The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California. It’s an open question whether large numbers of teachers will enjoy teaching detailed lesson plans created by curriculum designers. We know it works.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School, Louisiana. Ali McMillan, an instructional coach and intervention specialist at West Feliciana Middle School in West Feliciana Parish, is one of 20 educators participating in the program.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

In fact, the coach at Andover Middle School in Miami, Florida, created a flexible schedule to allow teachers to book learning consultations, classroom visits, and one-on-one instruction. Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

School leaders and teachers are puzzling through a tough equation: how to keep students who missed out on a lot of algebra I content moving through grade-level math next year, usually geometry. Teaching experts say that will mean slowing down to fill in knowledge gaps —detouring from lesson plans, adding extra periods for tutoring, and more.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

While not everyone who tutors will want to become a teacher, tutoring is a low-stakes way to get meaningful and extensive experience and participate in a school community without making a long-term commitment. I had lesson-planning experience. Additionally, I uncovered a sense of purpose and found joy in a rewarding career.

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

Even if schools have high-quality curricula that can take some lesson-planning off teachers’ shoulders, they can’t use it if they don’t have time or aren’t trained on how to use it. “When I talk to teachers in their first and second years, they're telling stories of sitting in their living room and crying at 2 a.m.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Teachers have begun adapting their lessons to allow for more at-home independent work now that they are assured that each student has equal access. Before Chute Middle School undertook a digital transformation , many of its students did not have an internet connection or access to technology at home.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. My middle school choir teacher recorded and released an acclaimed gospel album. My high school English teacher starred in commercials and made a name for herself as a voice actor. It’s about more than tests and grades.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! Washington University in St.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Early in fall 2020, Hidalgo and her husband scoured the internet for curriculum and lesson plans that they could use at home to teach their kids. All four Early in fall 2020, Hidalgo and her husband scoured the internet for curriculum and lesson plans that they could use at home to teach their kids.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

She said having someone at school who could help was “really, really important.” Jayla goes to Columbia Middle School in Aurora, Colorado, a school that doesn’t just have one counselor on hand, but a full mental health team — plus teachers who have received training in how to respond to mental health issues. “If

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too. It was a huge celebration for all of us.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Meanwhile, the Data Science Academy is collaborating with the state’s Department of Public Instruction, hoping to roll out data science education in schools across the state, according to Levy. ‘Shelton’s team also hosts events like mini hackathons where high schoolers can work with data. But it doesn’t have to be that way.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. Fath found this when she designed a board game called Outbreak for middle schoolers.

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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

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

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Middle school students were asked to read a passage about a half inning of baseball and then reenact the action using wooden figures on a model field. Before digging into the Fordham Institute’s quantitative analysis, I want to explain why cognitive scientists think that background knowledge is so important in reading comprehension.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

TeachStart has also created scheduled times for me to lesson plan and collect my bearings at the beginning and end of each day. If legislators, teacher prep programs and school leaders can commit to breaking down barriers to entry for future teachers, we will all benefit. Utilize skills parents bring to the table.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Amendments While students begin learning amendments in middle school, it is so hard to remember them all! Thankfully, there are resources ready for an amazing AP Government review! Students will gain so much confidence with each review activity! For instance, they may have confidence in one or two but not remember them all.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

Do you remember that first-day-of-school excitement? Everything is placed neatly into your school bag, the classroom is beautifully made up, and all the seats and materials are ready to go for students. The lesson plans are typed up and printed out and the lesson objectives and daily agenda are posted artfully on the board.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Alicia Sewell, a middle school teacher in Alabama, has made a job transition that’s essentially the opposite of the one Bass made. Suddenly, she says, no one seemed to care what she thought about the tech tools the school adopted. If a teacher brings a tool to [a district], they should pay attention.

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EdTech Educational Technology Middle School Lesson Plan 122

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Protecting Student Data School principals want to know how AI can be used in the classroom beyond having students copy and paste from it, Paul Liabenow says, and are of course concerned about students using it to cheat. If you magnify that to 10,000 students in a district, you can imagine how many end user agreements you’d have to read.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

She also learned how to keep students with disabilities on task and break down lessons into smaller, easier bits of information for students who were struggling. Christina Rodriguez teaches a math lesson at Bloomfield Middle School. No one taught her these strategies. She was left to figure it out on the job.

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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

JULY 20, 2023

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. “I I personally would advise school districts not to rush into buying a particular product, but really treat this year as a chance to educate yourself,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

This double-dosing strategy has spread rapidly at community colleges but hasn’t been studied as much in elementary, middle or high schools. One evaluation of double-dosing in algebra found that it worked in Chicago high schools but not in middle school math in Miami. Refinement and further study are warranted.

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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

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

MARCH 17, 2021

And teachers were forced to develop more methodical lesson plans that allow both virtual and in-person students to keep up. Remote options give students better access to school services like tutoring – something that, by nature, was limited and complex in the past because parents had to schedule pickups and drop-offs, he says.

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K-12 Tutoring Public School Lesson Plan 142

Digital Promise

MARCH 25, 2019

Such was the case at Timilty Middle School in Roxbury, Massachusetts, one of 100 Verizon Innovative Learning schools (VILs) around the country. Some seventh graders at Timilty were not engaged in the lessons teachers planned with iPads and were off task, or choosing to surf the internet instead.

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Middle School Lesson Plan Research Education 76

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Arlington is a fast-growing district, and Discovery Elementary opened in 2015 as part of an ongoing school-building program (it shares a campus with a middle school with a trailer park to accommodate its overflowing student population). My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem. Solve it,” said Becker. “We

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

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Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Cultures 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

And on Tuesday, The Learning Accelerator and Yet Analytics announced the Learning Commons , a new, free website that will gather curated professional development resources for those who are working to implement blended or personalized learning in their classrooms.

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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. Indeed, teachers often use iCivics games as a prelude to more topical class conversations.

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