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

DECEMBER 30, 2022

It was a Thursday morning in November, a few minutes into Ruby Voss’ and Amber Benson’s eighth grade math class at Northside Middle School just outside Roanoke, a city of roughly 100,000 in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Nationwide, students who started middle school during the pandemic lost more ground in math than any other group.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

APRIL 12, 2022

Vocabulary Activities Teaching Vocabulary Are you looking for a way to make learning vocabulary more enjoyable for your students? Vocabulary plays an important role in our teaching, but sometimes has a reputation for being a bit boring. The official model has the vocabulary word set in the middle.

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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. Related: A study on teaching critical thinking in science.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

JANUARY 6, 2023

It is also a great time to freshen up your classroom activities and engage your middle school students in new and seasonal ways. Teaching Ideas for Spring Freshen up your teaching from the moment students walk into your classroom with these spring-themed daily agenda slides.

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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? This post will highlight several President’s Day activities and teaching ideas that you can do with your students that are no-prep or low-prep! Constitution here.

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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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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

AUGUST 4, 2022

In this blog post, we will give you 8 different classroom decor themes that are perfect for middle school. If you are looking for other back to school activities and teaching ideas during the first week of school, check out this related blog post ! If so, you are in the right place!

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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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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

The Teaching Tolerance website has a collection of ready-to-use classroom lessons and resources that span a range of social justice topics and issues while prioritizing social-emotional learning. Lessons include: Lesson objectives Essential questions Materials–teaching strategies, handouts, and texts Key vocabulary Procedure.

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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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Active History Teacher

JULY 6, 2020

The first year teaching is hard. As a veteran teacher with 20 years under my belt teaching middle and high school, I often get assigned to become a mentor teacher. Here is my survival guide to the first month of teaching. Teach routines early and often. Really hard. It is the most rewarding career ever.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

To achieve this goal, we must first examine the foundational elements that lead to successful teaching and learning, whether the environment is remote or hybrid. One pitfall is trying to teach traditionally under the current circumstances. Under the current circumstances, I would agree. So, where do you begin?

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

Seeing a Difference in Myself and Others When I got to middle school, I was bused to a school outside my neighborhood because they had a GATE program. It took an hour-long bus ride to and from school every day. It was then that I started to build an understanding of the inequities that existed in school.

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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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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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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Are you looking for even more new teaching ideas to engage your students in your social studies class? The post Question of the Day Ideas for Middle School Students appeared first on Mr and Mrs Social Studies. These activities have both printable and digital options and can work for any social studies subject!

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

My career in teaching began in the fall of 2017, right after I completed the first summer semester of my graduate program. Soon after, I began my first summer professional development at a school in the neighborhood I grew up in. I questioned my place inside the school, wondering what role I was really playing in students' lives.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2025

Nearly a half century ago, a landmark study showed that teachers werent explicitly teaching reading comprehension. Related: Many kids cant read, even in high school. Is the solution teaching reading in every class? Once children learned how to read words, no one taught them how to make sense of the sentences and paragraphs.

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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. The post Teaching about Judaism, Christianity & Islam first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Teachers with math anxiety spend fewer hours teaching it in the classroom, so its important to end that cycle now, Robinson says. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Elementary school teachers can fall short on math instruction, according to Huinker.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

The question to us is less about whether we should teach novels than it is about how to make reading them work for students. Novels are powerful pedagogy because they are hard and time-consuming to teach. This builds relevance and connects to what students already know, which helps them remember the things we teach.

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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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ED Surge

JANUARY 22, 2025

As a visual arts teacher who is dedicated to teaching in schools with a high percentage of multilingual learners, I design a curriculum at the intersection of language development and artistic expression, creating an environment where my multilingual students can thrive. Recognition and awards filled my early years. was jarring.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2024

The model, known as team teaching, isn’t new. But Arizona State University resurrected the approach, in which teachers share large groups of students, as a way to rebrand the teaching profession and make it more appealing to prospective educators. Now, team teaching has expanded nationally, and particularly in the American West.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

The fact for many in education is that we teach the way we were taught and lead the way we were led. Other schools and districts are beginning to follow suit. One, in particular, is the Corinth School District in Mississippi. In some cases, this might still be effective.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Additionally, my views on education regarding teaching, learning, and leadership were beginning to evolve in ways that would eventually help my school experience innovative success while also pushing my professional practice into a whole new dimension. For starters, my primary device to connect on Twitter was a Blackberry.

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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. Mathematical content knowledge for teaching elementary mathematics: A focus on geometry and measurement. Networks: An On-line Journal for Teacher Research, 13 (1).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

We use technology as a tool to teach and learn. One of the central ideas was about keeping the human in the work: Technology skills are critical skills, but we need to keep in mind that technology has its role and place but it should not replace the teacher. Another workshop discussed the productiveness of failure.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

During my eight-year teaching career in Colorado, Ive heard many schools and districts claim they want to develop the whole child. For example, the Colorado Department of Education supports statewide infrastructure and systems to promote a whole-child approach called Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

Of those five, one left teaching during her third year, and another will resign next month, at the end of the school year. The other three are still teaching and plan to continue. years of my career at Weehawken High School, where I taught Algebra I (students in grades seven to nine) and AP Calculus (grades 11-12).

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

SES has an impact on learning and teachers need to be aware of these impacts if they are going to teach all students. Their study involved 14,049 students across fifty-one middle schools. Conclusion Part of teaching high school is preparing students for college. Teaching Sociology, 47(3), 204–218.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” Lewis prompted teaching about allusions to the Christian creation story and the myth of Narcissus, knowledge they could use to analyze future stories and characters.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

It is part of the curriculum in many other countries around the world, and there is a small but growing movement to have philosophy taught in American schools. Another upside is that when you teach philosophy in schools, you have the opportunity to cultivate norms of good conversations and good deliberations. It's a struggle.

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