eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

A meta-analysis of studies, including data from 145,000 students in 33 nations, tell two notable truths: By age six, kids already see girls as worse than boys at computing and engineering Kids see girls as far superior in reading and writing by age eight, a belief that strengthens over time.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Moderated by Victor Rivero, Editor-in-Chief of EdTech Digest, and Sean Salai, a cultural reporter at The Washington Times, the roundtable also featured Brainly’s Bill Salak; history teacher Cody Ashley from Cristovall Middle School and High School in Cristovall, Texas; science teacher Heather Haas from John Glenn High School in Walkerton, Ind.;

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Let Data Inform (Not Drive) Many educators urge their fellow professionals to move away from the concept of “data-driven,” and instead towards a culture of “data-informed.” But Firman expresses a firm belief that the scores from these types of testing are far from the only types of data schools and/or teachers should be collecting.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Which is why a child who plays sports at school, or a kid that's in a debate team with a caring educator, will do better in their academics than someone who is isolated from that.” Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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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

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The second year, it launched a violin program with instruments that were rescued from a dumpster at a nearby middle school. It’s the belief that learning how to play music together is a powerful force for bringing together children across different backgrounds. And they came through. And it’s not just creativity that’s lost.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. In 1998, critical research that examined data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) revealed teaching methods varied significantly across cultures , resulting in a “ teaching gap.”

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years. Here’s some good news.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

Seeing a Difference in Myself and Others When I got to middle school, I was bused to a school outside my neighborhood because they had a GATE program. It took an hour-long bus ride to and from school every day. It was then that I started to build an understanding of the inequities that existed in school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

1, 2021 – Decatur Public Schools in Decatur, Ill., Starting with the 2021-22 academic year, the 7 Mindsets curriculum will be used throughout the district’s 11 elementary schools, middle school, and two high schools. The district made its decision after a two-year pilot of three programs. About 7 Mindsets.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

For instance, last spring, I was in a middle school classroom engaging in one of our prompts that asked students to analyze how enslaved people resisted their enslavement. Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The online program offers a solution to families seeking alternative ways to have students educated, while maintaining the core belief that traditional schooling is valuable and not easily replaced. His dedication to excellence and steady support have created a culture of achievement and growth at Clover High School.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

She harnesses the power of many platforms, devices, and peripherals to offer her students personalized instruction, inclusivity, data-driven feedback, cross-cultural exchanges, and the support of other educators at their school. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We have spent time focused on creating a culturally proficient school system , which is a framework that we use to make sure that we are putting students first, and we’re thinking and talking about our values, beliefs, and assumptions. . Our goal was to completely flip that around.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

Starting in fifth grade, students take a technology class to prepare them for the middle school STREAM curriculum. Mark Osborn, School Principal Faith in Every Moment From the moment students walk through the doors of St. That belief creates a school culture built on respect, kindness, and forgiveness.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. It can begin with three immediate actions : Cultivate a belief among all adults that ALL students can succeed. However, working towards equity and access is of paramount importance.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

And yet, the program has graduated about 300 African American men from college education departments in South Carolina, more than doubling the number of Black men teaching in elementary and middle schools in the state. By mandating school desegregation, Brown v. An additional 12 percent were school administrators.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

This goal-setting feature is part of the Summit Learning Platform, an online tool used in a personalized learning program created by Summit Public Schools. Core to the charter network’s vision is a belief that students can be empowered to make choices that direct their learning, with guidance from teachers and access to real-time data.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But these hierarchies affect students belief systems and also tend to lower teachers expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. The Board of Supervisors voted to bring back middle-school algebra, and a city ballot measure to reinstate eighth-grade algebra passed with about 82 percent of the vote.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Rather, it’s a problem of culture and consistency. “A Girls Who Code in 2012, has strong beliefs about how the political landscape will and should affect computer science education, as well as the biggest hurdles facing those hoping to adequately educate girls on coding. A big one is culture. I think schools play a great role.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

And to understand why we’re doing work in education, you have to understand the culture of IDEO. But in a way, our role ends up being rooted in that endless belief that a better future is possible. we collaborated with an organization, Innova, in Peru to design a whole school system that would be of international caliber.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

As these Harvard training sessions took place, the California State Board of Education finally approved a new framework that sets out to make math more culturally responsive and inquiry-based. The solution? It’s an attempt to respond to some of the pressures Weissman identified by kindling students’ math interest.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing Is Values-Aligned As Black womxn educators, coming together to define our values allows us to name for ourselves who we are and who we want to be in our classrooms, schools and districts. Researchers have connected the knowledge and values of Black feminism with culturally congruent mental health resources for Black women.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2018

In districts like Boston Public Schools, officials have set up new teams devoted to rethink everything from professional development and instructional design to class schedules and school culture. We’re also the oldest school district in the system. Then, in eighth grade, they would launch startups within school.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

traditional classroom ‘projects’ (how is PBL different from what we normally do in our classes?) – Interrogating our instruction: Are these elementary and middle school projects any good? Challenging our thinking and beliefs is a wonderful experience. How could we make them better? Scott was a model for how to teach.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better. K-12 schools house many kinds of valuable student data that appeal to bad actors–everything from personally identifiable information like social security numbers to medical histories.

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EAB

MAY 8, 2023

That school connects to their future aspirations: 63% of teens wish their high school provided more information about the variety of postsecondary opportunities available.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The school put on a festival to fundraise for medical bills resulting from his diagnosis with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. struggles with math instruction, there’s interest in cultural perceptions about who possesses strong math abilities. But within a short span, Holifield would be dead.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

And you’re the only student representing that culture at your school. Because that’s something that I hear a lot from people in predominantly white spaces is that the kids are not choosing to read books that feature characters from cultures outside their own.” She has her beliefs about the LGBTQ community.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Pop culture is full of examples that students will find engaging: point out protagonists in “Star Wars,” “Lord of the Rings” or “Harry Potter.” This belief makes it difficult to instill the idea that SEL concepts can be taught. His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Stay foolish.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

There’s also something else he brings up—his beliefs, specifically his concerns that educators across the U.S. What happens is that our students begin to accept the idea that the realities of their community are somehow static or concrete, or innate to who they are culturally or genetically or racially. What do you think about that?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

These behaviors and beliefs are learned, and they can be unlearned, too. But as I’ve learned in my experience as an African-American school counselor, if we instead build and foster cross-cultural connections with students, they can learn, grow and develop a deeper understanding of themselves and each other.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2025

Governors and state legislatures allocate funds, which are often distributed to schools based on enrollment, need, or specific programs (Lunenberg et al., Local school boards also play a critical role, managing day-to-day operations and responding to community needs.

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