A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 8, 2021

Recently I was working with the leadership team at Moanalua Middle School (MMS) in Hawaii. Below I have taken the traditional RTI pyramid of supports and added how personalized learning strategies could be implemented to ensure better learners are getting what they need.

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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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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

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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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2019

To help build the program, junior academies were created at the middle school to spark interest and function as a feeder pipeline. Specialized Programs Many districts and schools are providing supplements or enhancements to the curriculum to impart more relevance amongst learners. Olive Middle School in New Jersey.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

I love how middle school teachers responsible for remote learners have created a virtual station rotation model in Canvas. Under the current circumstances, I would agree. That is why it is not the time to re-create the wheel and work harder. One pitfall is trying to teach traditionally under the current circumstances.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. Without starting algebra in middle school, it was difficult to progress to high school calculus, an important course for college applications.

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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

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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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

JUNE 11, 2024

For instance, the school’s “fabrication lab” — which once might have been called wood shop — is located adjacent to a high-traffic commons area, and glass walls allow anyone walking by to see what the students are doing. If you go to a lot of other schools these types of classes have been in a remote part of the school.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

On a sunny but brisk November afternoon inside Robert Abbott Middle School, six eighth grade girls quickly filed into a small but colorful classroom and seated themselves in a circle. But one way the program overcomes impediments is by bringing the program to the place students spend most of their time — school.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Pricila Cano Padron, of Dallas, Texas, remembers her “wake-up call” in middle school, when she helped tutor English-learning classmates in math and reading (she is bilingual). Each story — each person — is unique.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

This high failure rate, coupled with labor market needs, has led policymakers to tweak traditional vocational models to make them more flexible. Related: Middle schools are experimenting with themes like math, sustainability and the arts. We have every type of possibility,” Meyer said. But is it all just branding?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. Public school choice allows students like me to personalize education in order to achieve unique goals.

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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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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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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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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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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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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. “It takes years to be a great teacher,” Eckert says. She now teaches a self-contained special ed class.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2023

The integration of AI tools in English language arts (ELA) instruction has emerged as a potentially transformative pedagogical approach that could redefine the traditional landscape of education. EdSurge: At the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, you piloted a multifaceted AI program to support the teaching of argumentative writing.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing affinity spaces for Black women teachers are necessary for us to not only honor our ancestors but also honor ourselves and carry on this important tradition of education and learning. We influence our classrooms, schools, and districts. Our values are the things, the ideals that we hold most important.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

That’s because many high school teachers finish their training without lessons on how to teach reading, since, traditionally, explicit instruction on reading skills ends around third grade. Patty Topliffe (center right) and other English and social studies teachers at Woodstock High School, in Vermont.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2023

We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts. A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything!

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Avoidance has become a crisis in recent years, one that schools aren’t prepared to handle, according to mental health experts. It can knock students off the traditional developmental path and leave them without crucial social and emotional skills, says Anne Marie Albano, a clinical psychologist with experience in school avoidance.

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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 1, 2024

Perizzolo, Jacquez and Hernandez are among the eight math teachers of an increasingly popular data science course offered at most schools in the Oxnard Union High School district, an economically diverse school system northwest of Los Angeles, where 80 percent of students identify as Hispanic.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. UC Santa Cruz sees a lot of underrepresented students disproportionately drip out of that leaky pipeline, Weissman says.

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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. isn’t working.

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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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