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Keeping Students Engaged Through Differentiated Anchor Activities

Keeping Students Engaged Through Differentiated Anchor Activities


Centering Wellness in the Social Studies Classroom

Centering Wellness in the Social Studies Classroom


After many years as a special education intervention teacher centering on social-emotional awareness and wellbeing while delivering academic instruction, I…

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Project-Based Learning - PBL

Project-Based Learning - PBL


Guest post by Brad Cole Project-Based Learning (PBL). Getting the most out of your students, and students giving with passion the best…

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Common Misconceptions about Socratic Seminars and How to Use Them Effectively

Common Misconceptions about Socratic Seminars and How to Use Them Effectively


I’ve talked to a lot of teachers about using Socratic seminars in class, a lesson format in which students take…

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When All Else Fails, Turn up the Music!

When All Else Fails, Turn up the Music!


As a fourth grade social studies teacher I am often faced with comments such as, “History is so boring! How…

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Building Confident Readers

Building Confident Readers


“I don’t read.”   As a teacher of social studies and English, I’ve heard this more times than I can remember. Every…

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Why We Need to Discuss Controversial Issues in the Classroom

Why We Need to Discuss Controversial Issues in the Classroom


Our students may not watch the news with the same kind of habitual regularity as their parents (or our parents)…

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Meet THI Instructor Kelly Lickteig

Meet THI Instructor Kelly Lickteig


Q: Kelly, how did you come to be an instructor for the Heritage Institute? In 2012, I was taking courses through…

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5 Women Teachers Who Made History by Never Giving up

5 Women Teachers Who Made History by Never Giving up


All teachers who inspire kids to believe in themselves and that they are worthy of living the life of their…

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