Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

This flavor of internet short-form content absurd, easily produced, no plot appears to be having an effect on its viewers that is being felt by schools and youth mental health experts. Educators have talked for years about students shortening attention spans and how kids struggle to follow the most basic of instructions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

I’m just going to whatever class they send me to,” Holmes says, adding: “If you’re not paying attention, nobody tells you.” Based on her research, the factors that are used to determine how to group students differ depending both on the state and the type of school. I wasn’t even thinking about tracking at all, honestly.

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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. During a lesson, it was easy to see students’ reactions—if they were paying attention, confused, or engaged—and I could adjust on the spot as needed. In the time of TikTok, attention spans have waned.

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Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2024

Part of why Lim wants to change how educators and parents talk to each other is because TalkingPoints is turning its attention to how communication can potentially lower chronic absenteeism. But are they quality conversations? Not necessarily.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. Education and government leaders are talking about mental health and well-being more directly. In 2021, U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

This time, we chose something different for the middle grades because middle school students are kind of a different band of learners. We knew we needed high engagement that would capture their attention and foster learning in a different way. Middle schoolers need this kind of structure for familiarity.”

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. All middle schools in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS) have officially begun to incorporate digital citizenship education into the curriculum.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. A big part of the school structure is supporting students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

This number decreases further in schools whose students struggle to meet educational benchmarks, with teachers believing their time is better spent focusing on math, science and reading—in other words, the “testable” subjects. Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

"Digital skills are vital for students today because this is what their jobs will look like in the future," says veteran middle school teacher Kay Vanzant-Bradney of Nelson Academy in Long Beach, California. They paid attention to what teachers need, and we really appreciate it. EdSurge: Why is digital literacy important?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

They were giving him their full attention. Most were wiggling their fingers at him like crazy—at our schools that’s a way to silently send love or support—and connection was palpable. 11-year-old boys in middle school aren't often encouraged to be so vulnerable and are often socially punished for doing so.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. Zoom fatigue is real.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

Mental health As students returned to the classroom, a larger share of students needed social-emotional learning and mental health attention, says Shelley Jackson, a seventh grade special education teacher for KIPP All Middle School in the Bronx. Even the students who would normally perform well were struggling.

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

One such program, CollegeReadyMath , provides supplemental math support for middle school, high school and college students to improve their algebra skills while also providing supplemental support to teachers. While it makes sense that more opportunities should lead to better outcomes, this is not always the case.

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2017

The sample size was large enough—more than 1,000 students in seven states and in schools with differing student bodies, socioeconomic factors, and geographical locations—to answer the hypothesis in a statistically significant manner. Full size image here. But it’s not enough.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Much later, as a middle school math teacher, Robinson would cram before teaching a lesson; she was still hearing that long-ago teachers voice in her head saying she couldnt grasp the material. Robinson had to sort through her own math trauma.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2025

Earlier this month at Truesdell Elementary, in the last five minutes of one of my classes, I called for my students' attention. At Antioch Middle School, where few students spoke Spanish at that time, I felt isolated and unintelligent for the first time. These opportunities lead me to join the student council in middle school.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

million grant from the Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, GlassLab aimed to prove that educational games could be just as fun as their mainstream titles, and serve as reliable formative assessment tools. middle-school market. Launched in 2012 with a three-year, $10.2 It also set out to find a profitable niche in the U.S.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. Sustaining its success for both students and staff requires continued attention and adjustments as the technology needs of our school community change over time.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Jackson Middle School moved to remote learning, and suddenly the steps to co-teaching weren’t the same. That is a remarkable thing about Pear Deck—they understand that some students don’t want attention. then the pandemic hit. In her 19 years as a teacher, Nesler had never experienced anything like this.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Educational technology solutions that are engaging, effective, and easy-to-use for students, teachers, and chief academic officers will continue to play a crucial role in the year ahead. We’re seeing the pendulum swinging back to reintroducing career and technical exploration (CTE) in middle schools.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Sure, centers in elementary school made sense, but I wasn’t quite certain at first whether a middle school biology class could pull it off. To start, I set up five centers: lab, science skills, reading, technology and a makerspace. Amanda Lotz is a life sciences teacher at at Southside Middle School in New Hampshire.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

class of the school year, actually their last P.E. class as a middle school student, Esme had pursued Eduardo across campus with a set of classroom scissors, sharp end out. teacher to allow—quickly descended into a breach of each and every tenet of our school’s Core Values.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I tell my middle school students, you're going to have to sign applications for high school, for college, for financial aid, for scholarships. That really warmed my heart that youre paying attention to everything that I'm bringing. You never know who's paying attention. And that right there was a surprise.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

But in addition to being an important outcome, learner agency may also be an undervalued resource for schools, especially when they have less control over how to structure students’ time and attention. The impacts of COVID-19 are highlighting at least three ways in which schools can benefit from nurturing students’ agency: 1.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has put CK-12 into the spotlight: Users flocked to the site, boosting registrations by 460 percent, says Miral Shah, CK-12’s chief technology and product officer. Online classes for educators offered by CK-12 to explain how to use its resources grew over sixfold.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. Fath found this when she designed a board game called Outbreak for middle schoolers.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2017

He made an effort to find ways for him to contribute without being the center of attention. It is not enough to just pay more attention to them. Please share your ideas. ' Chrissy ( @TheConnectedEdu ) is a veteran teacher with over 24 years experience with students in elementary and middle school.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Kahlfeldt has touched on the census many times in his 15 years as a middle school social studies teacher at Winfield School District 34 (22 years total as an educator). I use my voice to grab the kids' attention. But as the 2020 census approaches, he's digging a little deeper.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

Creativity: Training Focus and Intent Passive consumption with passive inputs preys on our attention and our mood. What’s worse is that much of the technology we use is actually designed to promote interminable idleness. we were going to hold off until middle school. But when he’s gaming, now he can hear their voices.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Just as important, they’re building relationships essential to navigate those influential middle-school and high-school years. Making Music in the Cloud Today’s music technology offers programs that are simpler and easier to use than the clunkier, more expensive programs of the past. There ’s Magic in That Music.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

The Surgeon General released a report a year ago about the mental health crisis, specifically what schools can do to help address it, and the importance of school counselors in that process. Are there any specific states you want to call attention to? I can speak to California. And then some things happened in that state.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In addition, we run pilots with schools in New York City as well as LA, where we provide our course materials for the K-12 system. Students at Meyer Levin Middle School in New York, for example, combine Juneteenth celebrations with our sneaker unit to explore Black history.

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