The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. It runs counter to newer trends of culturally relevant pedagogy , or culturally responsive teaching , in which critics contend that students identities should be reflected in what they learn.

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Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 141

Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2019

When the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative came to Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, principals and teachers knew things were going to change as their students experienced the benefits of technology in the classroom. James Unger VILs Coach, Lassiter Middle School.

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Pedagogy Middle School Social Studies Public School 107

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian? I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. I'm an educator. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning.

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Charter School Library Education Lesson Plan 95

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Sarah If you teach middle school, you already know about math anxiety. Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. The post Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

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K-12 Teaching Pedagogy Library 262

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. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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History Museum Social Studies Geography 128

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive. That really wasn’t the rule that she was being taught.

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K-12 Middle School Critical Thinking Pedagogy 135

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform.

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107