Women’s History Month and Voices for Suffrage
Primary sources uncover stories and a perspective that we struggle to understand hundreds of years after the fact. For example, Sarah Wallace Pease's 1897 paper "Recollections of Sarah Wallace Pease" recalls her experience serving on a grand jury. Pease was one of the first women in the entire United States to serve on a jury after Wyoming signed woman suffrage into law in 1870 and soon after allowed women to serve on juries. The MOST Important Key to Making Remote Learning Work
The MOST Important Key to Making Remote Learning Work
You’ve been told to shut your school down and shift your students, teachers, staff and curriculum online. Is that realistic? Here is some advice from someone who has been in education for 30+ years, built online products and implemented programs in large online schools.
Origins, Voices for Suffrage Guide for Use
We are so happy to announce the release of our fifth Guided Tour on our Library of Congress funded Voices for Suffrage web application: Origins! Guided Tours are 20-minute guided lessons including videos and interactive activities to teach a specific piece of the movement.3 Major Trends for Games
Three astounding trends will propel digital games into an even greater force in the 2020s.
Discernment, Civics & Citizenship
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Discernment, Civics, and Citizenship - Victoria Van Voorhis
If you haven’t done so already, stop reading and go vote! At Second Avenue we have been counting down to election day since the first candidate announced their intent to run.
We Appreciate Our Teachers
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We Appreciate Our Social Studies Teachers
Let’s all take a moment to thank the social studies teachers who taught us history, to think critically and to debate with civility.
Voices for Suffrage – Influences Guided Tour
We're so happy to announce the release of our fourth Guided Tour on our Library of Congress Voices for Suffrage app—Influences!
Guided Tours are 20-minute guided lessons including videos and interactive activities to teach a specific piece of the movement. The Influences Guided Tour focuses on the people, groups, and social movements that influenced the beliefs, goals, and actions of United States suffragists.
Susan B. Anthony And A New Generation of Voices – Artist Feature Lucy Ray
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Susan B. Anthony and A New Generation of Voices ~ Featuring Artist Lucy Ray
Articulate, passionate and leveraged young voices are leading this era.
Lessons Learned from Second Avenue Interns: Kathleen Maguire
Second Avenue values our intern ecosystem and are always interested to know how working with us is capacity building for the future. Lessons Learned Second Avenue Summer Interns: Callie Slevin
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Lessons Learned from Second Avenue Learning Interns: Callie Slevin
What was the best moment from the summer and why?
A highlight of my summer was a PBS NewsHour Extra webinar about how teachers approach the instruction of the 19th amendment and voting rights.
Lessons from Second Avenue Learning Interns: Sarah Swihart
We loved having summer interns and thrilled that they had some valuable insights for the rest of their professional journey. Here are insights from Sarah Swihart. Project Management Review: Four Key Frameworks
We are in the re-imagine learning business helping leaders in both education and business build tools, platforms and resources to increase participation in their given audiences. It is important that we are learners too. Perspectives from Victoria Pasquantonio
We were lucky enough to have Victoria Pasquantonio shares some insights about journalism.
Second Avenue July 2020 Impact
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Second Avenue Impact July 2020
A thin slice of the type of work we do and why we do it. In a word, impact.
Second Avenue “Being An Agent of Change”
When we founded Second Avenue in 2006, it was with the mission of improving learning outcomes for all learners.
Social Studies Remote Learning Webinar
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Social Studies Activities for Remote Learning - Webinar May 27 1:00pm
We heard from 1200 social studies educators last week at the Social Studies Virtual Unconference that their biggest challenge is keeping students engaged during this period of remote learning.
Teachers, thank you for the difference you make
Thank you, teachers, for all the ways you have impacted the way we NOW make impact ensuring learning resources are designed beyond bias,
helping educators personalize learning, and helping businesses create value in the code economy. Second Avenue Impact May 2020
A thin slice of the type of work we do and why we do it. In a word, impact. Three Keys to Protect Remote Students
We, as teachers, provide much more than content. We protect our students and usually feel a deeply-seeded desire to see no harm come to them. But now, they are remote. Some are unreachable while others are available through only text, voice, or two dimensional screen. How do we protect and serve as role models when our interactions are so remote? Interactivity of Gameplay
For centuries, games have been a great way to casually pass time either alone or with friends. During this period of isolation due to COVID-19, children, as well as adults, are turning to games as not only a way to pass time, but as an escape from our unsettling reality. This is NOT Normal. How to model civil dialogue in Civics
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This is NOT Normal! How to model civil dialogue in Civics
I want you to have access to my most recent webinar This is NOT Normal! How to model civil dialogue in Civics for social studies and history 8-13th grade teachers.
Innovations in Serious Games: Highlights from I/ITSEC 2024
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Innovations in Serious Games: Highlights from I/ITSEC 2024
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econd Avenue Learning is proud that Election Edge, our interactive platform designed to supplement middle and high school social studies education, was selected as a finalist in the Serious Games Showcase and Challenge (SGS&C) at the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) in Orlando.
Second Avenue Learning joins the EDSAFE AI Alliance Industry Council
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Second Avenue Learning joins the EDSAFE AI Alliance Industry Council
We have exciting news to share! Second Avenue Learning is thrilled to join the EDSAFE AI Alliance Industry Council to help shape the future of AI in education!
The EDSAFE AI Industry Council is made up of 60+ leading education and technology companies of all sizes committed to ensuring artificial intelligence and related technologies – in their own companies’ solutions and across the education landscape – are safe, accountable, fair, and effective (SAFE) and who adhere to the SIIA AI Principles.
Strategies for Teaching About the Presidential Election
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Strategies for Teaching About the Presidential Election
Second Avenue Learning’s CEO, Tory Van Voorhis, joined Kevin Hogan from eSchool Newsand U.S. History teachers Eric Gimbi and David Raymond—the creators of Bobble Head George—to discuss strategies for teaching students about presidential elections, both in an election year like 2024 and beyond, and how Election Edge can help.
Election Edge Adds Primary Sources
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Election Edge Adds Primary Sources
Second Avenue Learning is pleased to announce the addition of over 100 multimedia primary sources, now available on the Election Edge platform in “Election History.”
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Election Edge is Finalist in Serious Games Showcase & Challenge
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Election Edge is Finalist in Serious Games Showcase & Challenge
Second Avenue Learning is thrilled to announce that Election Edge has been chosen as a finalist for the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge! We will be attending I/ITSEC in Orlando, December 2-6th, and exhibiting Election Edge.