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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2021

I had an aptitude and love for science, so when I graduated high school, I enrolled in a nearby university with plans to major in biology. Dierre Taylor, master fellow with STEM Ed Innovators and a former middle school science teacher. Middle school kids have a lot of energy and opinions about how things should go.

Middle School 117

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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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History Tech

JULY 10, 2023

And one consequence of the altered agenda is that my summer reading list, a treasured tradition dating back to the summer following my first year of teaching middle school, is now […] Let’s just say that my May and June did not go as planned and leave it at that.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

I discovered that Google Calendar could replace my traditional paper planner and serve as my digital planner, providing a clear visual outline of my week, month, or even year. Unlimited-use: It serves as an online portfolio of your teaching, which you can refer back to year after year. That was problematic.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. If there is an inquiry- and problem-based learning school that serves grades K-8 that you think I should try and visit, or if you’d like to learn more about what I’m doing and learning, please get in touch!

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 26, 2017

Thank goodness for that, as we would never have survived through the middle school years if we were still forced to wear those belts. For my twin, learning and success, based on traditional metrics, came very easily. There are many lessons that caring educators such as Dr. Hynoski teach us. It was not a choice.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 106

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Every teacher at her school, the Health Sciences High and Middle College, in San Diego, shares in the responsibility of teaching students literacy skills, regardless of the subject they teach. But very few schools currently integrate effective literacy practices into content classes, according to experts on reading.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

In a middle school hallway in Charlottesville, Virginia, a pair of sixth grade girls sat shoulder to shoulder on a lime-green settee, creating comic strips that chronicled a year of pandemic schooling. . Traditional middle schools are very authoritarian, controlling environments.” CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. —

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

She found it in the form of an operations coordinator role inside a middle school in Camden, New Jersey. But the real power of her work, she says, goes well beyond the traditional responsibilities associated with the role. What would you do to try and track down the students and get them to school?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

They attended a selective middle school, and were advanced enough to be taking algebra in eighth instead of ninth grade. For the first eight sessions, half the students had a traditional review class. And the kids who had been correcting their errors received eight sessions of traditional test prep. recalled Metcalfe.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Students at a charter school near Washington, D.C. In middle school, I had a dress code and they always dress coded people,” a Washington, D.C, Dress coded” is what happens when a school administrator or teacher issues someone a dress code violation. They also normalize cisgender and traditional roles and views.

Teaching 85

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

The thing that we’re trying to debunk with this research is to actually show that project-based learning is a rigorous form of teaching and learning. This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California. Kids like it. That’s a good thing.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

Students start with block-based code in early elementary, before transitioning to text-based code in middle school, where they can start to develop their own apps. By high school, students use these skills in courses including entrepreneurship and Advanced Placement computer science.

K-12 107

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

During the transition to online and home-based instruction, teachers and administrators turned to instructional technology coaches for support in the meaningful, effective use of technology to ensure learning continuity and minimize teaching and learning disruptions.

Artifacts 144

Artifacts Middle School Advocacy Lesson Plan 144

Digital Promise

JANUARY 15, 2019

Rather than taking a traditional multiple choice test at the end of their unit on weather, sixth grade students at Gilbert Middle School in South Carolina created their own live weather reports—complete with green screens and fake snow.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2024

Based on its demographic profile and on geography, it would seem safe to assume that Magnolia Middle School in Arkansas is among the scores of schools across the country suffering from a teacher shortage. The school predominantly serves Black and Latino students and those from low-income backgrounds.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2019

I was trained and licensed to be a music teacher in the traditional American way. Almost all of what I just described was traditional. Incredibly traditional. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. I was scared to teach them, and they knew it.

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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. Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. And that's how people learn math.

Education 125

Education Pedagogy Critical Thinking Middle School 125

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

Because they train teachers from within communities with the greatest shortages, these grow your own programs often improve the diversity of the teaching force, helping to balance out what has been a long-standing mismatch between a mostly white teaching force and an increasingly diverse student population. And their teaching?

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. But my school doesn’t work that way.

Middle School 120

Middle School Tradition Critical Thinking High School 120

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Because students missed so much instruction during the pandemic, teachers should get extra time to fill all those instructional holes, from teaching mathematical percents and zoological classifications to discussing literary metaphors and American history. That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools.

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Tutoring Charter School Middle School Advocacy 141

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Despite headlines about teacher shortages and a workforce that must become more diversified, recent federal regulations and a decade of policy has focused on the quality of teaching and teacher preparation to ensure that all teachers are ready to teach and meet high standards of performance from Day One. How do we know this?

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

For the last year, EdSurge has been showcasing students enrolled in teacher preparation programs to understand who is going into teaching today — and why. The series, called “ America’s Future Teachers ,” comes at a time when the teaching profession is in turmoil. Several were turning to teaching as a second career.

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Geography Tutoring Elementary School Teaching 132

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

As schools across the South grapple with vacancies, many turn to those without teaching certificates or formal training to serve students. Texas, meanwhile, allowed about 1 in 5 new teachers to sidestep certification last school year. One example: Alabama’s middle schools. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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K-12 Middle School Elementary School Tradition 121

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

In June 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a think tank based at the University of Washington, posted a survey of summer school plans around the country. districts the organization is tracking were planning to offer summer school for elementary and middle school students in 2020, as of the latest update , on June 9.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Across the country, schools are adopting new approaches to teaching and learning in order to prepare students for life in a technology-rich world. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. You can reach her on Twitter at @aubreyfrancisco. Why is this so challenging?

K-12 120

K-12 Education Civics Middle School 120

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

When a Hammocks Middle School seventh grader was selected as the winner of the Miami-Dade County Public Schools Superintendent’s Holiday Card Award in December, it was hard to believe her artwork, “ Holidays by the Beach ,” was created on an iPad. Big plans ahead for teaching art through technology.

Middle School 122

Middle School Tradition Public School Teaching 122

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. They found a meaningful way to apply all of that skill and knowledge that they have learned and in such a way that it was authentic,” said Luke Fortier, the school librarian and math teacher.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

In the 1980s and 1990s, research confirmed the effectiveness of active learning , leading to its integration into modern teaching methodologies across K-12 and higher education. times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes. times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes. .”

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K-12 Education Critical Thinking Tradition 52

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Richland School District Two will launch summer classes in high school credit CS and coding instruction in summer 2017 to compensate for limited teacher-led instruction during the traditional school year. Forging meaningful partnerships with institutions of higher education.

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K-12 Elementary School Middle School Public School 124

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

is a stickler for notes when he teaches algebra I to ninth graders at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina. School leaders and teachers are puzzling through a tough equation: how to keep students who missed out on a lot of algebra I content moving through grade-level math next year, usually geometry.

Tutoring 135

Tutoring Middle School K-12 Lesson Plan 135

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. The conversation around math instruction suggests that not that much is really known about how to teach K-12 math. isn’t working.

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K-12 Critical Thinking Middle School Pedagogy 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

. “… many Black families are choosing charter schools, where achievement gaps between Black and white students are closing, and longstanding systemic racism is being dismantled by an underlying belief that all children from all backgrounds are deserving and capable of academic success.” What makes them different?

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Charter School Public School Elementary School Advocacy 144

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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Middle School High School Teaching Social Studies 143

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

Although Khan Academy was one of the first online learning organizations to promote the idea that kids could learn at home at their own pace, Khan denied the suggestion that working with traditional schools was a significant change in direction, instead calling it “a natural evolution of our work.”. Published with permission. (The

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