So true.

When kids exhibit challenging behavior, approach with curiosity instead of judgement. 🔎 Sketchnote via Kristin Wiens

Students’ discernment and respect for different opinions will play a critical part in how they navigate the internet—and even IRL interactions at school. 🖥️ Hedreich Nichols offers guidance for teaching them this aspect of media literacy: edut.to/4gNpRHa

Texas: It’s the last day to register to vote! Head to mytexasvotes.com to get more info on how you can get registered today! 🗳️

Good food for thought here.

Great interview: Rashid Khalidi, America’s foremost scholar of Palestine, is retiring: ‘I don’t want to be a cog in the machine any more’ theguardian.com/world/ng-inter…

This special episode of News Quiz explores the process of electing a U.S. president. The program features information about the requirements to become a presidential candidate, the duties of the president, why people vote, and more. (Grades 3-12) bit.ly/407Hb3M

These templates that I created with Diffit have been SO USEFUL this year! 🙌🏼 toocoolformiddleschool.com/2024/10/21/my-…

Map of all places/areas mentioned in billy Joel’s “we didn’t start the fire” Source: ift.tt/but4aGe #maps

This is the mass grave where hundreds of victims of the Ocoee Riot of 1920 are buried. Notice the sign does not say what happened to these people. Notice too that there are no grave markers. Just this open field. It happened because black people tried to VOTE.

Did you know that the Persian scholar of medicine, Ibn Sina (980-1037) suspected some diseases were spread by microorganisms. To prevent human-to-human contamination, he came up with a method of isolating people for 40 days. A thread on Ibn Sina & his impact on modern science…

Interested in best practices for teaching current events? We collaborated with PBS News Classroom, C-SPAN Classroom, FT for Schools, Mr. Werenka,+Jane Highley to build a free resource on teaching breaking news just for you! Explore the resource + our #NCSS2024 session! education.cfr.org/teach-breaking…

Visit our Election Day educational resources page to explore the history of American elections with primary sources, essays, self-paced courses, and more! ➡️ ow.ly/GxYc50TZyzi

Want to explore ethical leadership with your students? The 2024 Abdelkader Global Citizenship Prize contest for high school and college students has launched!

Mariam Astrulabi was a pioneering female Muslim scientist & astronomer, born in Syria during the 10th century. She is known for developing Astrolabes, an ancient astronomical computer for solving problems related to time & position of the sun & stars A thread on Mariam Astrulabi

Can we now finally start investing in civics education (not to mention the other social studies too) like we do STEM!?! It is seriously destroying our nation. npr.org/2022/03/29/108…

Love this! 🧡

Texas environmental regulators warn that Dallas County could be violating revised air quality standards. State officials are scheduled to decide in mid-Dec. My latest: keranews.org/news/2024-11-2…