We celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month (September 15 to October 15) to recognize the achievements and contributions of Hispanic Americans. It’s always important to make sure your curriculum includes a variety of history, culture, and people. One simple way to do this during Hispanic Heritage Month is by teaching your students a little about Hispanic history, art, and culture every day as a warm-up activity.

The theme for 2022 is "Unidos: Inclusivity for a Stronger Nation - https://nationalcouncilhepm.org/

Here are some sites with great resources:

NEA Activities

Hispanic Heritage Month for teachers

National Archives

PBS Specials

The Spanish Mama

1. Flippity - is a free resource for teachers that allows for the creation of quizzes, flash cards, presentations, memory games, word searches, and more.
   
2. Photos for class - Is a website where you can search to download properly attributed, Creative Commons photos for school!
3. Storyboard That – Create Engaging Storyboards, Graphic Organizers and Infographics!
4. Quick Rubric – Easily Make and Share Great Looking Rubrics!

Newsela has a huge slate of product updates. More than 20+ types of content from biographies and primary sources to multimedia and novel studies. More platform enhancements that make lesson planning and teaching easier while improving learning experiences for students.

What’s new with Newsela Social Studies?

• 700+ interactive social studies videos that hook students with engaging, interactive videos paired with relevant texts, searchable transcripts, and embedded quizzes.

• New and enhanced Teachers Inquiries on civics, the Holocaust, and genocide studies, providing teachers with a standards-aligned, inquiry-based approach to enable student-led exploration and comply with state requirements.

• Newly updated course-area collections that help teachers engage students with more present-day connections and structured choice.

What’s new with Newsela ELA?

• Updated novel studies collections that provide engaging texts and build background knowledge for now nearly 200 books being read in class, including The Pearl by John Steinbeck, and Dominicana by Angie Cruz.

• Nearly 100 new videos with embedded quizzes and searchable transcripts that help teachers strengthen lessons.

• New bias and reliability ratings embedded in Newsela texts that improve students’ media literacy and grow their critical thinking skills.

• More curated text sets to spark positive discourse in the classroom and help students build evidence-based arguments.

• Twice as many relevant topics to support student research projects on everything from women in history to the future of virtual reality to help students build research and presenting skills.

And so much more.....

https://newsela.com/about/blog/back-to-school-for-teachers/

If you haven't been using Nearpod you've been missing out. Check out all of the new updates they have put together for you.

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Explore helpful resources, practice new skills, and reflect on ways Apple technology can support great learning and teaching. Hosted by Apple Professional Learning Specialists, these hands-on sessions are offered twice daily — Tuesday through Thursday — and run for approximately 60 minutes.

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