NCHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

As educators, we apply that lens to our teaching of history whose stories are getting lost and how can we remedy that? NCHE will remain a place of support for you as you seek to teach accurate, inclusive, complex histories. You know your students and your particular teaching situation best. Whose stories add depth and nuance?

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Primary Sources History Education History Library 230

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 19, 2025

Listen to my interview with Jen Serravallo ( transcript ): Sponsored by Wix Tomorrow and Brisk Teaching This post contains Amazon Affiliate links. Jen Serravallo In her newest book, Teaching Reading Across the Day , she gives us nine research-backed lesson structures for explicitly teaching reading across all content areas.

Pedagogy 265

Pedagogy Digital Resources Lesson Plan Library 265

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Watching these moments in the field school was eye-opening and convinced us that teaching isn’t just about sharing knowledge; it’s also about keeping our own love for learning alive. Orchard at its core.

Archaeology 246

Archaeology Teaching Artifacts Anthropology 246

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 8, 2025

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Alpaca and Brisk Teaching Every January for the last ten years, we have chosen a small collection of tech tools we think are worth checking out. Users can easily edit videos alone or in groups, using a library of video, image, and audio files to enhance the end product.

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Pedagogy Library Tutoring Tradition 205

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

One fear expressed was about how the mostly Black and Latino students at 28 schools would fare under a plan created by new Superintendent Mike Miles that would require school libraries to cease, in essence, functioning as libraries. Demonstrators gather in August 2023 in protest of Houston ISD's plan to close libraries in schools.

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Library Heritage High School Elementary School 145

Cult of Pedagogy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

You were teaching right along, getting things done, and then it started to crumble. And the message were sending when were in this teaching presence is Im serious, and Im credible, and I mean business, and were going to be learning. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? “Its not about having a sour face on.

Classroom Management 248

Classroom Management Pedagogy Library Teaching 248

Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

The same goes for teaching skills. However, educators don’t have time to search through random teaching videos online and determine which are actually helpful or the best to learn from. Here’s a better solution: a 3rd-grade teacher working on checks for understanding searches for that term in your district’s Edthena video library.

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Library Teaching Digital Resources Lesson Plan 105

Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Listen to my interview with Blake Harvard ( transcript ): Sponsored by Boclips Classroom and Brisk Teaching This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. Sometimes its the smallest details that separate effective teaching from teaching that misses the mark. Today we’re going to look at three of these.

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Pedagogy Psychology Library Teaching 234

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Forcing Reading, Writing, and Listening into One Space If we aren’t careful, we can easily slip into teaching routines that force students to multitask, making them choose between reading, writing, or listening at the expense of one of the other things. One common scenario where this happens is giving lectures.

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Pedagogy Library Teaching Research 238

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. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. She said, Please don't.

Library 105

Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 105

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Inspiring high school students to choose teaching as a profession. Inclusion and REAL collaborative teaching. There is a need to teach them not only to access safely and critically but also to apply and construct new knowledge. Attracting the best and brightest to the field Boys’ achievement and engagement.

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Education Social Justice Library Professional Development 367

NCHE

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. The Library of Congress is developing a new education center that will break ground in the next few years.

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Library Primary Sources Local History Professional Development 130

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

Laura’s inspiration for this idea came from Sugata Mitra’s TED talks on how students can teach themselves and building a school in the cloud. For example, Laura as the library media specialist, limited by a dated library, turned to online resources and a digital space as 21st century libraries should comprise fluid, flexible learning spaces.

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Library Tutoring Pedagogy High School 327

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In Port Orford, Oregon, it’s a quick walk from the elementary and middle school building to the town library—the two buildings are right down the street from each other. In fact, the town library and school are linked by more than geography, since the school district’s two libraries became part of the Port Orford library system in 2017.

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Library Geography High School Civics 123

ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google. As a physics teacher, I am supposed to teach Newtons Laws of motion and how electricity works. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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Library High School Teaching Economics 94

Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

As Publications Manager at Teaching American History , I frequently hear the following from our teacher partners: I love teaching with primary sources! Unlike textbooks, we won’t tell you what to teach or how to teach it. The post A 3000+ Document Library: A Blessing or a Curse? But which one should I use?

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Library Primary Sources American History Social Studies 105

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In the very first minute of my first day teaching at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, I received a rude awakening. And if you have new lessons to teach, you may struggle to help them catch up. Its important to note here that you dont need to transform your entire classroom or stop teaching the way youre used to.

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Pedagogy Teaching Library Classroom Management 169

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. As the Library of Congress explains, In analyzing primary sources, students move from concrete observations and facts to questioning and making inferences about the materials. Some of the greatest tools that we have in our online library are audio and video recordings.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Teaching Oral History 52

TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

You can also read best quotes about knowledge , quotes about critical thinking , quotes about life , quotes about teaching , and quotes about learning. ” – Harper Lee “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” Below are dozens of quotes–hopefully inspirational quotes–about reading.

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Library Critical Thinking History Cultures 267

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 26, 2015

However, even as they talk about the need for a shift in teaching and learning, educational conferences often model a very familiar learning experience—what Daggett refers to as “Quadrant A” (or what many teachers call less kindly: “sit n’ git”). Image credit: https://khspd12.wikispaces.com/

Leadership 331

Leadership Library Elementary School Tradition 331

ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

My daughters success story underscores the benefits of offering students a variety of reading formats, not only in libraries but in the classroom, too. She went on to graduate from college and is now a mother who owns her own business.

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Library Middle School Tutoring High School 107

Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The Zinn Education Project provides free resources to teach outside the textbook about the Tulsa Massacre and the continuing history of institutionalized racism and displacement. In a growing number of states, it is becoming dangerous to teach about Tulsa. Please pay attention to the upcoming school board elections in your area.

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Teaching Library Archiving Social Justice 111

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

c1903 from photo taken on May 16, 1861) Library of Congress. The post Lincoln’s Fragment on the Constitution and Union appeared first on Teaching American History. It is there to adorn and preserve the principles within the Declaration, and that makes it worthy of saving. Abraham Lincoln. All this is not the result of accident.

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Library American History Government History 85

Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Teaching prompted us to reassess our skills and rediscover the motivations that led us to pursue archaeology originally. Watching these moments in the field school was eye-opening and convinced us that teaching isn’t just about sharing knowledge; it’s also about keeping our own love for learning alive. Orchard at its core.

Archaeology 130

Archaeology Teaching Artifacts Anthropology 130

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. But We Can’t Teach? Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth.

Teaching 111

Teaching American History Museum Library 111

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 27, 2019

As I have since transitioned from school principal to Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education ( ICLE ), my work now focuses on helping schools transform teaching, learning, and leadership to create vibrant cultures that kids want to be a part of. Drunk-driving vehicle simulators that are used in PE/Health.

Leadership 419

Leadership High School Library Cultures 419

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. I let kids choose their books. Reading “ The Magician’s Nephew ” by C.

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Teaching Geography History Library 145

ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Nationally, there aren’t enough bilingual educators , or educators certified to teach English as a second language (ESL). The national teacher shortage is worse in nonmetropolitan places, and it’s most problematic in racially diverse and high-poverty rural schools. Hansen-Thomas also points to the U.S.

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Teaching Professional Development Community Engagement Library 134

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

Makerspace added to the library in 2013. We have transformed the teaching and learning culture at NMHS that begins and ends with a growth mindset. The time for excuses, talk, opinions, and fear needs to end if our goal is really about improving teaching, learning, and leadership outcomes. See what CBS New York had to say.

Leadership 405

Leadership Tradition High School Library 405

ED Surge

MARCH 30, 2023

Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. We didn’t have to go further than the daily news to hear of school board meetings, classrooms, grocery stores and libraries being impacted by political polarization in our country.

Teaching 118

Teaching Controversial Topics Library Civics 118

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 3, 2024

Listen to the interview with Blake Harvard: Sponsored by Listenwise and Khan Academy Kids Please allow me to describe an all-too-common situation that has occurred in probably every teacher’s classroom: You teach your heart out. This is absolutely not a nod to teaching to preferred learning styles … don’t do that.) Come back for more.

Psychology 350

Psychology Pedagogy Library Teaching 350

NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

After years of teaching, the lack of respect wears you down. The best way to counteract that feeling of isolation is to find people who understand how hard teaching is.” As our conversation came to a close, Dalton shared a favorite quote of his: “The spirit of learning is a lasting frontier.”

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Geography History Library Humanities 279

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

As I shared in Digital Leadership , evolving technology enables and empowers leaders to seize the moment and look for ways to fundamentally improve teaching, learning, and leadership. Observation comment library Writing up observations can be a tedious process. While there is room for caution, leaders can tap into the power of AI.

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Leadership Pedagogy Library Humanities 313

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 7, 2013

As a 21st Century Library Media Specialist, part of what I strive to do is to serve as an instructional technology resource for both educators and learners. ?In Educators should be comfortable teaching, working and learning in an increasingly connected global digital society. ?

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High School Pedagogy Library Educational Technology 347

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

Her 2021 book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education , is one I wish I’d had available to me before I started teaching; it would have made a world of difference in how I saw my students and designed my classroom practices. ” An Equity-Centered Lens Venet’s approach to trauma-informed teaching puts equity at the center.

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Teaching Pedagogy Classroom Management Social Justice 130

ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

For instructors who have had the opportunity to participate in pedagogy learning groups, there may be a lot of overlap in what they already know about teaching and what changes AI might bring to the classroom. Telling a student to go to the library to access a physical copy of something is the outlier instead of the norm.

Teaching 136

Teaching Pedagogy Library Humanities 136

Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Social-Emotional Learning as Part of Whole Child Learning.

Teaching 140

Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 140