Professional Development
From Structure to Instruction: 2012 Institute on High School Design and Improvement
Education Northwest’s 2012 Institute on High School Design and Improvement will take place on the West Coast this year—in Seattle, Washington, June 29–July 1, 2012. The fifth annual From Structure to Instruction Institute will build on the success of the previous institutes by offering best practices, tools and strategies, and personalized coaching by experts in the field to help school and district teams tackle the intensive work of instructional improvement and.....
Curriculum Resources
Docs.Teach.org (National Archives teaching resources)
The National Archives has launched a new online tool for teaching with documents. Not only does DocsTeach.org welcome educators to explore thousands of documents in a variety of media from the holdings of the National Archives, but it also allows teachers to combine these materials using clever tools to create engaging activities. Teachers can create lessons from scratch, adapt lessons from others, or let their students create the lessons, and a single suite of tools can be applied to a range of subjects and skill levels. FOR MORE.....
Social Studies Taskforce Report
This report done in Maryland, but with a national perspective, acknowledges the challenges faced by social studies over the past decade, including the unintended marginalization of social studies disciplines caused by NCLB. The social studies task force made nine recommendations in its report that are “intended to reverse social studies’ decline.”
Key recommendations include establishing standards governing instructional time; administering a statewide social studies assessment in elementary and middle school; increasing social.....
