ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me.

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History Tutoring Pedagogy American History 107

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This concept really does underpin all of our pedagogy. Carnegie Learning Accolades and Badges: Perfect Score for Middle School Math by Ed Reports : Our Middle School Math Solution received perfect scores in all three gateways (Focus & Coherence, Rigor & Mathematical Practices and Usability) in a 2022 report from EdReports.org.

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Research K-12 EdTech Middle School 101

ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In high school, I participated in Teacher Cadets , a program that allows high school students to explore the education field as a possible career, in part by having them go into local elementary and middle schools and by serving and observing in the field. That's always been my ‘why.’

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History Museum Social Studies Geography 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 87

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. The traditional sequence for math in middle school and high school is algebra I, geometry, algebra II/trigonometry and then pre-calculus, with advanced students making it to calculus.

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Social Science Tradition High School Economics 145

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? For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

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Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 107

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. How can educators respond to these changes?

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K-12 Pedagogy American History History 115

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 Jennifer Gonzalez, with Cult of Pedagogy , she has a post called ‘ Why no one reads your class newsletter. ’ What do you think of this trend? And I love that.

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Pedagogy Private School Teaching Cultures 135

ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2023

Getting to middle school, where I had a counselor, Mrs. Bennett — God rest her soul — she was a Black woman who told me, “You really need to be in the advanced courses.” And that’s a key thing throughout the book that I tried to really elevate: We have to advocate for Black girls. And I said, “Sure.” I took the test.

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Advocacy K-12 Humanities Teaching 110

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2023

And I would say the same is true of education. I think as education becomes much more female-dominated in terms of teaching, the shift in the pedagogy and the move away from more vocational training, etc., have disproportionately affected boys rather than girls. And so the second thing is, there’s an atmospheric thing.

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Private School K-12 High School Economics 23

ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

So then I became an instructional coach for a middle school, for sixth, seventh and eighth grade. I was basically the face of middle school math. So I describe my role as someone who authors curriculum [and] writes assessments, and on a larger scale, you're able to do that for an entire school district.

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Middle School Teaching Pedagogy Lesson Plan 118