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Fairport teachers introduce SIFT framework to address misinformation in social studies and ELA
Summary
High school lead teachers Kevin Sachs and Lauren Romanola presented a condensed professional-development session showing how the SIFT (Stop, Investigate, Find, Trace) protocol is being used in 6–12 social studies and English classes to teach students to evaluate misinformation and disinformation.
Kevin Sachs, the Fairport High School social studies lead teacher, and Lauren Romanola, the high school English lead teacher, described classroom training on the SIFT framework during the Fairport Central School District board workshop.
Sachs told the board that SIFT — “stop, investigate, find the source, and trace it back” — is a four-step protocol the district brought back from a regional professional-development cadre run through Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES and the University of Rochester. “This gives a practical framework” for teachers to handle controversial topics and information students bring to class, Sachs said.
Board members were shown how the training modeled observation and repeated review of a short news video, followed by group discussion about language and headlines. Romanola said the…
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