eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2025

Science, social studies, and even math teachers can access informational texts aligned to Texas standards directly through the platform’s educator tools. Making literacy seamless, not separate One of the most impactful shifts I’ve seen in recent years is the growing understanding that literacy is not confined to English Language Arts (ELA).

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. In liberal arts, this helps students delineate the scope of their studies and understand the limits of their knowledge.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. In liberal arts, this helps students delineate the scope of their studies and understand the limits of their knowledge.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2025

Writing a history that you helped to create is awkward, as Anne Trumbore acknowledges in her new book “ The Teacher in the Machine: A Human History of Education Technology.” For Trumbore, it started in 2004, when she went to Stanford to work for Patrick Suppes, who had been studying computer-assisted learning since the 1960s.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2025

A 2019 study by the Library Research Service found that predominantly white school districts receive $23 billion more annually than predominantly nonwhite districts, despite serving the same number of students. They’re policies, they’re history and they’re hurting kids. So what can we do? We stop pretending ZIP codes are just numbers.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

GPA’ misses about a learner, their interests, their history, their progress, and their potential. Not all students want trophies or gold stickers, or to be patted on the head for ‘studying hard.’ This is a contest to collect as many As as possible, trying to make neat what is inherently messy: learning.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 4, 2025

These activities make excellent interdisciplinary challenges for cross-curricular science and history lessons. You can also make STEM activities interdisciplinary by involving humanities concepts, such as history, literature, and psychology.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 22, 2025

When wondering how to engage my students as readers, I started by reflecting on my own reading history and what initially got me excited about the printed word. There were plenty of studies replete with data on engagement, reading strategies, and Lexile scores. The first book series I remember reading was in fourth and fifth grade.

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Lab to Class

JULY 3, 2025

Research on Attention to Interactions A newly released study showed that this preference for watching and paying attention to social interactions rather than individuals is not a new human development, but one shared with our genetic relatives, chimpanzees.

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Cal Matters

JULY 16, 2025

Instead of forming a study group, students can ask AI for help. Julia Freeland-Fisher studies how technology can help or hinder student success at the Clayton Christensen Institute. Alba, 20, attends College of the Canyons, a large community college north of Los Angeles, where he is studying business and history.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Describe your study process or homework routine. 10 8th Grade Social Studies Writing Prompts Stretch 8th grade writing prompts across the humanities with short social studies writing assignments. Practice writing skills based on the CCSS for history and social studies and your 8th grade history curriculum with tailored prompts.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

90s Music Bingo Game Retro class reward activity, 1990s history, 90s Spirit Day By Enharmonic Education Rock your ’90s day with a fun Bingo game perfect for all ages. But don’t hit pause there: Music and movement are key players in a child’s development. The world around us influences every beat and style.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Earlier in my teaching career, my first-day-of-class deck included a slide about my professional and personal history to build trust and transparency. I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Earlier in my teaching career, my first-day-of-class deck included a slide about my professional and personal history to build trust and transparency. I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college.

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k12

JUNE 24, 2025

One thing that really helps me study that I couldn’t do at my old school is consistently listening to music. I really love studying in the forest because it can be very calming, and the ambience is nice. History has been my favorite this year because I’ve learned about the economy and how it’s regulated. I believe so.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

You can also celebrate this important month by showcasing Hispanic history, culture, and the Spanish language in your curriculum, no matter what class you teach. Frida Kahlo Door Decor Set – Spanish by SraDavilaMadwid Subjects: Art History, Spanish Make Frida Kahlo and her work the focus of your classroom before you even open the door.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Is history an important class for todays teenagers, or is it a waste of time? Social Studies: Encourage high schoolers to write creatively about a time in history from a famous persons point of view, or to imagine what life would be like if a historical event had never taken place. How much freedom should teenagers have?

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

He's just taken a gap year and is off to university in the fall to study acting. No society in history has been able to survive without ritual or myth, but ours is the first which has needed such a dull, protracted, destructive, and expensive initiation into its myth. You played a big part in setting that mindset in motion."

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Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 1, 2025

A recent study found a significant association between maternal phone use and a reduction the amount of speech infants were exposed to. History and philosophy, I think, are often better guides when it comes to the future than these secular prophets. And this will be true of the such things as the smartphone as well.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Should high schools give up one year of history in favor of a financial literacy class? Philosophical Chairs: An engaging class or group debate over any topic, Google By Creativity Overload Lessons and Designs Grades: 6th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts, Social Studies Standards: CCSS RI.7.1; 8; CCRA.SL.4

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Cal Matters

JULY 7, 2025

The university will also require mandatory student training on antisemitism awareness and endow a chair of Jewish studies. Leora Feinsmith, a junior at Cal Poly studying public health, supports Armstrong’s efforts. Armstrong reported during the testimony that the number of Jewish students at the campus has doubled since 2011.

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Cook County EM Blog

JUNE 15, 2025

Index EKG A 79-year-old female with hypertension, CKD Stage 4, history of breast cancer s/p tamoxifen therapy, osteoporosis presenting to the emergency department for pleuritic chest pain radiating to back. normal), despite the AKI on CKD, and thyroid studies demonstrated subclinical hypothyroidism with a TSH of 11.2 baseline 1.8).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

History and social studies bad reputations for being boring. They don’t necessarily see the importance of studying something that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago. History and social studies feel more real as students participate in these interactive and immersive activities. Google Earth.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2024

The culture and climate of the social studies classroom has changed, and the way teachers teach social studies has to change with it. The modern social studies classroom should now be a classroom full of student inquiry and choice. Because the curriculum in a class like AP U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2022

Although I love teaching all subjects, I always choose English/language arts and social studies, in part because I love the challenge of engaging young leaners in these important subjects. Using this digital tool is a great way to deliver an engaging social studies lesson.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Social Studies teachers seem to have an impossible challenge: take events that happened hundreds or thousands of years ago and make them relevant to today’s teens. There are many reasons for the lack of interest in history and other subjects. Presidents’ Day is a great opportunity to turn this around.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

. — Poptential , a family of free, award-winning social studies course packages that infuse lessons with digital storytelling, offers an array of engaging content about the Civil Rights Movement for instruction during Black History Month. history and society. history and society. Click to tweet. About Certell, Inc.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

“It’s been more than 125 years since the first Labor Day was observed, and the labor movement can seem a little dry to today’s high school students,” said Julie Smitherman, a former social studies teacher and director of content at Certell, Inc., Poptential course packages in American History, World History, U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2021

Yet today’s edtech leaders often ignore or choose to forget this history, argues Audrey Watters, a longtime critical observer of edtech, who calls it “historical amnesia of the past.” Watters traces the history of these pre-computer-age gadgets in her new book, “ Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Consequently, the use of discovery—a loaded term if there ever was one—in older history texts is one of the most common examples of how bias can creep into social studies classrooms and can inform (or warp) our worldview. EdSurge: Is it possible to teach politics and history as a centrist? History is very complex.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I was always interested in history. Not Caleb Brown. But I did enjoy teaching.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. My desire to know exploded.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Poptential , an award-winning family of free social studies course packages, has expanded and enhanced its Bell Ringer content with the goal of providing a bell ringer for every day of the school year. Course packages in American History, World History, U.S. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. Click to tweet. the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

She is a veteran social studies teacher who has taught Sociology, US History, World History, Anthropology, and Psychology. I would like to thank Catlin for creating the materials to help me survive and thrive as a blended teacher and for the opportunity to share my experiences with you.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

Though classrooms are closed, these TED-Ed Lessons explore a bit of the nation’s history when it comes to Independence Day. In this humorous talk, Jacob Soboroff shares the history of Election Day and shows how voting on a Tuesday affects voter turnout. Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays ?

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

New York City, NY – In the Footsteps of History, an adventure-based educational platform is proud to announce the release of its newest immersive learning game, In the Footsteps of Matthew Henson , which was made in partnership with 3D experts, Ultisim.

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