A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 19, 2023
Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution. Furthermore, the human capacity for growth and learning is boundless. My work with Quest Academy Junior High School (UT) validates why change succeeds or fails.
Teaching American History
JANUARY 28, 2025
A Human Relations Committee Forms to Plan Integration In Belmont, a small town just west across the Catawba River from Charlotte, school integration presented fewer logistical problems, because segregated schools for black and white children were situated within a mile of each other.
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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. The science activity Human Eye in McGraw Hill AR My job is to facilitate and learn beside them. We need students to see our excitement about learning new tools.
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 13, 2019
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ED Surge
DECEMBER 21, 2022
Getting to know my students beyond their academic capabilities and seeing them develop into well-rounded humans is a gift. 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.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 16, 2021
Scientists have long known that the human brain develops more rapidly between birth and the age of 3 than at any other time in life. Efforts to reimagine education for grades 6 to 8 dates back to the 1960s, when an education professor, William Alexander , called for replacing junior highs with middle schools that would cater to the age group.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 10, 2018
When asked in a survey about the monitoring and sanctioning of residential schools, the Pennsylvania Department of Education told Hechinger/HuffPost to contact the state Department of Human Services. Boys who request to take Advanced Placement classes can do so at Grove City High School; two took AP classes this past year, said Anderson.
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