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. Pace by setting their own deadlines for completing assignments, projects, or when working on a personalized task. Below you can see a few examples.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. They didn't want to work in groups.

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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. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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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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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. As he looked around the room, he saw some students had smiley faces floating above their heads, some had question marks or exclamation points, and a few had Zzzs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

Marianne Stewart teaches eighth grade English at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California. Marianne Stewart, eight-grade English teacher at Lexington Junior High near Anaheim, California. Teachers, though, can help students learn concrete skills to become better readers.

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Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

When Josh Luukkonen’s school closed due to COVID-19, Luukkonen’s junior high social studies students were studying economics. “The students are loving it even more now because they aren’t able to see each other and socialize; seeing each other’s work there has given them a bright spot.”.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

They’re still in the idea phase, but they won the “Transforming Education through Technology” category in this year’s Conrad Challenge , a global STEM and entrepreneurship contest for students in junior high and high school. Related: How colleges can help their students out-compete robots.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

It also withdrew from the National Merit Scholarship Program, which is based on the preliminary SAT, or PSAT, taken by high school sophomores and juniors. High-scoring students can receive scholarships from the program as well as from participating universities and colleges. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2024

It’s just so impossible to pay child care with that many kiddos,” said Mountjoy, who works at Parkhill Junior High in Richardson. However, the costs would add up: She was already paying more than $1,200 a month to send one of her kids to day care. So they hesitated. Monroe teaches second grade.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

By the time Morgigno was in junior high school, the town had become more racially diverse, with a population that was about 11 percent black. About 35 percent of Pearl’s students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Today, about 28 percent of residents are black and 4.5 percent are Hispanic or Latino.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

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 notion that middle schools are misaligned with the needs and drives of early adolescents is hardly a new one.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Sumner Hill Junior High, now the district’s ninth-grade school, used to be a majority-black school before the district incorporated it into its zone. By all of our kids being together, they’re all held to the same standards,” said Beth Raney, president of the Parent Teacher Organization at Sumner Hill Junior High.

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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. She credits paraprofessionals with helping her learn to read and enabling her to attend college.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

The company has replaced the boiler system at the high school and junior high, replaced the HVAC package unit and installed a centralized control system that could automate control for each school in the district. The LED exterior lighting installed at the high school would help improve safety at school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 24, 2020

She remembers being named valedictorian of her junior high, and as a result winning a scholarship to St. Pius V, an all-girls Catholic high school (since closed). She came to the United States from the Dominican Republic at age 3 with her mother, who still doesn’t speak English. She became the family translator.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. Lee Academy in Clarksdale, Mississippi.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 30, 2016

The company has replaced the boiler system at the high school and junior high, replaced the HVAC package unit and installed a centralized control system that could automate control for each school in the district. The LED exterior lighting installed at the high school would help improve safety at 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. Ryan Moten, a freshman at Vaux, with his grandmother and baby sister, after he gave a school presentation about his plans for the future.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

At some high schools, more than half of the classes were taught by uncertified teachers, including nearly 70 percent of courses at West Bolivar High School in Rosedale, and 61 percent at Heidelberg Junior High School in Heidelberg.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

She spent junior high and most of her freshman year at a mid-sized public school, earning A’s and B’s in algebra, her favorite class, and playing on the volleyball team. Another foster student, M.S.,

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 21, 2024

And you went to one junior high school and she went to another junior high school. … Rather than tracking Black students into college preparatory coursework, the school district instead primarily directed them into manual arts and trade classes. It was not de facto at all.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Still, he was held back twice, in fifth grade and again in junior high. “It When Jarrin started missing too many schooldays, Bartlett began going to his house every morning, to wake him up and bring him to school. It just made me want to drop out, I ain’t lying,” he said. Related: Held back, but not helped.

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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. Jackie Mader. CLINTON, Miss. — In districts rated F, more than 95 percent of the student population was black.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

One junior high, T.L. Greenville suffers from one of the state’s highest teacher shortages, and one of the lowest starting salaries — $36,000. This year there were as many as 40 teacher vacancies at one point. Weston, had to patch in a math teacher via web-conferencing for a period of time.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

Fuhrman is a junior high vice principal; he said three kids at his school attempted suicide and required medical treatment this year. “I’ll just be honest,” Fuhrman, the board chair, said when he saw the proposed new health standards. He said kids need more resources.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Dark skies around Priest River Junior High School allow some light in the late afternoon on Election Day. We met at a coffee shop across from the junior high on Election Day shortly after he had voted. Durst had sought emergency certification but was rebuffed by the state.

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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 made it as an eighth-grader at Tulsa’s Nimitz Junior High School for a project researching career options. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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