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Teach Students About Juneteenth With These 9 Lessons, Videos and Primary Source Documents
06/15/2021
Topics: Juneteenth
As June arrived in 1865, the Civil War was over. It was more than two years after Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation and six months after the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution officially…
8 LGBTQ+ Resources for Educators
05/28/2021
Topics: LGBTQ+
By the time Tricia Friedman was 8, she knew that she was different. She grew up and became an educator, but it took her more than a decade to be out in her career.
People assume that the creator of the…
High School Theater Pivots to Radio To Keep Performances Going During Pandemic
05/05/2021
Topics: remote learning
Much of education during the coronavirus pandemic has involved screens and technology to keep both teachers and students safe. But one Oregon high school took a different approach.
Looking to the days…
A New Framework for Activating Equity and SEL in the Classroom
04/23/2021
Topics: digital equity, SEL
In my many travels to schools before the pandemic and my countless virtual interactions with educators since, I have come to realize that not all educators teach in districts where…
10 Resources for Addressing Anti-Asian Racism in the Classroom
04/14/2021
Topics: anti-racism
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, violence and racism toward Asian-Americans has dramatically increased, and many people of Asian descent – including students – have been bullied, harassed and attacked…
Fine-Tuning Your PBL Projects
03/03/2021
Topics: Project-based learning
In project-based learning, students achieve better results when they receive feedback and have time to make improvements in their final products or solutions. The same is true for PBL teachers. Critique and…
Get Your Students Creating Their Own Podcasts
03/01/2021
Topics: podcasting
Tai Poole is a ninth grader in Canada and has been hosting the podcast series Tai Asks Why? with the Canadan Broadcasting Company (CBC) since he was 11. Each…
9 Resources for Teaching About Slavery
01/27/2021
Topics: primary sources
A report by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project recently found that only 8% of high…
Citizen Science: Students Find Climate Change Clues in Their Own Backyards
12/22/2020
Topics: NASA, STEM
Scientists have always been reluctant to attribute extreme weather events to climate change. Weather is different from climate, they say, and extreme variations aren’t unusual.
However, climate change…
Adapting Learning Science for Unprecedented Times
11/18/2020
Topics: Learning sciences
Longer class times to encourage creative teaching. Fewer courses to minimize cognitive overload. More time for socializing with peers and working on passion projects.
Grounded in the most promising…