eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. Here’s how to get through your first school year.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Chronic absenteeism remains a widespread challenge in schools across the country, but in Wisconsin, Racine Unified School District s Julian Thomas Elementary and Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School are demonstrating that innovative, data-driven approaches can make a difference.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. To fix the problem, I planned amazing lessons that would flop because the kids would either stare at me without paying attention or refuse to turn in assignments. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2019

As a former middle school teacher who taught in a lower-income, majority-minority school equipped with lots of “high tech” tools, I often wondered about digital equity. For me, students’ access to tech at school wasn’t the issue. But that was over 10 years ago, and a lot has changed since then.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

After seven years in the classroom teaching middle and high school students, I transitioned into instructional technology, where I currently serve as a digital integration specialist for South Carolinas Anderson School District Five. Teachers can assign the template to their learners.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

In his widely discussed 2024 book “The Anxious Generation,” social psychologist Jonathan Haidt details how the cultural shift from a “play-based childhood” to a “phone-based childhood” corresponds to the spike in adolescent mental illness. The one place where I was free from the pressure to snap and scroll was school.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2020

Los Coyotes Middle School. Norwalk-La Mirada Unified School District, CA. “We She would come into my class about once a month, or as often as I wanted, and would help me recreate assignments so that the students can do them using their iPads. Danielle Carlisle. 6th Grade Social Science Teacher.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

It’s a given that students will experience stress as they move through school. Learning new concepts, completing assignments and taking tests, and navigating social experiences all contribute to normal stress. But today, our students are struggling with much, much more.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The project management software Paymo, which is free for schools, can alleviate each of these challenges. Paymo provides a centralized workspace where teacher teams clarify roles within their group, assign tasks to individuals, and track progress over time. The data teachers receive may be surprising.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

For a literature assignment, I have students design a Canva infographic analyzing a novels themes. For example, in a middle school science class, I rely on the Video Quiz feature to assess understanding of the water cycle. Students watch a short video, answer embedded questions, and discuss their responses in small groups.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

“Synchronous online learning” generally refers to live learning activities that must happen at a set time (often over Zoom or a similar platform), while “asynchronous online learning” refers to almost everything else (completing assignments, doing readings, watching videos, etc.).

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2017

At The Shipley School, we’ve embraced how technology can aid in the learning process for all of our students, particularly in our Middle School (grades 6-8) and Upper School (grades 9-12) classrooms. Long before our students had laptops in hand, we began working with our Middle School and Upper School teachers.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

When parents question things like assignments, or the practice of teaching that they see through their lenses, they may not be aware of the overall state of the class, or the range of abilities, disabilities, interests and considerations that go into the planning and teaching.” A brain experiencing trauma learns nothing. I miss my kids.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Eleven years later, as I walk through the halls in a middle school/high school setting, I see students sitting on a tile floor crowded around a device trying to type, communicate, take videos, and record their voices with background noise and distractions often interrupting their progress. 10 steps to support change.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2018

In his recent edWebinar , Shannon Holden, assistant principal at Republic Middle School in Missouri, described how teachers can use WhatsApp and Edulastic for educational purposes. Start a group with just you in it to type messages and create assignments to send out later, or access those assignments in later years.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

In “ Art-Infused Student Leadership Projects ,” Cheri Sterman, Crayola Education director; Nancy Horvat, Multi-Tier Support Systems specialist, Arts Academy, PA; and Jessica Lura, director of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships, Bullis Charter School, CA discussed how to develop leadership qualities in students through art activities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Take, for example, the distance learning plan created by Chaffey Joint Union High School District in California, which says that schoolwork completed by students through the end of the year can only preserve and improve grades, but not lower them. Many teachers watched their students brush off assignments and disappear from class.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

New York’s Academy of Thought and Industry (ATI) is part of a network of Montessori-inspired middle schools, inheriting fifteen former students of AltSchool and its proprietary learning management system. That’s the level of impact the school intends to continue to facilitate for its Bronx community. Opportunities emerge.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

On a recent walk after spending a day working with middle school teachers on engagement strategies, I was listening to the “We Can Do Hard Things” podcast. Most of the oldest students of this generation are now in middle school. These truths are simply part of how the Generation Alpha’s worldview is being formed.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the time it takes to score and give feedback on student work deterring many writing teachers from assigning lengthier writing tasks, and with the long turnaround time most students wait to receive grades and feedback, there is significant timesaving and learning potential in an AI helping grade student work.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. For others, he says, “We have to bring that into the school, into the family’s life, so they can see that their child can absolutely compete.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Discuss what this looks like. 2nd Grade By 2nd grade, students should understand Internet nuances that occur daily in their lives such as accessing websites safely, participating in online discussions kindly, and protecting their privacy to the level that a 2nd grader can. This can tie into math class discussions on graphs and data.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Middle school teachers often must focus on combating student distraction and loss of focus. And in high school, the chief concern is keeping up attendance. What I would like to see is a 10- to 15-minute mini lecture, then an activity for 30 to 45 minutes” followed by group discussion, she says.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Challenge your advanced writers with writing prompts for middle school that go beyond 7th grade expectations. Try these 7th grade writing prompts for journaling, group discussion, or formal essays: Which is better for connecting with friends: TikTok or Instagram? Do you think students should get a break every hour during school?

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

By assigning units in Khan Academy that we had already covered prior to the closing of our school, I’m incorporating many of the research-based practices discussed here. In fact, the Saxon math curriculum my teachers used when I was in middle school over 25 years ago leveraged interleaving. This approach isn’t new.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

As a Certified Partner of the nonprofit OpenSciEd since August 2021, Kendall Hunt will offer a customized version of OpenSciEd’s high-quality middle school science instructional materials in a dynamic format through Kiddom’s comprehensive digital curriculum platform.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

He has since moved on to a middle school assistant principal position and I am confident he continues to care about kids much in the way he did when he was in the classroom. New Beginnings Soon another school year will begin and a new flock of kids will be sitting in your classrooms, walking the halls, and riding the buses.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

JANUARY 29, 2025

My first year teaching middle school, I dove head first into my drama unit. Then, youll read part of your selected play, and look for opportunities to discuss and bring it back to the terms they just learned. If you need bell ringers, check out my ready-to-go middle school bell ringer resources. #2

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Molly Castner, a middle school ELA teacher who, intrigued by the prospect of providing real-time feedback to students and fostering critical thinking, embraced the integration of AI in her classroom. Students received a score based on various criteria, but that was never the final score for the assignment.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2018

Far too often, PD agendas are set without any input from teachers and do not include time to reflect or discuss real classroom application. Far too often, strategies and tools are discussed once, and then never again. We use our four days differently, with more small-group discussions and teacher-directed time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. A well-structured digital study plan can help alleviate this stress by providing a clear path to manage assignments, study sessions, and personal time. homework, lecture notes, practice tests).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2020

I began my career teaching middle school in a windowless classroom in south Los Angeles where I wore slacks, heels and blouses. I can cut a lot of slack, extend deadlines or excuse assignments. When 9/11 happened, my high school English teacher stopped our normal routine, rolled in a TV set, and turned it on.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. This year at St. The most time consuming or emotionally taxing items can be processed via prompts.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

In Oakland, CA, more than 60 students at James Madison Middle School gather to talk about money. In other schools, digital financial education lessons are built into computer skills and business electives. Budgeting and costs are also a popular topic of discussion between students and their parents.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Beth Freeman logs in to her son’s Edmodo account from time to time to check on his homework assignments. Over the last year, she’s noticed ads peppered throughout the communications app, which is used by most students, parents and teachers at her 13-year-old’s middle school. They’re middle-school kids.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. Davis and his Downey colleagues discuss the district's edtech adoption journey. History course assignment about the Constitution. Again, it’s relationship building.

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Beyond the Worksheet

APRIL 6, 2024

Understanding ratios, rates, and proportions is essential for middle school students, not only for their math curriculum but also for applying these concepts in real-world scenarios. Here are consolidated and cohesive strategies for middle school math teachers to make these topics engaging and relevant to their students.

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