Mr and Mrs Social Studies

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

President’s Day Activities President’s Day is coming up soon, but how should you celebrate it with your middle school students? The post President’s Day Activities for Middle School appeared first on Mr and Mrs Social Studies. Constitution here.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2021

How will I use what was learned today outside of school, and how does it connect to the real world? A few weeks ago, I received an email from Dr. Nathan Hall, the Corinth Middle School principal in Mississippi. As I conducted my monthly coaching visit at Corinth Middle School, here is what I saw in Ms.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Unfortunately, having a dedicated remote teacher for the upper-grade levels isn't an option in smaller school districts. After listening to some teacher concerns at the middle school, I began to map out a framework that could help teachers manage their time better while in school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Before the pandemic, middle school students’ test scores in math tended to decline as they moved through each grade. Middle school math teachers need something more tailored to them. In the best of circumstances, middle school math is uniquely difficult. Middle school math is uniquely difficult.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The exercise is part of a new program that encourages learning middle school math through real world problem-solving, now in use in 190 school districts across 36 states. The concept caught my attention during a demonstration at HolonIQ’s ‘Back to School ’ summit in New York City earlier this month.

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NCHE

DECEMBER 20, 2024

For Jen Jacobs, middle school teacher and a member of our EPiC grant, the calling of teaching came later in life. Jen Jacobs on Multidimensionality, Memorability, and Making History Come Alive A member of our EPiC grant in Michigan, Jen Jacobs, shared her journey into teaching and the impact that journey has left on her since.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school. The post OPINION: As a Black middle-school student, I was tracked into lower-level math classes that kept me back appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

BUGS, one of hundreds of “themed” middle schools spread across New York City and the nation, fully embodies the “Green” school concept. Sometimes there will be a name on a school that has nothing to do with what’s happening in the building. You make them the essence of the school.” It’s more like branding.”

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The post Question of the Day Ideas for Middle School Students appeared first on Mr and Mrs Social Studies. If so, you’ll love our free guide: “5 Creative Projects to Ignite Student Engagement in Your Social Studies Class.” These activities have both printable and digital options and can work for any social studies subject!

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 9, 2021

Recently I received a text message from Nathan Hall, the principal of Corinth Middle School, where I have been coaching for the past two years. It has been incredible watching Betty, and her colleagues at Corinth Middle School grow over the past couple of years. Case in point.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

percent of school districts around the country, most of them in Minnesota, report having policies mandating algebra in eighth grade. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math? At Braham Area Schools and in other Minnesota districts, an algebra-to-calculus pipeline hasnt materialized.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 23, 2021

We all first learned of idioms probably during the middle school years in English class. There are so many out there, such as “it’s raining cats and dogs,” “you hit the nail on the head,” and “there are bigger fish to fry.”

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 8, 2021

Recently I was working with the leadership team at Moanalua Middle School (MMS) in Hawaii. One of the coaching topics that came up was how to improve the Response to Intervention (RTI) process as a means to support learners.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 26, 2022

In Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms , the stories of Mrs. Williams (kindergarten), Mr. South (middle school science), and Dr. Hynoski (high school science) were shared. While each in its own right had an incredible impact on me as a learner and person, it wasn’t until recently that I reconnected with Mr.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

To help build the program, junior academies were created at the middle school to spark interest and function as a feeder pipeline. Below are some pictures of makerspaces at New Milford High School and Mt. Olive Middle School in New Jersey. Students graduated with a mini-major specific to their interests.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

I love how middle school teachers responsible for remote learners have created a virtual station rotation model in Canvas. It allows students to progress towards standards based on their mastery levels, interests, and goals.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

In Mount Olive, school officials were initially doubtful the district could support virtual learning. The district distributed 1,300 Chromebooks to its middle school students and decided to pay $4,600 to provide wireless access for any student who didn’t have it at home. “We Then they hatched a last-minute plan.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In a middle school classroom, a teacher used a picture prompt, which you can see below. In an elementary classroom as class started the kids responded to the following prompt during an ELA block – “If you could be any animal, what would you be and why?” Anticipatory sets should not be a time sap when it comes to planning.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of the first things I noticed was that all the students had to abide by a strict uniform policy, including shoes, belts and school colors, and middle school-aged children were walking in straight lines through silent hallways.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2020

Typically, I only share the ones created by Wells (TX), Snow Horse (UT), and Corinth Elementary (MS) as well as Corinth Middle School. I was also equally terrified as I had never created a choice board of my own. As I have stated for years, don’t ask others to do what you have not done or are not willing to do yourself.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

Danny Murray is in his 11th year at Uncommon Schools, now serving as director of high school English. Previously, he was a middle school and high school English teacher and department chair. Stephens favorite novel to teach is The Bluest Eye. Contact the opinion editor at opinion@hechingerreport.org.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

For example, our middle school program Career Explorations has embedded real-world, industry-specific soft skill exercises, including applied math, graphics literacy and reading comprehension. Our focus groups with teachers have shown that having a separate soft skills class isn’t the answer.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2025

At Antioch Middle School, where few students spoke Spanish at that time, I felt isolated and unintelligent for the first time. These opportunities lead me to join the student council in middle school. Recognition and awards filled my early years. However, my transition to the U.S. was jarring.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

It is here where I try my best to look at the world through the eyes of my two children who are both in middle school. Then there is my parent lens.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Science and research compel all educators to integrate more movement into the school day. Add more recess not just in elementary, but in middle school as well. Below is a short list of simple ideas to make this a reality. Intentionally incorporate activities into each lesson regardless of the age of your students.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Three educators who spent the day with us reflected on their takeaways and shared how they are applying their learnings in the classroom: Peter Batkin, Academic Coach, Vista Verde Middle School, Greenfield, California I expected Elevating Innovation to be about how to use or consider using technology in schools and was looking forward to it as a new (..)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Related: The buzz around teaching facts to boost reading is bigger than the evidence for it A separate survey of middle school teachers published in 2021 echoes these observational findings that very little reading is taking place in classrooms.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Much later, as a middle school math teacher, Robinson would cram before teaching a lesson; she was still hearing that long-ago teachers voice in her head saying she couldnt grasp the material. Robinson had to sort through her own math trauma.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Rob was a gifted middle school basketball player. This was especially true for his social and emotional needs; in my opinion, all middle school students need constant care in that area. There were over 20 course offerings for the more than 200 middle school students who showed up to choose from.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Thats according to a survey of 700 elementary and middle school teachers by Study.com, an online learning platform, that queried educators in January about student achievement. Forty-six percent of teachers surveyed named lack of family prioritization of academics as the primary reason some students have fallen behind.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

His colleagues across all content areas at the high school have begun to implement an array of innovative strategies such as station rotation, choice boards, self-pacing, digital check-ins with students, and the purposeful use of technology aligned to effective pedagogy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

Teacher librarian Tasha Squires reported that when given a choice between standard books and large print, her students at ONeill Middle School in Downers Grove, Illinois, chose large print by a 2-to-1 margin. She said, Students were more comfortable with large print and would do their homework more often.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

What The Research Says About The Effect Of Socioeconomic Status In High School And College Baker and Johnston (2010) conducted a study of middle school-aged students with the purpose of examining the impact SES has on performance during standardized testing. Their study involved 14,049 students across fifty-one middle schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Middle school students were the most likely to attend school on a tutoring day, translating to 2.1 additional days of school for a student who was scheduled three times a week. High school students were the least likely to be motivated to attend school. But across 100 students, thats 130 more days.

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TeachThought

MARCH 23, 2024

Let’s look at a sample lesson used in middle school science. Differentiation aims to help students learn and grow, and if they are learning rigorous content, we must provide appropriate support so they can succeed. The topic is oceans, and the teacher faced the issue of having a small group of students who couldn’t read the text.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

Nancy Muoz is on her second act this time, in a school and she feels shes finally where she belongs. She found it in the form of an operations coordinator role inside a middle school in Camden, New Jersey. What would you do to try and track down the students and get them to school? Why are you not here?

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