Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

Fellows will join organizations advancing social justice and equity in communities across the United States in staff positions designed to draw on the humanistic skills, capacities, and frameworks developed in the course of earning the PhD. The full roster of partnering organizations and positions is available here.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Our lab is no museum—it is a makerspace, a design laboratory, a place to combine creativity and inspiration. But our lab is no museum—it is a makerspace, a design laboratory, a place to combine creativity and inspiration.”. Jonathan Lubas Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Coach, E Prep Cliffs.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Learning sciences research investigates the process of learning in realistic settings, which can include schools, museums, after-school programs, home environments, or anywhere people typically learn. Seeks improvement at scale by explicitly studying implementation and other challenges of scaling up as part of the scientific work.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead. For example, the Museum of Chinese in America in Chinatown, Manhattan, NY, hosts a MOCAKIDS Storytime program on Zoom every 2nd and 4th Thursday at 4 p.m. The museum also has some of its collections online for students to browse at mocanyc.org.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

Events are hosted by a wide range of organizations in each community—from churches to tech companies, rec centers to sewing shops, libraries to schools, makerspaces to barbershops, parks to museums, restaurants to laundromats, and everywhere in between. Some events might also offer professional development for educators attending.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2016

“It’s more about giving the teachers, the educators, the space to be learners themselves and learn how to use our museum, our facility, in different ways,” said Gerrie Hall, manager of school and teacher progress at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Seven-year-old Kate Stabenow and her five-year old brother Jack put the finishing touches on the buildings they designed and built at the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s new early-childhood fab lab. The museum staffers were testing a prototype, too. Elizabeth Rood, vice president of education strategy, Bay Area Discovery Museum. “We

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Free professional development. Some of our topics include: Security, Self Determination, and Empire: The Grand Alliance, 1941-1945 at The National WWII Museum in New Orleans, LA. Controversy, Consensus, and Compromise in the American Founding, at Pima Air & Space Museum in Tuscon, AZ. Historic locations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2020

Many museums offer virtual tours. Vincent Costanza, the chief academic officer for Teaching Strategies, which focuses on early ed curriculum, assessment and professional development, said parents often hear mixed messages about technology and there are times when technology can enhance relationships.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2023

We can do this by taking field trips to local museums and historical sites, inviting experts into our classrooms, participating in programs like Empatico that connect students worldwide, creating robust class libraries and using content-rich curriculums across subject areas to build student knowledge.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York. I went from visiting the Museum of Chinese in America ( MoCA ) to learning mostly about the Civil War,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Undeterred, Doreen Gehry Nelson, now 86, went on to start her own nonprofit , win a slew of awards and share her city-building teaching methods with thousands of classroom teachers and other education professionals around the world, though not nearly as many as she would like. Expansion is more complicated than it sounds.

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Civics for All of US

JANUARY 11, 2024

Teaching Presidential Elections with the National Archives Katie Munn Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:02 Body Join education specialists from several Presidential Libraries and Museums for this professional development program for educators on teaching elections with the records of the National Archives.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. the New York State Archives and Museum , and the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site ) is essential to my instructional practice.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 19, 2021

Right now I am teaching summer school, working as a social media coordinator for a couple of businesses, developing and teaching a course for museum professionals, volunteering at two museums, and managing my teacher resource business. Sometimes also teach a professional development or have a meeting.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Or consider an academic dean observing two teachers at his school with markedly different performance, and consequently very different professional development needs. How can this dean more effectively personalize professional development to meet each teacher where they are and help them get to where they need to be?

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Or consider an academic dean observing two teachers at his school with markedly different performance, and consequently very different professional development needs. How can this dean more effectively personalize professional development to meet each teacher where they are and help them get to where they need to be?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2022

They plan pizza parties, trips to museums and yoga studios and visits to nearby places the students have never seen, like the seaside city of Newport. In addition to keeping tabs on homework and grades, pod leaders teach students how to manage their time, apply for summer jobs and create goals for life after high school.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The National Women’s History Museum documents how Truth advocated for voting rights for all and argued that gender or race should not restrict any human rights. Her speeches, including her famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” ” address, challenged the prejudices against both Black Americans and women.

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Rosie the History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

My Job Hunt I graduated with my teaching degree in December 2013 and landed my dream job at a children’s museum working as their education director/exhibit designer/volunteer coordinator. I love field trips, but it was different being on the teacher side instead of the museum-hosting-the-field-trip side of things!

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Some helpful tips for utilizing Studies Weekly resources can be found in this article: [link] Utilizing Community Resources: Local museums, science centers, botanical gardens, and nature reserves often offer educational programs and activities for students. Learn more about Studies Weekly’s science programs at studiesweekly.com/science.

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Studies Weekly

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Parker’s uncle by marriage was Mark Raymond Harrington, director of the Southwest Museum in Los Angeles, California. He hired Parker as a secretary and cook for the museum’s excavations of Pueblo Indian sites. She is believed to be the first indigenous female archaeologist. She was of Abenaki and Seneca descent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

She tries to build their vocabulary through conversation and by encouraging their parents to take them to the library and museums. The pre-K age is crucial to their development,” she said. Most of her Bushwick students come from homes in which little English is spoken and income levels are low, she said. They are sponges now.”.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 31, 2020

Luckily I considered myself to be pretty tech savvy already, so I didn’t have a huge learning curve with using tools like Google Forms or Kahoot, but I did need to adapt things like museum exhibit projects and collaborative activities to be fully virtual.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2016

Professional development is limited and poorly tailored to individual teachers’ needs. Public Schools, the Bay Area Discovery Museum, and Arizona State University will collaborate to design new approaches to active STEM learning for young children and their teachers. Cast a wide net.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Next she handed out VR headsets and asked her students to grab their cellphones and head to her Google classroom, where posted three different experiences that showcase Afrofuturism: an Afrofuturism art museum, a short VR film and a musical performance. That said, the district has had its struggles with the mandatory course.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

In 2016, Ko was honored by the National Women’s History Museum for success and leadership in business. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies. Jerry Yang is a Taiwanese American computer programmer who founded Yahoo!

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Impressed with her work, the national museum hired her as the director of archaeology. Later in life, she was one of the first women to work in Mexican archaeology and the first person to study the pre-Columbian site of Chalcatzingo. Her life proves women can not only break into male-dominated fields but excel in them.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Mark your calendars for a high-energy and inspirational professional development opportunity. On April 26, 2025, the EduProtocols Roadshow will take over the Hiller Aviation Museum in Northern California. Join us at the EduProtocols Roadshow on April 26, 2025, at the Hiller Aviation Museum. Register HERE.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Buses for a field trip to a dinosaur museum have to be sorted. Research suggests that professional support can also help keep people on the job: One study found that school leaders who did not receive professional development were 1.4 It is barely 8:30 a.m. times more likely to leave their jobs within a year.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2025

Three dozen other teachers have taken an online course on dyslexia and are receiving other professional development, according to Cassidy. Back at Louisiana Key Academy on an afternoon before Christmas break, Brooke Simmons grinned as she talked about an upcoming field trip to a science museum and Secret Santa with her classmates.

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