraries, community events and other places where learning happens. What good is a city flush with national monuments and museums if students across town can’t access it without hopping on a bus and switching to a train to reach it?

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Museum Charter School Private School Library 85

Civics for All of US

JANUARY 31, 2023

Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum for this teacher workshop that will provide resources for exploring how the development of a government "safety net" to protect Americans devastated by the Great Depression affected civic life. August 12, 1933 FDR Library Photo Collection. No workshops currently scheduled.

Civics 52

Civics Museum Library Government 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2016

Lillian Agard looks on as her 3-year-old granddaughter Siena paints and colors at the art table during free choice at the Y’s pop-up preschool in the Hillview library in East San Jose. Just an hour earlier, this room in the Hillview neighborhood library of East San Jose, California, was completely empty. Photo: Kathryn Baron.

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Library Museum Lesson Plan Government 75

Civics for All of US

MAY 4, 2023

Ford Presidential Library and Museum for this online teacher workshop and discover resources for teaching with presidential photographs. Join the Gerald R. This workshop is suitable for middle and high school educators. David Hume Kennerly shooting President Gerald R.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Museum Library Cultures 52