Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2020

This is especially true of history texts, which attempt to distill complex and contrasting events into simple, linear narratives, often at the expense of nuance and unpleasant truths. Yet despite these limitations, textbooks are still the most popular way to teach and learn history. So these are politicians, not teachers.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game. The teacher has to do the lion’s share of the work compiling a list of items to include on the study guide or creating questions for a game. The person generating the study guide and review game is the one doing the critical thinking.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2022

This model makes available ebooks and audiobooks on-demand in the Sora reading app to as many students as needed, with or without codes. Digital On-Demand Class Sets give schools the flexibility to allocate budget for assigned classroom reading even in situations where classes and rosters are not finalized.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If you’re a history buff, you may already know that Cleopatra had a substantial amount of rizz. History teacher Lauren Cella's "Gen Z Teaches History" series has earned about 30 million views on Instagram and TikTok combined. And I always say, ‘History is interesting.’ I think other people make it boring.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

What do you remember from history class? To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” schools are not well-known for teaching students history and getting them to remember it. I think you feel a little more connection.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

I sought to bring that same joy of reading to my high school history and English students. Study after study has shown that effective library programs can increase student literacy and test scores and create more equitable student outcomes.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2018

Click here to read the full app review. NMAAHC provides teachers with a trusted location to access materials — including tons of primary materials and media — to support their teaching of African-American history and culture. What’s It Like? . Of course, it would be great to be able to visit the actual museum in D.C.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. The Big History Project’s approach to the teaching of reading comprises four components.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2021

Thus began the most disruptive period in the history of American education. Recent studies tell a troubling story about what’s happening with our children. Two hundred miles south of Hinesburg, Matt was a ninth grader when COVID-19 struck in Boston. Like Keller, he left school in mid-March and has not been back since.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

As part of the teachers’ advisory group for America250 and as one of the fellows in the America 250 NC Freedom Fellows’ inaugural cohort, I got incredible tools and resources that help students understand our state’s unique and diverse history and the important role it played in the American Revolution. From lessons focused on the U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

With speeches, music and drumming, they mourned the long history of American slavery and racism that began on Virginia’s shores, but also celebrated the myriad cultural contributions African Americans have made to the nation. “It Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. Put us to work for you. He was very poor.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 12, 2015

I’ve written Creatively Teach the Common Core Literacy Standards with Technology to support English, history/social studies, and science teachers as they shift to the new Standards using technology. Connecting with Voxer to create study groups, encourage asynchronous conversations, or offer virtual office hours.

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Technology Teaching Mobile Devices Social Studies 345

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Not being able to read has a profound effect on our self-esteem, social-emotional skills and imagination.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Rather, Stinky Feet Day is the students’ hard-earned reward for reaching new benchmarks in silent reading. Silent reading is sometimes referred to as the “other fluency,” with oral fluency being the traditional standard-bearer. Yet, silent reading is a critical, albeit often overlooked, aspect of literacy development.

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Reading Peer Review Elementary School Elementary School 156

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. If the teacher wants to use games to learn history, Minecraft won’t throw students into a fully fleshed simulation of the American Revolution. Game playing develops reading skills. Players have one goal: To survive.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Reading changes our brains. One study finds this to be particularly true for fictional stories, which allow readers to imagine themselves as other people, in other worlds, with different ideas and challenges. The effects of reading on the brain are also strongly influenced by the medium through which we read.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

The study found that, despite the widespread perception that American society wants K-12 schools to prepare students for college, college is not as important to parents as it used to be. Instead, the study reported, today’s parents would like to see their children develop practical skills “for both life and career” (p.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2024

While the concept of HQIM has been established and embraced in other core academic disciplines, applying this concept to social studies has been more complex. Unlike content standards for math or science, where there is more uniformity across states, social studies standards can vary significantly from one state to another.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2023

We want students to fall in love with reading while building up skills in language and grammar. We try to show them that math and science can be outlets of wonder and imagination, while also grounding them in foundations of history and social studies.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Reading a Story: After reading a story with a surprise ending, the teacher could guide students to discuss how their predictions evolved as they read. This helps students understand the scientific process and how their understanding changed based on evidence. This promotes critical thinking and historical empathy.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2020

Actively Learn, Achieve3000’s research-based, standards-aligned curriculum platform, announces the release of new sequenced curricular units: Actively Learn ELA, Actively Learn Social Studies, and Actively Learn Science. This new focus enables Actively Learn to better address the distinct needs of ELA, social studies, and science teachers.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Howard Street Charter School in Salem, Oregon, is a project-based institution that pushes students to achieve excellence in all areas of study. Our highest passing rate ever in the history of the school was fifty-two percent before Covid. We are witnessing history, and this is just the beginning. The sky’s the limit.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 29, 2025

Despite some improvements notably in fourth-grade math the national results were pockmarked by widening gaps in student performance and declines in reading scores, including the largest share of eighth graders who did not meet basic reading proficiency in the assessments history.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Social studies is poised for a comeback in U.S. While ELA and math priorities have long enjoyed top billing on many district agendas, the importance of investing more in social studies instruction is now coming to the forefront, especially in an era when students are having to decode increasingly complex political and social issues.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

But they weren’t reading from a textbook. 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.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2015

Staples, a sociologist, professor, and director of the Surveillance Studies Research Center at the University of Kansas. I founded a surveillance studies research center a year and a half ago. I read about the Student Information Systems. That’s according to William G.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. It’s not just the Language Arts or Reading teacher’s sole responsibility to teach literacy. Mary Moen.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

Check back on Monday, January 23rd for the next must-read post!]. “At Stanford History Education Group, 2016. According to reporting by NPR about the study, “In exercise after exercise, the researchers were ‘shocked’—their word, not ours—by how many students failed to effectively evaluate the credibility of information.”.

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Teach Hub

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

When it comes to fostering a love for reading in students, there’s a powerful tool that goes underappreciated: the read-aloud. Read-alouds have the power to transform how students perceive books and reading. Benefits of Read-Alouds Read-alouds offer many benefits. Here are a few.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2023

Featuring a dynamic and diverse group of educators, episodes offer age-appropriate content focusing on foundational reading, writing and literacy skills, with literacy coaches modeling best practices for using science of reading-based pedagogy.

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Learning Art Social Studies Culture 300

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Using Connect, Extend, Challenge at the Elementary Level Story Time Reflection Connect: After reading a story, ask students to relate a character or situation to something from their own lives. Extend: Encourage them to speculate on how a different outcome in history might have affected the present.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

Or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. From a very young age, I had this love of reading. I feel like the whole time I was studying, I kind of had that in the back of my mind. So I feel like that kind of injected a bit of worry into my mind at all times studying in the pandemic.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

“The pandemic has shed light on the need for student agency and inclusion, along with an emphasis on content-rich knowledge to support language learning effectively in literacy, history, social science, and science applications,” said Catherine Cahn, the CEO of Twig Education.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

You must have enough teachers, the right technology, and lessons that infuse STEM into all classes including history and English/language arts, just to name a few. But what about when you’re teaching English or social studies? Best practices for a running a successful STEM school Running a STEM-focused school can have its challenges.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Understanding context in texts and conversations AI can summarize a passage or analyze a text, but it often misses the deeper meaning, tone, and cultural nuance, especially in literature and history. This is especially concerning in education, where critical thinking and contextual understanding are essential.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

The course, titled “The Reading Experiment: The Power of the Book,” takes place every other Friday beginning at 9:30 a.m. Students put away their technology and read for four hours. It’s a rediscovery of uninterrupted reading,” Peña-Guzman said last Friday while pulling up slides about the assigned readings.

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