The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

—If kids designed high schools, the classrooms would be full of computer screens, books, games and holograms — and there would be no tests. Or at least that was the ideal world imagined by a group of Brooklyn middle schoolers this year.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2015

Rancho Minerva Middle School, Vista, CA. To celebrate the winners, on November 20, 2015, Digital Promise and EdSurge will co-host the Digital Innovation in Learning Awards Gala at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif. And with that, meet the 2015 winners! Educator Winners. Busting Boundaries. Katherine Mussachio.

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Museum Elementary School Middle School Leadership 104

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 We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2016

Seven-year-old Kate Stabenow and her five-year old brother Jack put the finishing touches on the buildings they designed and built at the Bay Area Discovery Museum’s new early-childhood fab lab. The museum staffers were testing a prototype, too. Elizabeth Rood, vice president of education strategy, Bay Area Discovery Museum. “We

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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. High-income children are more likely to travel, go to museums and attend live performances. A small experiment at Marquette University in the 1980s is instructive.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Related: As science denial grows, science museums fight back by teaching scientific literacy As parents have become more involved in their children’s education, they deserve to know how and where STEM is coming to life in their schools — and, more importantly, how to make sure that their children can take advantage of opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

He designed some classes for a local museum while he was a grad student and he has since built out the concept into a 25-lesson curriculum for late elementary grades. Jim McKowen heard Fried present at a conference a few years ago and liked the idea, but he was a math teacher at the time and couldn’t think of a way to bring it to his school.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Army Heritage and Education Center (4 times) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and the Museum of History and Innovation in Seattle, Washington have made these colloquia special.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

Rinehart highlighted promising examples of how some communities are using their pandemic funds for after-school programs. Jackson, Mississippi, is working with a local children’s museum. Rinehart recommends that after-school programs aimed at helping students recoup learning losses offer a mix of academics and fun. “You

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The program will be piloted this fall at selected schools and fully rolled-out in over 1,800 schools by the spring. The curriculum is part of the Hidden Voices Project , initiated by the New York City Department of Education’s Social Studies Department and the Museum of the City of New York.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Sameerah Abdullah sends her three school-aged kids to a cyber charter school for some of the same familiar reasons that other families across the nation do, including the flexibility and personalization. For science class, they head to a museum. I don’t want to be in middle school and have my whole life be on a laptop. …

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2016

“Given our nation’s growing graduation and skills gap among young adults from low-income communities, school in the summer has never been more urgent.”. When we met him a few months ago, it was clear that he had been significantly under-served by his elementary school. Summer is the perfect time for this enrichment.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

Frank Gehry, who turned 94 on Tuesday, designed some of the most famous buildings in the world, including the Walt Disney Concert Hall and The Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Gehry Nelson wishes more schools and districts would do the same, saying, “There are no fancy materials required, no textbooks for students.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Rando noticed when his daughter, Olivia, a middle school student and a black belt in karate, enrolled in VLACS to accommodate training and competition. She was referring to her husband, Fred, who was a poor student and graduated 206th out of 212 in his high school class. They’re proactive about it. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Avonworth School District , Elizabeth Forward School District , and South Fayette Township School District , the three Pittsburgh-area host districts of the fall 2015 League of Innovative Schools meeting , reminded participants that schools do not exist in silos, nor should they operate in them.

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Rosie the History Teacher

JULY 11, 2020

Maybe a certain classroom has a distinct scent – I can still imagine the smell of my middle school art classroom that was a kind of mix of old paper and acrylic paint. Perhaps some of them still think about their trip to the museum and the science of fossils when they smell coffee (I know I do!)

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Under the direction of Dr. Evan Jewell (Rutgers University), the Classical Summer School is a five-week program (June 16 – July 19, 2024) designed to provide qualified graduate students, and middle school, high school, and college/university teachers with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome and its surrounding (..)

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

She tries to build their vocabulary through conversation and by encouraging their parents to take them to the library and museums. He argues that getting all children into school before kindergarten is key to improving education. Bushwick elementary schools have long struggled. They are sponges now.”. Long road to results.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

The course allows gifted middle school students to take classes, such as Advanced Placement Calculus BC, that are so rigorous that only a small percentage of high school seniors take them. Kenne, the school board president, said that her children, now both in their 20s, were gifted math students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2018

The school later concluded that putting Foundling caseworkers inside the school building wasn’t essential, so long as kids were getting mental health support from social workers when they needed it, Baccaglini says. Recently, all but one of the school’s upper floors gave way to classrooms as Haven has added middle-school grades.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

At Hopatcong Middle School in northern New Jersey, Jim McKowen is one of the first public-school teachers to take on this curriculum. After his class, he said, kids doodle molecules in their school notebooks. The harder part is getting the adults on board to allow it to happen,” he said. He teaches it to sixth graders.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Let your middle school student read “Dog Man” books all day long if it hooks the student on reading. For younger students, virtual field trips to zoos, museums and aquariums can spark imaginations and curiosity. Read with expression or take turns and see what happens. Take virtual trips.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

She was outside supervising a group of students during a mask break at her middle school in South Berwick, Maine, when she felt a sense of overwhelming dread. Lesley Allen will never know what triggered her final panic attack last fall. Her anxiety spiked, her heart thumped out of her chest and her left arm went numb.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

The Vaux school building spans an entire block, resplendent with projecting end pavilions, terra cotta adornments and a two-story stone, Tudor-arched entryway. But Vaux also reflected the struggles of the school district and the surrounding community. Her memories of the Anne Frank exhibit stayed with her.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Next she handed out VR headsets and asked her students to grab their cellphones and head to her Google classroom, where posted three different experiences that showcase Afrofuturism: an Afrofuturism art museum, a short VR film and a musical performance. Santana goes deep.”

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The manuscript did not end up in the hands of museums or local officials but rather Catholic monks in the hills of Bohemia. I am the director of an STEAM program for a major nonprofit, where I oversaw the design and implementation of the national curriculum in archaeology and anthropology for elementary and middle school students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

He’s been talking since middle school.”. I applied and won, and that fall, the organization flew me to see the museum and meet the publisher of USA Today. She and her family spent a school year in Texas, then returned to New Orleans in 2006 so Pierre-Floyd could help reopen a creative-arts middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

In elementary and middle school, Knight was one of the smartest people I knew. When he moved to Madison, a middle class, mostly white suburb from neighboring Ridgeland, he excelled on Madison Central High School ‘s juggernaut Academic Decathlon team. .” He looks exactly like his mother.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 15, 2024

and the Phillips County Retired Teachers Association at the Eliza Miller Junior and Senior High School Historic Site, named for educator and philanthropist Eliza Ann Ross Miller. The Teach Truth pop-up with banned books will remain on display in the library/museum. Hosted on June 7 by the West Side Community Hub, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2024

Across the country, state legislatures have passed bills to ban “age-inappropriate” books from schools, in many cases subjecting teachers and school librarians to criminal charges for possession of such books. He said that he was gay, and in middle school had been told by peers that he was “a freak.”

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The plan was to make it a museum that focuses on the history of Black Americans’ struggles both during and after enslavement. The primary and secondary sources are perfect for middle school readers at multiple levels. It introduces middle school students that there are forms of resistance that aren’t immediately obvious.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2018

The math teacher wants to talk, and so does the school counselor; one of his board members rings on the phone. Buses for a field trip to a dinosaur museum have to be sorted. Then a mother needs help enrolling her son in the neighboring district’s alternative high school. It is barely 8:30 a.m.

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Elementary School Professional Development Museum Pedagogy 112

ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

I do think that there are things that teachers stay away from because they are afraid that it will get them into some sort of trouble and one of the things is current events, says Samantha Futrell, a middle school social studies teacher in Richmond, Virginia. We feel so polarized right now.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Participants are reimbursed for supplies year-round and can register their classes for free museum field trips — so long as the exhibits highlight petroleum. On a recent Saturday, a workshop was in session at Choctaw High School , east of Oklahoma City.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Katherine O’Hearne, director of academics at Houston’s YES Prep Northbrook Middle School, and formerly Avilez’s seventh-grade math teacher, has seen firsthand how the responsibilities borne by students like Avilez shape their educational experiences.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

Trump showed up for the opening day of the new civil rights museum; one supporter looks at a list of those who were lynched. But Christie Nold, the middle school teacher, said that just as schools get involved when students need help academically, they must watch for and intercede when students are drawn into political extremism.

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