Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. We recently added a third school counselor to our middle school, increasing student access to a school-based mental health professional.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Culture embodies our deepest collective social norms and beliefs, and provides the reference points for future learning.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile. We’re not just talking about the [ Pennsylvania System of School Assessments ], but our formative data and what we see in classrooms. So now we’re talking about student ownership and student agency.

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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. However, for many students, this approach leads to a sense of disengagement and a belief that they are not "math people," a negative self-perception connected with math anxiety.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In education, this is particularly harmful to students because it affects pacing guides, textbooks and how states measure who achieves—and who fails. Our current industrial model is rooted on the belief that there is an average student,” Rose said. “In It’s that very mindset, that continued belief in the myth of average.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

It’s the belief that the process of creating is what teachers should be assessing, rather than the final product. One of my main areas of focus is middle school robotics; I love these classes with all my heart. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The incredible research by Carol Dweck and her colleagues on the power of mindset in learning has become pervasive in education. The concept of growth mindset shows that contrary to popular belief, people aren’t born smart. She was previously Redesign Administrator at Burnett Middle School in San Jose, Calif.

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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. The Bay Area Music Project is inspired by a unique philosophy of music education, called “El Sistema,” which traces its roots to the 1970’s in Venezuela. And they came through.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education. 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.

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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. An additional 12 percent were school administrators. Academically, they helped me out.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc.

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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

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

APRIL 30, 2019

Marcus told me that he’d been viciously bullied during elementary school, peaking in middle school. We talked about how he could have the same impact as a social worker, psychologist or middle school teacher through his work as a vlogger. I’m glad I asked because his answer floored me.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

Technology can free valuable instructional time, allowing teachers to focus on helping students develop intuitions about which procedures are more appropriate, which are most productive and what results should be expected. It can begin with three immediate actions : Cultivate a belief among all adults that ALL students can succeed.

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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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Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2018

Arcadia will be using the platform at the Rancho Learning Center and certain classrooms in their First Avenue Middle School. Menlo Park, who has a one-year contract with the company, will be piloting the software with their sixth graders at Hillview Middle School.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It was 2006, and Miller—then an investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times—had just spoken to 175 sixth graders at his daughter’s middle school about his job as a journalist and why it mattered. Knight has obviously been familiar with us over our lifetime,” Miller tells EdSurge.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2016

Through this collaboration, all K-12 classrooms districtwide will have access to engaging digital content through Discovery Education Streaming Plus, an award-winning, comprehensive digital service supplementing instruction across all K-12 curricular areas.

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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

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The researcher would not disclose which middle school she worked with to conduct the research. The team at KSU has submitted their paper to the Research in Middle Level Education Online journal and is currently waiting on a response. Instead she purchased headsets off the shelf.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The traditional sequence for math in middle school and high school is algebra I, geometry, algebra II/trigonometry and then pre-calculus, with advanced students making it to calculus. Increasingly, calculus is seen as a necessary bolster for competitive college applications.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Even before it began, my school knew this year would be different. This marks my 12th year of teaching and my third at YES Prep Northbrook Middle School in Houston, a public charter school in a predominately Hispanic community.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

When asked to identify your values, you may begin to list a core set of values or beliefs you hold. As Black womxn educators, it is important for us to identify our core values. When we live in our core values as Black womxn educators, it becomes more than just an individual investment.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI.

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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. Some of the most used edtech products that have bold claims about their effectiveness only base their research on a very small fraction of students and on schools where implementation was exactly right. . Schenker, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

But in a way, our role ends up being rooted in that endless belief that a better future is possible. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

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. Girls are outperforming boys in math and science from middle school on up. Reshma Saujani.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It’s a well-worn idiom, which shapes the belief systems of too many schools and districts across the country. But as a guiding philosophy it can be paralyzing, particularly for a school district that’s doing well. It was eye-opening to see our classrooms in comparison to the schools we visited outside of our district.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

In an effort to increase the number and diversity of high school students taking AP CS classes, this fall the College Board will launch a new AP course that teaches a broader range of computing skills, especially skills that involve art, design, and other non-CS practices.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Ever since middle school, I knew that it would be up to me to find a way to pay for college. Despite all my hard work in high school, I felt like I had failed. It turned out that my belief in the power of scholarships and aid was misplaced. Emily Erickson We didn’t think this would be difficult for me to do.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

MAPLE facilitates networking events, focus groups, workshops and “learning tours” where educators visit each other’s schools. More than 500 educators have engaged in MAPLE-affiliated events since its launch, according to Eileen Rudden, co-founder of LearnLaunch.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 10, 2018

I’m an inner city, level 4 middle school teacher that provides free daily breakfasts and lunches to a diverse student population. When I look into these students faces, I see confidence and belief. I know they’ll have a great time attending high school and college. Here’s her story: Beyond Expectations.

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