A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2023

In my work with principal Nicki Slaugh and her Quest Academy Junior High School staff, student choice as a high-agency strategy has begun to flourish. I also encourage you to check out these posts from Wells Elementary (TX), Snow Horse Elementary (UT), Juab School District (UT), and the Corinth School District (MS).

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

My work with Quest Academy Junior High School (UT) validates why change succeeds or fails. While you can read specifics by clicking on the hyperlinks above, the one common thread has been a collective belief held by all educators that improvement was and always will be a natural component of teaching, learning, and leadership.

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Junior High Pedagogy Leadership Humanities 341

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

These concerns, coupled with crowding in primary schools — the result of an influx of new immigrants — led to the creation, starting around 1910, of standalone “junior high schools” for seventh through ninth graders. But it quickly became clear that the junior highs weren’t living up to their promise.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Initiated by black church leaders, who had invited several trusted white clergymen and business leaders to work with them, this citizens committee were planning the integration of Belmonts schools and businesses. Later, when I reached high school, I talked with my father about how hed helped to locally implement the Brown decision.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. MESA, Ariz.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2018

He is a teacher at Hopewell Junior High School in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh. Robert Mawhinney, Hopewell Junior High math teacher. He tapped the air in front of him and up popped a view of a student’s computer screen. Mawhinney is not an actor in a science fiction movie.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

Marianne Stewart teaches eighth grade English at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California. And the 10th grade English-learners benefitting from the program outscored the state average on the high school exit exam by 20 percentage points, according to Olson. One way is by teaching them how to think as they read.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

And it’s almost always designed by adults, few of whom consult with kids before they start mass-producing their products and selling them to schools. Brandon, now 20, dropped out of his high-performing New Jersey high school as a junior. The disconnect is not lost on Brandon Goon.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

And white and well-off students from better-resourced high schools and with greater access to private tutoring score better on these tests, according to ACT and the College Board — which administers the SAT — themselves. Black enrollment has grown but remains at little more than 2 percent.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Heather Brantley, an instructional technologist and teacher at a Texas junior high school, recognizes the value of integrating augmented reality tools into her lessons. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational.

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EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 130

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Angie Rawls, choral director at Pearl High School in Mississippi, leads students in a vocal exercise. On the first Wednesday of December, the stage risers were out and the backlights were on as the women’s choir rehearsed in the Pearl High School Performing Arts Center. Photo: Sarah Warnock/The Clarion Ledger.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Today, some 70 years after reformers launched a movement to make the middle grades more responsive to the needs of early adolescents, too many middle schools continue to operate like mini high schools, on a “cells and bells” model, said Chad Ratliff, the principal of Community Lab School. Peter Gray, Boston College.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In my current role as a special education teacher at a junior high school in New Orleans, I teach 24 neurodivergent students in three classes across two grades, and I’m a case manager for 14 students.

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Teaching Junior High Humanities Lesson Plan 128

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

That’s because all the kids in this diverse suburb just northwest of Jackson attend the same school for kindergarten and first grade, then move on to the second- and third-grade school and continue together on through high school. There is no poor school or wealthy school … we are all together from the very beginning.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

JACKSON — Yazoo County School District Superintendent Becky Fischer said the lights in the high school in her district were so old, they could not even find bulbs for them when they went out. Related: Once sold as a solution, small high schools are now on the back burner. It’s a win-win.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

For Johnson, the school was a bid to cultivate the greatness she saw in these local kids, including her own daughters. They were so bright, so eager, and yet if the current statistics held, 25 percent would not graduate from high school. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. he Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 30, 2016

JACKSON — Yazoo County School District Superintendent Becky Fischer said the lights in the high school in her district were so old, they could not even find bulbs for them when they went out. Related: Once sold as a solution, small high schools are now on the back burner. It’s a win-win.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

He was working to have a Christian university offer an Old Testament course to high school students at a Baptist church near their school. Durst also cast himself as a model for how non-educators could take charge of a school district. He wanted intelligent design taught alongside evolution in biology classes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The black community expressed dismay that all symbols of black accomplishment — plaques, citations, trophies, and class pictures — were removed and tossed aside when the all-black Coleman High School was converted into an integrated middle school. Those white families in Cleveland are going to flee.”. I just don’t believe it.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Barton teaches English full-time at Clarksdale High School. Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. Kaitlyn Barton teaches English at Clarksdale High School.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

PHILADELPHIA — Ryan Moten’s grandmother remembers her time at Roberts Vaux Junior High School fondly: the sewing classes, cheering at basketball games and swaying during dances in the gym. The Sharswood-Blumberg neighborhood surrounding Vaux, by then a high school, had begun to buckle from poverty, drugs and gun violence.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

The next spring, he graduated from the school, Jim Thorpe Area High School, after making the honor roll. a 15-year old in the Western Pennsylvania city of Greenville, hopes to have the chance to graduate from a public school like the one she used to attend. stayed at Keystone, she would likely attend its charter school.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 21, 2024

Rather than tracking Black students into college preparatory coursework, the school district instead primarily directed them into manual arts and trade classes. And you went to one junior high school and she went to another junior high school. … Locals stoned buses carrying elementary school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2017

Sumner Hill Junior High is the district’s 9th-grade school. Educators in Clinton say having grade-based schools has helped the district remain integrated. In 2016, half of all black students in Mississippi attended school in a district rated D or F; 86 percent of the students in those districts were black.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. From my freshman year till my senior year of high school I lost 13 friends to suicide,” Rep.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2023

She was diagnosed with dyslexia in fourth grade, and couldn’t read until junior high, when she received reading intervention and worked one-on-one with a paraprofessional. In high school, another aide helped her prepare for the ACT. NAPERVILLE, Ill.

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K-12 Junior High High School Psychology 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Douglass High School , remembers his uncles pushing the family to safety in a boat. Class of 2020 graduate Trevianne Turner, 18, feels a certain tug inside when she looks at the Katrina blight left near her school, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. High School in the city’s Lower Ninth Ward. HIGH SCHOOL.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Hernandez, a 33-year-old mother of four and high school dropout, had already overcome an array of obstacles on her nearly five-year journey. “No They lived in various apartments in the Bronx, where Hernandez excelled in school. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed).

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Economics Junior High Advocacy Critical Thinking 117

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. She jokes that she knows Tulsa’s schools so well because she attended so many of them, graduating from Memorial High School in 1984.

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Charter School Junior High Political Science Elementary School 104

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2021

Soon after, the elementary-aged kids trooped to their new school, Stansbury, and Joaquín started at West Lake STEM Junior High. At his junior high, Joaquín’s favorite class is reading. (The district said it had informed them that immunizations were available through charitable donations.). New, cautious hope.

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