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. As I reflect more and more on this, I am always drawn to an image created by MMI independent educational consultancy.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Then there is the practicality of being able to work with both administrators and teachers at the ground level to improve pedagogy and, in turn, student outcomes. 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.

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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

MARCH 2, 2025

Novels are powerful pedagogy because they are hard and time-consuming to teach. 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.

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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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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. 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.

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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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Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2019

When the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative came to Jefferson County Public Schools in Louisville, Kentucky, principals and teachers knew things were going to change as their students experienced the benefits of technology in the classroom. James Unger VILs Coach, Lassiter Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms. It runs counter to newer trends of culturally relevant pedagogy , or culturally responsive teaching , in which critics contend that students identities should be reflected in what they learn.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

I know it’s not flashy, aligned to research, or even directly connected to pedagogy….but Below are some practical suggestions to power up your school. In laymen’s terms, this means having enough power to support all of the connected devices. but it is a necessity if the goal is to support learning.

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Active History Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

After learning about Hexagonal Thinking from the Cult of Pedagogy , I have made some modifications to fit my US History classroom. High School Middle School STARR/EOC review JOIN Thank you for subscribing! Students love it and you will love seeing the connections they make! Join The Active History Teacher Community!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian? I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. I'm an educator. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning.

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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. The post Two Programs with Fresh Solutions to the Teacher Shortage first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

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Digital Promise

MAY 6, 2019

With support and collaborative input from the LEGO Foundation, Project Zero embarked on an exploration of the pedagogy of play in 2015, in partnership with the International School of Billund in Denmark, which has made play a key part of its approach to learning. Project Zero has a dedicated blog to Pedagogy of Play.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. Yet, PBL as a pedagogy has seen varied levels of adoption in math classrooms across the United States, with many math teachers falling back on traditional teachings of formulas and procedures.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

During my first year as principal of a Mississippi middle school, I fought to recruit Black teachers and retain the ones I already had on my campus. Horace Tate is no relic of history; Black principals are still fighting that fight today. Any strategy that does not engage Black principals is short-sighted.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Sarah If you teach middle school, you already know about math anxiety. The post Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. They are more likely to raise their hand and offer up an answer. The fear of getting the problem “wrong” starts early.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2020

Furthermore, pedagogy can be explicitly taught. He started looping by accident as a seventh-grade middle school teacher. Rogers’ school was hard pressed to find a high-level math instructor. Fear of not knowing the coming year’s curriculum and standards intimately enough is a common complaint. Meet Mark Rogers.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!” This science suggests that all teachers can make use of these approaches.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math? Vanessa Vakharia is a math educator and an advocate for incorporating emotional wellness into math pedagogy. Doing so would show all students that math does not belong only to white people.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

“Polk County is one of the counties you don’t think about very much,” said Nakia , a student at Chilhowee Middle School in Benton, Tennessee, a small rural town of fewer than 2,000 people. We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow … I wish we had those possibilities.’”.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive. That really wasn’t the rule that she was being taught.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

During our webinar on productive struggle, middle school math teacher and former National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) board member Kevin Dykema explained his philosophy on the topic: “The thinking goes, if you were good at memorizing, you’d be good at math.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

She’s found that many of the most common language features of middle school texts are unknown to large proportions of students, even by eighth grade. This is relevant for pedagogy, she says, because many of these language challenges are invisible to educators, curriculum designers, and researchers.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. The population of English learners in our schools continues to grow every year; if you’re a teacher reading this, you have probably taught at least a few students whose first language is not English.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The school visit demonstrated how they integrate culturally relevant pedagogy, differentiated instruction, and varied assessments to highlight Black brilliance in mathematics. Bessborough Drive Elementary and Middle School is a dynamic neighborhood school that uses technology predominately to redefine learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. But despite their vastly different student populations, the two schools share similar educational philosophies. Besides the hands-on, STEM-focused projects, the Acera team has helped Pyne Arts leaders develop a School Success Dashboard.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Finnish students’ achievements have been dropping gradually for two decades, and the trend is reflected in national evaluations, said Jenna Hiltunen, a researcher in mathematical pedagogy at the University of Jyvaskyla, who was part of the team that implemented PISA in Finland. “I

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Instead of taking the opportunity to adapt their message, materials and pedagogy in response to a strong body of evidence, synthesized by Hanford for a public audience, they offered an empty and disingenuous call to “reject the newest reading wars.”. Bilingual intervention teacher, District of Columbia Public Schools. Catlin Goodrow.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

This concept really does underpin all of our pedagogy. Carnegie Learning Accolades and Badges: Perfect Score for Middle School Math by Ed Reports : Our Middle School Math Solution received perfect scores in all three gateways (Focus & Coherence, Rigor & Mathematical Practices and Usability) in a 2022 report from EdReports.org.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

The average public middle school teacher would be lucky to face only a quarter of that number of variables. Today’s simulations are not yet sophisticated enough to challenge a teacher candidate to merge content knowledge, appropriate questioning, culturally sensitive pedagogy, and attention to individual students’ needs.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 19, 2023

Listen to the interview with Jamyle Cannon ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and Giant Steps I remember listening to a conversation once between two men I taught middle school with. The post The Youth Boxing Club that is Changing Lives in Chicago first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

What does best practice for integrative STEM pedagogy look like? Is ‘STEM pedagogy’ just layering applied PBL and inquiry lenses onto STEM subject areas? Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Hoover High School. Pleasant Middle School. See Iowa’s 2014 Battelle Report. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Mt.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Our recent analysis of teacher representation in edtech leadership revealed that former educators held a variety of top roles in the companies we sampled, heading teams that handled pedagogy, curriculum, product, marketing and sales.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

Locations of charter middle schools in Boston. Source: “Can Successful Schools Replicate? Scaling Up Boston’s Charter School Sector,” Sarah Cohodes, Elizabeth Setren, and Christopher R. Research sometimes shows that charter schools are better at raising student achievement than traditional public schools.

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