The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. But the K-12 schools leading the net-zero charge are uncovering major educational benefits as well.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools. Roschelle said he wants to see school leaders and educators experiment in ways that don’t carry big risks for students, such as changing a few lesson plans. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Chun’s district is at the forefront of a national movement to turn K-12 librarians into indispensable digital mavens who can help classroom teachers craft tech-savvy lesson plans, teach kids to think critically about online research, and remake libraries into lively, high-tech hubs of collaborative learning — while still helping kids get books.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2020

Research shows that girls begin to lose interest in STEM subjects in middle school, but that they are more likely to continue exploring STEM activities, inside and outside of school, if they see role models who look like them and who are successful in STEM careers. Related: OPINION: Where are all the women in engineering?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Notably: In reviews of 17 middle school math programs , just one was deemed standards-aligned across grades six to eight. Of the 14 elementary school math programs, only two products were found to be standards-aligned across grades K-5, again both published by nonprofits.

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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., But he maintains that teachers of all subject areas can build more student agency into their lesson plans. Photo courtesy of Classcraft. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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Edthena

AUGUST 4, 2021

School leaders, coaches, and teachers can contribute videos on an ongoing basis, and those videos are curated easily before releasing across the district. All videos are accessed securely , even if teachers are working on a new lesson plan from home: only authenticated users in your district can view the videos.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

The teenagers attend high schools and middle schools in the lowest-scoring school district in the state of Mississippi, West Bolivar Consolidated. In some ways, it’s nice to just have something that you can pull off the shelf and use when it comes to curriculum, lesson plans, and resources,” said Arnett.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

He demonstrated his food computer and the lettuce he grew with it to middle school kids at a summer camp run at a local farm. In August, he started a nonprofit called Workshop Garden Technologies to create after-school programs for middle-school students using food computers.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

The Wyss team hopes Root will soon roll into the gap between the growing enthusiasm for K-12 computer science and the lack of qualified teachers. First, AERobot was aimed at middle school students. Meet Root — a robot being beta-tested by its creators at Harvard’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 4, 2017

There’s an introductory curriculum guide , lesson plans , and sample Scratch projects for teachers to replicate or use as inspiration. Check out the Guide to Creative Computing to learn more about initiatives to expand and enhance coding in K-12 schools. Attend a ScratchEd meetup.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

And topics that are listed in the standards, like DNA, lend themselves to teaching about vaccines, said Mike Fumagalli, principal at Glenn Westlake Middle School in Illinois and a former high school biology teacher.

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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?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Sylvan Hills Middle School Assistant Principal Monica Blasingame, center, and Principal Artesza Portee, right, discuss “big life goals” with a student as part of a goal-setting exercise in Atlanta Public Schools. The Atlanta district is in its third year of rolling out the dashboards to members of the school community.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

In a side room, about a dozen elementary and middle school students were learning computer-aided design (CAD) for 3D printers. Courtney Bedzyk, a middle-school science teacher in Hudson, Ohio. Their instructors shut the door, but couldn’t completely keep out the creative chaos. Nor did they want to.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Emily Duggan demonstrates a dance move at the Amherst, NH, studio where she spends about 12 hours a week. She puts in about 12 hours a week at the studio, including classes and rehearsals with the dance team for weekend competitions. VLACS’s courses are accepted for credit by every high school and many middle schools in New Hampshire.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

The term describes game-like measures of knowledge and abilities, but also the tracking of skill development in playful learning activities, which was piloted over the past year by middle school teachers at Corte Madera and at Community Public Charter School in Charlottesville, Va., These aren’t just for the maker space.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It focuses on lesson planning, instruction, assessment and academic language – all in support of student learning. The most common performance assessment used to review, assess and support teacher candidates is edTPA. Related: New Orleans’ uphill battle for more black and homegrown teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

That training time is also when teachers work on their “albums,” or lesson plans. You can’t really call yourself a Montessori school unless you have trained teachers,” said Rebecca Pelton, president of MACTE. An oasis for Montessori purists, the school is located on 10 acres of land.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

And when kids should stop going to elementary school and start attending a middle school across town. This summer, Northern Cass teachers and administrators have continued rewriting lesson plans and assessments, including those for “habits of work.” All of us have a pit in our stomach right now,” said Steiner. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2017

A Kentucky superintendent, Roger Cook, said he wasn’t thinking about personalized learning when he started to let students have more control over their studies 12 years ago; he was just trying to keep them from dropping out of his Taylor County School District. Related: Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

The hope is that by providing students access to resources they did not previously have, including after school programs and individualized lesson plans for students in need of remediation, the district can help every student reach his or her full potential.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Long a staple of industry, fab labs have recently been popping up in affluent high schools and middle schools. It offers a mix of programming for the general public and for school classes from pre-K to third grade, which means that the staff is familiar with skepticism about technology in early childhood education.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Julia Torres (photo credit: Michael Teak Photography) Amazon | Bookshop Julie Stivers is a high school librarian in North Carolina who was named the 2023 School Librarian of the Year. SLJ (School Library Journal) recommends it for grades 7 and up. I totally agree with that.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

Flush with federal coronavirus aid dollars, about two-thirds of South Carolina school districts are using some of the funds to expand summer school this year, the state’s Department of Education estimates. billion in federal K-12 aid. South Carolina has received a total of about $3.3 Credit: Andre Joyles/New York Edge.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2017

Founded in 2009 by the retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, iCivics also offers readings and standards-aligned lesson plans about the Constitution, the three branches of government, media and influence, and many other topics. Most K-12 students can’t vote, but talking politics in class is more than academic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Greg Cruey, a teacher at Southside K-8 school, greeting students in the morning. Middle school teacher Greg Cruey can explain the most harrowing details of his students’ lives with matter-of-fact precision. That middle school student who seemed on edge during class? Photo: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost. WAR, W.Va.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The primary and secondary sources are perfect for middle school readers at multiple levels. It introduces middle school students that there are forms of resistance that aren’t immediately obvious. It is a powerful lesson that gets to the humanity of the enslaved and helps students really engage with the subject.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Andrés Colubri, assistant professor of bioinformatics and integrative biology at UMass Medical School, who led the creation of the Operation Outbreak app. Brown crafted civics lessons about outbreak response for his eighth graders at Sarasota Military Academy Prep, a charter middle school. Starting at 8 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

In fact, a SIECUS review found that only 31 states require sex education at any grade level (mostly in middle and high school). Rights, Respect, Responsibility was developed by Advocates for Youth and includes free lesson plans for all of the elementary grades. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

Public colleges couldn’t admit students without immigration documents and, even though, under federal law, K-12 schools are required to serve students regardless of citizenship status, the Alabama legislation also called for school districts to collect information on their students’ citizenship status.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Within the first hour of those 12-hour days, his shirt would be drenched, sticking to his skin as he stooped and shuffled through the narrow pathways between the plants. Mayko, now 19, has spent most of his summers since middle school working with his father in the fields and greenhouses of this rural county in central North Carolina.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

But critics say the bill’s language is so vague that it will lead many schools and teachers to over-correct, avoiding anything that might anger a parent. Anita Carson, a middle school science teacher in Lake Alfred, Florida, said she’ll keep talking to the LGBTQ students who come to her for support, even if it costs her a job.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

middle school work on a Reconstruction lesson. The National Endowment for the Humanities is sponsoring “American Reconstruction: The Untold Story,” a summer institute for teachers in grades K-12 in July 2018, at the University of South Carolina Beaufort. Senate, Blanche K. Students at a Washington, D.C.

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