eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. Here’s how to get through your first school year. newsletters. I’m New Here.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. Here’s how to get through your first school year Bad advice abounds, ignore it!

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Virtual reality can add nonverbal cues to lessons The lead researcher and her colleagues worked with a middle school science teacher and English as New Language teacher to develop a virtual reality game featuring content taught in the science classes. The study included 97 seventh grade students in an urban middle school in Indiana.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

One reason we chose MidSchoolMath is that the middle grades represent the critical time in a student’s academic career. When the Santa Fe Public School system had to select a new math curriculum last year, they went in search of something that met their pedagogical needs and best served their unique school population.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In eighth grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the tests history. Fourth grade math was the lone bright spot, with average student scores ticking up two points on the 500-point scale. Proficient is considered a high bar, above what most states set as grade level expectations.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. The study focused on students’ academic achievement as measured by their most recent self-reported nine-week report card grades.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions leader for K-12 education, is proud to announce that its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 received the highest rating from EdReports.org. enVision ® Mathematics Common Core © 2021 Grades 6-8. enVision ® A|G|A Common Core © 2018.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Kristina Stratton, principal, Westside Elementary School, Florida. “In In the new year, when we receive our mid-year i-Ready results, I want to celebrate our students’ growth, paying particular attention to those who were below grade level on their fall assessment and have worked hard to make meaningful progress since then.”.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2024

We call this high-impact tutoring, and it’s delivered to small groups of students during the school day. This type of tutoring can especially help in the early grades for literacy and in middle school math. The study examines the impact of different tutoring styles on math achievement among ninth-grade math students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. The deadline to enter is January 8, 2024.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

In grades 3-8, if a student was chronically absent, they scored 18% lower in reading on average, and 25% lower in mathematics. Kiddos don’t know the work, they don’t want to come to school, they feel like they’re behind, so they get further behind,” Coons said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

When we decided that we’d be giving our sixth-grade students control over their own learning this year, our colleagues told us we were crazy. Middle schoolers, they warned us, are unable to work at their own pace because they lack academic fundamentals, intrinsic motivation and basic time management skills.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2020

To assist with every schools’ distance learning program, schools and districts with the free MackinVIA platform can swiftly download more than 300 classic elementary titles, 300 classic middle school titles, and more than 500 classic titles for high school. About Mackin.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2017

As a result, over 500 of our students who were at-risk of dropping out have now earned their high school diploma. To do this, our school board recently approved an administrative bilingual education action plan changing our approach from a “late exit” to an “early exit” bilingual model.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This situation continues even as schools and districts across the U.S. recognize the need for data literacy; that some state frameworks call for attention to data literacy (such as the 2021 California Mathematics Framework ); and teachers across subject areas develop their own data lessons and courses. In most districts in the U.S.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 6, 2024

It’s simple enough for third grade with advanced tools that satisfy a fifth graders growing intellect. Pay attention to layout details. Allow several class periods to complete A Holiday Letter This holiday letter can be as simple (for 2nd graders) or sophisticated (middle school) as your students can handle.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Minnesota’s South Washington County (SoWashCo) Schools today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in K-8 classrooms across the district. SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St. Science Techbooks. Mystery Science.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2019

The innovators participated in five days of training each year as well as in-school coaching from Discovery; in addition, they led professional learning communities (PLCs) and opened their classrooms to help train their colleagues. In year two, five middle schools joined in; in year three, eight innovators at each high school came on board.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2020

When visitors step inside Lone Star Middle School, they notice a palpable enthusiasm for learning. Part of Nampa School District in Nampa, Idaho, the school fosters a remarkable culture of collaboration among educators and a dedication to powerful teaching and learning with technology.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. Oh, do you want to try? I was just a kid.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

That’s been the experience of Bill Bass, a former English teacher who now serves as an innovation coordinator at a school district in St. It’s his job to make sure edtech is successfully integrated into schools there. “If If a teacher brings a tool to [a district], they should pay attention. Louis, Missouri.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

By doing so, the district believes they are helping build young learners’ knowledge of the scientific fundamentals that will drive future success in the subject in middle school, high school, and beyond. Engaging students in learning is the first step to academic success,” said AMSD Associate Superintendent Lauren Laws.

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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 31, 2021

Consequently, for the simulations to be effective learning experiences, I must then teach them the foundational knowledge they should have been taught in younger grades. This can eat up days of instructional time before we’re ready to dive into grade-appropriate topics. This is not just a problem for teachers like me.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

She was teaching fourth grade when a new integrated curriculum focused on careers was introduced district-wide—and it was making her lessons more relevant to the real world. It’s here that Brandt teaches, at the Cajon Valley Union School District, which serves about 16,000 students through eighth grade.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades. Building literacy skills in young readers must continue beyond third grade. First, we need to ensure that we are offering strong, evidence-based code instruction beyond the grades where those skills used to be actively taught.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

This is an urgent and growing national problem, and immediate attention is needed to help these students who likely missed the benefits of an evidence-based curriculum for foundational literacy skills in early elementary school, especially during the COVID crisis. Success will no longer be measured only by grades or course completion.

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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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The Hungry Teacher Blog

MARCH 29, 2025

Every ELA teacher has been here : you spend weeks teaching students how to write an essay, and when you sit down to grade, youre blown away by just how bad the writing is. I experienced all those issues in my classroom as well, which is why I set out to create a writing curriculum for middle school that would help students get results.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

For instance, an often cited study showed that first-grade teachers with math anxiety passed it to their female but not their male students. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Study.com has launched a series of articles and teaching resources designed to address the learning challenges associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). 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

JANUARY 21, 2025

And she gets to work with children from pre-K all the way through eighth grade in any given week a challenging but rewarding charge. Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride. But my principal had already hired a new school librarian. You get to interact with everybody.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 24, 2019

1st Grade. How does paying attention to their surroundings at the mall equate to paying attention on websites? How does paying attention to their surroundings at the mall equate to paying attention on websites? In 3rd grade, students should become grounded in avoiding and/or dealing with cyberbullies.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed. It’s the little things, like crayons, says Christine Slayton, a bilingual first grade teacher at Frank Del Olmo Elementary School in Los Angeles.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

As I watched Jamal present his Life Story in his 6th grade pride circle, I was struck not so much by the. quality of the content or structure of his presentation–on paper, those elements probably would not have received a high grade–but by the impact he was having on the other boys. They were giving him their full attention.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

For those who can, it’s become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning. According to Rocky Bragg, a high school English teacher in the district, this policy has created some havoc. But it also illuminates just how little value schoolwork has, from some students’ perspectives, except to feed a grade.

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