TCI

AUGUST 7, 2023

TCI’s middle and high school programs have literacy instruction built into the reading, notebook questions, and activities. Each program provides many opportunities for students to develop a strong command of English and build reading and writing skills through social studies.

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Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

“A strategy to unlock vocabulary” by Roderick Graves, Social Studies Specialist – Holub Middle School Teaching students academic and content vocabulary is one of the most important components to mastering social studies.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr. of a standard deviation higher, on average.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

So when Piedmont is looking for great digital science and social studies programs for its middle school, it’s hard for them to know where to look and what’s out there. Know of a great middle school science or social studies app? Let us know or. Let us know or.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

Leah Hampton, an eighth grader at Falling Creek Middle School in Virginia, likes to joke that without her friends, she’d sleep through school. Like I don’t feel that same like human connection,” said Seamus Lynch, an eighthgrader at Lincoln Middle School in Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago.

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Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

However, current events are a great way to connect your curriculum to the real world and work on social studies skills. Incorporating current events into your social studies lessons can also be a great way to engage students and help them see the relevance of the subject to their own lives.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. Washington University in St.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 17, 2024

I’ve transitioned to Batavia Middle School, where I’m now teaching 8th grade social studies in room 234. Thursday and Friday – Frayers, 3xCER Adapting to Change At my previous school, we used TCI History Alive, but now I’m working with McGraw Hill’s Voices of the Past.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Amendments While students begin learning amendments in middle school, it is so hard to remember them all! Add to cart The post AP Government Review appeared first on Passion for Social Studies. Thankfully, there are resources ready for an amazing AP Government review! AP Government Amendments $ 10.00

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Active History Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I love this game from Social Studies Success. High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! Once this activity is prepped, you can use it over and over! Dominos – Students connect concepts and vocabulary using a version of Dominos. What are your favorite ways to review?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

But very few schools currently integrate effective literacy practices into content classes, according to experts on reading. That said, a handful of states and school districts are starting to explore the approach. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Here are eight budget-friendly prize ideas that your middle school students will enjoy! At the middle school level, gifts are usually less formal, so one of these items could definitely be enough, such as a homework pass. The post 8 Budget-Friendly Prizes for Students appeared first on Mr and Mrs Social Studies.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

A study published online in April 2024 in the journal Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis illustrates the inconsistencies of teacher shortages in Tennessee, where one district had a surplus of high school social studies teachers, while a neighboring district had severe shortages.

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Sanford 1857 Anti-Social Studies – Really well written and funny! High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! Seriously – these are great, quick summaries. They would be great way to review! Favorite Episode: Schenck v. United States 1919 and Dred Scott v.

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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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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 let kids choose their books. I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Conversational Videos in the Classroom from Social Studies School Service on Vimeo. Previously published by Social Studies School Services. Access slides at bit.ly/CONVOvidSSSS. CONVOvidSSSS. link] Before the pandemic, I thought I was a pretty good teacher.

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Social Studies Success

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Many middle school teachers are aware of the strength of this “straight down the middle” current events news source, and show it religiously. The post CNN10 Student News – A Routine that Creates Regulation appeared first on Social Studies Success. Enter CNN10 Student News ( [link] ).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

. — By his own account, Oscar Tendilla was a horrible middle school student, unmotivated and indifferent. I did poorly in middle school because I didn’t care,” Tendilla told me. Related: What does career readiness look like in middle school? Last month he became his family’s first college graduate.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

APRIL 12, 2022

Middle School Vocabulary Activities Frayer Model This classic activity can be used to help students think about a word in multiple ways. The official model has the vocabulary word set in the middle. If you’re interested in more vocabulary activities, check out our blog post on 8 Social Studies Vocabulary Activities.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school social studies textbooks. And while social studies curricula differ vastly across the U.S., While the app is open to the public through the Google and Apple app store, Kinfolk is targeted to middle school students and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Four new studies on project-based learning. 2nd grade social studies. High school Advanced Placement. Four new studies released in February 2021 are helping to fill this void. This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

Morgan Keena, Grade 7 Social Studies (Idaho). Christian Scott, Middle School Social Studies & Computer Science and Technology Coordinator (Ontario). David Hoang, Grade 3 STEM/Librarian and Digital Lead Learner (Ontario). Kristine Holloway, Grades 6-7 All Subjects (Ontario).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Steve Graham, a national expert in writing research at Arizona State University, along with two researchers at the University of Utah, decided to review all the studies and found that the writing-to-learn theory is solid. “As Learning gains from writing were nearly identical in math, science and social studies.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The directors of the institute, Bob Holschuh Simmons of Monmouth College ( rsimmons@monmouthcollege.edu ) and Nathalie Roy of Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, LA ( fabricatrix@gmail.com ), encourage applications from K-12 teachers of any subject that could incorporate hands-on Classics into its curricula.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Social studies teachers can help students explore data about people, places, events and cultures, she said, while English teachers might have their students identify and count words or phrases that help create a particular mood in a piece of writing. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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4QM Teaching

MAY 7, 2023

So everything else, including history/social studies, gets squeezed out of the school day, especially in the early grades. At 4QM we know from our work with a wide range of schools that in many places social studies is lightly taught or entirely ignored in the primary grades. (We Hirsch, E.D.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education. For instance, last spring, I was in a middle school classroom engaging in one of our prompts that asked students to analyze how enslaved people resisted their enslavement.

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TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Video Activities: We added new video activities for middle school and high school social studies programs. Key Science Concept Videos: In middle school science programs, Key Science Concepts now include a slideshow, video, and interactive questions.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. It recognizes the individual journey of every student.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative—made possible by a partnership between Digital Promise and Verizon—works to bridge the Digital Learning Gap by equipping every student and teacher at 152 middle schools across the country with devices and up to a four-year data plan. Students at H.B.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

The Dynamic Learning Project (DLP) utilizes coaching for classroom teachers to increase impactful use of technology in select schools across the country. In our new video below, educators from San Ysidro Middle School in San Diego share how the DLP benefits both teachers and students in their school.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Being in a small school, they needed help taking on extra elective sections, so I also started teaching eighth grade art in my fourth year. Finally, this year, I’ve added sixth grade math, so now I have a hand in all three grade levels at our middle school. What has been the most challenging and rewarding part of your job?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School, Louisiana. Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School in West Feliciana Parish, is one of 20 educators participating in the program.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

My middle school choir teacher recorded and released an acclaimed gospel album. My high school English teacher starred in commercials and made a name for herself as a voice actor. In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

More than 80 percent of middle schoolers couldn’t tell the difference between sponsored content and actual news stories. The middle school exercise was almost not included in the study because researchers thought it was too easy, said Sam Wineburg, Stanford professor and lead author of the report. “We

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