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APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. As Bronx middle school teacher Roxanne Leak put it during an interview, “It’s unfortunate. Because as an educator, they just say, "Oh, you're just tired.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Something that was a really common thread was older students who said they had the exact same experience in middle school or high school, where for 20 minutes, they thought they were dying, and they were texting their goodbyes to their parents, and then it turned out to be just a drill,” she says.

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APRIL 29, 2022

Mayer ranks as the most productive educational psychologist in the world by the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology, and he has a highly cited theory of multimedia learning. The study took place with about 100 middle school students taking a brief “virtual field trip” to learn about climate science.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs).

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MAY 7, 2024

Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. Then, as I added my education and child development minors, [my classes] sparked my interest in going into teaching. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then. That would’ve been in college for you.

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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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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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JULY 5, 2023

More than a decade after earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology, Davenport is a student once again, pursuing his license to become a high school special education teacher. I still didn't really know what I wanted to do, but psychology definitely grabbed my attention. One of our kids attends the school that I work at.

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JULY 29, 2024

When I went to college, right out of high school, I got my degree in psychology and knew I wanted to do something in that realm, but circumstances didn't allow for that for quite some time. Now we're in elementary schools, we're in middle schools, we're in high schools. I've always been a helper by nature.

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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.” No person is born with hate and bias toward someone that looks or talks or acts different from them. These behaviors and beliefs are learned, and they can be unlearned, too.

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OCTOBER 3, 2024

In early middle school, by the time my parents struggled to assist with math homework, I began to compare myself to my maternal grandfather, Aladin Perkins, a retired electrical engineer who had little patience for dullards. Like in many other cases, it was born of a feedback loop. So how does someone become a non-math person?

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Critical race and education scholars like Daniel G. Solórzano and Lindsay Pérez Huber contextualize these harmful lived experiences through vivid storytelling and rigorous research,⁴ illuminating their lasting physical, psychological and social consequences. American Psychological Association. ⁷ There is a way we can connect."

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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.

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MAY 12, 2022

Her workload—and the mental, psychological and financial burden they carried—had become untenable. (Photo courtesy of Murphy) It was a stranger walking his dog who happened across Reaghan Murphy, unconscious in her car, following a severe panic attack that left her hospitalized more than a year ago. Nicole Gray.

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