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. They must also submit a recommendation letter from a math instructor, and be under the age of 18.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Danielle Robinson desperately wants to help math teachers, but its a tough job. So I feel like I have to apologize: Sorry, Im talking to you about math. Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. Math As Humanities?

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Algebra is often considered a gateway class.

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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. When America’s math performance is lagging , it could have big consequences.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

Yet, some math teachers, eager to help a struggling student at the first sight of frustration, deprive the learner of a productive struggle. Teachers with weak math backgrounds are more likely to teach math as a bundle of discrete, disconnected ideas and dwell on less critical features.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2018

I’m not sure if teachers dreaded faculty meetings more than I did, but while standing in an auditorium filled with tired-looking faculty after a long day of teaching, I sometimes had this thought: If I did a dance or paused unsuspectingly, would that gain their attention, even if only for a moment?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. That is a crucial skill that students really need for entering middle school. newsletters.

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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. This happens in other subjects, but math is the most common driver of academic disengagement.

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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. .

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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. Bullying can happen throughout a lifetime but is most common in early adolescence (10-12 years old).

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2017

It’s the first day of school. Students are lined up outside your door, not yet comfortable enough to talk to each other as they wait to be let into math class. But more importantly, every single one of them is listening attentively for their next instructions—right in the middle of math class.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

He described students using phones to arrange after-school fights or parents calling in the middle of math class, asking kids to pick up groceries on the way home. She was glad that her school rolled out Yondr pouches in fall 2021. She paid close attention to cell phone policies as she toured middle schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD).

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

This isn’t really about math. I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. Nate and I collaborate regularly to support students as math learners, and together we’ve developed a kind of system of strategies — some that apply to all students, others only needed for a select few.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2016

There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL. Edmentum , a provider of web-based learning solutions, announces a brand-new K-6 math, reading, and ELA individualized learning program.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

With an increased emphasis on improving test scores in reading, writing, math and science, social studies fell to the wayside. If we want an active, informed and engaged republic, then commitment to those goals must begin in elementary school—if not earlier.” Democracy isn’t a spectator sport.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

With this latest designation, the nation’s most popular math program has earned “All-Green” ratings for the entire enVision Common Core K-12 series. We appreciate EdReports for recognizing the high-quality of our entire enVision K-12 math series,” said Savvas Learning Company CEO Bethlam Forsa. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY.

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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. This student, a recent immigrant from El Salvador, often struggles because of his limited English ability in core subjects like math, reading and science. Class, class! Yes, yes, they responded in unison.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Our building data showed that the number of students proficient in math was not sufficient. We needed to improve that number and send kids to middle school proficient in math. We obviously needed to change our approach to math to identify what each student needed and tailor instruction accordingly. .

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

And particularly for those teaching middle- and high-school students, tens of thousands have turned to one of the quietest but steadiest edtech entrepreneurs, Neeru Khosla. Khosla is the founder and CEO of CK-12 , the 30-person nonprofit that she started in 2007 to deliver free digital books, particularly on math and science topics.

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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.” The app’s use for that purpose is being piloted in 29 districts with a collective 89,000 students.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

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. Like Boddle, Shoelace uses game-based content, but to teach reading comprehension instead of math.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Like gaming, learning math requires grit and persistence—cornerstones of growth mindset—and is grounded in problem solving, flexible thinking, and pattern recognition. The same kind of tenacity is crucial when learning math. At New Mexico’s Farmington Heights Middle School , teachers use game-based learning to personalize instruction.

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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

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. The role of the facilitator is key. But does better engagement improve their grades?

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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

JULY 31, 2018

Those “patient investors,” she says, helped keep company running when its digital math product was still looking for its footing in the education market. Founded in 2006, DreamBox has steadily built out a suite of online math programs for elementary and middle-school students. and Raleigh, N.C.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. Ed Venit, a managing director at EAB, an education and consulting research firm, and his colleagues have found that students entering college now will likely struggle the most in math.

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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). Then, using census statistics provided, they did the math, figured out the actual percentage and saw if they were close. Everything was well prepared.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2020

Miacademy videos on ASU For You address academic needs across all elementary and middle-school ages. A first-grader, for example, might enjoy learning about Forest Animals or Zoo Animals: A fourth-grader may need some math review, such as the Fractions Operations Overview (handy for parents too!).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

How does paying attention to their surroundings at the mall equate to paying attention on websites? This can tie into math class discussions on graphs and data. Middle School By this point, students should have a solid understanding of most digital citizenship topics — cyberbullying, privacy, safety, and security.

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2021

Over the course of three years working together, Ohio teacher Heather Nesler and her co-teacher perfected a smoothly choreographed approach to co-teaching inclusive eighth-grade math classes. Jackson Middle School moved to remote learning, and suddenly the steps to co-teaching weren’t the same. Then the pandemic hit.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

He accelerated two years ahead of his classmates in math and is now doing freshman-level work. Math comes naturally to me,” he said. Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. The school is drawing attention.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Suddenly, lessons on the physics of energy were tied to teaching kids how to be theme park engineers, and language arts and math lessons were anchored in running and marketing a profitable startup. 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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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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