The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

In June 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a think tank based at the University of Washington, posted a survey of summer school plans around the country. districts the organization is tracking were planning to offer summer school for elementary and middle school students in 2020, as of the latest update , on June 9.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

” After extensive research, she decided that the path she wanted to pursue for her state was Educators Rising, which gets young people started on a path to teaching as early as middle school. “It takes years to be a great teacher,” Eckert says. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2020

This fall, she’ll head to middle school. The San Francisco Unified School District, where Iolani attends school, is gradually phasing in a plan for online learning. They bounced on a trampoline, listened to music and worked on lessons Van Brusselen downloaded from a website for kids with disabilities.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Sarah If you teach middle school, you already know about math anxiety. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. The fear of getting the problem “wrong” starts early.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

When it comes to working with researchers, Principal Stan Garber of Cabrillo Middle School in Santa Clara, California, says, “It really is all about individual kids. And I think if researchers understand the passion that most people in education have for kids, and they share that, they would be welcome in most schools.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The food computers for the pilot schools came pre-assembled. But for everyone else, they were totally DIY, using downloadable step-by-step instructions. He demonstrated his food computer and the lettuce he grew with it to middle school kids at a summer camp run at a local farm. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS).

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 11, 2017

And, according to Elizabeth Forward educators, the summer program was especially valuable for students who would be using the tool during the school year. A middle school teacher said, “Students were excited to start a new grade after experimenting with a tool they’ll be using next year.”.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Millibeth Currie , winner of the Community Counts award, encourages her middle school girls to pursue STEM education opportunities in the local community, from scrubbing in with female surgeons to working with researchers to save an endangered local plant.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Protecting Student Data School principals want to know how AI can be used in the classroom beyond having students copy and paste from it, Paul Liabenow says, and are of course concerned about students using it to cheat. How many of us have downloaded the updated agreement for our iPhone without reading it?” Smith says. “If

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Middle school students at the Innovation Academy experiment with building electrical circuits. The Innovation Academy workspace at Dysart Unified School District looked more like a tech startup’s headquarters than a classroom. Photo: Jamie Martines. SURPRISE, Ariz. — Photo: Jamie Martines.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Can middle-school students spot “native advertising” (ads masquerading as articles) on a crowded news website? Can high-school kids check the authenticity of an alarming image posted on Facebook?

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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?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

If they can download an app, then they can use the robot to help teach coding.”. First, AERobot was aimed at middle school students. Earlier this year, the Obama administration proposed $4 billion to states, including $100 million directly to school districts, to re-train teachers as computer science instructors.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 19, 2023

Listen to the interview with Jamyle Cannon ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and Giant Steps I remember listening to a conversation once between two men I taught middle school with. Midterm grade reports had just come out, and they were talking about one kid, a player on the team, who was failing one of his classes.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

For example, when Corbett School District was building a new middle school, the superintendent and technology director reflected on the student and teacher behaviors they wanted to encourage rather than focusing on specific classroom technology solutions from the start.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

And this is what happened all the way through middle school and high school.” You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. We don’t need to help him.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

These findings are especially relevant to the work we’re doing with the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS). In this initiative, we’re working with 21 middle schools across the United States to provide students with always available access, in and out of school.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Middle school, with flexible curriculums and idealistic, determined students, can be an ideal time to delve into environmental causality. Download new curriculum modules [PDF] on global thinking and causality, developed by Tina Grotzer and her research team. Make it interdisciplinary. ADDITIONAL RESOURCES.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MAY 31, 2024

Below are some of my favorite activities from my high school Civics classroom. Many of them should also work great if you teach middle school. This Voting Rights Timeline lesson is a free download in my shop. But there are many ways to get students thinking deeply and practicing being engaged citizens.

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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. But she’d been around enough adults to discern which ones were genuine, and she believed Marcovitz. Plus, she had little to lose. She looked around again.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

In Rachael McIlvaine’s eighth-grade science class at West Middle School here, a chatty but focused group of three takes turns closing their eyes, dipping a plastic spoon into a foil roasting pan and fishing for M&M’s, trying to capture as much candy as they can. Attendance improved among middle and high school students. “We

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

SLJ (School Library Journal) recommends it for grades 7 and up. I had it in my middle school library, and of course I have it in my high school library too.” SLJ says grades 7 and up for that; I had it in my middle school library and my high school library.” I totally agree with that.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

Carter, a rising senior at Teaneck High School in New Jersey, said the app allows him to see people that look like him in a “good light.” That kids can download the material on their phones makes it “really accessible,” he added. The app will be released by Verizon to 100 Title I middle schools nationwide later this fall.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

ReadTheory helps me to hit the needs of every single student in my class without creating more work for myself to differentiate assignments,” shares Caitlyn Herron, a middle school educator and ReadTheory user.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

On the Friday before spring break at Meigs Middle School, special education teacher Matt Coe was busy preparing new lessons for his students now that schools were set to close due to the coronavirus crisis. Related: Should schools teach anyone who can get online — or no one at all?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

The only time that [my grandchildren] get on computers is when they come here, to school,” Perry said in the principal’s office of Thoreau Middle School, only four miles from her home. Families spent the school day in fast-food parking lots, outside libraries or on top of mesas trying to catch a signal.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2020

For example, Jessica Bibbs-Fox, a teacher in Compton Unified School District, transformed the COVID-19 pandemic into an authentic, project-based learning experience that integrates computational thinking practices into her virtual middle school science class. Take action: Download the Data Practices resources.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

After learning about virus biology, immune response and past pandemics, more than 100 students and staff downloaded an app that tracked a virtual virus. Andrés Colubri, assistant professor of bioinformatics and integrative biology at UMass Medical School, who led the creation of the Operation Outbreak app. Starting at 8 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Zach Leverenz speaking to students at New York City middle school MS 258 during the New York launch of EveryoneOn, in June 2014. School districts presumably put spectrum payments to good use. Photo: Clay Williams. Shortly before 1 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

More than 50 years later, 152 schools in the EL (short for Expeditionary Learning) Education network are doing just that, and the network recently created a grades 3-8 curriculum that has been downloaded nearly 8 million times. I thought, school ought to be like [a mountain expedition].

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. The guide can be downloaded free at the National Park Service website. The materials can be downloaded free. Students at a Washington, D.C. Photo: Rick Reinhard for The Hechinger Report. history and its legacy today.”

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