ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. And that's how people learn math.

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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! Technology is on a course of its own.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Charter School Middle School Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

Cultures 111

Cultures Education Middle School Tradition 111

ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

But actually this tradition of thought goes way back at least to an ancient Chinese text. This is a thought that recurs throughout history — this question of how do we tell what's real? I especially worry as I watch my oldest son, who is in middle school now. And Rex isn't uncommon. It's a struggle.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

That’s because many high school teachers finish their training without lessons on how to teach reading, since, traditionally, explicit instruction on reading skills ends around third grade. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Related: How Silicon Valley schools are trying to boost lower-income students into high-tech jobs. Many people think that the best way to prepare STEM students is to skip or accelerate through middle-school mathematics in order to get as quickly as possible to advanced math courses. Related: COLUMN: The U.S.

Middle School 111

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ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

I’ve struggled to balance representing the history and culture of my school with my desire to support our ongoing and ever-more-pressing need to adapt. Keely Sutton As a school and community engagement manager at a middle school in Atlanta, Keely Sutton thinks a lot about collaboration and community.

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Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 83

TCI

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, collaborative activities in geography or history lessons can transform abstract concepts into tangible experiences, helping students retain information and stay engaged. When Thomas was a middle school teacher, he taught about the American Revolution in a hands-on, minds-on way.

Social Studies 52

Social Studies Teaching Professional Development Geography 52

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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Project-Based Learning Tradition Middle School Social Studies 112

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

She also said the school runs a program to help first-year students of color navigate campus life (which Cante said she didn’t know about). When Cante donned her purple ribbon skirt, a traditional garment worn by some Native women, to commemorate Indigenous Peoples Day in October, another student approached her.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

Lesson Plan 141

Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 141

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. And in high school I wasn't taught those things.

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K-12 Pedagogy American History History 89

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

It wasn’t the first time Ventrese Curry’s granddaughter had gotten into trouble at school. A seventh grader at a charter school in St. Louis, Missouri, she had a long history of disrupting her classes and getting into confrontations with teachers. Several times, the school issued a suspension and sent Curry’s granddaughter home.

Middle School 98

Middle School Charter School Advocacy Tradition 98

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Michael is a senior at Vertus High School , an all-boys charter school in the Rochester City School District whose hallmark is a program that blends online classes with more traditional classroom teaching. For his part, though, Michael appreciates the opportunity to work faster than traditional classrooms allow.

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Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

In March of 2018, Tenaya Middle School officials in Fresno, California pulled a 14-year-old male student out of class for a haircut with shaved-in designs. In 2013, Deborah Brown Community School, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, sent Tiana Parker home after telling the 7-year-old that her locs did not look “presentable.”

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Digital Promise

APRIL 19, 2017

Teachers at Edmunds Middle School in Burlington, Vermont, recently participated in a professional development session focused on innovative approaches to problem solving. The very next day, one history teacher recreated this professional development exercise in his class.

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Professional Development Middle School Tradition Leadership 48

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

Middle School 111

Middle School Library Elementary School Tradition 111

Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

This week, I took a hard look at my teaching approach and realized I had been falling into a pattern of overloading my lessons with too much traditional content. By the end of class, they had a strong foundation to start digging deeper into the history of the English colonies.

Geography 90

Geography Critical Thinking Tradition Middle School 90

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 68

Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 68

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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K-12 Elementary School Middle School High School 103

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

In Colorado, for instance, there were about 380 open positions for educators in rural schools at the start of the 2021-2022 school year; by the end of the year more than half remained open, according to statistics from the state’s education department. Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report. And that’s just what he did.

World History 140

World History Civic Engagement Elementary School High School 140

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Then Fryer compared test scores of the kids in the “platooned” schools with those in traditional schools in which a main classroom teacher continued to teach most subjects. A 2004 study found higher academic performance for middle school students who participated in an elementary school program to foster relationships.

Elementary School 112

Elementary School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 112

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The school farms are also incubators, joining a larger online community of farm hackers. “We We are constantly experimenting,” said Catherine Arnold, a Boston Latin history teacher who oversees the environmental club that runs the farm as an extracurricular activity. The food computers for the pilot schools came pre-assembled.

Middle School 111

Middle School Lesson Plan High School Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Middle school students at the Innovation Academy experiment with building electrical circuits. The Innovation Academy workspace at Dysart Unified School District looked more like a tech startup’s headquarters than a classroom. Miranda Virgil, seventh-grade math teacher at Canyon Ridge Elementary School. SURPRISE, Ariz. —

Elementary School 109

Elementary School Tutoring Middle School Social Studies 109

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Spokespeople from the schools say the criticism doesn’t reflect the fact that they often enroll students who are struggling academically, are enrolled for short periods, and have a history of changing schools frequently, a metric shown to hurt academic performance. Stride Inc., formerly K12 Inc., But after enrolling Ernest Jr.,

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Charter School Education Policy Public School History 129

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. In addition to the school-wide model, there are lighter-touch ways of embracing a teacher-powered philosophy, educators said.

Charter School 138

Charter School Government Sociology Social Studies 138

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

Those efforts allowed the district of 520 schools and educational centers to transition relatively smoothly from traditional learning to distance learning when the school system shut on March 16, Carvalho said. Half of the 20 most destructive wildfires in state history have occurred since 2015.

Charter School 127

Charter School Middle School Tutoring Advocacy 127

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

For Barela, the barometer for success for the inaugural freshman class is straightforward: “If we don’t lose ’em,” the school is making progress. Students prepare to present a final project in Jeb Dickerson’s 11th-grade history class in Vista High School’s personalized-learning academy. Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney.

High School 88

High School History Middle School Tradition 88

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

There are critics who contend that instilling social values in students is the purview of parents not schools, and others who fear that SEL could easily be used as yet another way to punish low-income students of color who don’t conform to behavioral norms. Yet many employers say graduates lack these skills. “We

Charter School 108

Charter School K-12 Middle School High School 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

But research shows that many of these ideas have had a spotty track record in the past and that schools will have to pay close attention to what’s worked—and what hasn’t—to maximize their odds for success with just about any strategy. There’s no silver bullet. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students. ACCELERATION.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring High School Charter School Research 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2022

Over the past decade, the number of unhoused students attending Montana schools more than tripled, reaching 4,700 as of last year. But Gallatin County — unlike larger urban centers with longer histories of providing emergency housing — has no shelter for youth experiencing homelessness and just one shelter for families.

Charter School 125

Charter School Elementary School High School Middle School 125

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. But Moheeb defended his school’s approach.

Middle School 109

Middle School Tradition High School History 109

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

as a female child of immigrants from Taiwan, this kind of behavior is practically sacrilegious; certainly scandalous and wildly antithetical to my traditional upbringing. Are you asking about my culture, what languages I speak, or what my family history is?” Growing up in the U.S. There is a way we can connect."

Education 87

Education K-12 Psychology Cultures 87

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Some school leaders insist that competency-based education can survive and even thrive within grade levels, or a modified version of them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner. “If Others, however, echo Northern Cass superintendent, Cory Steiner. “We Nor are seniors.

Tradition 111

Tradition Charter School High School Cultures 111

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 75