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Each year, Women’s History Month offers a great time for teachers to integrate the experiences of women and girls into our instruction. Check out this month classroom resources  Since the pandemic began, many people of Asian heritage have been racially abused in public and wrongfully blamed for the spread of the virus. With a recent wave of violent attacks against Asian Americans making headlines this week Facing History has updated its Teaching Idea, Coronavirus: Protect Yourself and Stand Against Racism.
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Fun science comic. I would love to use this with my class, since we've been discussing the immune system and pros/cons of vaccinations.
Danielle Whyte, The Fortune Society Access the Resource Here I highly recommend teachers engaging and using the Civic Online Reasoning curriculum and educational resources by Standford Education Group. In today's climate, where people are doubting science, math, and credible sources of information, it is critical for students to learn the skills of lateral versus vertical reading and being able to navigate through reliable facts and information. I share this daily with my students, feeding it to them piecemeal so they learn to navigate through this vast world wide web. Danielle Whyte, The Fortune Society Access the Site Here Click Here to Visit the Library of Congress
Classroom Materials: Created by teachers for teachers, these ready-to-use materials provide easy ways to incorporate the Library’s unparalleled primary sources into instruction. Teaching for Change
Teaching for Change offers free downloadable lessons, bios, and poetry and prose from Central American writers such as Roque Dalton, Rigoberta Menchú, Claribel Alegría, and Ernesto Cardenal. These authors used literature to shine a light on key issues such as: the need for land reform, recognition of indigenous and women’s rights, exploitative labor practices, environmental destruction, political repression and violence, and U.S. intervention. The Stanford History Education Group’s Civic Online Reasoning The Stanford History Education Group’s Civic Online Reasoning website provides free online lessons and assessments to teach evaluation of online civics information. A tool for teachersOur Civic Online Reasoning (COR) curriculum is based on strategies we identified when observing fact checkers from the nation’s most prestigious news organizations. The curriculum is the fruit of years of research and field-testing. Our work is enriched by our ongoing collaboration with the Poynter Institute, and our participation in the MediaWise initiative, with support from Google.org. The resources you’ll find on the COR site have been tested in real classrooms. Teaching students these skills won’t turn them into professional fact checkers, but it'll take a bite out of the most common errors students make. Using mentor texts in your writing classroom? This article offers a scaffold from reading powerful text to writing powerful texts.
In A Critical Inquiry Approach to Mentor Texts: Learn It With EASE, Cynthia A. Dollins discusses a detailed process approach to examining mentor texts and then transferring students’ newfound knowledge of author craft to their own independent writing. The E.A.S.E strategy is presented as a way to scaffold students from merely noticing the moves that authors make to adeptly applying these techniques. The premise of this strategy is to help students notice and analyze exceptional writing so they may incorporate similar features into their own writing. E.A.S.E offers an approach for students to follow while they read and more deeply explore the ways authors choose to write. Explore the Strategy Here Class discussion is key for developing text comprehension by actively engaging students, but not all class discussions are equal. How effective are yours? Are they teacher-centered or student-driven? Are they over-facilitating, under-facilitating or disjointed patterned discussions? The authors of the article Developing Adaptive Expertise at Facilitating Dialogic Text Discussions describe these three class discussion patterns that often unfold when teachers are facilitating text discussions.
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