A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

It would be foolish of any speaker or presenter to do so, considering that we don’t really know the people who we are blessed to speak with, let alone the specific culture in which they work. Where I see the most change from my work is when I am fortunate to work with districts and schools on an on-going, long-term basis.

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 31, 2020

Participate in a new survey on PhD mental health (Chronicle of Higher Education) Recently the Council of Graduate Schools announced a multiyear study to learn more about mental health and wellness in doctoral training, and to find workable solutions. Now, they’re expanding that work into schools.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. If that doesn’t sum up middle school, I don’t know what does.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

This post will describe the importance of having secondary students engage in oral history projects and describe a new Artificial Intelligence technology StoryFile that can help students practice posing questions to pre-recorded conversational video without the heightened anxiety that comes with actually talking to a real person.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding. But computer science lessons like the ones at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School are relatively rare.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

So it makes sense that some teachers who answered the survey want to know how high-performing countries are teaching math, along with what cultural barriers might be in the way. “Are Are there schools that replicate best practices of countries like Japan and Finland and demonstrate better outcomes?” So did the issue of U.S.

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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

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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Education Pedagogy Critical Thinking Middle School 120

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2024

But she bonded with an Afro-Latina teacher who understood her culturally and made Tachiquin, a straight-A student, feel her poor attendance didn’t define her. “I In Massachusetts, Medford High School requires administrators to greet and talk with students each morning, especially those with a history of missing school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

lessons on the history of Black people often focus on “trauma and tribulation,” said Erica Buddington, founder and CEO of Langston League, a firm that specializes in creating culturally responsive instructional materials. The app will be released by Verizon to 100 Title I middle schools nationwide later this fall.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

But North Carolina State University is taking a different approach to teaching the subject, said Rachel Levy, executive director of the school’s new Data Science Academy. State launched the academy two years ago to introduce the use of the subject across disciplines, from biology and art to English and history.

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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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Education Geography Elementary School EdTech 86

ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. Technology is on a course of its own.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

This is a thought that recurs throughout history — this question of how do we tell what's real? Lots of little kids play around with the boundaries between reality and dreams, reality and make believe, in just the way that philosophers have throughout history. I especially worry as I watch my oldest son, who is in middle school now.

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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. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Middle school students were asked to read a passage about a half inning of baseball and then reenact the action using wooden figures on a model field.

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Social Studies Civics Geography Elementary School 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. The recent Census data only tracked five racial groups, without exploring home-school participation by religion. You’re stronger minded. You learn better.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School, Louisiana. Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School in West Feliciana Parish, is one of 20 educators participating in the program.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2021

What I learned surprised me and convinced me that their voices must be part of any decisions made about what school should look like not just next fall, but now and in the future. To my shock, Kamron Freeman, a seventh grader at La Quinta Middle School in La Quinta, California, told me, “Remote learning has helped me focus.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 11, 2020

Though 1996 isn’t very long ago in the scope of history, this realization I had while frying bacon makes me think about the role of our 5 senses in the school setting, and in connection to history. So how can smell impact students in the classroom, or the study of history?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. government, according to data from the American Alliance of Museums. “We

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Did those cultures influence your plans for your education? Through a creative lens, how do I make sure people [like me] are seen, heard, represented, but also gain exposure to new role models that are unfortunately written out of our history books? You come from a Puerto Rican and Nigerian household. I feel like this is my calling.

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High School History Cultures Middle School 118

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Native students are also more likely to face racism and microaggressions than white students, and there’s often a disconnect between their cultural identities and Western higher education institutions, according to Native American higher education experts. Not realizing Cante was Native, the student accused her of cultural appropriation.

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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. And what depth of knowledge, background, or experience gives you the authority to speak on what works best culturally for Asians anyway? I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Students were prompted to find images that represent contemporary pop culture, and then to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to create their own Warhol-inspired work. First graders are working with high school honors students to map kindness. Special needs students use GIS to help them understand and document tasks in their day.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 84

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time. And even if there were standardized measures for traits like integrity and compassion, whose cultural norms should be used to judge the results? “I And I see SEL the exact same way.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The view from the entrance of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in Sandy Springs, Georgia. Standing in front of Ridgeview Charter Middle School in this Atlanta suburb, you can’t help but notice the opulence of the homes that surround it. Inside the doors of the middle school, there’s a different American story playing out.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

He says he used to get in trouble in middle school because he’d finish his work more quickly than his peers and have nothing else to do but goof around. Now, if he finishes a history lesson first, for example, he goes on to the next one – or switches to another subject. Sidebar: Personalizing school culture with ‘preceptors’.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2019

When it was confirmed that I would be developing and piloting our school’s first civics course, I began to think about my eighth-graders more intently. I, Mr. Billups , would be entrusted with the task of teaching civics in a politically polarized atmosphere at a culturally and racially diverse school in Boston.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

As a middle schooler, Alan says he was bullied relentlessly even as he was repeatedly suspended. And while the pandemic closed middle schools across the country, it doesn’t appear to have shutdown school discipline. Middle school, that’s when you’re figuring out how to be a human,” Gallegos said. “We

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

Throughout history and across cultures, trans and nonbinary folks have thrived. In California, arguably one of the most liberal states in our union, 70 percent of trans middle school students reported being bullied in the past 12 months. Related: STUDENT VOICE: Lost on campus in the Supreme Court’s shuffle?

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Humanities Middle School Leadership History 70

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

LOWER ELWHA KLALLAM RESERVATION — Fourteen-year-old Roger Tinoco-Wheeler jumped at the chance to be back with friends twice a week at his Port Angeles middle school in January. High school students can take a Native American history class. This story also appeared in The Seattle Times.

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