A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

A great deal has changed since I began writing this blog back in 2009. Additionally, my views on education regarding teaching, learning, and leadership were beginning to evolve in ways that would eventually help my school experience innovative success while also pushing my professional practice into a whole new dimension.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Using this activity in the middle of the class period could serve as a “mental break,” fill up the extra time at the end of the class period, or just a fun way to wrap up class! The post Question of the Day Ideas for Middle School Students appeared first on Mr and Mrs Social Studies.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Frank Borman Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona was the first school in Cohort 3 to hold its student device rollout. This video captures the excitement of the event and perspectives on how learning will change at Borman Middle: Borman’s rollout was a huge success!

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

A young middle school student was very upset because she felt as if none of her friends would recognize her and offer her a Valentine’s card. Character Guest Blog Post New Milford High School' If one does not receive roses, a present or a card they may think they are not loved.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Related: Inside the latest reading study thats getting a lot of buzz Lead researcher Sonia Cabell, an associate professor at Florida State University, says she is looking at longer term achievement data from these students, who are now in middle school. Glimmers of hope Cabell did see glimmers of hope. We are all waiting for answers.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This blog post examines recent evaluations highlighting gaps in civics education and explores how HQIM can address these challenges. History in elementary and middle school; also require at least one year of U.S. History and one semester of civics in high school. Provide detailed guidance in both subject areas.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

This guest blog was written by Amy Tobener-Talley. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school. So, before you go out and buy that expensive new planner that takes up valuable space in your teacher bag, consider adding Google Calendar digital planning to your toolbox instead.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

The following post was written by Bill Brennan and originally appeared on Peter DeWitt''s Finding Common Ground blog found at Education Week. Speaking of journeys, today I traveled to New Jersey with my middle school principal, Luis Pena (@principalpena) and high school principal, Glen Zakian.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

This guest blog was written by Amy Tobener-Talle. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school. You’ll thank yourself when you sit down to begin planning for next year! . Amy Tobener-Talley has been a bilingual educator for 15 years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 20, 2018

Unfortunately, the short links I provided in my book have timed out, so I wanted to share these on my blog so any elementary teachers interested in using them have access! I will be posting middle school and high school writing rubrics as soon as I can get them reformatted in a shareable version. ElemInfoWritingRubric.

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Peacefield History has a great blog post for history teachers on this topic. High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! Always do a test run of the episode first! Professional Learning - Of Course! I also love listening to podcasts for my own professional learning. Do you have a favorite?

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Here are eight budget-friendly prize ideas that your middle school students will enjoy! Our homework passes are also one of our essential classroom forms, which you can learn more about from this blog post. I’m sure I’ll share more about this in a future blog post, so stay tuned for that!

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over. We did not connect with our teachers or school friends unless we chose to.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

Christian Scott, Middle School Social Studies & Computer Science and Technology Coordinator (Ontario). The HP Teaching Fellows share examples from their classroom through their profiles , blogs , and Twitter using the hashtag #ReinventTheClassroom. Pashupati Shah, Grade 11 Geometry (Tennessee).

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

In accordance with this model, participating middle school science teachers designed phenomena-based lessons where students, rather than the teacher, came up with questions to pursue. Please stay tuned for future blog posts that will feature teachers and district leaders sharing their experiences and takeaways from this project.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 2, 2019

At the elementary school, the teams tinkered with the interactive digital stories children created using Scratch, a block-based programming language. At the middle school level, they tested the mobile apps students were piloting using App-Inventor and dropped in to one of the country’s first-ever middle school cybersecurity courses.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 22, 2019

In the context of our National Science Foundation-funded Playful Assessment project, we’ve found the music industry provides a wonderfully realistic, relevant, and meaningful context for middle school students. Advancing Computational Thinking Across K-12 Education blog post and report.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Amendments While students begin learning amendments in middle school, it is so hard to remember them all! By joining the email list, you will receive freebies for blog exclusive subscribers! Thankfully, there are resources ready for an amazing AP Government review! AP Government Amendments $ 10.00

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Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

Sorrells asked his middle school math students to demonstrate concepts using everyday objects around their homes; to show transformations, his students used objects from silly putty to sidewalk chalk. Find more resources here: Read more about how Powerful Learning is Authentic and Challenging in this blog post.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2020

It became immediately evident to Ivey Homer, middle school digital learning coach, that supporting teachers with ways to connect and maintain relationships with their students during the extended closure was the essential learning target for everyone. Shannon Boatwright Middle school teacher.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 24, 2020

We’ve developed “Look for” documents to support teachers and administrators in envisioning how this fusion could work in elementary and middle school classrooms. In addition, a CT “Look for” document might be particularly helpful to administrators since defining CT has been an ongoing challenge for school districts.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

This blog post was updated on March 6, 2019 to include more current research, information, and opinions on grit in the classroom. Angela Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching seventh grade math in New York City public schools when she noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

At the start of my teaching career, I was the only full-time, Black, male classroom teacher for a predominately Black student population in a southwest Philadelphia middle school. It is time to take a hard look at the policies that keep our diverse students from learning from teachers who look like them.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2019

Rather than taking a traditional multiple choice test at the end of their unit on weather, sixth grade students at Gilbert Middle School in South Carolina created their own live weather reports—complete with green screens and fake snow.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

Vic Vuchic (Elementary and Middle School Parent): My son is in third grade and my daughter is in sixth grade. As we are all learning how to navigate home-based learning, consider sharing your story and be part of a new Digital Promise blog series on the powerful learning that’s happening across the country.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

The facilities at Reid were no longer needed, they said, since Belmont had increased its classroom capacity in 1964 by opening a new high school and converting the old high school into a new middle school. Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 3, 2020

To help address this need, through the Computational Thinking for Next Generation Science Challenge Collaborative , we’ve worked with over 80 teachers from five school districts across the United States to develop resources that support teachers to integrate computational thinking in ways that enhance middle school science instruction.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

In fact, the coach at Andover Middle School in Miami, Florida, created a flexible schedule to allow teachers to book learning consultations, classroom visits, and one-on-one instruction. Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It’s not every day that a top executive from a Fortune 500 company visits a middle school located more than 600 miles from the company’s headquarters.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2021

Wrapped with colorful skins depicting dynamic graphics, charts, and information, the Launch Pad is the creative vision of Ed Hidalgo, chief of innovative and engagement officer for Cajon Valley Union School District, and several project partners.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 12, 2018

This article originally appeared on Usable Knowledge from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. By middle school, typical reading curriculums assume that students have the necessary literacy strategies to decode the writing in front of them. Read the original version here.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

1 Zaina, a high school junior in Los Angeles, has undertaken the challenge of improving STEM learning opportunities for middle school-aged women of color. Because of her dedication and her ability to leverage blogs, Facebook groups, and YouTube videos, Zaina and her team have won top prizes in local and statewide competitions.

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Digital Promise

MAY 5, 2020

Students and teachers at Verizon Innovative Learning Schools —where every student receives a device that comes equipped with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom—had the advantage of already knowing how to use learning apps. In the beginning, I was fighting with getting the technology and using it. “The

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Digital Promise

MAY 6, 2019

Since then, researchers have looked at how play enlivens lessons in three schools in South Africa, as well. The goal is to understand, articulate, and advocate for the role of play in learning and schools. Project Zero has a dedicated blog to Pedagogy of Play. Learn More.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 17, 2017

The Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) directed by Digital Promise initiative is actively improving learning opportunities for students and teachers in 46 middle schools across 14 states and the District of Columbia. Lunch time at Sabin Middle School will never be the same!

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything! I asked them to create websites.

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