eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

The study analyzed NWEA MAP® testing scores from 1,885 third- through fifth-grade students across eight schools within a single district. Combined, the duo provides a comprehensive, evidence-based math solution from kindergarten through middle school.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Its exactly how we felt before our team at South Park Middle School went on a PBIS journey that produced results and led us to an opportunity to present at training conferences and spread the word to our fellow educators in Pennsylvania. PBIS isnt just about managing behavior. Yep, we get it, believe us.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

You were my teacher in seventh grade.” At that moment, I also thought about my early years in the classroom and became engulfed with a mix of emotions, shame being chief among them. I was developing alongside them, and the person I am today is way different than the person I was in 2003 when I became a middle school ELA teacher.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 15, 2021

The K-12 Technology Curriculum is Common Core and ISTE aligned, and outlines what should be taught when so students have the necessary scaffolding to use tech for grade level state standards and school curriculum. Lessons build on each other kindergarten through 5th grade. Who needs this. How do you use it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2018

Centered Learning Since starting college, I’ve wanted to develop a classroom that ran entirely by learning centers. I spent the first four years of my career building the activities and classroom management skills I would need to pull it off. After two weeks, it was time to collect and grade the portfolios.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. There is a direct relationship between executive function development and the effectiveness of different types of learning activities.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

And she gets to work with children from pre-K all the way through eighth grade in any given week a challenging but rewarding charge. Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride. But my principal had already hired a new school librarian. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. The more I learned about flipping my classroom, the more fears that developed. How would classroom management change if I relinquished control over to my students? The period couldn’t end fast enough.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The process included three years of planning, professional development and small-scale experiments supported, in part, by grants from LEAP Innovations , followed by a one year pilot, which took place during the 2014-2015 school year. The pilot involved five classrooms, one at each grade level from first through fifth.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 11, 2018

Here are two, one in Hawaii and one in California that show you steps that might work for you: Kalakaua Middle School leadership team gets into the spirit to boost positive behavior. Their goal was to improve school climate and build positive relationships with everyone on campus by focusing on the positive.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. A school full of students progressing at different rates could “wreak havoc” on classroom management, said Craig Harper, a spokesman for the Professional Association of Georgia Educators.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

The Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (IDEA) serves 330 students in grades 9 through 11. Students come to the school from 39 different Dallas neighborhoods—bringing a wide range of social-emotional experiences. Courtney Egelston “About a third of our students came from a school with a ton of trauma.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

I later found out that he had dedicated two hours every week after school for three months of his fifth grade year to developing his idea and practicing how to share it. I was in awe of his dedication and truly admired his teacher and the school community that supported them.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2016

How-To’s from Inside the Classroom : Step-by-step guides on everything from social-emotional learning to classroom management strategies in a tech-rich environment. For example, learn how a South Dakota district is getting rid of grade levels in favor of student-centered learning. Cheers to the new school year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? From the beginning, I was told that I would be working close to 60 hours a week.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2015

Don’t miss out on the latest about: Grade-level specific (K-12) tools and information. The 21st Century classroom. Tech tools for the classroom. These articles were read and reposted the most often, and had the biggest impact on your classrooms. New to Ask a Tech Teacher? Subject-specific tools and information.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

For novice programming students, having access to a widely-used, industry-standard tool can give them a sense of how coding projects are done professional settings, says Sheena Vaidyanathan, a middle-school computer science educator in Los Altos School District in California. Then there’s Minecraft—for which the company paid $2.5

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

All 7th and 8th grade students, and their teachers, were provided with Apple 12-inch iBooks. But with new digital tools comes new forms of learning experiences, and new learning experiences require addressing class management head-on. The computers were equipped with educational software and wireless connectivity.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2018

I don’t have direct experience with it so I jumped at the chance to share Middle School teacher Karessa Parish’s experiences. About the Author: Karessa Parish is currently a Robotics Teacher & Campus PBIS Coordinator at Cedar Creek Middle School in Cedar Creek, Texas.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

In a classroom, on average, children check on their phones 11 times a day. Distractions from cell phone cause students to get behind lessons and ultimately get poor grades. Text messaging between students, in a classroom, disturbs the atmosphere. In July 2018, the French government banned cell phones from classrooms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Wave hello to the school principal. Middle School Students Bring coffee to your mom. These acts of kindness can be curated in the school newsletter, applauded at a school assembly, and/or discussed in the classroom. Sit next to someone at lunch who you don’t usually talk to. Smile at three people.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

As an education pedagogy, pursuing a classroom management system that revolves around positive reinforcement is called Positive Behavioral Interventions and Support, or PBIS. Include this in middle school and high school advisory classes as an effective way to track student progress toward self-proclaimed goals.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2016

Those geeky tech tools that we adults like to avoid are taking over the classroom. Every year, students face new iPads, apps, online grading systems, webtools, digital devices, LMSs, cloud-based homework, digital portfolios, and more. If you aren’t using blogs by Middle School, the only question is: Why not?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Digital resources can save teachers innumerable hours of planning, grading, assigning, and assessing in the classroom. As online resources develop and create more curricula, teachers will transform classroom dynamics by devoting less time to lecturing and spending more time enriching and mentoring. About the Author.

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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. ” He started his daily routine with his own students, and when it worked well, the system caught on across the ninth grade the following year.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Progress — and success — is dependent on the completion of various tasks rather than seat time as is the metric used in most states (for example, in my state of California, students must attend class 175-180 days a year to pass that grade). Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 8, 2017

Students and teachers are accustomed to checklists and grading scales. Though initially designed for grades 3-8, it has been successfully used with youngers and olders (all the way through community college!). You add learning objectives, assignments and grading scales. Few have the background to include subjective traits.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

A stand-out webtool among standards-based grading platforms is a free online program called Kiddom ( click for my review ). While it offers many appealing pieces (homework assignment and grading, easy communication, and built-in metrics), one unique to Kiddom is their robust K-12 content library. More about Kiddom.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Wave hello to the school principal. Middle School Students. These acts of kindness can be curated in the school newsletter, applauded at a school assembly, and/or discussed in the classroom. You might require a certain number be completed each year, each grading period, or not keep track of them.

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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Social-emotional learning is vital for students in all grades now more than ever. We usually think of elementary schools engaging in this with a higher grade paired with a longer grade. This can also happen from school to school. Students show gratitude for the educators who nurture them in various ways.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. This clever free online tool provides a template for encouraging students to learn rather than simply track grades.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2024

For nine years he’s been the principal of Petoskey Middle School, a school of about 570 students, 42% of whom come from low-income homes. But middle school has always been a tumultuous time. What issues have come up for you as a school leader this school year, and how have you addressed them?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Make it easier to become a teacher Laura Patranella, fourth grade English and social studies teacher at Vogel Elementary in Seguin, Texas I want President Trump to know: The basic economics of becoming a teacher really dont make sense. In my 11 years, I have seen many teachers come into the classroom with a lack of content knowledge.

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