eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. It’s fairly standard belief that professional development (PD) must go deeper than the one-and-done workshop; it must be more sustained, more relevant, and offer tangible takeaways.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

Students of all races, genders, religions, languages, abilities, interests, and beliefs should have opportunities to have affirmative literary experiences, where they see themselves reflected in the books they’re reading. These opportunities still do not exist today for many children.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

This lack of belief in Black students potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Advocating for Representation in Education Identity was at the core for many of these fellows, and they sought opportunities to advocate not just for their students identities but also for their surrounding community of parents and alumni.

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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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

This type of commitment is not only rare, but it is also a testament to the mutual alignment of values and core beliefs that makes this partnership longstanding. After serving at the school for seven years, he was hired as the principal of Skoglund Middle School in 2013, where he has focused on equity and access for all students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

This mindset and belief system could not be further from the truth. In many cases, struggling students simply have not had equitable access to math due to language barriers, underperforming schools, socio-economic issues, or other challenges. Excel in math and you can pursue a wealth of STEM and other rewarding careers.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

In “ Closing the Homework Gap: Equity of Access for All Students Outside of School ,” Rhonda Schroeder, EdD, principal, Arthur Elementary School, Oklahoma City, OK; Mike Cory, EdD, principal, Gettys Middle School, SC; Barbara J. She holds firm to the belief that student access to technology is the great equalizer.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2017

When implemented within an elementary-school environment, middle-school students can mentor incoming fifth-grade students and help dispel anxious beliefs and urban myths that typically exist upon entry. Implementation can also exist between differing grade-levels within the same school, or even between schools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

These insights promote a continuous improvement mindset that can help teachers strengthen their team’s collective efficacy, or belief in their joint ability to positively affect students. In the “plus” column, teachers record practices they want to replicate, while in the “delta” column, they list opportunities for growth and enhancement.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

From the beginning of kindergarten to the end of middle school, minority children are less – not more – likely than white students with similar performance and behaviors to be identified as having learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, intellectual disabilities, other health impairments, or behavioral disorders,” Farkas said.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The District operates four early childhood campuses, 16 elementary campuses, three middle school campuses, three high schools, and three alternative campuses. Eileen Belastock,Director of Technology and Information, Nauset Public Schools.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such. That effort was fueled partly by a belief that no student should have to fork out $100 for a physical graphing calculator ever again. “Math isn’t just the regurgitation of formulas.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

Teachers Beliefs and Practices in Technology-based Classrooms: A Developmental View. Rethinking content teaching at the middle level: An interdisciplinary approach. Middle School Journal , 50 (2), 1727. References Levin, T., & Wadmany, R. Journal of Research on Technology in Education , 39 (2), 157181.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2024

If you go to a lot of other schools these types of classes have been in a remote part of the school.” Teachers at the school say that they work to communicate these career pathway programs early and often. And how is that shaping the choices young people are making about what to do after high school?

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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

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

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

OCTOBER 26, 2016

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.” Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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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

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 27, 2016

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. The incredible research by Carol Dweck and her colleagues on the power of mindset in learning has become pervasive in education.

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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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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.

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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. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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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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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.

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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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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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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2022

It is our hope and belief that these scholarships will aid in the process of rebuilding our workforce by assisting these qualified students and educational leaders in achieving their career goals. degree in Instructional Leadership at the University of Montevallo. “It

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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. .

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

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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

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

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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