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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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.”

Education 118

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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

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

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

MARCH 13, 2024

Other essays published by fellows examine pressing themes related to the intersection of teaching, learning and identity including embracing identity , leading with joy , teaching through grief , feeling undervalued in the profession and rethinking classroom culture.

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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

MAY 10, 2022

And the understanding of the students of color and their experience in school, and whether or not that’s been an experience of belonging, of trust, of identity, where students can be their authentic self. We have to start all the way back in high school to understand the pipeline challenge. I want to be a co-designer of the culture.”

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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 3, 2024

The school put on a festival to fundraise for medical bills resulting from his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. struggles with math instruction, there’s interest in cultural perceptions about who possesses strong math abilities. But within a short span, Holifield would be dead.

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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

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Note: Figures include charter schools. The Ravenswood City School District, which has about 1,600 students in its elementary and middle schools (excluding charters) in East Palo Alto and Menlo Park, saw chronic absenteeism spike from just 471 out of 2,549 (18.5 Graphic by Zoe Morgan of Embarcadero Media.

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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.

Professional Development 145

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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 17, 2022

But as I’ve learned in my experience as an African-American school counselor, if we instead build and foster cross-cultural connections with students, they can learn, grow and develop a deeper understanding of themselves and each other. In our current culture, silence is compliance, so it is essential that we speak up.

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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

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

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

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

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 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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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. We know that students learn mathematics best when they are exposed to cognitively demanding mathematical ideas while being allowed to experience a “productive struggle” with appropriate support.

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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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K-12 Economics Critical Thinking Middle School 140

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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Humanities Cultures Research Middle School 101

ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many teachers that I have talked to don't like to call parents,” says Crystal Frommert, a middle school math teacher at a private school in Houston. “We How much language and cultural barriers can play a role in parent communication? I work at an international school. How can we find a solution for this?’

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

And so I have some hope that if we cultivated that kind of practice among our kids, that maybe in the long run there would be positive payoffs for our culture in general. I especially worry as I watch my oldest son, who is in middle school now. Is that something you see in the college students you teach? It's a struggle.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

Price Middle School (LJPMS) families after the city of Atlanta condemned property in the Forest Cove neighborhood in 2021. There were over 300 families that resided in Forest Cove, and many of the children from these households attended our school. This was the reality for many of the students and their families at Luther J.

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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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K-12 Pedagogy American History History 89

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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy" by Gholnescar Muhammad called for teachers to redesign their learning plans by looking to the literary practices of people I’d never heard of.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can’t interview Asians because they won’t say anything substantive due to the norms of their culture,” she said. I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. Wait, what?

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2023

My parents didn’t have the tools necessary to help a half-Korean girl navigate school and life. Over the course of middle school and high school, I met a few other biracial kids like me. We are open to the ideas of different cultures,” said another. The students’ responses came quickly. “We

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing Is Values-Aligned As Black womxn educators, coming together to define our values allows us to name for ourselves who we are and who we want to be in our classrooms, schools and districts. Researchers have connected the knowledge and values of Black feminism with culturally congruent mental health resources for Black women.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Did those cultures influence your plans for your education? Nia Asemota, “Black Girls Code the Future” coloring book creator Culturally speaking on both sides, it's like, “[Become a] doctor, lawyer, engineer,” but very heavily on doctor. Ayanna Howard, who used AI to help send the Mars Rover into space, is Black.

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High School History Cultures Middle School 115

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Before her administrative roles, Mathison was a middle school science teacher, leading grade-level teams and the science department. We foster a positive data culture and develop data literacy across the district.

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