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. government as well.

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TCI

JANUARY 6, 2025

TCI, a leader in K-12 educational content and curriculum, is proud to announce that its K-6 and 7-12 Social Studies programs have received favorable reviews in the latest textbook adoption reports released by the Office of Instructional Materials & Library Services within the Mississippi Instructional Materials Review Board.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

President’s Day Activities President’s Day is coming up soon, but how should you celebrate it with your middle school students? This post will highlight several President’s Day activities and teaching ideas that you can do with your students that are no-prep or low-prep! Constitution here.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

JANUARY 6, 2023

It is also a great time to freshen up your classroom activities and engage your middle school students in new and seasonal ways. Teaching Ideas for Spring Freshen up your teaching from the moment students walk into your classroom with these spring-themed daily agenda slides.

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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. Only one in five students is reading at grade level.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this blog post, we will give you 8 different classroom decor themes that are perfect for middle school. If you are looking for other back to school activities and teaching ideas during the first week of school, check out this related blog post ! If so, you are in the right place!

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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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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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Are you looking for even more new teaching ideas to engage your students in your social studies class? If so, you’ll love our free guide: “5 Creative Projects to Ignite Student Engagement in Your Social Studies Class.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

We’re excited to announce the 2021 cohort of HP Teaching Fellows! The new cohort includes 26 educators from across the United States and Canada, selected for their excellence in powerful teaching and learning with technology. HP Teaching Fellows Exemplify Powerful Learning. Morgan Keena, Grade 7 Social Studies (Idaho).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states. This momentum has carried forth into 2025, with bills impacting civic education filed in many states.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Donate Today Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking the very heart of the Zinn Education Project — teaching people’s history in classrooms across the country. Meanwhile thousands of classroom teachers refuse to be bullied into lying to children and have pledged to continue to teach the truth.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. But very few schools currently integrate effective literacy practices into content classes, according to experts on reading.

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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.” Lewis prompted teaching about allusions to the Christian creation story and the myth of Narcissus, knowledge they could use to analyze future stories and characters.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. 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. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me. Teaching has consumed me.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Building a toolbox of teaching strategies can help educators meet the needs of students and bring social studies to life. This hands-on approach ensures that students are not just absorbing information but actively applying and exploring it, making subjects like social studies more meaningful and memorable.

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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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Moler's Musing

APRIL 12, 2025

I first interviewed there for a high school social studies position. Later, I applied for a middle school social studies job. ” That didn’t sit well with me – how could I be good enough to coach, but not good enough to teach? Didnt get it. Didnt get that either. The Plan B.

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

AP USHistory: Buschistory – Before you say “I don’t teach AP” – neither do I! Sanford 1857 Anti-Social Studies – Really well written and funny! It varies on the podcast and the standard I am trying to teach. High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing!

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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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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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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 17, 2024

This week marked the start of a new chapter in my teaching career. I’ve transitioned to Batavia Middle School, where I’m now teaching 8th grade social studies in room 234. While the subject remains the same, I’m facing new procedures, new students, and a new textbook.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. Nate teaches Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. When I teach unit rates, I transform my room into a grocery store. This teaches them that they can learn anything. This isn’t really about math.

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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. But nothing felt quite right, until he considered teaching. But I did enjoy teaching. Not Caleb Brown.

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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. 3) Encourage critical thinking.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

School leaders nationwide often complain about how hard it is to hire teachers and how teaching job vacancies have mushroomed. Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

West, an associate professor, and Professor Carl Bergstrom teach “Calling BS: Data Reasoning in a Digital World” (although the actual course listing uses the more colorful language). Related: Can we teach our way out of political polarization? We’re teaching web credibility as if it’s 2002,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Zarek Drozda, director of Data Science 4 Everyone, a national initiative based at the University of Chicago In higher ed, data science is often housed in a particular school or limited to one field of study, such as a mathematics or computer engineering. State researchers are studying the model and its impact on teaching and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School, Louisiana. Because that’s what it felt like,” Hollander said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

Boulan Park Middle School math teacher Jordan Baines gives tips to help her students figure out a mathematics problem in Troy, Michigan. The email blast spurred opponents to show up at a board workshop and a town hall, and a petition demanding that the middle-school plan be scrapped got more than 3,000 signatures.

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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. The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math.

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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’s teaching to the test — the assessment is all that matters,” Whitehouse said.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

If we want to truly equip our students to understand and navigate the political environment that exists today, we have to think about how we teach the discipline of history more broadly. Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education.

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Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

As schools and districts across the country transition to remote learning, educators are seeking new ways to engage their students in powerful learning experiences at home. The students are loving it even more now because they aren’t able to see each other and socialize; seeing each other’s work there has given them a bright spot.”.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

This question structured the two-day event at South Fayette School District (SFSD) , which has a nationally recognized program for teaching computer science and computational thinking. At the elementary school, the teams tinkered with the interactive digital stories children created using Scratch, a block-based programming language.

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