ED Surge

JUNE 11, 2024

For instance, the school’s “fabrication lab” — which once might have been called wood shop — is located adjacent to a high-traffic commons area, and glass walls allow anyone walking by to see what the students are doing. If you go to a lot of other schools these types of classes have been in a remote part of the school.”

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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?” Ten schools began using the model in 1993. Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

Robert Slavin, director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University, recently set out to find the most effective programs to teach elementary and middle school students. Related: Three lessons from rigorous research on education technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

Perizzolo, Jacquez and Hernandez are among the eight math teachers of an increasingly popular data science course offered at most schools in the Oxnard Union High School district, an economically diverse school system northwest of Los Angeles, where 80 percent of students identify as Hispanic.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

The 10 future teachers we interviewed span different geographies, backgrounds, education experiences and motivations. Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Each story — each person — is unique.

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Geography Tutoring Elementary School Teaching 132

ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive. That really wasn’t the rule that she was being taught. isn’t working.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Avoidance has become a crisis in recent years, one that schools aren’t prepared to handle, according to mental health experts. It can knock students off the traditional developmental path and leave them without crucial social and emotional skills, says Anne Marie Albano, a clinical psychologist with experience in school avoidance.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. UC Santa Cruz sees a lot of underrepresented students disproportionately drip out of that leaky pipeline, Weissman says.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing affinity spaces for Black women teachers are necessary for us to not only honor our ancestors but also honor ourselves and carry on this important tradition of education and learning. When we live in our core values as Black womxn educators, it becomes more than just an individual investment.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

We now have the potential to make a once-in-a-generation investment in our schools. We risk missing an opportunity if we simply spend the money in the same traditional ways. All over the country, educators assumed this larger role in supporting student needs. The federal government is seeking expansion of this support.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything!

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Relying on this network of coaches and their built-in relationships with schools across the state, her team quickly pivoted during the pandemic to provide strategies, training and mentoring—initiating a ripple effect of best practices for teachers and successful outcomes for students. Adam Phyall 6.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. Fath found this when she designed a board game called Outbreak for middle schoolers.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

For Christopher Faidley, a middle school computer science teacher who once taught advanced technology to Bir, it’s a place to send inquisitive parents. “I Bir’s site may have attracted so many users because traditional library resources aren’t on the top of people’s minds. Bir says the site has about 10,000 users.

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Digital Resources Library K-12 Middle School 120

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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Leadership Middle School Humanities Teaching 128

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Several teachers in New York started the effort around a decade ago, and Zearn is now used by a quarter of elementary school students and more than a million middle school students around the country, according to sign-on figures tracked by the group.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

When I showed up, I wore what I thought was professional attire for a school teacher, including a long-sleeved shirt and dress pants. I also wore my hijab, which is a symbol of my faith and tradition in the Muslim community. She then informed me that it would be my first and last day at the school before I left to go to my classroom.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2023

The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially transformative pedagogical approach that could redefine the traditional landscape of education. EdSurge: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, you piloted a multifaceted AI program to support the teaching of argumentative writing.

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Education Middle School Critical Thinking Teaching 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

As such, Kaswell and his colleagues, a special education teacher and a science teacher, must teach a wide variety of students, each with different learning styles and needs. Otherwise, all you’ll be doing is taking traditional instruction and putting it online — not particularly helpful to struggling learners.”. Photo: Sarah Gonser.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me. They reinforced a monolithic depiction of Black life devoid of any moments of joy, hope, or success.

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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. It all comes down to how schools introduce and make room for Summit in their classrooms.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Becoming an Outsider It would be hard to identify a single cause of Bradley’s school avoidance, according to his mother, Deirdre. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade. Bradley would miss school here and there, but the growing tally of absences worried his mom.

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Advocacy High School Middle School Tradition 127

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. That's become harder to do.

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K-12 Pedagogy High School American History 114

ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

It's about ensuring that edtech investments support educators, giving them the tools to meaningfully impact student learning outcomes. 1 Bust Your Assumptions: Assess Your Current State A technology refresh is not just about keeping up with the latest trends or adding the latest features.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Over 250 organizations and 3,000 people comprise Pittsburgh’s Remake Learning Network , which brings together teachers, students, and parents, in addition to universities, museums, libraries, after-school programs, education technology startups, funders, and nonprofits to shape the future of teaching and learning.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Schools and districts are paying millions of dollars for access to these digital tools and services, sometimes using funds newly available to them through federal pandemic relief money.

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Elementary School EdTech Middle School High School 98

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The goal is for some of AIs earliest adopters in education to band together, share ideas and eventually help lead the way on what they and their colleagues around the U.S. could do with the emerging technology.

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Education Charter School Civics Lesson Plan 113

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

This double-dosing strategy has spread rapidly at community colleges but hasn’t been studied as much in elementary, middle or high schools. One evaluation of double-dosing in algebra found that it worked in Chicago high schools but not in middle school math in Miami. Refinement and further study are warranted.

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Tutoring High School Charter School Research 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At Hopatcong Middle School in northern New Jersey, Jim McKowen is one of the first public-school teachers to take on this curriculum. School desks neatly lined up in rows may soon be a relic of the past. The North American school furniture market is expected to grow to $2.4 He teaches it to sixth graders.

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Museum Elementary School High School Middle School 123

ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

But actually this tradition of thought goes way back at least to an ancient Chinese text. I especially worry as I watch my oldest son, who is in middle school now. He was engaged in this project of doubting everything that he knew. And one technique he had for doubting things was to imagine that he might be dreaming things.

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Teaching History Middle School Tradition 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When Texas’ House Bill (HB) 25 went into effect earlier this year, banning transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, I invited teachers at my middle school to stop by my classroom to help with a project to reaffirm our school’s support for trans students. So how can we improve conditions for our students?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2023

Replacing traditional labs, this new technology from Dreamscape Learn is used to reinforce the foundational life science concepts they are learning in the classroom. times more likely to earn an A in the class than those enrolled in the traditional model. I was shocked by how bearable the virtual dissection was.

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EdTech Tradition Middle School Learning Science 107