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. Washington University in St.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 10, 2024

You Have Primary Sources in Your Family May 10, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Primary sources transport students through history. They help students understand what real people of the past saw, felt, and heard as they lived through the events we study in school. Their family stories are history!

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 7, 2025

During his doctoral research in 1955, Maassab sat in the back of an auditorium as his professor announced Jonas Salk’s successful creation of the Polio vaccine. Maassab’s colleague, Rashid Bashshur, recalls this as the moment Maassab dedicated his life’s research to developing a safe and effective vaccine for influenza.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

While some students also receive one-on-one remediation, Fisher said that research shows those interventions aren’t enough to close the gap. “We HSHMC’s approach of integrating literacy into content classes is something that researchers are calling for. For decades, the primary methods for teaching students how to read in the U.S.

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Students of History

JANUARY 3, 2023

It's the year 2023, and teaching social studies is more of a challenge than ever before. Between the students, administrators, parents, and the community, social studies teachers are feeling pressure from all directions. Another trend in social studies education is the emphasis on project-based learning.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Breaking the “Right Answer” Mindset A lot of students were still raising their hands, hoping for the “right” answer, but I’m working hard to break them out of the mindset that social studies is just about filling in blanks. I want them to engage with the content and think critically—there are no simple answers here!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As a social studies teacher and a Chinese American immigrant, I find myself subconsciously asking the following questions: How are Asian Americans viewed by the American public? Wayne Zhang is a graduate student at Northwestern University who will be teaching social studies next year at Amundsen High School in Chicago Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2022

We need to invest as an organization [in an] effort that will allow us to really focus on projects, initiatives, challenges and research that really is centered in this idea of inclusive innovation,” Smith said in an interview. There was much more emphasis on critical thinking and primary source investigation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

When the AP United States history students at Aragon High School in San Mateo California, scanned the professionally designed pages of www.minimumwage.com , most concluded that it was a solid, unbiased source of facts and analysis. High School social studies teacher. They got duped.”. Janis Schachter, Northport (N.Y.)

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ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

This is critical because in addition to improving student well-being, research shows that when students feel represented in school and learn about the experiences and stories of people who look like them, academic performance and attendance rise. In fact, diverse representation and multicultural awareness benefits all students.

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Studies Weekly

JULY 9, 2024

According to the 2022 report on this national assessment by a team of researchers at Stanford and Harvard, the data showed that while students with mostly remote classes had lower scores on average, remote learning had little impact on a student’s performance. This is where Studies Weekly can help. Hogan in the New York Times article.

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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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4QM Teaching

APRIL 30, 2023

We just had a consultant come to my school to do a review of our social studies program. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. That rubric defined “rigor” as student engagement with primary source texts and artifacts. I noticed something strange, however.

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ACRE

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

In the classroom, educators can explore a variety of Constitutional resources with learners by reading primary sources, reviewing changes to the Constitution throughout American History, and analyzing historical arguments relating to the founding of the United States and the Constitution today. Since its ratification, the U.S.

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Moler's Musing

JANUARY 2, 2024

Reflecting on the adventures, challenges, and revelations of the first semester teaching 8th grade social studies has been a journey filled with engaging moments, critical thinking exercises, and the exploration of local connections. Onward we march, with open minds and full hearts, to encounter the canvas of the second semester.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 6, 2024

Breathing exercises to try As a Studies Weekly Teacher Advocate , I love to pass along information that can benefit you too. I have loved researching and trying fun techniques to recenter and regulate emotions. Teacher Advocates are only available for classroom teachers currently using Studies Weekly materials.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 28, 2024

Teaching Exceptional Children (TEC) reports, “Guided socialization helps in emotional regulation, as children learn to manage their emotions and behaviors in a supportive setting, which is particularly beneficial for children who may struggle with self-control or experience social anxiety.”

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Teacher's Edition (TE) Your Studies Weekly Teacher’s Edition has so much to offer! Before discovering Studies Weekly, I remember having to look up, research, and study all our standards and then search for curriculum, information, and ideas to create daily lessons.

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Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

When students need to read for understanding, comprehension, or retention, research shows that they perform better with print materials rather than a screen. Research shows that paper learning better engages students, improves material retention and comprehension, and helps them move to a ready-to-learn mindset.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

C3 Teachers followed six secondary and middle level preservice teachers at the University of Kentucky as they designed inquiries for their social studies methods class. Social studies affords endless possibilities for inquiry. In the world of social studies, there are a plethora of topics to cover.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

C3 Teachers followed six secondary and middle level preservice teachers at the University of Kentucky as they designed inquiries for their social studies methods class. Social studies affords endless possibilities for inquiry. In the world of social studies, there are a plethora of topics to cover.

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Doing Social Studies

APRIL 13, 2020

Previously, the Spanish Influenza was part of the larger conversation about the League of Nations’ clause about an international agreement to study and prevent diseases. But the development of the Coronavirus required the creation of a whole new “case study.” For a copy of a completed student version of this lesson, follow this link.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Joining social studies teacher groups on Facebook, she built her own professional learning community (PLC). “I Her husband was promoted to a new position in Tennessee, where Livingston began teaching fifth through eighth grade social studies and, later, eighth grade US history.

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

As post-pandemic reading success has declined across the United States, more schools are embracing The Science of Reading, a body of research and scientific evidence based on five main pillars, help us understand how children learn to read. Every child deserves to learn to read. In this blog series, we will look at these pillars.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

TCI’s free social studies activities will keep students engaged throughout the year as they explore the history behind Labor Day and biographies for Black History Month. Review the list to find seasonal social studies lessons, primary source activities, and biographies for K-12 classrooms. Get the lessons.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school social studies textbooks. And while social studies curricula differ vastly across the U.S., Buddington’s team wrote the curriculum and helped with the archive research that accompanies the Kinfolk app. Subscribe today!

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 3, 2025

Research in neuroscience and psychology explains these lasting benefits. Debbie Bagley works as a Studies Weekly Teacher Advocate. You already understand that teaching children resilience, a growth mindset, a good attitude, confidence, and a kind heart will affect the whole child and their well-being for life.

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Doing Social Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2021

As we reboot Doing Social Studies, we’d love to introduce you to this month’s author, Nathan McAlister. Nathan McAlister is the Humanities Program Manager – History, Government, and Social Studies with the Kansas State Department of Education.

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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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Thrive in Grade Five

APRIL 20, 2019

Primary source documents report that Bridget continued to proclaim her innocence up to the moment of her execution. During her research, Parker learned of Esther Ewell, her tenth great-grandmother. Ask students to research an accused witch. The History of Massachusetts website is an excellent source of information. ●

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Take a game like, ‘Do I have a Right?’ ” said Brian Furgione, a middle-school social studies teacher near Orlando, Florida. “In One thing that came out of our research is that students are fascinated by the fact that their peers have different opinions,” she said. “It

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

Courtney Bennis High School Social Studies Teacher, Virginia Beach, Virginia A huge “Thank you!” Colten Fox High School Social Studies Teacher, Washougal, Washington Talking of perfect timing, this arrived today, and I am in the midst of teaching WWII. Thank you, @ZinnEdProject , for helping me teach my students.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

The European Geosciences Union records that, in 1930, she headed the Laboratory on Marine Geology at the Floating Marine Research Institute and later became a professor at the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology. She sought opportunities to research in Antarctica, but the people who headed expeditions kept turning her down because of her gender.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2017

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. The Civil Rights Movement was once a footnote in Mississippi social studies classrooms, if it was covered at all. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Hope Koumentakos High School Social Studies Teacher, Takoma Park, Maryland I currently teach U.S. Allyson Saladino High School Social Studies Teacher, Ridgewood, New Jersey I used the lesson titled, How Red Lines Built White Wealth , in order for students to learn about red lining and institutionalized racism.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

And so from that moment through the rest of the 20th century, white criminality increasingly became a symptom of a social problem, whereas Black criminality increasingly became a symptom of Black people’s problem. Hagopian: Incredible research you did on that. And of course, history and social studies teachers.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

Formally, he was the director of a place that we hold very dear, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. And so from that moment through the rest of the 20th century, white criminality increasingly became a symptom of a social problem, whereas Black criminality increasingly became a symptom of Black people’s problem.

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