ED Surge

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

That’s when racial and cultural differences between educators and students can come into play. Teachers are no more biased than other people, but also no less biased,” said Russell Skiba, a professor in the school psychology program at Indiana University and director of its Equity Project. Bias also plays a role.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

One widely used program called CHAMPS was recently tested in a study involving more than 100 teachers and almost 1,500 middle-school students in a randomized controlled trial — the kind of gold-standard experiment that is common in medicine but not in education. The experiment took place in two St. “As

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to Diane Hughes, a professor of applied psychology at New York University, “It’s well established that there’s no biological basis for race.” In our current culture, silence is compliance, so it is essential that we speak up. No person is born with hate and bias toward someone that looks or talks or acts different from them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared. They must focus on creating classroom cultures of growth, and seek to discern what material students have not yet mastered so they can point them toward actionable steps for improvement.

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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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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines competition as “any performance situation structured in such a way that success depends on performing better than others.” In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. That was too hard to bear.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Students participate in a restorative circle, a practice that’s part of a movement away from harsh discipline in schools. Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) We don’t change culture quickly.”.

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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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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

During our webinar on productive struggle, middle school math teacher and former National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) board member Kevin Dykema explained his philosophy on the topic: “The thinking goes, if you were good at memorizing, you’d be good at math. “At and Antonio M.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. “By definition, grit is passion for something that takes a long time to complete and perseverance.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

She said having someone at school who could help was “really, really important.” Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. “If

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Dahl describes himself as a developmental scientist, practicing in a field that combines many subjects such as neuroscience, psychology and medicine. Culture is shaping it.”. Early Childhood. Kids are wiring their brains to do those things,” Dahl said. “That is the wrong way to think.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Yet even with teachers, new and veteran, so rattled by pandemic teaching and concurrent culture wars, districts may not be adapting. Using the virtual classroom , teachers in training can work through situations that might be difficult, but in a psychologically safe environment. “They don’t teach you this in college.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. But what is it, exactly? Expense is not the only hurdle.

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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. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. Maybe my students would write their own textbooks like those at Beachwood (OH) Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. Before Rockville Centre detracked math in the ninth and 10th grades, for example, it added support math classes in middle school so that all students graduated eighth grade having completed algebra. Wells Middle School, D.C.’s

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

Douglass High School in New Orleans, wanted her students to have the same transformative experience she did on a high school trip to Ghana. This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Welcome to our cultural island,” Martinez said. Vincent in the mid-1600s.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Now, several years later, after pursuing a degree in psychology and taking courses in child development, Foster is more educated about Montessori education and realizes little about the “Montessori garden” actually adhered to Montessori practice. The cultural area introduces students to puzzle maps, flags and globes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Williams was just 14 when Marcovitz told her she could be part of something historic at Sci Academy, the charter high school he was opening on the east end of town. Only 4 percent of Middlebury’s students are black, but Barnes found “other ghetto kids,” students who’d grown up, as he had, hearing guns firing in the middle of the night.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

In middle school, administrators wanted to cut back the number of hours of speech therapy Tyrone received from one and a half hours a week to half an hour per week. The diagnoses should have triggered extra supports at school, but Burns said that much-needed help never materialized. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. Also, there’s a psychological factor. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

. — Standing in front of 240 freshmen and 80 fellow seniors in her school’s gymnasium, a slight 17-year-old with her hair in pigtail braids took a long shuddering breath. Now they want to pass on what they’ve learned about healthy ways to deal with emotion to middle school students as well. Her audience was still.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars. Nearly 2 in 3 LGBTQ+ youth said that learning about potential legislation banning discussions of LGBTQ+ people in schools negatively affected their mental health. Some families have sued.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

School libraries are for all students but not all students are the same — they have diverse interests, abilities, and maturity levels, and varied cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.” The statement also pointedly rebuffed Abbott’s charge, adding, “Furthermore, school libraries do not collect obscene content.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

In elementary and middle school, Knight was one of the smartest people I knew. When he moved to Madison, a middle class, mostly white suburb from neighboring Ridgeland, he excelled on Madison Central High School ‘s juggernaut Academic Decathlon team. He looks exactly like his mother. “It’s not the same.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

He was glad he had something from home as he walked alone into North Middle School to start eighth grade in his new hometown of Sioux City, Iowa. That meant Cristian started his first day of school in America without a hug from his mom or a reassuring smile from his dad. Nor did he walk into school with his brother.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. You’re exploiting that trusted relationship between the student and the teacher,” he said.

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