TeachThought

MAY 4, 2025

Here are 30 ideas to promote creativity in learning, including tapping into multiple intelligences and using emotional connections.

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Digital Promise

MAY 7, 2025

The post Student Agency and Academic Growth: A Case Study From Sylvan Hills Middle School appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Middle School 141

Strange Maps

MAY 5, 2025

The mountains of northern Laos are beautiful, but tough to negotiate. By car, it can easily take 15 hours to drive the 373 miles (600 km) of winding roads that separate the capital Vientiane from the town of Boten on the Chinese border. Since December 2021, theres a far straighter, much faster alternative: the brand-new high-speed Laos- China Railway (LCR) measures just 257 miles (414 km) between Boten and Vientiane, and fast trains cover that distance in three and a half hours.

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Current Connections 129

ED Surge

MAY 5, 2025

Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. At the Human Computing Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, McLaren develops digital learning games to study how effective they are in the classroom and beyond. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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K-12 Education Tutoring Psychology 116

TeachThought

MAY 6, 2025

Critical thinking questions include, Why is this important? What are the causes and effects of this? How do we know if this is true?

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Critical Thinking 188

Digital Promise

MAY 9, 2025

The post When a Root Cause Analysis Brought a School Principal to Tears appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Sapiens

MAY 7, 2025

An archaeologist considers whether students should learn from antiquities looted from Iraq. IN 2022, the Art Crimes Division of the FBI became interested in a palm-size piece of carved ivory held by Emory Universitys art museum in Atlanta, Georgia. Though missing portions, enough remained to know the ivory originally showed a sphinx striding on a mans head.

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Museum Archaeology Heritage Archiving 109

TeachThought

MAY 3, 2025

by TeachThought Staff Creativity is often associated with elementary students who are encouraged to draw or color to self-express.

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Passion for Social Studies

MAY 9, 2025

Sociology gives students a powerful framework to understand the world around them. It opens the door to exploring different societies, their diversity, and the ways they interact. This is why I love teaching sociology! I have found that one of the most effective ways to deepen student understanding is through well-chosen sociology documentaries; textbooks and lectures can only take you so far.

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ED Surge

MAY 9, 2025

Dual enrollment courses are considered some of the best ways to prepare students for the rigor and content in college-level curricula. Not only do these courses offer students a jump-start on credits once they get to college, but they also equip them with skills like time management, critical thinking and study habits that researchers say encourage them to enroll and stay in college.

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Moler's Musing

MAY 9, 2025

This week was all about pulling the threadtracing how specific events pulled the country apart and pushed us toward war. I built everything around one central theme: A Nation Divides Over Slavery. From court cases to debates, from compromises to elections, we kept the structure tight: retrieval, repetition, and real thinking. The protocols stayed familiar, the tasks stayed purposeful, and students had a chance to connect the dots, not just memorize them.

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Local History History 97

TeachThought

MAY 3, 2025

1. Master the Search Bar: Your Time-Saving Powerhouse Don’t waste time scrolling through endless files.

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Education 292

Anthropology.net

MAY 7, 2025

By the time the sun rose over the jagged folds of the Catalan Pyrenees some 20,000 years ago, the snow crust had already hardened under the feet of a small band of Homo sapiens. They carried their belongings with care—scraps of dried meat, slings, and flint cores nestled inside hides tied into makeshift packs. These weren’t just travelers.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2025

While both enrollment and spending in early childhood education programs reached new levels in 2024, a few select states did the lions share of the work with many states lagging behind. And with early childhood program funding in flux , some leaders in the sector are concerned the lack of investment both financial and otherwise could create a doomed domino effect for some programming.

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K-12 Research Education Government 84

C3 Teachers

MAY 5, 2025

with Tara DeVay In late summer 2015, as I prepared for my third-year teaching eighth-grade social studies in rural Western New York, I balanced many of the challenges that young teachers do: coaching, building curriculum, and searching for more meaningful ways to teach content. While my first two years had gone well, something was missing. The routine of covering material felt stagnant.

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Teaching Museum Primary Sources Professional Development 73

Becoming a History Teacher

MAY 5, 2025

Photo by saeed basseri on Pexels.com Back in March, British tennis player Jack Draper secured his first Masters 1000 title at Indian Wells, the biggest title of his career; securing a Grand Slam title now seems likely. Im not an avid tennis fan but my ears pricked up when I heard Annabel Croft’s radio analysis of Draper’s victory, highlighting his improved emotional control, contrasting his current calmness with his junior days.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 8, 2025

The Ox and the Origins of Unequal Societies Long before hedge funds, private property, or multinational tax havens, human societies were surprisingly equal. Across a wide range of Neolithic communities, archaeological evidence suggests that disparities in wealth—though present—were often kept in check. That balance, however, began to shift dramatically around 5,000 years ago.

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Education Elements

MAY 8, 2025

As we celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week this week, I am reflecting on the 2025 State of Teaching Report from EdWeek. This report highlights the importance of focusing on morale as a retention lever. Real moralethe kind that stickslives in the daily experiences of educators--it shows up in leadership decisions, hallway conversations, classroom dynamics, and Monday morning moods.

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Sapiens

MAY 6, 2025

A lawyer and anthropologist examines the history of the longest road in South Africa and why a proposed extension may repeat past violence. While researching the history of parole in South Africa, a lawyer and anthropologist discovers the origins of the N2 road, which she drives everyday. Now interested in this highways history, she explores how this and other roads were used to expand territory and exploit people during South Africas colonial periods under Dutch and British rule, and how they k

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Political Science Now

MAY 9, 2025

The Effect of Protesters Gender on Public Reactions to Protests and Protest Repression By Martin Naunov , University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. This study examines how protesters gender shapes public reactions to protests and protest repression. Using an original survey experiment, I demonstrate that protests involving extensive participation by women are perceived as less violent and meriting of repression than male-dominated protests.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 6, 2025

More than 3,000 years ago, long before Rome rose or Athens dreamed of democracy, bronze was already reshaping the ancient world. Weapons, tools, and ornaments forged from this copper-and-tin alloy were transforming everything from warfare to daily labor. But while copper is relatively easy to find, tin is elusive. It doesn’t litter the ancient Mediterranean the way obsidian or copper does.

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Moler's Musing

MAY 6, 2025

Sometimes, teaching history means peeling back the layers. Literally. It was late in the year, and I just wanted to mix things up. We’d been hitting heavy content, and I needed something differentnot easier, just… different. So I asked AI to help. We were covering the Lincoln-Douglas debates a pivotal moment tied to the expansion of slavery and the rise of the Republican Party.

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Teaching American History

MAY 6, 2025

This blog was originally posted on May 5, 2022. We rerun it today to spotlight teacher Ginny Boles! Ginny Boles needed to build her content knowledge in American history. Paradoxically, her love of this history had led her to major in classics as an undergraduate at UCLA, so as to read the Latin and Greek texts the Founding Fathers read as they formulated their plans for self-government.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2025

Social Studies Soundtracks: Using Music to Teach Social Studies May 2, 2025 By Debbie Bagley NEWSLETTER At first glance, social studies and music might seem like two separate subjects, but they can come together harmoniously to make learning more engaging and memorable. Music is a valuable tool for teaching social studies because it encourages memory and movement and evokes emotions.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 6, 2025

In the humid heart of the Yucatán, inside the ceremonial center of Chichén Itzá, a dozen ceramic bowls buried in history have begun to speak again. Through cracks, burn marks, and chemical traces, they offer a new clue to one of Mesoamerica’s most enduring aesthetic and ritual achievements: the production of Maya blue. The pigment, renowned for its vibrancy and permanence, has captivated scientists since its rediscovery in the early 20th century.

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Artifacts Archaeology History Humanities 68

Political Science Now

MAY 6, 2025

Luis Guaman, Princeton University Luis Xavier Guaman is a first-generation rising senior at Princeton University, majoring in politics. He is interested in examining how generational status and acculturation levels of Latinxs condition the effects of partisan immigration frames on open-immigration policy support. As a member of the Lab on Politics, Race, and Experimental Methods, Luis contributed to experimental pilot studies for the Princeton-Jackson State National Election Study.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2025

Imagine youre a ninth grader navigating a world where generative AI, agentic AI and other emerging technologies dominate the headlines. The future feels uncertain, so how do you even begin to decide what you want to be when you grow up? Students today are shaping identities that will guide them through careers spanning the decades ahead. This uncertainty can be daunting, but one thing is clear: Foundational knowledge in computer science will be essential, no matter what paths they choose.

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Living Geography

MAY 9, 2025

I was down in London recently and as I sat having my lunch in a pub it was clear that some of the people there were down for the football. There were a couple of matches taking place in London, and it was probably West Ham who were the relevant team. It was interesting to note the sponsors on the shirts. Over the years, these have become more linked to gambling firms, moving away from tobacco and other products.

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Cultures 52

Anthropology.net

MAY 5, 2025

Hallucinogens and Hierarchy: Power in the Ritual Chambers of Chavín At 10,000 feet above sea level in the Peruvian Andes, stone corridors wind through the ancient ceremonial site of Chavín de Huántar. Built over 3,000 years ago, the architecture still stuns. But its true power wasn’t only in carved granite or megalithic design. It was in the unseen—a ritual world carefully curated by those in charge, where altered states of consciousness became instruments of social co

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Political Science Now

MAY 9, 2025

How do APSA members engage in service work, and how does that vary by career stage, institution type, and identity? The April 2025 Chart of the Month explores new survey data on service expectations and equity within the political science profession. This interactive infographic offers a snapshot of how political science faculty experience service commitments and how that work is recognized (or not) across academic institutions.

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O-Level Geography

MAY 9, 2025

Where did the fires occur? When did the fires occur? What caused the following fires? What are the impacts of fires? How does community resilience help to manage the fire hazards?

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Geography 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 8, 2025

Colorado educators! (and anyone else within reasonable driving distance… looking at you, Nebraska, Wyoming, Kansas, New Mexico, and maybe Utah and Oklahoma!) We hope that you will join us for our June 2025 Teacher Leader Summit in Denver. On Thursday, June 5, we will be leaning into instructional redesign for deeper learning. On Friday, June 6, we will fold artificial intelligence into the mix.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 9, 2025

The Body as Canvas In a dark limestone chamber beneath the Belizean rainforest, past dripping stalactites and ancient footpaths worn by centuries of ritual use, archaeologists have discovered something that has long eluded Mesoamerican scholars: tattooing tools from the Classic Maya world. Nebaj polychrome fragment depicting the Maya fire god with tattoos and scarification, 900–1200 CE, Guatemala.

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Women's History Network

MAY 6, 2025

The Womens History Network is offering one 250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of womens or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place. We encourage entries from under-represented groups.

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Living Geography

MAY 5, 2025

A new Bloomberg UK piece looks at how Iceland plans to turn the volcanoes which have woken up on the Reykjanes peninsula into a positive. The piece by Ragnhildur Sigurdardottir explores how the eruptions are being managed. There are some striking images of the lava in Grindavik, which has been evacuated several times. Geologically, Iceland is turning a corner.

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Moler's Musing

MAY 3, 2025

It was late in the year. We had a new textbook series, and I was opening our Civil War unit with what the book called a geography challenge. Blank map. Labeling instructions. A few basic questions. I passed it out like I had all yeargoing through the motions, hoping something would click. Then a student stood up and asked the question I hadnt said out loud, but had been carrying with me for months: Why are we doing this?

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ShortCutsTV

MAY 4, 2025

The Stanford Prison Experiment, arguably one of the most controversial experiments of the 20th century, has polarised opinions for over 50 years: To its supporters, the transformation of perfectly decent college students into brutal guards or compliant prisoners demonstrated the power of situations to determine behaviour.

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