eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2021

the winner of the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge ( #YoungScientist ), the nation’s premier middle school science competition. an eighth-grader at Dodgen Middle School in Cobb County High School Area 1. an eighth-grader at Engineering and Science University Magnet School in New Haven Public School District.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

In my course students will be asked to explore the connection between computation and graffiti, through the engagement of people who use code to reimagine this cultural art form. Dr. Gaskins is director of the STEAM Lab at Boston Arts Academy. . In 2015, the number of students taking the AP CS exam increased by nearly 24 percent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

The Innovation Lab , at New Jersey’s Fair Haven school district , is our 5th and 6th grade STEAM creation. The lab is a blended-learning shared space where students can choose pre-made projects and design challenges from our four pillars—Computer Science, Engineering, Digital Arts, and, now, Entrepreneurship.

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2023

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for a mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

At my district’s high schools, personalized learning is fairly easy to see. Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. We should all be clear about the advantages our students will have when they arrive at Florence High School.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government. Therefore, it is right and fair we have more influence on the actions of government.” We have a larger population. A student on the opposing side retorted: “No way.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 205

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

To allow for deep dives in areas of interest for students, Bullis, a K-12 independent school in Potomac, Maryland, where I work, offers “signature” programs in four areas: entrepreneurship, humanities and global studies, STEM and visual and performing arts.

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Students Art STEM Exams 143

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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Education Schools Attention Language 158

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

In fact, with some supervision, I tasked two middle school students to unbox and set up the printer, and in less than 15 minutes , we were printing our first test object. That’s what my middle school football coach told me. The filament then feeds up a tube and into the direct-drive extruder.

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Middle School Middle School Art Fairness 109

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. As soon as they enter school, they figure out the habits and patterns that will help them get through successfully.

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Critical Thinking Evaluation Fairness Math 148

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Past Teachers-in-Residence include a middle school science teacher, a kindergarten teacher and a performing arts teacher, but for this year’s program, the library specifically wanted to bring on a civics teacher to build out its digital collection of civics-focused curriculum materials.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

So in 1998, he and seven colleagues launched an animated e-learning platform designed to engage elementary and middle school students in math, reading and Spanish curriculum while supporting teachers with assessment tools. We can measure how the teacher is doing in a fair way because we'll know if the children are far behind.

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Testing History Curriculum Fairness 132

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI. They were immediately taken with the museum’s learning model and wanted to incorporate elements of it into their classrooms at Simon Baruch Middle School 104.

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Science Learning Schools Gamification 145

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

By middle school, your students are starting to discover their places in society. Perfect for a social studies class, language arts, or a dedicated sociology course, these sociology questions for 8th grade will intrigue even your most reluctant writers. Do you feel like this is fair? Why do cultures develop stereotypes?

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Questions Grades Social Studies Middle School 52

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Role : Elementary school English/language arts teacher Location : Cooter, Missouri Salary : $40,000 Years teaching : 22 Additional jobs : School custodian, house cleaner, painter and more Stacey Robinson poses in her classroom in Cooter, Missouri. Stacey Robinson. Instead, he wound up taking a job at a brewery. “I Nicole Gray.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

EdSurge will be hosting jobs fairs in the following cities: San Francisco ( April 25 ). Language arts curriculum designer” at IXL Learning. Mary Jo Madda— @MJMadda —is Manager of Audience Development (previously Senior Editor) at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator. Boston ( May 2 ).

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English Curriculum Design Attention Curriculum 100

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Also by the NEA , this site includes Middle School lesson plans on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and anti-slavery, background resources, interactive maps, games, quizzes, video, and audio. Activities for High School. Activities for Grades 6-8. Google explores Presidents. Learn about each President. President for a Day!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. As soon as they enter school, they figure out the habits and patterns that will help them get through successfully.

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Critical Thinking Failure Evaluation Fairness 96

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 26, 2025

Specialized Programs: Online schools often offer a wider variety of courses, including advanced placement (AP), STEM, languages, and arts, compared to some traditional schools. As the benefits of K12 online schooling become more evident, families are taking a proactive approach in exploring this new frontier in education.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So I think it's a fair question that many people have. They have different types of interventions that they're working on, like maybe public health or arts and music or athletic programs or violence prevention. So they'll host like shared fairs or shared opportunities for like fly-in programs or stuff. There's just sort of.

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Coaching Communication Essay High School 91

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

So I would say in that regard, I've met some of these students last year when they were visiting, and some of the students I may have met when they were in middle school because they come to visit us. So some of those are ethnic based, pre professional based, performance arts based, religious groups on down the line.

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Culture History Questions Essay 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Bob Moses was inspired and mentored by Ella Baker, 32 years older, who had mastered the art of community organizing over half a century before she midwifed the birth of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in 1960. She saw organizers as teachers who committed not to build up their own leadership but to develop leadership in others.

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Math Education Laboratory Fairness 184

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Carl Brownlee, middle school teacher Here’s a popular movie plot: Great teacher goes into a troubled neighborhood and turns around a low-performing school. In fact, in a broken district such as Detroit’s, schools in hard-bitten neighborhoods sometimes go from “turnarounds” to closure. They need it. They deserve it.”'

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Teachers Schools Coaching Fairness 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Courses on niche topics may not be counted for school credit, but Nathoo believes it’s doing something much more valuable than that: getting students engaged and excited about learning. It’s Not Going to Last Forever’ That’s what Seth Guttenplan found, anyway.

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Internet Fairness Participation Science 201

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

It is positioned as a tool to create art, animations, stories and games and not as a “coding” language, a branding that makes Scratch much more welcoming and less intimidating. js make it easier to do media projects and create art and animations. Programming languages come and go—and you will adapt. What kind of projects are possible?

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Languages Language Teaching Science 167

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2025

I do think that there are things that teachers stay away from because they are afraid that it will get them into some sort of trouble and one of the things is current events, says Samantha Futrell, a middle school social studies teacher in Richmond, Virginia. We feel so polarized right now.

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History Social Studies Teachers Textbooks 182