Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

When traditional icebreakers just dont cut it, try switching things up with Would You Rather questions for high school. Ease into the new year with these fun and lighthearted Would You Rather questions for high school students. Try them for a morning meeting, first-week-of-school activity, or SEL check-in.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Find everything you need for facilitating great debates in your high school class. From good debate topics for high school to resources for structuring and crafting arguments, you’ll find everything you need for a fiery debate in any subject. Should high school students be allowed to drop out of school when they want?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2016

Qualified 7th grade students can earn special consideration for Cooke Scholarships by completing an edX MOOC. Up to 70 students will be selected to begin the Young Scholars Program when they start 8th grade in September. They must live and attend high school in the United States or a U.S.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2022

After several years of using a homegrown social emotional learning ( SEL ) approach, our district decided it was time for a more official curriculum that would support our middle and high school students’ mental health, academic achievement, and overall well-being. 4 steps to a successful switch.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

SCRANTON, PA – MMI Preparatory School, located in Freeland near Hazleton, has approved a pre-college agreement with Lackawanna College, enabling MMI students to earn college credits while still in high school. Director of College Counseling at MMI Preparatory School. Chrin, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Students who miss school also miss important social interaction with their peers, access to regular meals and special services such as speech therapy or counseling. These districts implemented proactive, positive attendance management strategies and tools over three consecutive school years (2021-22, 2022-23, and 2023-2024).

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2024

For me, it took Miss Natalia, my teacher from first grade to fourth grade. Can you delve into how it is revolutionizing the educational journey, starting from infancy to post-high school experiences? The journey extends beyond high school, emphasizing post-secondary training aligned with real-world workforce needs.

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2013, the Texas legislature introduced “endorsements,” which function like college majors to provide high school students the opportunity to specialize in an area aligned with their long-term goals. To earn an endorsement, Texas students must take specific course sequences, or paths, in one or more areas of focus. in 2018 to 0.8%

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2020

At Archway Academy in Houston, which serves 50 high school students who are in recovery from substance use disorder, counseling sessions are essentially on-demand. Coupled with a tight-knit sense of community, it’s what makes the school successful, says Executive Director Sasha Coles. “I

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

As educators, what is our role in terms of providing objective counsel regarding news sources, viewpoints and truth during an election cycle? For many students, high school and college are times of tremendous personal growth and experimentation. Do countless new outlets guarantee diversity or even truth?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

With college admissions more competitive than ever, a team of Harvard and Johns Hopkins graduates has created a new online consultant that uses artificial intelligence to help high school students get accepted into their dream colleges — for just $10 per month. The average ratio for a public school counselor is 1:400 in California.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 4, 2025

By high school, students have probably heard What do you want to be when you grow up? Its one of the reasons why high school (and increasingly middle school!) Use these meaningful career exploration activities for high school students to help students discover their interests, skills, and passions.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

In partnership with PM Pediatric Care and located at the Baldwin Middle School, the Baldwin Schools Wellness Center provides immediate access to behavioral health care and resources dedicated to mental wellness for students from elementary through high school, with convenient and flexible hours during and after school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

Lindsay Senior High School offers learner choice over their mastery level. Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) operates on a performanced-based system, allowing learners (students) to “ work at their performance level and [advance] through learning…when they have demonstrated proficiency.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Additionally, La’Toya is the Assistant Boys and Girls Powerlifting Coach for THEE Meridian High School. Beyond the professional realm, she is a proud mom to a rising Senior in high school and a 6th grader beginning middle school. Outside of education, La’Toya is a four-time World Powerlifting Champion.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

Twenty-seven students from nearby Zanesville High School had arrived to get a taste of what the higher education experience might be like. “I I got a photo with the mascot and also met the provost,” says Alexis Stallworth, a junior at Zanesville High School, which is about 50 miles east of Columbus in Ohio. “It

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 18, 2025

High school is a time for students to grow and explore, and one of the best ways for them to navigate this journey of self-discovery is through goal setting. By setting clear, actionable goals, high schoolers can take concrete steps toward figuring out what they want to do or achieve and developing the skills theyll need to get there.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

She was teaching fourth grade when a new integrated curriculum focused on careers was introduced district-wide—and it was making her lessons more relevant to the real world. It’s here that Brandt teaches, at the Cajon Valley Union School District, which serves about 16,000 students through eighth grade.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2023

Students hear a lot of advice about the importance of what they do in high school, but they aren’t all hearing the same guidance. When researchers asked 290 college students about what advice they’d been given in high school, the researchers found that it was stratified by race. At least, that’s according to a new report.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2023

Jill Cook: So today's school counselor works with all students in a school around academic, career and social-emotional development, as opposed to the guidance counselor of old that many of us may have had experience with that perhaps just worked on the college admissions process at a high school or on disciplinary issues.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Lindsay Senior High School offers learner choice over their mastery level. Lindsay Unified School District (LUSD) operates on a performanced-based system, allowing learners (students) to “ work at their performance level and [advance] through learning…when they have demonstrated proficiency.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

College is our country’s post-high school default, and it doesn’t have to be. One way education is doing this is by offering CTE, even in the elementary grades. Building literacy skills in young readers must continue beyond third grade. Employers say a college degree isn’t a deal breaker.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

Another unique Kiski tradition is the personal meetings with the Head of School. At the end of each academic quarter, students receive their grades in a one-on-one meeting in their dorm. Athletics: Victory, Rivalry, and Unmatched School Spirit Athletics play a major role in life at Kiski.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

I was originally hired in 2015, to support the only counselor at our school, which served 500 students at the time. Even when I came on and there were two of us counseling, it wasn’t enough to support that many students. Take Jessica for example, whose eighth grade year was an emotional rollercoaster.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 9, 2025

And emotional intelligence is an important factor in career exploration for high school students as well as other aspects of adult life. What is the purpose of SEL check-ins for high school? It also couples perfectly with gratitude activities for high school. Its a great way to get to know a new class.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Thus began his transition, from teaching high school students to focusing on their teachers. Still as passionate as ever about cultivating meaningful relationships, he also continues to work with kids as a high school football coach. How do we grade remote learners? How do we make sure kids aren't cheating?

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Even before the pandemic, a mental health crisis among high schoolers loomed. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2024

Programs at member colleges include hosting summer learning opportunities and on-campus recruitment events for high schoolers, sending more admissions staff out to high schools in small towns, and tapping current college students to serve as peer mentors to freshmen arriving from places with sparse populations or low density.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

When Hattie Mitchell was in high school, she received a message from her college counselor that too many students today hear: she wasn’t college material. Mitchell founded Crete Academy , a nonprofit charter school in south Los Angeles for children grades preK through 6. The HadaNõu Collective. WordsLiive.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

They were paired through Big Brothers Big Sisters when Witchet was in fifth grade. I refused to accept [his grades] because I saw what his ingredients were,” Dennison says. I didn’t have a stellar academic record in middle school and freshman year of high school. What do you see for yourself?’”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

One challenge that students face as they advance through grades is that, as they get older, they get less individualized attention from adults at school, she explains. The startup company provides telehealth counseling to middle and high school students through school districts.

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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.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Last year, I helped coordinate opportunities for grief counseling sessions led by mental health professionals and devoted meeting time for reflection and acknowledging feelings. The picture at the top of this article is a 1997 band photo of my husband who is now a high school English teacher. It will be OK.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2016

High school and college students across the state of Georgia are leveraging simple solutions every day to improve their access to their next educative journey. By delivering and processing electronic credentials with Parchment, member schools are breaking down barriers in the college access process.

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