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Jan 8
Press Start on Financial Literacy.
Learn how video games can teach budgeting, investing, and decision-making in this interactive PD.
Jan 14, 7:30pm EST.
🔗 bit.ly/45JyNJw
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Jun 14
What's the most underrated invention of all time?
We'll start:
🏖️ The aluminum folding chair.
Your turn 👇
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Jun 12
Students may forget the worksheet.
They won't forget the conversation that changed how they think.
🍎 What lesson or discussion seemed to stick with your students this year?
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Jun 9
Most history books tell you what happened.
The memorable ones make you question what you thought you knew.
📚 What's one history book every social studies teacher should read?
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Jun 8
Confident people are wrong all the time.
That’s why analytical thinking matters.
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Jun 8
Students need to know how to slow down, question assumptions, and ask:
“Does this actually make sense?”
Because confidence ≠ correctness.
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Jun 8
The people who signed the Declaration of Independence weren't participating in history.
They were taking a risk.
That's a very different lesson.
🇺🇸Learn more: izzit.org/america_250/
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Jun 4
Students are surrounded by headlines all day long.
The real challenge is getting them to question what they’re hearing and explain what they actually believe.
That’s where current events discussions change everything.
Explore this week’s article 👉izzit.org/events/
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Jun 2
Over the past year, students at Marlboro High School, Haas Hall Academy, & Cherry Creek Innovation Campus had the opportunity to sit down with Steve Forbes & ask their own questions.
Three schools. Hundreds of students. Conversations they won't soon forget.
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May 29
Not because they lacked ability— but because their strengths were harder to measure.
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May 29
Some teacher is going to read this and instantly think of one student 🎓
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May 27
izzit Core Values — Episode 2: Problem Solving
A student follows every step.
Then the problem changes.
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May 27
Now what?
That’s the gap problem solving closes: learning how to adjust, test, and keep moving when the answer isn’t already there.
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May 26
Students can name countries they know nothing about.
That’s the gap cultural exposure closes.
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May 26
Because memorizing a map isn’t the same as understanding how people live, what they value, or how geography shapes life ✈️
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May 26
Most people know Memorial Day means freedom.
Few stop to think about what freedom cost.
Not in theory.
Not in a textbook.
Real people. Real sacrifice.
That’s why Memorial Day matters 🇺🇸
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