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

What research tells us about stereotypes in the classroom We know students have internalized opinions about performance in school subjects. Read more about this meta-analysis and the biases it reveals from the American Institutes of Research. So it does matter if boys refuse reading because words and communication are girls jobs.

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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. Provide Out-of-School Access on Devices. Michael Cory is Principal of Richard H.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

Special education programs have been the target of legal challenges on the grounds of discrimination and racial bias, yet the study found that minority children are underdiagnosed across five disability conditions for which U.S. Next page: Additional findings from the study. schoolchildren commonly receive special education services.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

For instance, principles from science can be linked to literature they are studying in English class. Similarly, concepts from physics can be applied to understand advancements in medical studies. Teachers Beliefs and Practices in Technology-based Classrooms: A Developmental View. Middle School Journal , 50 (2), 1727.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

In its Back-to-School survey, Brainly , the leading learning platform for all school subjects and grades, highlights a growing trend – a remarkable 66.5% of students in grades 6-12 actively seek external support for their homework and study needs. Forty-five percent of these students spend more than two hours daily on homework.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination. Middle school is awful. If worrying about belonging is powerful enough to be a learning roadblock for students, does that mean that a potential solution is compassion?

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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

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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Student Engagement Learning Students Middle School 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Good history education empowers students to actively engage with the past they study, rather than being passive receivers of historical narratives. When we study a time and place that is unlike our own, we learn to listen better, we build empathy for diverse perspectives and experiences, and we become better people.

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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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Problem-Based Learning Math Education Learning 195

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Additionally, my administrators studied innovative school models at various locations. We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile. We needed to improve that number and send kids to middle school proficient in math.

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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. Some Black teachers also studied at universities in Northern states. Academically, they helped me out.

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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 26, 2016

But Michael Miller, a UC Santa Barbara professor, began to study how the human brain retrieves memory and realized there was no single brain that looked like this mythical average. “We Our current industrial model is rooted on the belief that there is an average student,” Rose said. “In

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Take up coding, study nursing or go into engineering , they say. 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.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

One such program, CollegeReadyMath , provides supplemental math support for middle school, high school and college students to improve their algebra skills while also providing supplemental support to teachers. It can begin with three immediate actions : Cultivate a belief among all adults that ALL students can succeed.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Changing the way calculus is taught, proponents argue, helps more students find math approachable and relevant, making them therefore more likely to succeed while studying it. A study of the course published by its creators suggests it’s been successful in engaging underrepresented students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Their study claims to have seen success—in the form of reduced office referrals. Neuroscientists and school-discipline experts are wary, though, saying a device that captures biometric data raises equity and privacy concerns, and even mindfulness advocates wonder whether such a device is necessary. office referrals to 1.78.

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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

MARCH 26, 2025

An otherwise regular game of basketball became a study of us versus them. 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.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

In a study examining the effects of trauma on Black women educators, researchers Abiola Farinde Wu, Adam Alvarez and Nina Kunimoto uncovered ancestral connections embedded in Black women’s teaching styles. When asked to identify your values, you may begin to list a core set of values or beliefs you hold.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In a recent study by the International Olympic Committee, more than half of young people (55 percent) said they enjoyed school more on days they get to do physical activity. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc. Ramaz is a modern Orthodox day school that has recently implemented an AI LAB by RobotLAB in their middle school.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

Other students study drawing and painting, so they will learn how to use code to create their artwork. Middle school students use the Afrofuturism CSDT; Image: Nettrice Gaskins In order to gain entry into college and the 21st century workforce, all students need to be comfortable with both coding and computational thinking.

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Art Culture Science Exams 112

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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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better. Encourage a balanced routine: Remind students to structure their days with a mix of study, exercise, and relaxation. By taking these precautions, you can focus on your studies without worrying about cybersecurity threats.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 329

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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Evaluation Discussions Art Beliefs 107

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

If your students are struggling with this, try one of these gamified approaches to learning math: Dimension M – math simulations for middle school and high school. Science simulations — lots of choices at the Middle School level. For many, they find it difficult, confusing, and thus over their intellectual heads.

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TNTP Blog

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

In our latest report, The Opportunity Makers , we studied schools where students who started out behind grade level caught up, gaining at least 1.3 We saw common practices across these schools, particularly practices that created consistency and coherence. The good news is, we know what it takes to accelerate learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In early middle school, by the time my parents struggled to assist with math homework, I began to compare myself to my maternal grandfather, Aladin Perkins, a retired electrical engineer who had little patience for dullards. It goes along with a belief that being good at math means you get every answer correct, she says.

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Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 182

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

I saw, in the '90s, when I first became a high school teacher, [then a] middle school teacher, I saw the way in which the digital world was impacting people's lives, even their most deepest-seated beliefs and values about life and the world. This was '93-'94.

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Education Beliefs Art Internet 133

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Emphasize the Journey Despite the changing educational landscape, there are some learning experiences that remain constant: reading landmark literature to study trailblazing individuals and pivotal moments in history. This belief makes it difficult to instill the idea that SEL concepts can be taught. or Bessie Coleman. Stay foolish.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 140

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

She has her beliefs about the LGBTQ community. She has her beliefs about everybody, and they’re not politically correct, and she so authentically was able to capture that. SLJ (School Library Journal) recommends it for grades 7 and up. I had it in my middle school library, and of course I have it in my high school library too.”

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Beliefs Reading Evaluation Culture 113

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

There’s also something else he brings up—his beliefs, specifically his concerns that educators across the U.S. Clint Smith: I study the history of racial inequality broadly, and right now, I'm thinking about what social stratification looks like in the context of incarceration and education. What are you working on right now?

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