Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. And that's how people learn math. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. How do you prepare for that?

Problem-Based Learning

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.

Math

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.

Culture

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.

Math

eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Museum educators deliver twenty-three STEM topics, including Sound, Weather & Climate, Physical Changes of Matter, and Force & Motion, to give elementary and middle school students direct experience with how things work in the physical world.

Elementary School

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. Do you hold implicit gender bias?

STEM

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.

Student Engagement

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. 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.

Beliefs

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. Maria employs innovative uses of technology to deliver classroom, school, and district success.

Education

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc.

Education

eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

However, while homework help – especially in math – is a top reason students access Brainly, it’s not the only one. and English teacher Mary Ann Rafferty from Williams Middle Magnet School in Tampa, Fla. of all subject searches and underscoring the need for assistance.

Education

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. For math, Lisa Palmieri, the Head of School at Holy Family Academy (HFA) in Pittsburgh, Penn.,

Multiple Choice Questions

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths.

Math

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. Changing the Equation At Riverside Middle School near Greenville, South Carolina, there is one Black male teacher.

Teachers

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better. In the math classroom, tasks like games or puzzles –where kids naturally engage in mathematical problem-solving without coaxing–are beginning to become essential, rather than just nice to have. That’s not playful.

Schools

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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.

Schools

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.

Beliefs

TNTP Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

NAEP , also known as the Nations Report Card, showed fourth and eighth graders in the United States scoring lower in math in 2024 than they did before the pandemic. But the sobering truth is that national math scores have been on the decline for over a decade. Why does math matter in the long term? higher than non-STEM jobs.

Math

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. I think we live in a society where it's cool to say that you hate math and science when you don't. Reshma Saujani.

Failure

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

This is contrary to popular belief — that being raised with iPads means they understand all about them. I’ll never forget when the Director of Technology at my school decided kids didn’t need keyboarding lessons until middle school. Math is like that. Only math teachers like formulas and scripts.

Teaching

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.

Art

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.

Science

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

Statistics say over the summer, kids lose over two months of math skills, two months of reading skills, and one month of overall learning. Efforts to prevent summer learning loss propel often-unpopular year-round school initiatives and all manner of summer school and summer camps that focus on cerebral topics. Problem Solving.

Blended Learning

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.

Evaluation

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2018

We’re also the oldest school district in the system. We’re a city with a deep belief in tradition, and an economy driven by innovation. They do math at school, but everything else is done out at the reservation. Then, in eighth grade, they would launch startups within school. So, how do we do that together?

Schools

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.

Teachers

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. 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. Steve Holifield’s breathing was labored.

Math

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.

Local Government