Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 15, 2015

A few magazine subscriptions that rarely get read, the occasional conference, and usually-useless professional development sessions are insufficient for the demands of our times. We must do better at getting our refusenik peers on board. I continue to be grateful daily for this blog.

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Political Science Now

MARCH 19, 2025

The funding and professional development opportunities afforded to me by both programs came at a really critical timeright as I was about to go on the job market. The APSA Member Spotlight Program features one member each quarter in the APSA Member Magazine, Political Science Today. Learn more here.

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Civic Engagement Civics Political Science Advocacy 46

Edthena

JULY 6, 2023

Check out our recent resources and highlights on teacher professional development. Voluntary Participation —Teachers voluntarily apply to participate in the program and select their own learning goals based upon the objectives of the program (Bakhshaei et al.,

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EdTech Professional Development Education 98

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

She was tasked with overseeing and supporting membership, accreditation, conferences and events, global outreach and engagement, and professional learning—all areas that had to be retooled in some fashion for a pandemic environment. Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting. But did it?

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K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 104

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Perhaps it’s reading a magazine or listening to music. When we wait to reflect on an accomplishment until the end of the week, month or year, we lose the fine details that made it successful. Enjoy your guilty pleasure, guilt-free. Give yourself permission to spend at least 10 minutes doing something that you enjoy. Make time for yourself.

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Leadership Professional Development Research Education 115

Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

They love playing the game after reading an article online or in the magazine. The other reason that I love Social Studies Weekly is the materials. The kids enjoyed it. I can pull up the online component and we can either work on this game as a whole class to earn coins or we can work with teams.

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Primary Sources Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

Edthena

MAY 30, 2019

Here’s a few of the articles we’ve been sharing this month focused on teacher professional development and professional learning. Read more on The Teacher Magazine : What you might Learn From Watching Yourself Teach. From a teacher: The benefits of reflecting on your own practice with video.

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Professional Development Cultures Teaching Education 40

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

You will hold regular (a minimum of five) meetings based on a collective reading of Teaching for Black Lives and a recent issue of Rethinking Schools magazine.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The text and print are also highly engaging, and the children feel so grown up with their own magazine or newspaper copy to learn from. The magazines can be folded, cut, glued, and made into assessment projects. Warmly, Debbie Learn more about Studies Weekly Teacher Advocate Debbie Bagley here.

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Artifacts Primary Sources Lesson Plan Social Studies 52

Edthena

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A version of this post about teacher collaboration originally appeared in the February 2023 edition of Language Magazine. Why teacher reflection is key to productive professional collaboration It may seem counterintuitive to suggest that self-reflection is a critical ingredient to better educator collaboration.

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Lesson Plan Professional Development Teaching Education 59

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

As the co-founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) and editor and research director of the organization’s magazine, The Crisis, he published his opposition to the unequal treatment of Black Americans and promoted Black nationalism. Black community.

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Museum Social Studies Advocacy Heritage 52

Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

26, 2023 • by Debbie Bagley I love the magazine and newspaper style of Studies Weekly, because with its engaging primary and secondary sources, and activities you can do right on the publication, it allows for so much more than just simply reading from a textbook – which tends to take the life out of any subject.

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Artifacts Social Studies Lesson Plan Professional Development 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

According to the Smithsonian Magazine, she is considered one of the most powerful empresses in Chinese history. Her son died young, and Cixi used her political shrewdness to appoint her 4-year-old nephew Guangxu as the new emperor. She again took power when she opposed efforts to modernize Chinese society.

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World History History Archaeology Social Studies 98

ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

That requires a huge investment in ongoing teacher professional development. That's the easier step. The difficult bit is, then, how do you support teachers in that education system to be able to deliver it?

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Education EdTech Government Professional Development 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2018

Educators will join the RMC to have courageous conversations, to seek out and provide quality professional development for ourselves and our colleagues, to develop anti-racist and anti-bias curricula and, most importantly, to implement racial justice work in our classrooms of mostly white students.

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K-12 Professional Development History Humanities 105

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

972 Magazine is an independent magazine run by a group of Palestinian and Israeli journalists. Al Jazeera’s free, live coverage is offering on the ground coverage from the Middle East (including Gaza), covering mass demonstrations, and more.

Teaching 52

Teaching K-12 Human Rights Social Justice 52

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. Sign up for our newsletter. Or view the whole series. And it works.

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Economics Government Advocacy Professional Development 89

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

She flips through pages of impeccable cursive handwriting extolling the importance of teaching, interspersed with magazine photos of students in 1970s-style plaid sweaters and bowl haircuts. Although the school in Tulsa demands a lot from teachers, many were eager to sign up for the school’s two-year professional development program.

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Charter School Junior High Political Science Elementary School 106