The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. For example, a passage on farming might make more sense if you know something about how plants grow. Glimmers of hope Cabell did see glimmers of hope.

Teaching 138

Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 138

Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Important Documents Review – Let’s be real. Key documents can be tough for students to remember. US History Important Document Review 5. High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! This sorting activity allows students to connect the dots and review in a hands-on way!

Social Studies 195

Social Studies History American History Middle School 195

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Math anxiety is real and contagious, documented in research around the world. One educator told us: If you say that, then the kids are like, Oh, thats an option. Its an option for me not to be a poet or a math person. When parents say they arent a math person, it gives permission to kids to check outof that subject.

Research 133

Research Middle School Education High School 133

Active History Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

Students created a separate document/paper that explained each image for the decade. High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! I allowed students to include keywords with their visuals, but told them not to use sentences. The point is to have each decade be a visual representation.

History 195

History Oral History Middle School Cultures 195

Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2021

e-Portfolios are different from journaling and documenting evidence for a performance framework. This occurs through a targeted approach to documenting, reflecting, and identifying a change in action or behavior. Deep learning occurs when we are able to transfer our knowledge and skills to an unfamiliar environment or situation.

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Artifacts Middle School Teaching Education 172

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Each concluded that students who learned science and social studies through a detailed project-based curriculum over the course of a year posted higher achievement scores than those who learned those subjects the way teachers in their schools usually taught them. The George Lucas Foundation financed the four studies. We know it works.

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Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

Active History Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

Don’t forget to include people, battles, documents, dates etc! High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! My tips implementing hexagonal thinking: Identify the key concepts that need reviewing: Consider the history, culture, economics, and politics of a unit.

History 195

History Pedagogy Middle School Economics 195

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. We worked collaboratively on a shared Google Document so teachers could see the outs for the previous grade, ask questions, and make suggestions.

Middle School 168

Middle School Teaching Research 168

Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Amendments While students begin learning amendments in middle school, it is so hard to remember them all! AP Government Foundational Documents Students will love this review! It is a two-page review sheet on the foundational document for the AP US Government and Politics exam. AP Government Amendments $ 10.00

Government 130

Government US Government Middle School Social Studies 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2021

What’s less clear is whether starting school later in the morning will prompt kids to sleep more and consequently learn more during the school day. A new study in Minnesota documents what happened to 18,000 students in grades 5 through 11 after four school districts postponed the start of the school day by 20 to 65 minutes.

Middle School 145

Middle School High School Elementary School Research 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Math teacher Cheyenne Crider helps a seventh-grade student with a math problem at Piedmont Middle School in Piedmont, Ala., Credit: Trisha Powell Crain/ AL.com Rebecca Dreyfus, with TNTP, a national nonprofit devoted to helping schools improve student learning, helps teachers apply best practices from research to the classroom.

Middle School 139

Middle School Elementary School Tutoring Classroom Management 139

Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Students are given an envelope full of terms (dates, battles, people, court cases, documents, etc.), High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! Envelope Races Lastly, my students also enjoy this envelope race classroom competition. Join The Active History Teacher Community!

Primary Sources 195

Primary Sources American History History Cultures 195

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Tha was little when his family immigrated from Myanmar, and, for much of his time in Dallas schools, he took courses designed for children who are learning English. In fifth grade, his standardized test scores showed he was a strong math student – someone who should be challenged with honors classes in middle school.

Middle School 122

Middle School Tutoring High School Education 122

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. Students began the project by doing research and interviewing school and district-level stakeholders.

Middle School 109

Middle School Teaching Research Education 109

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

“We’re seeing more hiring by states and districts because school leaders are understanding the impact that school counseling programs can have on student outcomes,” said Jill Cook, the association’s assistant director. The biggest one-year increase in student counseling was documented in Washington, D.C.,

Middle School 145

Middle School Government Public School Education 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

So Holstein, along with two colleagues, set up an unusual middle school experiment in the Pittsburgh area. Indeed, more than half the learning gains that the researchers documented from access to the data were achieved merely by the teachers wearing the functionally limited glasses.

Psychology 140

Psychology Middle School Tutoring Humanities 140

Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2019

This report emphasized “the power of integrating the understanding of science with engagement in the practices of science” for students and became the guiding document for the development of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) released the following year. Next steps.

K-12 133

K-12 Learning Science Middle School Tradition 133

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

Others were asked to send their parents’ documents for verification. It wouldn’t surprise me if those students’ documents were among the FAFSA program’s thousands of unread emails , indicative of its widespread failure. Try a different browser.” But funds for the program ended last June, leaving many of us doing this work informally.

High School 129

High School Middle School Leadership Research 129

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

As students moved from elementary to middle school, the improvement in reading for Black students was dramatic in the 1970s and 1980s. This chart shows that young Black students progressed in reading for four decades, from 1971 to 2012, when the scores of Black children peaked.

Elementary School 124

Elementary School Middle School Research High School 124

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

In early January, Leonardo Amador, principal of Von Tobel Middle School in Las Vegas, talks about how his staff members use the MAP Accelerator to boost students’ math skills. The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future.

Middle School 140

Middle School Library Tutoring Tradition 140

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.

Middle School 111

Middle School Psychology Research Humanities 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. The Hechinger Report is an independent news organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University, but has no relationship with the middle school or the researchers involved in the study. )

Tradition 144

Tradition Middle School Project-Based Learning Psychology 144

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2023

When students entered the classroom on station rotation days, they were greeted by my station rotation seating arrangement document. I printed and laminated my seating assignment document, so I could change groups and seat assignments as needed with a black whiteboard marker. Stay tuned for more easy-to-implement management tips!

Middle School 98

Middle School History Cultures Classroom Management 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Thousands wanted to go to highly regarded middle schools, some of which were in nearby suburbs of the large Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district. The lucky ones, who won a seat to their first choice middle school, were less likely to be arrested or end up in prison between the ages of 16 and 22.

Middle School 111

Middle School Charter School Public School Economics 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2024

This analysis is evidence that widespread grade inflation, which has also been documented by the ACT, the National Center for Education Statistics and independent scholars , has persisted through 2023. Large discrepancies were documented. It was also more common for low-income students.

High School 145

High School Research Middle School Education 145

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. Not a YouTube video or screenshot-documented tutorial.

K-12 139

K-12 EdTech Middle School Library 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Patty Topliffe, who teaches social studies at Woodstock High School in Vermont, said teaching vocabulary and other literacy skills to her students helps them understand primary source documents. It’s even harder to find middle school and high school teachers who have been prepared with the requisite knowledge.”

High School 145

High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Dawn Martesi, the learning coach at Armstrong Middle School, stumbled upon four key actions that helped her ensure her online community would be a thriving place where ALL teachers felt included to learn and share. Don’t make it about technology. He uses it, so everyone else uses it.” It just doesn’t work.

Middle School 108

Middle School Educational Technology Teaching Education 108

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Ken Dirkin, senior director of the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, said the group wanted to create a document that was digestible, but “there’s probably 40,000 important things that could have been included.” The more we disclose the use of AI and the purpose, the more we uplift everybody in the conversation,” Dirkin says.

K-12 105

K-12 Lesson Plan Middle School Humanities 105

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2020

If not at home, why not at school? The benefits of looping are significant and well-documented. He started looping by accident as a seventh-grade middle school teacher. Rogers’ school was hard pressed to find a high-level math instructor. The handful of problems are solvable. Meet Mark Rogers.

Pedagogy 145

Pedagogy Private School Middle School Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Morgan Polikoff, an associate professor of education at the University of Southern California, is collecting reports from around the country to summarize what is happening in schools beyond the well-documented nationwide slide in test scores. “My Middle school students are terribly behind in math.

High School 117

High School Charter School Tutoring Middle School 117

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Any student seen doing a good deed, like picking up trash in the hallway, is given a “Stinger Buck” that can be spent on prizes.

Cultures 140

Cultures Junior High Middle School Tutoring 140

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2020

The Seattle School Board is taking steps to dismantle a gifted and talented program at one of its middle schools to make room for a more racially inclusive curriculum. But, too often, gifted and talented programs create separate tracks that end up creating segregated systems within schools.

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Inclusive Curriculum Middle School Project-Based Learning Public School 133

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Many experiments have documented the power of writing outside of English classes but others haven’t found it to be so beneficial. This is one to increase how much writing students engage in for real purposes at school,” Graham explained by email, rather than a writing assignment that feels pointless. Even in English classes, U.S.

Social Studies 145

Social Studies Tradition High School Research 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

As districts work through the lengthy process of financing and planning these infrastructure upgrades, some hope that pushing back the first day of school could reduce school closures and other effects of extreme heat on students.

Public School 127

Public School High School Private School Elementary School 127

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. According to video documentation in the study, U.S. math teaching predominantly focused on procedural skills, where students spent most of their time acquiring isolated skills through repetition.

Education 125

Education Pedagogy Critical Thinking Middle School 125

ED Surge

JUNE 5, 2023

EdSurge senior reporter Emily Tate Sullivan won a top journalism prize this month for her work documenting the chronic, national problem of low teacher pay in the United States. And middle school band teacher Swati Linder, who also sells real estate in South Carolina (she has since left teaching altogether).

Middle School 104

Middle School History Public School Teaching 104