Date: Jun 5 2015
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PLEASE HELP! I need input on two key topics:
Test and/or Review Geography DDM Pilot:
One class period. 6th or 7th grade. Details below.
I NEED INPUT! Am advising teachers at Mass Dept. of Mental Health.
Date: Jan 30 2015
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Arizona requires students to pass U.S. Citizenship test. Commentary by Robert Pondiscio in The Education Gadfly. http://edexcellence.net/articles/model-citizens
Give input on Elementary and Secondary Education Act Reauthorization. Currently no support for Social Studies. National Council for the Social Studies supports Programs of National Significance.
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Date: Jun 7 2012
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Today’s post explores performance assessment. To access a free model assessment developed by our Emerging America: Teaching America History Team see MORE.
Show what you know. The logic is simple and convincing. Now the Common Core State Standards promises broader acceptance of such assessments.
Performance assessment implies that students demonstrate learning on a task that is as close as pos…
Date: Feb 6 2016
Author:
NEWS
Feb. 8, 12:15-1:45pm - Shrewsbury HS - Central Mass Social Studies Supervisors - Contact Jennifer DiFrancesca @SHSSocialSci.
Feb. 8, 3:30-5:00pm - CES - Western Mass Social Studies Dept. Chairs. Email rcairn@collaborative.org to say you’re coming and to get notices-minutes.
State Civic Learning and Engagement Task Force met Feb. 2. Next me…
Date: Feb 13 2017
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Emerging America History eNEWS Vol. 4, Issue 6 for February 15, 2017
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March 29 - 9am-4:30pm - Social Studies 2017 Legislative Day - Mass State House - Details at http://www.masscouncil.org. REGISTER.
History eNews welcomes your posts of events for teachers. Deadline is Monday noon. Published most Wednesdays.
Date: Feb 10 2015
Author:
NEWS
Gov. Baker’s proposed cuts.
The Transcontinental Railroad: (NEH Landmarks Workshop) http://railroad.historyproject.ucdavis.edu/ and other summer programs. (LIST BELOW.)
WORKSHOP FULL! - March 21 & 28 - Landscape of Revolution - Boston Public Library & CES
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Spain 1936-1939 – Why did they fight? – Anarchists, Socialists, Communists, Republicans, Ge…
Date: Feb 11 2016
Author:
NEWS
RESCHEDULED: Feb. 29, 3:30-5:00pm - CES - Western Mass Social Studies Dept. Chairs. Focus on Civics courses. Email rcairn@collaborative.org.
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Plymouth North High School, 41 Obery St, Plymouth, MA 02360; March 15…
Date: Oct 1 2016
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Chronicling America is a powerful tool to bring American history to life. It offers stories about vital events, and a variety of perspectives and context for those events, including evocative advertisements, editorials, and stories of local life. Part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP), Chronicling America serves as a readily searchable, open access database of historic U.S. newspape…
Date: Feb 21 2017
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Registration is now open for Emerging America’s graduate credit course entitled “America and World Fascism: From the Spanish Civil War to Nuremberg and Beyond.
Featuring top scholars, participants are exposed to rich stories and primary source documents as they explore the clash of many ideologies during the Spanish Civil War: Liberalism, Socialism, Republicanism, Nazism, Communism, and Anarchis…
Date: Feb 19 2015
Author:
NEWS
My office phone number changed to: (413) 588-5936.
See new National Core Arts standards. http://nationalartsstandards.org/.
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Excellent FREE PD – Deadlines Approach!
Take a break from the brutal winter for top quality FREE professional development.
First to Fight – Ideologically motivated American Volunteers fight for a foreign nation: No…