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Ala. students draw from their lives for invention projects
A group of students in grades 3-5 in Gadsden City Schools in Alabama recently spent three months researching and designing in -More-
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April 2013 TSSP now online
The April 2013 issue of The Social Studies Professional, the newsletter for members of the National Council for the Social St -More-
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Link social studies standards with the Common Core State Standards
"Teaching Reading with the Social Studies Standards: Elementary Units that Integrate Great Books, Social Studies, and the Com -More-
$125,000 Salary for Master Middle School Teachers
TEP Charter School
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I believe in getting into hot water; it keeps you clean.
G.K. Chesterton,British writer -More-
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Minn. students dive into history through interactive projects
Fifth-graders at Janesville-Waldorf-Pemberton Elementary School were asked to choose an event or person in history and develo -More-
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Classroom laughs can extend beyond April Fool's Day
Fun in the classroom need not be limited to April Fool's Day, also known as April 1, writes blogger Lyndsey Wallen. -More-
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Middle-school program teaches life skills through fiction
A Louisiana school district has launched a new pilot program in nine middle schools in which educators use a novel to teach s -More-
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Why educators should shift from teaching to coaching students
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What teacher-driven professional learning would look like
Transformed professional development that is teacher-driven would, among other things, help educators grow from novices to ve -More-
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How blogging benefits students -- even those in kindergarten
Sharon E. -More-
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Educators share how they flipped their classrooms
The flipped-classroom model shifts lectures to video that can be viewed at home, allowing classroom periods to be used for di -More-
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Canadian middle-school students protest through letter-writing campaign
Students in Sandi Rae's Grade 9 leadership class at Mt. -More-
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Mass. students use documents to learn about city government
Good Government Day in Taunton, Mass., is a decades-old tradition for Taunton High School students to learn about the operati -More-
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Notable social studies books for young people review committee
NCSS is seeking members to serve on the NCSS-Children's Book Council Notable Social Studies Trade Books for Young People sele -More-
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Social studies research awards
NCSS and the Research Committee sponsor three annual research awards designed to recognize substantive scholarly inquiry in s -More-
$125,000 Salary for Master Middle School Teachers
TEP Charter School
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Hold on; hold fast; hold out. Patience is genius.
Georges-Louis Leclerc,French naturalist, mathematician, cosmologist and author -More-
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Md. teacher uses newspaper's website to teach geography
Tung Trinh, a middle-school geography teacher at Garrison Forest School, Owings Mills, Md., uses the New York Times online to -More-
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Wash. state history teacher encourages students to "play detective"
Studying history is like watching the TV show "CSI" and playing the role of detective to figure out how and why events happen -More-
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Using movement, social interaction to energize students
Every teacher has "those days" when students arrive at class out of energy and with little interest in the day's lessons, wri -More-
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