Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

Experience with Studies Weekly Frances recently attended a Professional Development training hosted by Studies Weekly. She also stresses the importance of staying open to learning, trying new approaches, and reflecting on best practices. Education is an evolving journey, and its okay not to have all the answers right away.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

To help them succeed, the school — which last year served just over 500 high schoolers , roughly 80 percent of whom qualified for free or reduced priced lunch — provides its teachers with daily professional development and coaching on literacy instruction and other topics.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 6, 2024

Background readings, a pre-webinar discussion board, and links to webinar recordings and relevant primary sources will be made available to registrants. hours of professional development. Register now for this free professional development by clicking on the links below!

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

It is essential for educators to tap into professional development (PD) opportunities to advance their understanding of how to use AI to improve the classroom experience. Leveraging AI in the classroom can enhance teaching while preparing students for a future where AI is integral to the workforce.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

There was much more emphasis on critical thinking and primary source investigation. Frank McCormick, at the time the district’s coordinator for social studies instruction, said those inquiry-based standards were a radical shift from the content-based standards that most students and teachers were used to.

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

I recently connected with Grace Pai, the executive director of the organization, and Esther Hurh, a professional development (PD) facilitator who has been delivering sessions about the TEAACH Act to educators, to better understand the challenges around putting the TEAACH Act into practice.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

Use primary sources. Ensure content is age- and development-appropriate, and provide support for processing emotions. Here, at American University’s School of Education , we introduced an anti-racist teacher professional development curriculum in which “self-interrogation” is a major component of teacher training.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Sincerely, Debbie Bagley Get a FREE consultation with Teacher Advocate. Choose “Connect with Teacher Advocate” in the form.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2022

Intersection of Less Funding and Less Employment As it currently stands, tribal child counts help divvy up dollars from the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the primary source of child care funding in the U.S. Baesler has seen firsthand the impact that culturally relevant curriculum has on older students.

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TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Free Lessons: TCI’s free lessons quickly engage students with videos, vibrant images, primary sources, and more. Comprehensive Professional Development This year, TCI released a new flexible professional development experience. Over 3,400 TCI teachers from 44 states have completed a course.

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Civics for All of US

MAY 12, 2023

Teaching the Bill of Rights for Educators Katie Munn Fri, 05/12/2023 - 08:50 Body A virtual professional development workshop for K–12 educators. This online workshop will explore how to engage learners of all grade levels in the active exploration of primary sources that teach about the rights embodied in the Bill of Rights.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

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TCI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The slideshows deliver instructions, rich primary sources, interactions, and questions. Professional Development Courses Stay sharp with TCI’s self-paced professional development courses. Review these slideshows as you plan a lesson. You can also help students practice key terms with TCI’s vocabulary cards.

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ASHP CML

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Their discussion highlights visual images, primary source documents, and historical topics that have been useful in their classrooms. A high school history teacher describes how an understanding of history can add important context for understanding the rise of conservative resistance to inclusive education.

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We got some useful feedback, which will help us to set our agenda for professional development and materials acquisition. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. Question Two) — is most appropriately addressed by interpreting primary sources.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2024

Students find it engaging, and teachers find it easy to implement.” ” Learn more about Studies Weekly’s PreK-6 Social Studies.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. They are not available for homeschools.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It’s student-friendly, relevant topics, you can use it alone or add to it, aligned to the standards, and lots of support & extension materials and opportunities to tie into real-world issues.” ” Learn more about Studies Weekly’s PreK-6 Social Studies.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 18, 2024

And that means the pinnacle of TAH’s professional development for teachers has arrived as well: our Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program at Ashland University in Ashland, OH. Summer has arrived! For what purpose was it written? Who was its intended audience? What effect did it have?

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Professional Development Workshops and Training Attend workshops or training sessions now to gain new ideas and strategies for classroom management and design. Calm and Focus Zones Quiet Areas Set up a quiet corner where students can go to read or take a break if they need a moment to themselves.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Categories Corporate Educator Spotlight Lesson Plans Professional Development Science Social Studies Studies Weekly Online Summer School Teacher Tips Thinking on Education Tutorials Uncategorized Well-Being Recent Posts Educator’s Guide to Improving Student Attendance May 28, 2024 You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 How to Make a Class (..)

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Start a 60 day FREE trial for Studies Weekly Online to gain access to K-6 social studies curriculum, primary source videos, and more. For further reading, visit jacl.org , the National Women’s History Museum , or the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

Learn more about Phonological Awareness and strategies to support structured literacy in our five-part Professional Development webinar series. Starting with individual letter and word sounds better equips them for phonics, decoding, and fluency. Register for the first webinar, Phonological Awareness, here. Reading Universe.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Your Studies Weekly Online classroom contains digital versions of your publications and more online resources like digital lesson plans, videos, and presentations you can project to the whole class. Warmly, Debbie Learn more about Studies Weekly Teacher Advocate Debbie Bagley here.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For a few hours, teachers can dive into the content of primary source documents through a discussion with colleagues facilitated by a scholar. These are free to attend for all social studies teachers and can be in historical locations, school districts, and educational service centers.

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Primary Sources American History Social Studies History 52

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. Giving students this trust creates a partnership of learning and growth between students and the teacher.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I once participated in a professional development session in which we watched a video of a class of about fifteen eighth graders sitting in a circle talking about the U.S. The thinking skill associated with Question Two is interpretation, and in high school we’re usually interpreting a primary source document.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials. They are not available for homeschools.

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Primary Sources Lesson Plan Social Studies Professional Development 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

You can’t skip the slavery unit, or you can’t think to skip Harriet Jacobs’ primary source of her narratives of a slave girl, where she’s talking about being sexually harassed by slaveholder,” she said. “I don’t know how you really cherry-pick what you’d like to cover in an AP class.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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Primary Sources Professional Development Social Studies Lesson Plan 52

TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Keep Students Engaged by Pairing Reading with Interactive Elements Make reading an active process by integrating: Primary Source Analysis: Students examine historical documents. For more strategies, check out how to help students read complex texts. Visual Thinking Strategies: Images enhance comprehension.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops. You are often limited in your ability to teach certain topics by the dependence upon primary sources rather than secondary sources.

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