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30-year history education veteran & amateur chronographer, still checking footnotes and looking for answers. Thoughts are mine alone and do not reflect those of my employer. Sharing ideas and lessons at https://infinitude.maherpages.net/
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High School US History teachers doing it right had students analyzing this photograph in the last week or so. Meaning of course, they get their students to the period in history shaping their lives the most, which is well past that throwaway 80s culture project they end the year with. #sschat

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Facts, names or references that I haven’t thought about in years or just learned will come to my attention in a book, essay or video, then they will appear again a few days or in some cases just a few hours later. These coincidental connections test the bounds of believability. tinyurl.com/2xvgpyjj

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Every active and aware person has friends and acquaintances who confess that "they just can't look at things anymore". They have to be convinced that now is the time to do something - before it gets so bad for them personally that they'll have no choice, by then it will be to late.

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Any history teacher worth their salt can surprise students with the factoid of Jefferson and Adams both dying on July 4th - exactly fifty years after 1776, or Teddy Roosevelt's wife and mother dying on the same day in the same house. But what about Paul Revere's 16 children? tinyurl.com/24jw3ht7

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High School US History teachers who can't seem to get their students much past Watergate should read this to realize they should spend more instructional time on the invention of the internet than they do on the cotton gin.

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Every high school senior, their parents, and every college admissions officer and counselor should recognize this attack on education as an attack on their future #NACAC #NCAA #AACRAO

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"We are going to destruction as fast as imbecility, corruption and the wheels of time can carry us." Had to look twice to make sure these are the words of Senator James Grimes of Iowa in 1862 - though they could fit today just as well

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John's letter to Abigail in September of 1776 seems apropos this morning. tinyurl.com/22thv2xe

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Where are US History teachers are on the timeline they teach through every year,what are the teaching today? To put the answer in perspective the time between Trump and Reagan is the same as the time between Nixon and Coolidge, or Wright Brother's first flight and the atom bomb, or Sputnik and 9/11.

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High School Social Studies teachers looking for something different for the end of the school year could use the recent Executive Orders as primary source documents in a lesson that has them reflecting on what they learned and what they think they should learn. #sschat tinyurl.com/22nk6mf7

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Warren Buffett is 94 years old. Working at that age is surprising, retiring is not.

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Perhaps this simple classroom reminder could be posted outside the Senate and House chambers. It could be used to bring attention to Article I, Section 8.

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Anyone else suspicious of these conversations?

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Social Studies teachers could adapt these important questions for classroom discussions. What have their students experienced in their learning? Use the text of the Exec Order as a primary source (OPVL). Include data points from research to broaden a metacognitive conversation tinyurl.com/23r8vtfe

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Throwing together some Paul Revere resources at the last minute and hit a dead link while looking for primary sources. Five months ago I would have been simply frustrated. I'm still frustrated today - but also suspicious.

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It's chilling to download Revere's 1798 account of his ride to prepare for tomorrow's anniversary from the National Endowment for the Humanities supported EDSITEment! site and realizing that this simple, routine, and seamless access to our records of the past in acute danger of being extinguished

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Hey US History teachers - when do you get to Watergate? How about Reaganomics? Desert Storm? If you aren't teaching the 90s you're not teaching US History. It's time to teach as much about the internet as you do the cotton gin. Not teaching the 90s now is like not teaching 50s in 1980 #sschat

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US History T's racing through everything in a year haven't talked about slavery since December, but it's worth it to dust off that fugitive slave law lesson and talk to students about northern resistance. Your students are going to have to make a choice when they come for their college roommates

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Social Studies teachers who haven't heard this perspective in the AI discussions should give it a thought. #sschat

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It's inspiring to read of Harvard and MITs resistance this morning. Perfectly appropriate that we have to count on Boston to disturb the king's peace.

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Every Social Studies teacher in the country using primary source documents in their lessons today should tell students this is happening. Yes, it is easier for some than others, but that's what makes even more important #sschat

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Putting the attempted assassination of Governor Shapiro in perspective; With a GDP about $800 billion, Pennsylvania's economy is roughly equivalent to Saudi Arabia or Switzerland, only five states have bigger economies. With 13 million residents, only four states have more people than PA.

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