eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

The idea had come from Ed Baker, district math coach at Tennessees Weakley County Schools. Baker set up an iPad on a cabinet in Gallimores classroom at Martin Middle School and hit record. Amid a grim landscape nationwide for middle school math, Tennessee fared better than most states.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

Financial literacy, and the role of K-12 schools in promoting it, is getting lots of attention these days. At the high school level, financial literacy curriculum is often delivered as a separate course within social studies, consumer science, or business.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Introduce edtech tools to enhance learning Integrating edtech tools is an effective way to capture (and keep) students’ attention and enhance learning. They also can ask students to compile a list of neighborhood, community, or state challenges they’d like to solve, have students break into groups, and tackle those challenges.

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eSchool News

JULY 10, 2023

attention spans are declining, averaging just 47 seconds on any screen. Now AI is about to make that even harder by putting the cognitive challenges that used to require sustained attention a click away. ” Engageable helps users take on the attentional resistance of developing new interests in a more mindful and measured way.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2018

Video Description: If you want to get your students’ attention, show them how an issue affects real people. For more tips and strategies, visit this collection of movies for middle school classrooms. Click here to watch the video at Common Sense Education.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2020

As a language arts teacher at a partial STEM Magnet middle school in Southern Georgia, I have the opportunity to teach an amazing group of students; their willingness to expand their educational horizons amazes me every day. Here are five ways you can use technology to capture and hold the attention of language arts students.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

Many middle school and high school teachers feel immense pressure to move quickly through the curriculum. ” When students are at the learning station with me, they have my undivided attention. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Once they enter middle school, STEAM becomes “uncool,” and that unfortunate social classification, coupled with tougher concepts and lower self-confidence in STEAM classes, leads many girls to opt out altogether. .”). Keeping girls engaged in STEAM seems an uphill battle at times.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. If, like me, you work with younger students, you might have even seen one or two get up and start wandering the classroom.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2017

The fact that 70 percent of middle school students in a recent study could not distinguish between fake news and authentic news on the web shows that we, as educators, have to do a better job of teaching media literacy in the digital age.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

In his recent edWebinar , Shannon Holden, assistant principal of Republic Middle School in Missouri, went over essentials for setting the school year up for success by starting out on right foot. Out-of-control behavior ultimately begins when teachers are afraid to rock the boat.

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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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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. What are your non-traditional seating options?

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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? How do you do this with a faculty of 100+?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For example, if you give a middle school student a project to create their own Bluetooth speaker that plays music from a phone, they experience real-world problems. This encourages attention to detail and creative problem-solving. What if they insert the wires incorrectly or realize there’s a missing piece of hardware?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. If, like me, you work with younger students, you might have even seen one or two get up and start wandering the classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2024

Discovery Education is proud to be your collaborative partner as you work to capture students’ attention, inspire exploration, and achieve ambitious learning goals.” Congratulations to all who participated in this inaugural event.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

The coalition highlighted the work happening in Rhode Island, which brought down its chronic absenteeism rate by 5 percentage points during the 2022-23 school year.

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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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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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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

JULY 2, 2024

Meanwhile, a Manhattan mom said her middle school is asking the parent association to cover a price tag of more than $18,000 to purchase pouches for their roughly 550 students in the fall. She was glad that her school rolled out Yondr pouches in fall 2021. Some kids will only ‘pretend’ to lock their phones into the pouch.

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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 9, 2018

These gaps start as early as middle school, when girls and minorities stop engaging with STEM lessons and extra-curricular activities. Some educators seem to have it figured out, and they’re doing their part to fill the STEM pipeline with engaging lessons that grab students’ attention with real-world relevance.

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eSchool News

JULY 3, 2017

Since research indicates that attention spans are waning for learners of all ages, teachers must do more to keep students interested in reading over the summer and prevent the summer slide. Middle school kids love to be read to too, I think we stopped doing that way too soon,” she said. Families can even join too.

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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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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

That is a crucial skill that students really need for entering middle school. Middle school math has been a problem area in the pandemics wake. Students who struggle in middle school often end up locked out of more advanced math in high school that can open doors to higher-paid careers in STEM fields.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Indeed, it was during my years as a new teacher that my students taught me that the best learning happens when explicit attention is given to creating educational contexts that support and promote their social and emotional competence and well-being.”.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

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. This is especially true for sixth graders, they said, who are managing a challenging transition to middle school and lack independence.

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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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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. Those students then work with the same tutor year-round.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

I’ve used flipped classrooms in my Middle School classes. That’s why this article from EdSurge caught my attention: Does ‘Flipped Learning’ Work? After the initial excitment that somthing changed, it fell into a routine with not much better results than any other teaching method. But not worse, either.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2022

Shea Smith starts the middle-school digital media class he teaches with a ritual: He asks his students to open up their Chromebooks and answer a simple question, “How are you feeling today?” There’s been a false dichotomy of, ‘You can pay attention to academics or you can pay attention to social-emotional learning.’

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