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The New York Times Magazine's 1619 Project and companion curriculum is being used by teachers to change the narrative of American history lessons in the classroom.
Bring students in from the sidelines to participate fully in group discussion.
These inquiry lessons are ideal for elementary school teachers and librarians seeking a carefully organized suite of materials that offer hands-on, phenomenon-based science instruction.
Audio offers great potential as a connected learning tool. Here's what you need to get started.
After receiving requests from parents, Osmo has created an educational game for children age 3-5 that seamlessly weaves digital and physical play.
The concepts of flow, community, and nonverbal communication are explored in three intriguing and artistically daring games.
After her son died by suicide in April, Michelle Oliver collaborated with an English teacher to look at Shakespeare's famous "love story" in a new way and to teach her students about suicide awareness.
Hours of research and conversations with survivors aided the author as she pieced together the tragic story a 1940 attack on a ship carrying children from war-torn England to Canada.
Migrant kids in foster care and secure holding facilities will get books thanks to a new grant from First Book, plus coming titles from Lois Lowry and Megan Rapinoe, and more news.
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A selection of recently published titles consider race and the imagination, girl-positive libraries, career programming, and other topics.
If nature walks with your students aren't part of your curriculum, recent studies will convince you to change that.
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Colby Sharp, one of the creators of the first Nerd Camp, offers his advice for hosting your own version of the popular education camps with a literacy twist.
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Education may be part of the solution to stopping the incidence of anti-semitic harassment, vandalism, and physical assaults at schools.
A New Jersey school book club read titles connected to an immigration and refugee theme then took a walking tour of a New York City neighborhood to help bring the text to life.
Multiple book awards were announced, FlipGrid revs up for another student voice bus tour, and Follett has launched a new learning platform.
Julia Torres challenged faculty to bring students to the school's collection and make independent reading part of the campus culture.
A one-stop Earth Day resource list to help with programming and lesson plan needs.
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Build a Better World Through Games and VR? Find Out in the SLJ ISTE Webcast on ‘Game-Based Learning’
Can games and game-like experiences promote a better world—both in and out of the classroom? Find out Wednesday, April 3, as “Game-Based Learning: Ideas for the Classroom & Library" starts a new series of #SLJISTE webcasts.
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As a teenager, I lived in two worlds: the traditional Bengali heritage inside our home and the contemporary California of my suburban peers.
Sometimes the gap between those two worlds seemed huge. Apple pie? Didn’t taste it till I got to college. Our kitchen smelled of mustard-seed oil, turmeric, and cardamom. Bikinis? No way. A one-piece bathing suit felt too revealing (and still does). My mother never showed her legs in public, even when she eventually shelved her sarees in favor of jeans and long skirts. Dating? Fuhgeddaboudit. My parents’ marriage was arranged, and the clan expected the same for me.