The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

As a parent and a middle school principal, I find myself thinking about the hapless getaway driver in Quentin Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs, whose mental functioning has been interrupted by a bullet in his brain. Making the wrong decision between sending our kids to in-person school or taking them out is not the worst thing we can do.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

Speaking of journeys, today I traveled to New Jersey with my middle school principal, Luis Pena (@principalpena) and high school principal, Glen Zakian. When we arrived to New Milford High School, Laura Fleming (@NMHS_LMS) greeted us.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2021

Wrapped with colorful skins depicting dynamic graphics, charts, and information, the Launch Pad is the creative vision of Ed Hidalgo, chief of innovative and engagement officer for Cajon Valley Union School District, and several project partners. You can experience these missions and go to these stations.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

Below are some practical suggestions to power up your school. During a coaching visit to the Downingtown Area School District, I saw how Lionville Middle School has begun to transition some of their obsolete locker spaces into charging bars (pictures above). Transform blocks of hallway lockers into charging bars.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Unlike other popular math practice sites, such as Khan Academy, IXL or ALEKS, in which a computer controls the content, ASSISTments keeps the control levers with the teachers, who pick the questions they like from a library of 200,000. It had distributed laptops to every middle school student years before the ASSISTments experiment.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Come back for more.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. Fairfax County schools, a district of around 181,000 students, has taken an unusual step in mandating recess for all its middle school students. CHANTILLY, Va. –

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

For Christopher Faidley, a middle school computer science teacher who once taught advanced technology to Bir, it’s a place to send inquisitive parents. “I But all this raises the question: Isn’t that something libraries do? I know directories exist, like, students have access to libraries.

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TCI

JANUARY 6, 2025

TCI, a leader in K-12 educational content and curriculum, is proud to announce that its K-6 and 7-12 Social Studies programs have received favorable reviews in the latest textbook adoption reports released by the Office of Instructional Materials & Library Services within the Mississippi Instructional Materials Review Board.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

In early January, Leonardo Amador, principal of Von Tobel Middle School in Las Vegas, talks about how his staff members use the MAP Accelerator to boost students’ math skills. The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2023

Research has become “increasingly clear” that career exploration should begin no later than middle school, said Maud Abeel, associate director at the nonprofit Jobs for the Future, who oversees the Possible Futures career exploration curriculum. Tejani, 13, is an apprentice for Julia Mejia, one of Boston’s city councilors.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Students start with block-based code in early elementary, before transitioning to text-based code in middle school, where they can start to develop their own apps. By high school, students use these skills in courses including entrepreneurship and Advanced Placement computer science.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. In addition to this partnership, assessors were recruited from national library leaders participating in the Lilead Fellows program.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

At the Williston-Elko Middle School in rural South Carolina, where she has taught for seven years, more than three out of every four students are poor enough to qualify for free or reduced-priced lunch. Before the pandemic, Albalicia Espino often took her 6-year-old daughter Sara to the West Dallas Library. Related: U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, and junior Ulises Santillano Tlaseca troubleshoot a 3D printing job in the library’s maker space. Traci Chun, a teacher-librarian at Skyview High School in Vancouver, Washington, is all done with shushing. Photo: Kelsey Aske.

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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. We’d also check out the historical photos of Texas, Mexico, and Teddy Roosevelt from Southern Methodist University and the World War II advertisements and posters from the Library Company of Philadelphia.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

We need printed worksheets, assignments on paper and books (because the libraries are closed, too), resources that don’t require a device and wi-fi. Her 12-year-old son, Payton, attends Thomasville Middle School and has been getting food deliveries once a week: breakfast, lunch and some snacks. She has $4.01

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning. The caveat was that we could only use the resources in the library. He passed out copies of the image to each member of the class.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

In June 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a think tank based at the University of Washington, posted a survey of summer school plans around the country. districts the organization is tracking were planning to offer summer school for elementary and middle school students in 2020, as of the latest update , on June 9.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. I let kids choose their books.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

” After extensive research, she decided that the path she wanted to pursue for her state was Educators Rising, which gets young people started on a path to teaching as early as middle school. “It takes years to be a great teacher,” Eckert says. Come back for more.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2020

It became immediately evident to Ivey Homer, middle school digital learning coach, that supporting teachers with ways to connect and maintain relationships with their students during the extended closure was the essential learning target for everyone. Shannon Boatwright Middle school teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2022

I first heard about Cajon Valley’s unusual approach while moderating a panel on middle school career exploration with David Miyashiro, the district’s superintendent. Related: What does ‘career readiness’ look like in middle school? “I bought Apple and Etsy, but Apple is veryexpensive,” Gio told me. “I Across the U.S.,

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Digital Promise

MAY 12, 2020

Sorrells asked his middle school math students to demonstrate concepts using everyday objects around their homes; to show transformations, his students used objects from silly putty to sidewalk chalk. Identify technologies to support powerful learning at home in our Online Learning Resource library.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. She is the co-author, along with Valerie Tagoe, of the 2022 book Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens ( Amazon | Bookshop ). It’s a win-win-win-win-win.”

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Funded by a Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources grant, our 3-day long programming has guided hundreds of teachers in exploring how technology has shaped history while simultaneously developing teachers’ ability to design, implement, evaluate, and share primary source based historical inquiry.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

The pair spent time reading at the library and volunteering, and Witchet remembers the sweeping views he took in during visits to Dennison’s high-rise office. Dennison began taking Witchet to the library during their hangouts, where the boy read “Diary of a Wimpy Kid” and wrote book reports for Dennison until he improved over time. “I

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2022

Mental health As students returned to the classroom, a larger share of students needed social-emotional learning and mental health attention, says Shelley Jackson, a seventh grade special education teacher for KIPP All Middle School in the Bronx. Even the students who would normally perform well were struggling.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2022

I have been a reader of dystopian fiction for years, primarily due to my role as librarian to upper elementary and middle school students. In my role as school librarian, for example, it has affected everything from the library checkout schedule to my collaboration with teachers and even my direct interaction with students.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. Even then, many Southern school districts stalled for time, some waiting until the 1971 Supreme Court ruling in Swann v.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2023

Adell is in the unique position of being a former principal at Newburg Middle School in Louisville, Kentucky, which she led through the four-year Verizon Innovative Learning Schools journey. EdSurge: What was the device rollout planning process like for Newburg Middle School? It was a party!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Koehler nodded sympathetically and told him his son was sixth on the waitlist for Hoover Middle School and that three times that many got in last year. Since 2011, families have been able to apply to any of the city’s 72 public elementary schools, submitting a ranked list of choices. Koehler closed her eyes and quickly inhaled.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Josh Walton, principal, Walton Middle School, in sAlbemarle County, Virginia. Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource — a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools — called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS).

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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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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 101

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Sarah If you teach middle school, you already know about math anxiety. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. The fear of getting the problem “wrong” starts early.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The percentage of public school students who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points from 53 percent in 2017 to 49 percent in 2019. These same young teens were also less likely to say they talked about books or went to the library. Positive attitudes about reading fell too.

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