Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. If that doesn’t sum up middle school, I don’t know what does.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Half of the students in those levels were randomly assigned to learn together, and half remained in their traditional tracks so that researchers could compare the difference. It’s possible that half of the remedial students never really needed remediation and they were incorrectly placed because of their middle school math scores.

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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

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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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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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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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

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Like traditional charter schools, cyber charters are publicly funded but independently run schools approved by the state Department of Education. There are 13 cyber charter schools operating in Pennsylvania, as well as a smaller virtual academy run by the Philadelphia school district for the past decade.

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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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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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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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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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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

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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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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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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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. By incorporating video, educators are aiming to enhance traditional teaching rather than replace it.

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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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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. By incorporating video, educators are aiming to enhance traditional teaching rather than replace it.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Why Video Teaching Strategies Are Essential in K-12 Education The traditional lecture-based model, where teachers present information to passive students, does not meet all of the needs of today’s diverse classrooms. By incorporating video, educators are aiming to enhance traditional teaching rather than replace it.

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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 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 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

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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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Three recent reports from our organization, Education Reform Now , highlight transformative strategies that high-poverty schools across three states — Texas, Massachusetts and Colorado — are using to drive stronger student outcomes. No school governance model is predominant.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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