The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Nicholls State’s department of teacher education, in partnership with Louisiana State University’s school of education and the Louisiana Sea Grant program based at the university, was awarded a two-year National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration grant for the project. Credit: Image provided by Aimee Hollander.

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Controversial Topics Education Lesson Plan K-12 122

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. Understanding Generation Alpha The name “Generation Alpha,” was coined by Mark McCrindle, a generational researcher and corporate consultant in Australia.

Education 141

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ED Surge

MARCH 16, 2023

The typical teacher works a median of 54 hours a week, according to a nationally representative survey from 2022 administered by the EdWeek Research Center. 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.

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Professional Development Lesson Plan Middle School Teaching 145

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Before Chute Middle School undertook a digital transformation , many of its students did not have an internet connection or access to technology at home. Because of this, teachers weren’t able to assign homework that required students to use technology or conduct internet research outside of school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. I think this is a lost school year for most kids.” Read the stories.

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Tutoring Middle School K-12 Lesson Plan 136

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

Soon, I realized that the environment and priorities of corporate research left me isolated, uninspired and unfulfilled. I decided this path wasn’t for me, but I didn’t see other alternatives until a friend recommended joining Minnesota’s Reading Corps and Math Corps, two programs that place tutors in local schools.

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Tutoring Teaching Middle School Lesson Plan 124

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Research evidence certainly backs a phonics approach when first teaching kids how to read words but students need a lot more than word recognition to become good readers. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Examples of interdisciplinary classes available to students in any college include “Introduction to Data Visualization,” “Introduction to R/Python for Data Science” and “R for Biological Research.” State researchers are studying the model and its impact on teaching and learning. Using federal grants, N.C.

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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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Middle School Leadership Lesson Plan Cultures 132

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Co-created by an enterprising educator in Florida and some infectious disease researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Operation Outbreak predates the pandemic, and its developers are keen to expand its use beyond the current crisis. Sabeti’s team returned to the Florida middle school in 2018 to help pilot the app.

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Civics K-12 Middle School Lesson Plan 119

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Schools are already spending big chunks of their approximately $190 billion in pandemic relief money on a range of strategies from after-school programs to cutting class size. Here’s a rundown of the most relevant research. Education researchers have a particular kind of tutoring in mind, what they call “high-dosage” tutoring.

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Tutoring High School Charter School Research 145

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. I found that, in Rhode Island, personalized learning seemed to exist only at schools with a one-to-one student-to-Chromebook ratio.

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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. This revived interest is also backed by research.

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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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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 125

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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Tutoring Middle School Elementary School High School 141

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. 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

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K-12 Lesson Plan Tutoring High School 96

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

A coalition of 14 education organizations, helmed by the nonprofit Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute, released sample guidelines earlier this month that walk teachers and administrators through potential pitfalls to consider before using an AI tool in the classroom or for other tasks. In Michigan, it was a team effort.

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K-12 Lesson Plan Humanities Middle School 105

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

While every school is unique, research has identified several elements that can almost universally increase the chances for successful teacher development and create a powerful and positive school community. Research shows that the following features of effective leadership can improve student achievement (Leithwood et al.,

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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. League of Innovative Schools. We are spotlighting innovative ways to support underserved and undereducated adults. Project Manager.

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Education Civics Pedagogy Lesson Plan 108

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The potential of networked farmers swapping expertise and experimental results – call it crowdsourcing crops – is also at the heart of OpenAg , an initiative of MIT’s Media Lab, led by research scientist Caleb Harper. 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.

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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 92

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

But between the start of the pandemic and December 2020, up to 12% of K-12 public school students gained internet connectivity who lacked it previously, and a similar share of students got access to digital devices, estimates Titilayo Tinubu Ali, senior director of research and policy at the Southern Education Foundation.

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K-12 Tutoring Public School Lesson Plan 145

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?” A 2011 study by University of Massachusetts researchers had also found standardized test-score gains by students in two EL schools in Rochester, New York, compared with peers in other city schools.

Middle School 111

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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

AUGUST 10, 2023

Surveys from the National Education Association and the nonprofit research organization RAND Corporation found teachers, both new and experienced, contemplating quitting in greater numbers than in the past. After working with middle school students, she felt high school would be a better fit. I love math. I love science.

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Teaching Elementary School Middle School Lesson Plan 91

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. Some research shows as many as 85 percent of students with disabilities can master general education content if they receive educational supports. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 99

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

But teachers often come unprepared to do this work, and don’t get the support they need from their schools and districts, in part because special education is chronically underfunded. They may struggle to assess students’ abilities and needs, education researchers say, and turnover for special education teachers tends to be high.

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Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

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. Wood, who has taken a graduate-level course on the science of virology, watched the movie.

Controversial Topics 119

Controversial Topics Middle School Lesson Plan Teaching 119

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

“It’s not the fault of schools. I think it has to do with the amount of resources schools have to provide intervention to children, and reading takes priority over math.” Lynn Fuchs, research professor at Vanderbilt University Covid exacerbated the nation’s problem with math achievement.

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Tutoring Elementary School Advocacy Teaching 140

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. That’s the argument Summit makes.

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Junior High Charter School Elementary School Social Studies 133

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. For an ongoing study of how 3D printing could be better used in schools, staff at the nonprofit Technical Education Research Centers (TERC) test- drove BlocksCAD and several other 3D-design tools. “I

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Middle School Lesson Plan Research Education 74

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. Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research.

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Public School Middle School Lesson Plan Psychology 86

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Unsustainable Practices Lead to Burnout and Turnover Research shows that teacher retention is a core tenant of creating the stability students and communities deserve, particularly for schools that serve students from low-income families. From the beginning, I was told that I would be working close to 60 hours a week.

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Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Lesson Plan 108

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

K-12 111

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

But assessing these skills has been a weak link in these efforts, according to the education researchers at the MIT Playful Journey Lab , which hopes to remedy that with “playful assessment” tools. also known as Community Middle, part of the Albemarle County district. At Corte Madera, that was a challenge.

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Education Project-Based Learning Charter School Tradition 111