ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

But too often, we fail to center our local contexts, and to explore all of the assets that our neighborhoods and communities could bring to our educational mission. Our local histories, our neighborhood green spaces and our students’ extended families offer all kinds of academic connections that can enrich our studies.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 26, 2024

Congratulations to Robert Holschuh Simmons (Classics), David Wright (English), Anne Mamary (Philosophy), and Valerie Deisinger (History)! This humanities initiative will create a digital repository based on student projects that center issues of displacement and local history in West Central Illinois.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Another would be Wayland (MA) High School’s yearly student history projects , in which students engage in digital storytelling projects, scanning historical images and creating audio podcasts, interviewing local Vietnam-era veterans , and analyzing the papers of the commander of the Dachau concentration camp after its liberation.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

In this blog post, I’ll walk you through how I collaborated with AI (ChatGPT) to develop a comprehensive 5-6 day unit on Native American history, tailored specifically for my 8th-grade students. The clear success criteria and continuous reflection throughout the process further enhanced the unit’s accessibility and impact.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

My intent as an UGRR participant was to stretch my local history knowledge and to sharpen my historical-geographical thinking skills. A second teacher candidate described learning more about local history that he ever knew about.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 19, 2023

After this activity, I incorporated some local history for a second representative. Making connections between characters and historical/pop culture figures is challenging – only 15% answer these questions correctly on the AP exam according to 2021 data and my co-author Dr. Scott Petri.

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Rosie the History Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2019

Then, I headed out to the cemetery to pay my respects at Sarah’s grave and shared her story with dozens of local history buffs. I have also been digging into my own family history recently. The couple in this photograph are my great-great-grandparents, along with the baby who would be a great aunt of mine.

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Museum Local History History Lesson Plan 52

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

A student won’t perform well on a reading assessment if the content in the passage — American television shows or local history, for example — is something she’s unfamiliar with. Remember that newcomer students may face cultural barriers as well as language ones.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 17, 2023

After contemplating options, I decided to put together some lessons on local history. The other option was to introduce some new EduProtocols with smart starts, but that works better when I’m actually in the classroom. I created a lesson about Utopia, Ohio, a small town about 25 minutes from our school that has always fascinated me.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

But it took his men and horses 24 hours to get across the river and follow Morgan. The crossing of Morgan’s men into Indiana is steeped in local history and well-remembered by local residents. Hobson sent the McCombs to secure more boats with which to cross the river.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 15, 2024

Students can be invited to share the local history of the respective site you select. Sojourn to the Past students shared the Jim Crow history of swimming pools in Youngstown. In Youngstown, students in a youth group shared the history of the local pool. Students as Historians.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? How do you write about Blackness in a place that tries to deny its existence? How do you write about Blackness while trying to resist the insidious pull of cultural and racial assimilation?

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Moler's Musing

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Friday: Assessment and Connecting the Revolutionary War to Local History Today was a mix of assessment and transition, as we wrapped up the Revolutionary War unit and began looking ahead to the creation of a new country. Overall, today was a win for reflection, review, and meaningful teamwork.

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