Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. Personally, I have gained an incredible sense of purpose over the last year and that motivates me a great deal. The borrowed words of Congressman John Lewis often echo in my mind: “If not us, then who?

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Marcus told me that he’d been viciously bullied during elementary school, peaking in middle school. Hearing this context profoundly changed how I viewed Marcus’ motivations and aspirations. Purpose dives deeper than mindsets—it taps into someone’s core motivation for choosing a path.

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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. Prioritizing a Student-Driven Classroom Many times, if I go into a classroom and tell students what to do, they won’t get excited or motivated to do the project. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

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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. . We can then build on that motivation to see success in other classes and situations. .

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Education Schools STEM Beliefs 166

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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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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Knowledge Beliefs Schools Art 137

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

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. Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery.

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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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Science Learning Schools Gamification 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2016

This is an epiphany and a motivator that learning to keyboard is worth the effort. Overall, encouraging students to test their own hypothesis and challenge their beliefs, went well-beyond simply my goal of encouraging the development of typing skills. Middle School. Keyboarding and the Scientific Method.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Of course, in education, you also get to students, and parents, and administrators—and so, we had to learn how to take all of that diverse input in order to understand the core needs and motivations that underlie what people are wishing for. But in a way, our role ends up being rooted in that endless belief that a better future is possible.

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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. –Peter Evans, CEO, Xtract One Technologies This school year we will see a continued focus on nurturing 21st century skills in the classroom. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 329

Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. ” The underlying belief, whether we realized it or not, seemed to be that if these kids wanted to do better, they would.

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EAB

MAY 8, 2023

More risk factors for chronic absenteeism Parents' lower threshold for missing school Increased likelihood of absence due to each growing risk factor 2. 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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Counselling Discussions Motivation Beliefs 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2022

When Texas’ House Bill (HB) 25 went into effect earlier this year, banning transgender students from participating in K-12 sports, I invited teachers at my middle school to stop by my classroom to help with a project to reaffirm our school’s support for trans students. So how can we improve conditions for our students?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Sports Reading Club - resilience, motivation. Technology Reading Club - impulse control, self motivation. Art Reading Club - self motivation. This belief makes it difficult to instill the idea that SEL concepts can be taught. Space Reading Club - teamwork, identifying problems and analyzing solutions. Stay foolish.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 140

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

These behaviors and beliefs are learned, and they can be unlearned, too. A bias incident is defined as any hostile expression that may be motivated by another person’s race, color, disability, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity. There were 7,759 reported hate crimes in the U.S.

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