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

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

7 ways AI will make a positive impact on classroom teaching For more news on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub A new survey reveals surprising information about who is more comfortable using AI in school. The insight comes from the 2024 AI in Academia Study by Copyleaks.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2025

Key points: Tech tools can create more engaging and effective learning experiences A critical shift in digital instruction in 2025 How multimedia and interactive tech transform engagement For more news on digital tools, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In 2010, I began my teaching career as a high school English teacher.

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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

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. But now it’s just gone.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 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.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 4, 2025

By high school, students have probably heard What do you want to be when you grow up? Its one of the reasons why high school (and increasingly middle school!) Use these meaningful career exploration activities for high school students to help students discover their interests, skills, and passions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Batavia, Illinois, December 21, 2021 — To support school district science programs in delivering comprehensive content and customizable labs across science subject areas, Flinn Scientific recently launched the PAVO platform.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

These forms of feedback often focus on assignments and homework prior to college, where feedback becomes scarce. In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

A resounding ‘yes’ Gabriel Vogel, 11th grade teacher at Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Va.: “Yes! I am hoping that parents can appreciate and understand, even more now, all that teachers do to be surrogate parents and help them help their child in the school setting. YES THEY HAVE!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Even fans of reforming school grading admit that making a switch can be challenging, and that it can go off the rails if efforts are not made to educate parents and teachers on the how and why of throwing out the A-F system that most Americans experienced as students. Every teacher has had students say, ‘Is this being graded?’

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues.

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Edsurge

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. Students are the problem.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2016

But math also becomes challenging to teach and learn, and many students–especially girls–lose interest in mathematics beginning in middle schools. high school graduates were ready for college-level math. Eight of the top 10 jobs today require mathematics, technology, or science. Just 44 percent of 2013 U.S.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. In the end. And I think today.

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Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Engaging Middle Schoolers in Math Middle school is when students start wondering, When will I ever use this? Make Math Real with Real-world Connections The best way to hook middle schoolers? Its great for in-class use and also works well as a homework assignment. Keeping math relevant and interactive is key.

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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

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

JUNE 2, 2016

It’s the unsavory side that can bring students to Gillach’s office at Elroy Schroeder Middle School in Grand Forks, showing her screenshots of upsetting comments others have posted. Justin Holweger, a school resource officer assigned to Red River High School. Tailored message.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

She also serves as a Crayola Education Consultant and coaches/manages assignments of Crayola freelance writers. With over 30 years of experience in public schools, she has taught elementary through high school, in a variety of subjects.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2018

Finding webtools for high school classes requires a different set of metrics than those that apply to lower and middle school searches. By high school, the pressure to prepare students for their future is immense. Of course they do! Time is too short and the consequences too significant. 3 Periodic Videos.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Available as part of the Brainly mobile web and desktop platform, Test Prep is purpose-built to help students prepare for the tests specific to their classroom learnings or subject curriculum, expanding on teachers’ lessons during the school day.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Historically, the nation’s public schools have struggled to prepare students heading toward careers instead of college after high school, says COAST Principal Randolph Horne. . This year, the district expanded its one-to-one computing program to its middle schools. .

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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. Bosselman has been speaking to other educators to learn from them and help him make plans for his own school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. Some criteria I use to develop assignments include: student agency. When we develop our writing assignments, we must ultimately come back to one main concern: purpose.

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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. Older students, she adds, can handle more autonomy in their learning, yet those age groups present challenges of their own.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

Buckle up and join us on this delightful journey through tech-savvy classrooms – from elementary school to high school – we’ll unlock a treasury of innovative ideas guaranteed to amuse the young minds while also preparing them for their future. Fear not, we’ve got you covered! Let’s dive in!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Or take Barbie Prince, a middle school teacher in Baltimore, who is used to walking around the room as she teaches and looking over students’ shoulders to monitor their progress. During the first week of distance learning, she tried sitting, but her feet swelled up. We rounded up the images—and more details—below.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

I spend my summer at the Jersey shore unwinding on the beach, reading all the books I didn’t have time for during the school year and planning for September. I also spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about how my son will adjust as he enters his first year of high school. Check out this sample.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Pre-COVID-19, our “default setting” schedule had students join us on campus two days a week; middle school students attending Mondays and Wednesdays and high schoolers on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Limited exposure by assigning 1-2 teachers for each learning group. Use of outside spaces wherever possible.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

Just ask Lee Fleming, a principal at Bonsall High School in San Diego. Master schedules are the blueprints by which schools operate. They determine not just where students and teachers are assigned, but also how the school provides extra time, resources and specialized support to learners with different needs.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Using Kami, teachers can create assignments with their LMS, share class-wide, and offer feedback in real time. Kiddom , an all-in-one education platform for high-quality digital curriculum, has expanded its partnership with Kendall Hunt Publishing.

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