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Are you a teacher? Click the button below to check out our education library. The 2023-2024 school year is in full swing. As a teacher, you may be overwhelmed with planning lessons and finding engaging new resources. Retro Report can help. Here are ways to incorporate Retro Report resources into your lessons: 1. Show a […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below to check out our education library. Teachers looking for ways to hold meaningful discussions with students about the terrorist attacks of 9/11 should take a look at the Teaching About 9/11 Education Collection. Year after year, this is one of Retro Report’s most widely used resources. The […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below to check out our education library. During my time as a Retro Report intern this summer, I discovered a number of videos that would have supplemented my high school studies. Here is a list of some of my favorites that I recommend you incorporate in your classroom […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. In May, I had the opportunity of working with our school’s Media Studies teacher, Ryan Devlin, on a joint adventure with his advanced journalism class and my AP US Government class. It was a great cross-curricular collaboration! Our students watched the documentary […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below to check out our education library. A few years ago, I gave up on doing my first day procedures in the regular way. I noticed that after the first period of the day, after hearing the same information multiple times, my students were no longer listening. But […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. While working on the lesson plan for the Retro Report video “Forced Into Boarding Schools as Children, Native Americans Confront the Past,” I came across this investigative report by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that focuses on Genoa Boarding School in Genoa, Neb. […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. As an ELA teacher in a small rural K-12 school in eastern Kentucky, I am often confronted with a conundrum: How do I make the most of the limited resources in my classroom while also ensuring that my students have access to […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. Retro Report’s Council of Educators arrived in New York from across the country earlier this month for the second Council of Educators Summit. As they did at last year’s summit, teachers with backgrounds in Social Studies, Environmental Science and English/ELA shared how […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. I teach ELA and social studies at a middle school in South Bronx, N.Y., where social studies has always been a path for students to understand social constructs and the obligations they have as citizens or immigrants. Most of our students are […]

Are you a teacher? Click the button below for our related education resources. What will American college campuses look like in the decades to come? That’s an open question now that the Supreme Court has restricted the use of race-conscious admissions in higher education. Upending decades of legal precedent, the court on Thursday struck down […]