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Yes, Your School Librarian Can Do That (and More)

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 14, 2024

As libraries started to house more technology, I added a fourth role: manage and protect the tech. If there is anyone whose voice has been most persistently in my ear about making more space for librarians on Cult of Pedagogy, it’s Barbara’s. The library is more than just quiet spaces with just books.

Library

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So then I told the principal I wanted to come out of the library. I really need to get back into the library so that I can do media studies and media literacy.

Charter School

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The Art of Annotation: Teaching Readers To Process Texts

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

2022), “Using the annotating strategy to improve students’ academic achievement in social studies,” Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning , Vol. The post The Art of Annotation: Teaching Readers To Process Texts first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. [link] Lloyd, Z.T., Doepker, G.M.

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Teaching Pedagogy High School Library

Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library.

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The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 5, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. “Language arts, social studies, science. The post The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

Pedagogy

Pedagogy K-12 Library Tradition

Two Books to Help You Hold Healthy Classroom Conversations About Race

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

Pedagogy

Pedagogy Library Social Studies Social Justice

Supporting Intermediate English Learners in Every Subject

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

Pedagogy

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Four Theater Games that Make Learning a Blast

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Slideshow Landmarks Don’t Look Behind You Magic Elevator Game 1: Slideshow Slideshow is a great game for students to recall and re-interpret literature, social studies, and science content. Science: 8th graders studying cells name different types of cells and make a pose demonstrating their function.

Geography

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Integrating Arab Narratives Across the Curriculum

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. ” One important shift in social studies would be a recognition that people from Arab countries have been in the United States for generations. “They tend to be overlooked. . at that time.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Saykhamphone and other Black students at the school found this lesson offensive, but their teacher did not understand why until students talked to Fairfax County’s culturally responsive pedagogy specialists to intervene. The school board representing the 1,700-student Madison County district voted to ban 21 books from its high school library.

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CRT debate repeats past battles about state history textbooks

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

There was always a group or two that wanted [social studies books] to stay as we had had it previously,” said Ed Richardson, who led the state department of education at the time. “No A stack of Alabama history books at the University of Alabama McLure Education Library. Many are no longer used in Alabama schools.

History

History K-12 Library Social Studies

How to Keep Teaching Well When DEI is Under Attack

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

Many of the practices I have personally advocated for on Cult of Pedagogy, like calling students by their preferred names and pronouns and teaching accurate history , would likely get a teacher flagged by this policy, and right now I’m not sure what the best course of action is when it comes to these practices. 1 point per card.

Teaching

Teaching K-12 Pedagogy Social Justice

How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. ” At an evocative point in a story (or a point of uncertainty in science or social studies), we ask open questions like: “What are you thinking?” “What are you thinking?”

Pedagogy

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OPINION: Our schools must figure out a way to teach this presidential election

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Related: PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies. Three states — Florida, Illinois and Massachusetts — have in recent years revamped their social studies and civic education standards and have created legislation to implement modern civic education.

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Yes, Your School Librarian Can Do That (and More)

This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

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The Art of Annotation: Teaching Readers To Process Texts

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

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Integrating Arab Narratives Across the Curriculum

In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

CRT debate repeats past battles about state history textbooks

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How Teacher Language Can Build a More Democratic Classroom

OPINION: Our schools must figure out a way to teach this presidential election

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