Digital Promise

JUNE 21, 2024

The post Helping Teachers Connect Math and Science in Middle School Classrooms appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The post How Middle School Students Are Leading Digital Citizenship appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Dobbins asked the class, at Piedmont GLOBAL Academy, a majority-Hispanic middle school in southeastern Dallas. “A A growing number of states and school districts now require students to take career exploration classes in middle school. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. Equity is important to us,” he said.

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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

APRIL 15, 2022

Middle school science teacher Kent Heckenlively has spent part of his time teaching, well, not science. Heckenlively works at Gale Ranch Middle School in San Ramon, California. middle-school science teachers have no scientific background. This story also appeared in USA Today. Department of Education.

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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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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2018

In my book Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 , I shared the following middle school writing rubrics with my readers. Unfortunately, the short links I provided in my book have timed out, so I wanted to share these on my blog so any middle school teachers interested in using them have access! 6-8ArgumentativeWritingRubric.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

It’s easy for parents to assume that when their children reach middle school, they no longer need the structure and supports that an after-school program can provide. But middle school students are often overlooked; here in Florida counties can opt out of the child care subsidy after fifth grade. million in 2014.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2022

While West-MEC provides career training programs to high school students, it also supports elementary school district members through innovative career literacy initiatives. Each year, West-MEC allocates a significant amount of money to our two elementary school districts. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Then, from the side of the school, the “big kids” came running, spilling from their modular middle school in headphones and hoodies to line up behind the younger children. The pendulum swings on K-8 versus middle schools. Ashley Park PreK-8 principal Joline Adams shows off the new middle school gym.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2021

We can’t always really be so carefree,” said Isabella, who attended a public middle school in Brooklyn last spring. “We Isabella Juma and her peers are trying to make sense of the events of the last two years while navigating one of the most complex and frustrating times in anyone’s life: middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2020

Leah Hampton, an eighth grader at Falling Creek Middle School in Virginia, likes to joke that without her friends, she’d sleep through school. Like I don’t feel that same like human connection,” said Seamus Lynch, an eighthgrader at Lincoln Middle School in Park Ridge, a suburb of Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2020

This policy change creates a real test for more affluent white parents who say they live in New York City because of the diversity and then send their children to segregated schools. It’s time for NYC white parents to sign up for virtual tours of middle schools that were not otherwise on your list.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 29, 2020

Thank you, Danny Gordon , for sharing how the Dhahran Middle School in Saudi Arabia is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I especially appreciated hearing about your school’s thoughtful and proactive pre-planning and how your educators have enacted iChoose Tuesdays for students. Episode 023 is below.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2020

Thank you, Jose Gonzalez and Darleen Perez , for sharing how Bunche Middle School in Compton, California is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of check-ins with educators all over. Episode 043 is below.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2020

Thank you, Aaron Meyer, for sharing how Washington Middle School in Evansville, Indiana is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of check-ins with educators all over. Episode 040 is below.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

On a frigid Thursday in February, math teacher Marietta Gibb was warming up her sixth graders at DeWitt Middle School with some algebraic expressions. This is the look of the Ithaca City School District’s new effort to limit tracking — or separating students by perceived ability — in middle school math.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

It’s been years since I was a Los Angeles middle school teacher, but I still remember my students as if they were in my classroom yesterday. The post OPINION: Former middle school teacher says older students aren’t getting the reading help they need appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

MARCH 29, 2023

In some ways, middle school is very much the same as it was a decade ago. In my own classroom, I recognize some of the hallmarks of the middle school years — changing voices, students spurting up three inches by the time May rolls around, and the awkwardness of being surrounded by so many developmental stages at once.

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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. Seth Biderman is a middle school principal at Inspired Teaching Demonstration School in Washington, D.C.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 15, 2021

With our partners, Instructional Coaching Group , Heza LLC, and SRI International, our team will design, implement, and evaluate a school-based, one-to-one teacher coaching program to improve the quality of middle school mathematics instruction through meaningful use of technology.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative , Digital Promise Global is proud to announce Lone Star Middle School of Nampa School District in Idaho as the newest HP Spotlight School. Nampa School District’s Commitment to Personalized Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2019

Juliet Basinger, a rising seventh grader at Laing Middle School in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, demonstrates the capabilities of a drone she built in the school’s Fab Lab. At the state level, Maine passed a law two years ago to expand career-and-technical education to middle schools. PLEASANT, S.C.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2023

At this critical stage in students’ development, their future success can be profoundly impacted by how their school approaches career-connected learning and if it is using a coordinated approach that combines academics with awareness, exploration and preparation for postsecondary education and career. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Before I became its leader, my school was one of the only middle schools to make the state’s persistently dangerous list, which meant that in the previous year it had at least 20 reported physical assault offensives, along with incidents of weapons and drugs. That’s how I began creating a school that they could thrive in.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

We’ve gathered five insights about effective Challenge Based Learning (CBL) in middle school science, informed by 18 teachers who participated in the Challenge Based Science Learning Project, a project funded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation. Middle School Science Teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

A collection of surveys of teachers and principals, conducted by the research organization RAND, suggests three problems at the poorest middle schools, which are disproportionately populated with Black and Hispanic students. Do it before middle school,” said Goldhaber. For many students, middle school is too late.”

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. If that doesn’t sum up middle school, I don’t know what does.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Frank Borman Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona was the first school in Cohort 3 to hold its student device rollout. This video captures the excitement of the event and perspectives on how learning will change at Borman Middle: Borman’s rollout was a huge success!

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Psych Learning Curve

JANUARY 31, 2020

Participate in a new survey on PhD mental health (Chronicle of Higher Education) Recently the Council of Graduate Schools announced a multiyear study to learn more about mental health and wellness in doctoral training, and to find workable solutions. Why won’t society let black girls be children?

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

So when Piedmont is looking for great digital science and social studies programs for its middle school, it’s hard for them to know where to look and what’s out there. WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 8, 2016

But what was even more fun was getting to see the compilation video of his students’ genius hour projects at Cascade Middle School. This is a touching, inspiring video and is a great idea for any school that wants to capture and share the enthusiasm that can accompany student-driven learning. Happy viewing!

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Future of History

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Teaching about Judaism, Christianity and Islam needs to be a staple in middle school world history and culture classes. On the anniversary of October 7, Lauren Brown points out misconceptions and offers resource ideas to help counter students' frequent confusion.

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 31, 2023

I have created an engaging and competitive review game for middle school and secondary classrooms that your students will be dying to play! I have used this game in both middle school and high school and it is perfect for both ages. I taught middle school for many years. Enter: Swat the Star!

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2024

We first met Nakia, a student at Chilhowee Middle School in rural Benton, Tennessee, in 2018. We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow, I wish we had those possibilities.’” Every student and teacher at Chilhowee, Austin Middle School (Texas), John A.

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