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What All High Schools Can Draw From Career and Technical Education Programs

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Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. When students can understand how one topic might be covered in English, History and Science, they’re able to grasp it more deeply.

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Civics Education Is Essential for Creating Engaged Citizens. I’m Hopeful It's About to Make a Comeback.

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history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

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Systemic Change Means Rethinking College and Career Prep. We’ve Done It Before.

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The only way to achieve another revolution in innovation is through complete transformation of our system As we write this, humanity is in the midst of multiple emergencies. To facilitate more authentic learning, many states have aligned their own standards, and developed frameworks that foster interdisciplinary teaching and learning.

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Student Push Back Is Frustrating, but It Made Me a Better Teacher

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Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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Conrad Wolfram: Let’s Build a New Math Curriculum That Assumes Computers Exist

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Your recent work and writing has focused on math education. Are a lot of the problems that you present interdisciplinary by nature? Math is this general-purpose subject at school, but if it isn’t interdisciplinary, well, why not? If it isn’t serving history, English, geography and all the other subjects, why not?

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How This Teacher Uses Unreal Engine to Elevate His Students' Learning

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We spoke with ninth-grade History Teacher Nick Pant, from Dayton Regional STEM School, about successfully implementing Unreal Engine in the classroom. I am a social studies teacher who got introduced to game design as a result of trying to motivate students to study history. I am by no means a game designer.

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Howard Gardner on His Theory of Multiple Intelligences and Lessons for COVID-19 Era

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But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to talking about intelligence. In it, he reflects on the interdisciplinary work he did that led to his theory of multiple intelligences. What was it that led you to write this? It’s a memoir called “ A Synthesizing Mind.”