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Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

The Sunnyside district, where roughly 90 percent of students are Hispanic, signed on at the start of the pandemic, after discovering that many of its ninth graders were struggling with the demands of recently adopted state standards for social science. There was much more emphasis on critical thinking and primary source investigation.

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Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

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. In other words, that’s what they expected to see in a high-functioning social studies class.

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Social Studies Network

Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

Why Our Students Aren’t (and Can’t Be) Historians

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