The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

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. There was much more emphasis on critical thinking and primary source investigation.

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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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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

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TCI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

TCI’s social studies programs provide comprehensive planning and support tools so you can focus on what you do best: teaching. The slideshows deliver instructions, rich primary sources, interactions, and questions. Professional Development Courses Stay sharp with TCI’s self-paced professional development courses.

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TCI

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Video Activities: We added new video activities for middle school and high school social studies programs. Free Lessons: TCI’s free lessons quickly engage students with videos, vibrant images, primary sources, and more. The in-app professional development provides self-paced courses that let you explore TCI’s program.

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Studies Weekly

JUNE 3, 2024

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 2, 2024

We also teach gifted students and we find that all the extra activities that Studies Weekly gives us are so great for our higher learners. Studies Weekly really adds to our Social Studies lessons and it makes it so easy for us to teach! We’re so happy with Studies Weekly and think you will be too.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our social studies program. 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.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

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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

MAY 28, 2024

Make the school day engaging with hands-on Social Studies , Science , and Health curricula. Tracking State Trends in Chronic Absenteeism.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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

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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

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.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

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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. “Using both our print and online together gives the greatest benefits by far,” Bagley said.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

This is indeed a worthy goal: we want history and social studies classrooms to be active places where students are doing the intellectual work of our discipline, and often that work is best done in conversation with peers or with a teacher or both. We want them to be moving forward in their thinking. constitution. Why then and there?

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

See how Studies Weekly Social Studies teaches world history from different cultural perspectives by requesting a sample. Her work during that time contributed to the first Antarctic atlas.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jefferson County Public Schools revamped its social studies curriculum in 2019. 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.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

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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. And of course, history and social studies teachers.

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