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JULY 6, 2020

So Holstein, along with two colleagues, set up an unusual middle school experiment in the Pittsburgh area. Student psychology appears to be at play. A longer study would be needed to see if the psychological trick persists. What Holstein wants is for the data itself to be useful rather than the psychology of surveillance.

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JANUARY 13, 2020

A study of 2,500 middle school students finds that the acquisition of scientific reasoning skills produces stronger learning gains. A large study on teaching science to middle school students was published afterwards and it adds more nuance to this debate between critical thinking skills and content knowledge.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Psychology professor Daniel Willingham and middle school teacher Paul Bruno, working with the organization Deans for Impact, summarized these concepts in a concise 2015 report, “ The Science of Learning.” The 2014 bestseller “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning,” by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A.

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JANUARY 31, 2020

More sleep and asking for help can help students with stress (KOAA) A recent nationwide survey by conducted the American Psychological Association found as many of 35 percent of high school students reported lying awake at night, unable to sleep because of stress. However, the beginning of each semester means reading those evaluations.

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APRIL 1, 2021

We weren’t surprised,” said Stacey Neuharth-Pritchett, a professor of educational psychology at the University of Georgia, and one of the authors of the study , which encompassed 458 children. The pre-K environment may help support long-term success in math, according to a new study of Georgia’s pre-K program.

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JUNE 11, 2024

All this year, Arensberg walked the halls of the same high school building and ate in the same cafeteria as before, but now most of her classes earned her college credit, and if she stays on track, she’ll get an associate degree at the same time she receives her high school diploma. How is the program going?

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AUGUST 23, 2021

One widely used program called CHAMPS was recently tested in a study involving more than 100 teachers and almost 1,500 middle-school students in a randomized controlled trial — the kind of gold-standard experiment that is common in medicine but not in education. The experiment took place in two St. “As

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MARCH 19, 2024

That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. That can especially be the case for students who are racial minorities. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2015

Now, when weather makes it too dangerous for students to come to school, they attend virtually. Elementary and middle school students log into the district’s learning management system from their home computers to complete designated snow-day lessons. ” Not anymore, though.

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MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. The Hechinger Report is an independent news organization based at Teachers College, Columbia University, but has no relationship with the middle school or the researchers involved in the study. )

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AUGUST 26, 2019

” Rapid guessing happens less in math than in reading, but boys increase their rapid guessing in the middle school years. For teachers and schools, rapid guessing makes it harder to know what students are really learning in school. The field of psychology has developed several theories. Steven Wise/NWEA.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Which is why a child who plays sports at school, or a kid that's in a debate team with a caring educator, will do better in their academics than someone who is isolated from that.” Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

But most schools lack funding or capacity for adequate counseling services for students and staff. “In In many ways, teachers are frontline mental health workers,” said Betty Lai, a psychology professor at Boston College who researches the mental health impacts of natural disasters on children. Arnett, a public school in Westlake.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

I invited Rabbi Elchanan Poupko , a middle school teacher, to write a guest blog and share a strategy for pairing and grouping students for after school work. Growing up, once we left school at the end of the day, it was over.

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JANUARY 9, 2017

“If your goal is self-actualization for the child, and you want them to discover what they’re good at, then personalizing learning sounds like it would be really wonderful,” said Daniel Willingham, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia who studies how cognitive psychology applies to schooling.

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MARCH 11, 2019

. “Grit is probably not where schools should be spending their money and time,” he said, “because it’s not strongly related to academic success and because it’s unlikely to respond well to intervention.” “By definition, grit is passion for something that takes a long time to complete and perseverance.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

But schools are stretched thin for mental health staff, with as many as 100,000 more mental health professionals needed around the country. A school district in Virginia even constructed a middle school building with extra glass in the hopes that more natural light will serve as a palliative.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

Kendall Cotton Bronk, associate professor of psychology, Claremont Graduate University. Research and scholarship on “purpose” has gained momentum in recent years, converging from developmental psychology, moral philosophy, positive psychology and other directions. Unfortunately, research also suggests that purpose is rare.

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APRIL 19, 2020

For a moment, I picture myself in an alternate universe and think, today is the day the chamber choir is performing as part of the Mayor’s address — or the ukulele donation is getting delivered to the elementary school , or the guest artist-in-residence is arriving at the middle school rock band classroom.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Mayer ranks as the most productive educational psychologist in the world by the journal Contemporary Educational Psychology, and he has a highly cited theory of multimedia learning. The study took place with about 100 middle school students taking a brief “virtual field trip” to learn about climate science.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 6, 2021

So now I get it.” – Middle school teacher, New Jersey. Contemporary Educational Psychology , 54, 125-138. … And now I know why because he’s probably at home taking care of two children. Lozada, F. T., & Sims, C. Preservice teachers’ racialized emotion recognition, anger bias, and hostility attributions.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Students participate in a restorative circle, a practice that’s part of a movement away from harsh discipline in schools. Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”)

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2015

Angela Duckworth, an associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching 7th grade math in New York City public schools when she quickly noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students. Individuals with a growth mindset believe intelligence and talent can be developed through hard work and dedication.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Another big disappointment was that the number of disciplinary incidents were no different among middle school students whose teachers had been trained compared with those who hadn’t; improved teacher-student relationships don’t necessarily translate into better student behavior. It’s not bullet proof,” said Gehlbach.

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JULY 5, 2022

Related: After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared. Kathryn Boucher is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Indianapolis.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2018

Career exploration in the form of internships, externships and apprenticeships is getting more attention around the country, but usually it’s a concern of high schools. Some educators see a need to start sooner, so they turn to their middle schools. Cajon Valley Union School District has 17,000 students across 27 schools.

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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. “At and Antonio M.

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MAY 7, 2024

Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. Not in fifth grade, but years later, when I was in middle school and high school, I did meet students who were just learning English as their second language. I’ve wanted to go into the teaching profession ever since then.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

This 2017 photo of a New York City middle school shows growth mindset messages on student-made posters. Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. ” Meanwhile, Schleider is bringing her psychological research back into the schoolhouse.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

Vic Vuchic (Elementary and Middle School Parent): My son is in third grade and my daughter is in sixth grade. For instance, our daughter is teaching herself basic psychology and our son wrote a film study of Patrick Mahomes in Super Bowl LIV. Lego play to inspire fiction writing; word walls with Post-Its).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

Pedro Hidalgo, a senior at the University Park Campus School in Worcester, Massachusetts. He says teachers in middle school helped him “become more confident with my abilities, not even as just a student, but as a person.” That too, has an immediate impact on their motivation to get further educations, he and others said.

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JUNE 11, 2018

These motivational posters in a New York City middle school are a small example of how growth-mindset theory has swept through schools. “Many researchers in psychology use old benchmarks that are for laboratory studies that are carefully controlled,” Dweck said. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

class of the school year, actually their last P.E. class as a middle school student, Esme had pursued Eduardo across campus with a set of classroom scissors, sharp end out. teacher to allow—quickly descended into a breach of each and every tenet of our school’s Core Values.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2017

“He thought if they made a mistake, the mistake would get entrenched, and you’d have to backtrack to erase it,” explains Janet Metcalfe, a professor of psychology at Columbia University, and the author of an impressive scientific review titled “Learning from Errors,” published earlier this year in Annual Review of Psychology.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines competition as “any performance situation structured in such a way that success depends on performing better than others.” In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. That was too hard to bear.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Though grounded in complex positive psychology research, the strength-based approach boils down to a simple rule: Focus on what students do well. Others use strength systems designed by the British Centre of Applied Positive Psychology or by Thrively, a California-based startup. But what is it, exactly?

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