ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. The educators were state winners of the Teacher of the Year program , hosted annually by the Council of Chief State School Officers. I'm a human being. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too.

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Museum Education Historic Sites History 140

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found that human feedback was generally a bit better than AI feedback, but AI was surprisingly good. Humans had a particular advantage in advising students on something to work on that would be appropriate for where they are in their development as a writer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Some of it arises from recent test scores showing dismal middle school performance: Students who started middle school early in the pandemic lost more ground in math than any other group and are still struggling. It takes time, and money, and human capital and training,” Coleman told me in a follow-up conversation.

Education 142

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

Civics 130

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

Two years ago, when I visited Westwood High School in Mesa, a suburb of Phoenix, every incoming freshman started the year in a very unusual way. Back when my mom attended Westwood in the early 80s, students made the typical walk from class to class, learning from one teacher in math and another for English or history or science. (My

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. She says it all comes down to the basic human need to feel cared for and to be part of a community. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination. Middle school is awful.

Middle School 111

Middle School Psychology Research Humanities 111

ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours.

Education 145

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding. But computer science lessons like the ones at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School are relatively rare.

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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.

Leadership 128

Leadership Middle School Humanities Teaching 128

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. It also offers a YouTube channel on which historians discuss their work , making history come alive for contemporary youth. We could find history games at Playing History or Flight to Freedom.

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Students of History

MAY 25, 2023

History is a tapestry of interconnected events, people, and ideas. Helping students to make connections in your curriculum is a powerful way to deepen their understanding of history and to see its connection to the world today. As you can imagine, are sometimes challenging, but fun for advanced or AP level history students.

History 52

History Critical Thinking Middle School Research Skills 52

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Hoang co-leads Burbank’s partnership with Turnaround Arts: California , a signature program of the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities that seeks to advance education in a select group of elementary and middle schools in the state. First graders are working with high school honors students to map kindness.

Education 107

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: It’s easy to argue about this extensive and muddy body of research. “The United States is in the midst of the second largest immigration wave in its history.” Early Grade Retention and the Human Capital Development of English Learners.” Choose as many as you like.

Middle School 105

Middle School Elementary School Economics Humanities 105

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Anna Maria Jack says she isn’t flustered when students bring up fringe science denial theories during her 10th grade Earth science class in the Bronx.

Museum 132

Museum Teaching Professional Development High School 132

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

This single assignment asks students to master science, math, history and language arts standards, which is par for the course for these sixth graders. Their school schedules don’t make distinctions among the four core subjects, which are co-taught by two teachers in an interdisciplinary, project-based environment.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

She’s found that many of the most common language features of middle school texts are unknown to large proportions of students, even by eighth grade. Moreover, most scientists agree that it is extremely likely that humans are causing this problem through activities that increase concentrations of greenhouse gases.

Pedagogy 107

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ED Surge

JUNE 13, 2022

Nineteen children and two teachers were killed in Uvalde, Texas, and 17 more wounded, in the sanctuary of an elementary school. A natural human reaction is to defend, to protect and to guard—which translates into “hardening” schools. While there is no single profile, most school shooters were victims of bullying.

Human Rights 107

Human Rights Elementary School Humanities Middle School 107

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

million people that is less diverse than America, and that has a history very different from our own? As Isaac Adaam, a public-school father and immigrant to Finland from Ghana, told us, if you don’t want to learn from the Finnish system because it’s not racially diverse, “I think that you’re missing the point.”

Education 112

Education Economics Civics Public School 112

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

All students are exposed to music starting in elementary school; by middle school nearly half (44 percent) have picked up an instrument, according to district data. For example, 97 percent of Poe Middle School students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, according to the state, and 58 percent play an instrument.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

All four Hidalgos love American history, and a dual-enrollment course allowed their 17-year-old daughter to earn college credit while sharing the class content with her brother and parents. The pandemic really took a toll on kids, mostly middle school and high school,” said Siddiqui. “It Fatima Siddiqui, homeschooler.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Many of the people who signed the petitions, which popped up at beer festivals, outdoor stores and nature centers throughout the state, attended outdoor school themselves as children. Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule. It’s outdoor school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The pressure of high-stakes testing has caused districts and schools to reduce or even eliminate coursework in civics, along with history, geography, science, arts, and fitness. But the problem is not just a lack of academic content about civics and history. There are many reasons for our failure. Sign up for our newsletter.

Civics 84

Civics Geography Public School Library 84

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

P]upils are not pins, and the production of human capital is far more complex than assembling automobiles,” Fryer wrote, calling his Houston experiment a “cautionary tale.”. Eventually the subjects that children need to learn, from physics to history, become more complex, and at some point teachers cannot be expected to teach all subjects.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb Kaied, a seventh-grader this fall, shows a visitor how he checks his academic progress using a monitoring website that one of the teachers at the school developed. NEW YORK — Few middle schoolers are as clued in to their mathematical strengths and weakness as Moheeb Kaied. Photo: Kyle Spencer. Others question its efficacy.

Middle School 110

Middle School High School Tradition History 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

My friends were more shocked that I was going back to graduate school than in my saying that I was trans. I was seen as a human who worked hard, cared about kids and reflected on their leadership. When enrolling in school again, I didn’t fully realize that I would need to come out as nonbinary or explain they/them pronouns.

Middle School 87

Middle School Humanities Leadership History 87

ASHP CML

MARCH 5, 2024

The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Tuesday, March 5, 2024 - 14:23 The American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning is hiring a new team member! Keep reading for the job description and application information. Level of Language Proficiency Fluent in English.

History 40

History Professional Development Pedagogy American History 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

Elementary School 145

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

A teacher in training darted among students, tallying how many needed his help with a history unit on Islam. Peggy Beesley, a math teacher now in her fifth year with Westwood’s team, recalled feeling that parents and politicians gave little consideration to her health and safety as they debated school closures. MESA, Ariz. —

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. The exception is in the two humanities classes students take every day, one in each language. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

High School 112

High School Heritage Economics Cultures 112

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: JPS has recruited retirees by increasing financial incentives. A former educator of the year in Canton, Mississippi, who retired from Jackson Public Schools, Owens now works at Provine High School teaching three classes of 10th grade English per day, with one planning period.

Education 82

Education Middle School Public School Teaching 82

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

The triplexes, offered to teachers at deeply discounted rent, were built by volunteers with Habitat for Humanity in partnership with the district. Over the past decade, the number of unhoused students attending Montana schools more than tripled, reaching 4,700 as of last year. Now, a similar lot costs $2.5 million, Saunders said.

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TCI

AUGUST 24, 2023

Explore the list to find seasonal science experiments for elementary and middle school classrooms. Halloween (October) Don’t be afraid to teach with TCI’s free science lessons for elementary and middle school! Explore these elementary and middle school lessons that investigate the outdoors. Get the lessons.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The directors of the institute, Bob Holschuh Simmons of Monmouth College ( rsimmons@monmouthcollege.edu ) and Nathalie Roy of Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, LA ( fabricatrix@gmail.com ), encourage applications from K-12 teachers of any subject that could incorporate hands-on Classics into its curricula.

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K-12 Middle School Social Studies Humanities 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Mitch Askew, a history teacher at Flagstaff High School, marches with his two-year-old son. Editor’s note: This story is part of Map to the Middle Class , a Hechinger Report series exploring the middle-class jobs of the future and how to prepare young people for them. . Courtesy of the Askew family.

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K-12 Public School History Tutoring 99

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2016

Many of the people who signed the petitions, which popped up at beer festivals, outdoor stores and nature centers throughout the state, attended outdoor school themselves as children. Oregon has a long history of offering overnight, outdoor learning programs as part of the regular school year schedule. It’s outdoor school.

Middle School 80

Middle School Tradition History Teaching 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2016

When I served as a middle school teacher in my hometown, the Bronx, I would use statistics to engage my students in conversations about race and activism. The emotional labor of being black, of mourning black lives regularly, of proving my humanity, our humanity, and of fighting to be valued feels like too much.

Humanities 75

Humanities Middle School History Research 75

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Meanwhile, at one of the tables in the hallway set up for kids working together, a girl named Silver Anderson said that doing three courses in Jaguar Academy (physical science, English and American history) gave her the schedule flexibility to meet with the band teacher on Friday mornings for an informal class in music theory and composition.

Tradition 111

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