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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school. The post OPINION: As a Black middle-school student, I was tracked into lower-level math classes that kept me back appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Could detracking help?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Algebra teacher Rick Riccio demonstrates scientific notation during a class at Braham Area High School in Minnesota. percent of school districts around the country, most of them in Minnesota, report having policies mandating algebra in eighth grade. Related: Is it time to stop segregating kids by ability in middle school math?

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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 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.

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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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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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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

What The Research Says About The Effect Of Socioeconomic Status In High School And College Baker and Johnston (2010) conducted a study of middle school-aged students with the purpose of examining the impact SES has on performance during standardized testing. Their study involved 14,049 students across fifty-one middle schools.

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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. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school. That was problematic.

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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. The second challenge came in the form of academic achievement.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

The following is a guest post by Juliana Meehan - Teacher of English at Tenafly Middle School and candidate for New Jersey principal’s certification through NJ EXCEL, currently interning with Principal Eric Sheninger at New Milford High School. She is also co-creator of IOCS project. Learning for the people, by the people.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Schools in the bottom quarter of all schools in a given jurisdiction were not ranked, but simply identified as being in the bottom quarter. Is there a better way to rank schools? Related: Do U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Certainly the most striking thing in the results is the increase in inequality, said Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard University and vice chair of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the NAEP test. That’s a big deal. It’s something that we hadn’t paid a lot of attention to traditionally.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2023

My hopes are that we change the lives of kids and we provide access to some of our students who traditionally don’t have it so they can experience some success and maybe move on and achieve whatever their dreams are,” Jasper County High School principal Jim Strength told WGXA News. Moore Middle School.

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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

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.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

This middle school project-based instruction was tested on more than 100 students in high-poverty schools in California. For the final product, each student submitted an individual patent application for their group’s device, explaining how it worked and what they learned. We know it works.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I tell my middle school students, you're going to have to sign applications for high school, for college, for financial aid, for scholarships. I wish that I could make sure there was a school librarian in every single elementary school and high school. I also teach cursive writing, which is a lost art.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

That’s worked well in Chicago high schools but not in Miami middle schools. What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. Lengthening the school day or year isn’t a new idea.

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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.

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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.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

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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. My classes included all varieties of instruments.

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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

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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

The district allows student to attend schools outside of their attendance zones as long as space is available, which means students can opt to continue to follow their chosen career pathway at a middle school with corresponding programs. Next fall, the school district will open a $12.7 Whittenberg.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

For example, South Fayette Township School District implemented computational thinking projects at every grade level, and Piedmont City School District uses competency-based learning so students can work at their own pace. Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. In addition, 10 percent were teaching out of field, which means, for example, they may be certified to teach high school English but assigned to a middle school math class. .

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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.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes. Understanding Active Learning in Modern Education “Active learning is taking ownership of your learning,” explains Kati Hash , a high school social studies teacher. times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes. .”

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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