ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Students are the problem.”

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

class of the school year, actually their last P.E. class as a middle school student, Esme had pursued Eduardo across campus with a set of classroom scissors, sharp end out. teacher to allow—quickly descended into a breach of each and every tenet of our school’s Core Values.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Hillary Robbins, who spent 10 years as an elementary and middle school teacher in Texas, says she scoured the internet for information on making the jump to edtech before making any moves.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. It’s common for her to hear, “Oh, you know, I decided to be an elementary school teacher because I don't want to teach math.”

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Which is why a child who plays sports at school, or a kid that's in a debate team with a caring educator, will do better in their academics than someone who is isolated from that.” Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

My middle school choir teacher recorded and released an acclaimed gospel album. My high school English teacher starred in commercials and made a name for herself as a voice actor. Despite my hesitance, I recently took on a leadership role at my school for a few reasons. I wanted to grow.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Still, despite these challenges, I believe my story is important — not only to create a better understanding of Muslim culture and Muslim women’s identity, but also to build a more welcoming educational environment for Muslim educators and students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Disaster-prone communities invest in their resiliency, recovery and future-proofing, and it’s time for schools to do the same. If schools do not get the time and resources needed to recover, they may be unable to endure the next viral variant, culture war or economic disaster. We are a family. We are Liberty.”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The study also uncovers that middle school and high school students overwhelmingly recognize the value of computer science knowledge in the U.S. This includes how Amazon employees and technology work together to support customer fulfillment through the pick, pack and ship processes.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

Even if schools have high-quality curricula that can take some lesson-planning off teachers’ shoulders, they can’t use it if they don’t have time or aren’t trained on how to use it. The EdWeek Research Center survey found that teachers want to spend more time on instruction and less time doing administrative tasks or monitoring the hallways.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. There was a shift in culture and in school. I have been in California ever since.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. In 1998, critical research that examined data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) revealed teaching methods varied significantly across cultures , resulting in a “ teaching gap.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report. And how to listen to each other.”.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

This panel brings together the leaders of the Verizon Innovative Learning School (VILS) program to discuss how they have successfully leveraged the 1:1 model in conjunction with student data plans for low-income middle schools. School leaders continue to report difficulty finding reliable evidence about ed tech efficacy.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Several teachers in New York started the effort around a decade ago, and Zearn is now used by a quarter of elementary school students and more than a million middle school students around the country, according to sign-on figures tracked by the group.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. Kids who are misbehaving are threatening to that.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

All I can think about is how frustrated I am about the lavender—and the failed efforts to support teacher well-being at my school. Wellness Efforts Fall Short Our middle school opened its doors to roughly 100 fifth graders in 2019. Back in teacher mode I gather my materials and head to first period. The problem?

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2023

Alongside always available access for students in Verizon Innovative Learning Schools , teachers receive robust professional development and coaching to cultivate a culture of powerful learning with technology. EdSurge: What was the device rollout planning process like for Newburg Middle School? It was a party!

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

I think of my public education in segments. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there. But when I went to middle school and was on my own, that's where more of the negative aspects came into play. Like I tried to ask for assistance, and he didn't help me.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Despite the historic funding that was funneled into the field in the wake of the pandemic, early care and education continues to be one of the most beleaguered occupations in the United States. Early childhood educators earn, on average, $13.07 Elementary and middle school teachers, by comparison, earn an average of $31.80

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

By the time students reach middle school, students are being pushed into different pathways, sometimes based on how many slots were available in their school’s calculus class. In 2014, San Francisco schools, in an attempt to “de-track” math, started enrolling all students into Algebra I in ninth grade rather than eighth grade.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

When Digital Promise and EdSurge considered which educator award categories to include in the 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards , we wanted to highlight five areas where exemplary teachers around the world are using innovative strategies to engage and empower students.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And frankly, I’m an anxious parent myself of a new ninth grader who has a tremendous hill to climb as all new high school students do, of learning how to be in nine classes and taking charge of extracurriculars and just a lot of complexity. And no one ever said starting high school was easy. Do you really want to relive middle school?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education. For instance, last spring, I was in a middle school classroom engaging in one of our prompts that asked students to analyze how enslaved people resisted their enslavement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

In places like Albemarle County, where school officials estimate up to 20 percent of students lack home broadband, all the latest education-technology tools meant to narrow opportunity and achievement gaps can widen them instead. Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke to Hadzovic about her experiences using AI in her instructional practices in middle school English classes. Aida Hadzovic English Language Arts Teacher, Brooklyn School District Hadzovic: At first, to be honest, I was hesitant.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. I figured that what gave me joy in elementary school would do the same for my students. Influenced by my own experiences and the philosophy of my school, competition became a staple in our classroom culture.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

And there's a term called interoception that describes that flow of internal sensations and cues that our educational system and our culture more generally tends to tell us to ignore. And so the extended mind kind of invites us to remember what we have forgotten as a culture. What's that look like?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours. By high school, with only one semester of arts education required in our state, average yearly instructional time drops to 33 hours a year.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? From the beginning, I was told that I would be working close to 60 hours a week.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

And then as you get into middle school, you're expanding it to be more relatable to their lives. For example, students may learn about being respectful and empathetic, which will help foster a culture of belonging and create a supportive environment where learning can take place.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

They are deeply passionate about education with a collective, tenacious focus on driving positive change for future generations. As a company, we’ve established a series of ongoing initiatives to ensure we maintain a strong culture and continue to foster a world-class working environment. We take this very seriously.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

So my big concern for what's happening to the teaching of literature has to do with the people that I call my ‘thinking partners’ all over the country — secondary teachers, middle school teachers, even elementary school teachers, who are really under threat. That includes librarians as well. But so much has changed.

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