The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. In addition, 10 percent were teaching out of field, which means, for example, they may be certified to teach high school English but assigned to a middle school math class. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

And a number of schools in Washington, D.C., For example, at the Howard University Middle School of Math and Science, on the university’s campus, 78 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and about half are considered “at-risk.” Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Ava Liepins and Owen Ford, sixth graders at Kennedy Middle School in Natick, Massachusetts, demonstrate their drone-programming skills at the LearnLaunch Across Boundaries conference. Ava Liepins took her first crack at coding last year as a fifth grader at Kennedy Middle School in Natick, Massachusetts. It was fine.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

. As a middle school teacher, I often see my colleagues taking pains to keep students quiet during class. After all, the rhythm of the traditional classroom doesn’t leave much room for chatting among students, and socializing in class is often viewed as a proxy for poor behavior or inattentiveness.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

When Steve Isaacs’ eighth graders enter his game design and development class at William Annin Middle School in Basking Ridge, N.J., These quests might be called “assignments” in a more traditional classroom. Leave this field empty if you're human: “There are tremendous opportunities,” Isaacs said. “It Weekly Update.

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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.

Middle School 117

Middle School Critical Thinking Humanities High School 117

ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Below are nine key themes that emerged from our panel, along with a few action items to help education leaders enable equitable education in their schools or districts. We must not let the flood of tech tools overshadow the necessary human element of education. Technology cannot replace human connections. Adam Phyall 6.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Locations of charter middle schools in Boston. Source: “Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Why do most middle schools have seven or eight periods of 45 to 60 minutes each? In many places, it’s simply tradition. One of Brown’s current projects is helping groups of elementary and middle schools in Colorado and New Jersey reconsider their school days.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Considering the myriad of responsibilities science teachers face , it can be challenging for teachers to let go of traditional teaching practices and embrace putting students in the driver’s seat of their learning. Always remember: humans first, teachers second. Learn More. Explore the CBL Framework.

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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 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

The figure for students in humanities and natural sciences is even higher, up to 50 percent. This high failure rate, coupled with labor market needs, has led policymakers to tweak traditional vocational models to make them more flexible. Related: Middle schools are experimenting with themes like math, sustainability and the arts.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

School libraries are shifting from traditional settings where information is consumed to modern library programs which support authentic student inquiry, design, and creation. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

She was at the top of her class, and she proved herself further by testing into a competitive, private middle school. But there, among Providence’s brightest, it wasn’t as easy to be at the top of the class, and her excitement about school – and learning – subsided. Students don’t take traditional classes.

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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.

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Education K-12 Middle School Professional Development 107

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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

When I was in middle school, I remember yearning to have conversations with my peers like the ones I was having at home. We spend the entire year cultivating in them a sense of pride, culminating in their graduation at which they don traditional stoles and are honored as full members of the community. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Middle School Economics Tradition Humanities 106

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

Many administrators at public schools say they are using strategies to “personalize” learning, giving students the chance to tackle coursework at their own pace or have a greater say in what they study. The middle school has started using an online system to guide self-paced learning, and Ms. The actual execution is limited.”.

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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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Middle School Teaching Tradition Humanities 115

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Evidence from the court system, school surveys and controlled experiments suggests restorative justice can indeed do a lot of good. Restorative justice, meanwhile, with its emphasis on community, empathy and perspective-taking, may make up for some of the shortcomings of traditional disciplinary action. In the U.S., Higher Education.

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Psychology Tradition Cultures Middle School 108

Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2016

VUSD has a strong “School of Choice” program through which students may elect to attend schools like Vista Innovation & Design Academy (VIDA), where students are engaged in a middle school curriculum that emphasizes design thinking, STEM, humanities, and creative arts.

Middle School 91

Middle School Elementary School Critical Thinking Social Studies 91

Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. and Antonio M.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” Those schools no longer use it. Photo: Nichole Dobo. Choose as many as you like.

Middle School 108

Middle School Tutoring Teaching Professional Development 108

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. We influence our classrooms, schools, and districts. Our values are the things, the ideals that we hold most important.

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Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 125

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. When Lou Allen started the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut in 2005, he didn’t woo the state’s top students. They controlled for student demographics and achievement before high school. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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High School Tradition Tutoring Project-Based Learning 111

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.

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Elementary School Economics Project-Based Learning Tradition 112

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Educators throughout the state soon copied the model established by Hollenbeck and Milliken in their local schools. It’s outdoor school. Mike Shinkle, aka Kodiak, shop teacher at Crook County Middle School. But, as far as she knows, no other state is considering funding an outdoor school experience for all children.

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Public School Middle School Archiving Tradition 108

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

Brown spent years pushing schools to follow the law, after giving up her job doing administrative support work for a government relations firm. White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. But those racial gaps are much wider in some states.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. And eighth-grade co-teachers Abby Jolma and Toni Giebel let kids sit on wobbly chairs — short stools with a curved base — yoga balls, or traditional chairs while they learn math and science. In the U.S.,

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Elementary School Middle School Charter School High School 109

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. A middle school teacher in North Carolina helped counsel two of her students who had attempted suicide during isolation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: Early research seemed promising. Developers of “restorative justice” programs described how “talking it out” yielded benefits, such as a reduction in bullying and fighting, lower suspension rates and fewer missed days of school. (The Choose as many as you like.

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Research Humanities Middle School Tradition 112

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. You are still a thinking and feeling human being! You should never give up your voice and replace it with AI.

Education 98

Education Middle School Critical Thinking Teaching 98

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

We expanded the League of Innovative Schools , our national network of forward-thinking school districts, and partnered with middle schools to create innovative learning environments. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager. Educator Micro-credentials. "With

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Education Civics Pedagogy Lesson Plan 114

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.

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Middle School High School Tradition History 110

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: “They are learning what it means to be a contributing member of their society in a positive way,” Van Tasel said. In addition to getting the training themselves, they invited older and younger students, ensuring the program will continue and even expand after they move on to middle school this fall.

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