The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

High School 145

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 26, 2024

It’s a fun and creative way to get them thinking beyond the text, and I was hoping it would engage their imaginations a bit more than traditional worksheets. These lessons can be overly complicated, and many of the primary sources aren’t exactly written at an 8th-grade-friendly level.

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Primary Sources History Government Critical Thinking 126

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2021

Interactive digital and virtual experiences allow students to make choices about materials and people, something the teachers said rarely happens in a traditional unit of study. The teachers believe that the hands-on, independent nature of virtual reality will bring reluctant students to the study of history.

Museum 132

Museum Teaching Primary Sources Human Rights 132

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2018

“Charter schools can do more with less” is a common refrain of school choice advocates, who criticize traditional public schools for wasting money. There is not a superintendent or school leader in either charter or traditional schools who shouldn’t want $48,000 added back to the value of homes in majority black school districts and cities.

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Charter School Primary Sources Social Justice Museum 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Outside of local government and a prison, the primary source of jobs are the farms that have existed since before the Civil War. That’s your tradition, that’s just your Southern tradition.” Do we want the kids to stay? What they gonna stay here for?” Unless his grandchildren want to work on a farm, it’s hard to say.

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Primary Sources Public School Economics Tradition 106

Students of History

AUGUST 12, 2021

I designed the digital pages I created to look like traditional notebooks - vertically aligned and in the style of the "cut-and-paste" activities we were already doing. Plus there’s lesson plans for every day, flipped classroom videos, Google Slides, primary sources, worksheets, and more for every unit.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Primary Sources World History Civics 52

Teaching American History

JUNE 18, 2024

Teachers at the end of the program can choose to complete either a traditional master’s thesis, a capstone project, or our qualifying exam. But all good things eventually end, and some of our students will be finishing their final classes this summer. For what purpose was it written? Who was its intended audience? What effect did it have?

American History 52

American History Primary Sources Government History 52

Studies Weekly

JUNE 6, 2024

Classroom Layout and Furniture Flexible Seating Incorporate a variety of seating options, like traditional desks for seat work time, bean bags for the class library, other types of seating for listening, art, and science centers, and floor cushions to accommodate different learning styles and other center activities.

Heritage 52

Heritage Primary Sources Library Lesson Plan 52

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Teachers have three options: they may write a traditional master’s thesis, complete a capstone project, or take the qualifying exam. Remember also that when we read primary sources, we try to understand their authors as they understood themselves. Did it achieve its author’s purpose?

American History 52

American History Primary Sources Government History 52

Leah Cleary

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Teachers and students alike realized that some lessons are better learned in a more traditional manner. Students annotated laminated primary sources and collaboratively planned essays. Does this sound familiar? It’s not surprising if it does. One legacy of quarantine is digital burnout. About putting pen to paper.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources World History Library Tradition 52

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

Heritage 59

Heritage Teaching K-12 Museum 59

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

While the federal child care block grant that funds the state subsidies remains the primary source of funding for home-based providers, states like Minnesota have begun investigating other ways to get money to providers like Parks, including providing state-funded workforce development grants. We have very long days.”.

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K-12 Primary Sources Museum History 84

Achieve the Core

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

They were our primary source of relevant information, after all. Additionally, the badging system is being designed with a success-orientation approach, which stands in stark contrast to traditional grading practices where we often accept high failure rates.

High School 52

High School Primary Sources K-12 Artifacts 52

Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In 1966, she won a Grammy Award for Best Ethnic or Traditional Folk Recording. Biography.com records how her anti-apartheid songs raised awareness of the injustice happening in her native homeland. As a world-renowned singer, she also helped popularize African music.

World History 98

World History History Archaeology Social Studies 98

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2024

I had always heard the traditional narrative of how the home front came together to support the war effort, but the stories told in the book showed me the myriad ways this was not true for African Americans. History class I teach a lesson about the African American experience in WWII using primary sources.

History Education 52

History Education History Education Social Studies 52

Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In lieu of a traditional exam for one of my U.S. history with my 11th-grade students, we began the year by corroborating Columbus’s story and used texts from A Young People’s History , traditional textbooks, videos, and other primary sources. History I and II to 10th and 11th graders, respectively.

History 52

History Teaching Social Studies High School 52

Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

Still, some students had difficulty differentiating between ChatGPT’s outputs and reliable sources of information, which led to discussions about trustworthiness, primary sources, and peer-review. Ultimately, students wrote reflections on their use of ChatGPT, including both creative and practical aspects.

Anthropology 105

Anthropology Archaeology Pedagogy Archiving 105

Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

At Bishop Seabury, a small independent school in the Episcopal tradition, high school students take two or more of Czarnecki’s courses. Since all of the projects must incorporate primary sources, students learn how to access online archives such as the Hathi Trus t and newspapers.org.

Social Studies 98

Social Studies Research Archiving American History 98

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. Use role-playing for students who struggle with traditional assessments. For more strategies, check out how to help students read complex texts.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources Geography Civics Middle School 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 14, 2018

These primary sources of inequality continue to limit opportunities, suppressing the social mobility of subsequent generations. Wealthier neighborhoods to hoard wealth and maintain a racially separate school system through a financial structure based on property taxes. Yet many education reformers avoid, accept — or even embrace!

Charter School 101

Charter School Education Primary Sources Economics 101

Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

Thats why legislators in Texas have outlawed one of the traditional staples of the civics classroom: the write your legislator assignment. Riots, Racism, and the Police A lesson uses primary source documents to teach the long trajectory of police violence in Black communities. for a students.

Social Justice 98

Social Justice Primary Sources History Civics 98

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

He did it at Tuskegee in 1906, and in his remarks which were covered in the New York Times , he said such things as: “Today, you graduates of Hampton are continuing a tradition of law-abiding Black men, because at this college something like 6,000 graduates have come from here, but only two have proven to be criminals.

Primary Sources 98

Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

He did it at Tuskegee in 1906, and in his remarks which were covered in the New York Times , he said such things as Today, you graduates of Hampton are continuing a tradition of law-abiding Black men, because at this college something like 6,000 graduates have come from here, but only two have proven to be criminals.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources History K-12 Economics 52