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

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

“As a public school leveraging an innovative model, we believe that together with FuelEd the Vidalia Academy can offer more students across Georgia with the best education possible.”. To learn more, watch this video or read this case study about FuelEd’s partnership with Miami-Dade Public Schools.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In high school, he reasoned, students might take vocational training courses, intern at local businesses or meet with guidance counselors to discuss their future. For others, he says, “We have to bring that into the school, into the family’s life, so they can see that their child can absolutely compete.”

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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

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. We launched the mentoring program as a strand of our existing service learning course at our high school.

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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

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Davis Middle School in Compton is Room 105. Students know it as the “wellness center,” where they sometimes go for counseling sessions. “A A lot of people believe that it’s only adults who go through things in their lives,” says Neftalí Alcocer, a seventh grader at the school who’s used the center.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

College is our country’s post-high school default, and it doesn’t have to be. I think administrators at more schools across the county will lean into non-traditional supports for students including mentoring, behavioral counseling and socialization exercises for students. –Diane Myers, Ph.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2023

There might be one adult for every three kids in an elementary school classroom if a teacher has the support of aides, she continues, but that ratio grows throughout middle and high school. It’s low-cost and high-reward.” Is More Tech the Answer? Students and families who participate don’t pay out of pocket.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

“I didn’t have a stellar academic record in middle school and freshman year of high school. Dennison continued to advocate for Witchet in high school, and helped Witchet get into a special program for Big Brothers Big Sisters students to get college counseling starting in their sophomore year.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Analog Solutions for Digital Problems Shari Camhi, superintendent of Baldwin Union Free School District in New York, says that cell phones have never been seen as anything but a distraction in the district of about 4,500 students. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Pahamify (or “Understand” in English) charges at least $24 a year for features that include animated videos, college counseling and practice exams. That’s the hope, anyway, for the founders of this startup, currently in beta testing and targeted toward high school and middle school students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

In fact, the school stopped suspending students altogether in 2015, after administrators realized the practice was denying their most at-risk students important social, emotional and academic reinforcements. At our school, they get more support.” Posters hanging in the RJ classroom at Austin Achieve's middle school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

After a chance meeting with Rob Warren of Curriculum Associates, Ray, the founder of the consultancy K20Connect and former executive director of learning technology for Nashville public schools, took him along to visit Stratford STEM Magnet School Lower Campus, a middle school in Nashville that was failing at the time.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

As a teen, Khan taught herself Photoshop and is now focused on helping girls follow her lead and create successful STEM pathways for themselves as a mentor for ListoAmerica , part of the Clubhouse Network , which provides after school mentoring opportunities in underserved communities.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation. With no school counseling team — and teachers weary from other new programs and systems — EPIC needed a partner it could trust to serve Tier 2 students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The two—which collectively serve about 180,000 learners—want to create a model that is customizable enough to help a high school student get a jumpstart on their associate degree and a 55-year-old professional learn a new skill. The space will provide learners access to technology, academic advising, tutoring and college counseling.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job. Send personal notes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

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. Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. This year San Francisco unraveled its nearly 10-year experiment.

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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

It may put a little more stress on their class load, but many students who are college-bound graduate high school with a CTE certification. A student can graduate high school and enter the workforce the next week with their completed certification or training through a career and technical program or class.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

Lower high school graduation rates caused by chronic absences can result in an underemployed population , negatively affecting economic productivity and stability. For example, our high school has an average daily attendance rate of 97 percent, meaning 97 percent of our students are here.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Despite the pressure to attend, reports suggest 53 percent of high school students are unlikely to pursue a college degree. I think administrators at more schools across the county will lean into non-traditional supports for students including mentoring, behavioral counseling and socialization exercises for students.

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EAB

MAY 8, 2023

Chronically absent students are more likely than their peers with good attendance to face reading difficulties by third grade and less likely to earn a high school diploma. Connected to peers and adults: 41% of high school students say the events of the past two years have made them feel less connected to peers and teachers.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So before I came to Let's Get Ready, I've worked with a number of community-based organizations to directly support high school students on their post-secondary planning, and I actually started my work at Let's Get Ready in our direct student work as well. So I just transitioned more recently into an external-facing role.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2024

As a high school wrestler many years ago, Jon Wilcox was expected to help coach much younger students who were learning to wrestle. 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. How do you deal with middle school conflicts?

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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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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2024

Name : Leighanne Mainguy Age : 49 Location : Las Vegas, Nevada Role : School counselor Current age group: PreK-5 Years in the field : 12 EdSurge: How did you get here? Leighanne Mainguy: So I didn't start counseling until I was 38. Now we're in elementary schools, we're in middle schools, we're in high schools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Students have always needed counseling services that go well beyond the college and career development that has become standard fare in American high schools. Across the country, districts small and large are working to bring that ratio down and to bolster their counseling and support services for students.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

That's how long it took Laura to walk from her home to her high school two blocks away one sunny April morning. In the past, Laura's mother Yadira Mederos De Cardenas, a preschool teacher at All Five in Menlo Park's Belle Haven neighborhood, would have called in Laura's absence to the high school. MENLO PARK, Calif.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

24, 2022, I was facilitating a meeting in Charlottesville, Virginia for education and youth development leaders when I got word that my 15-year-old godson had been shot at his high school in St. The middle school my older son goes to did not respond as well. The morning of Oct. Louis, where I live.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

The educators in our circles shared with each other the range of what they do when this happens to them at school, depending on the situation and who it’s coming from. “I I have grown into an educator who believes that you’ve got to take it head on, vocally and preemptively,” said Robert Fung, principal of a public high school in San Diego.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Improving K-12 Education The Graide Network connects middle and high school teachers with graders to help provide feedback on student work. The graders, or “teaching assistants,” are selected and trained to offer “granular, personalized, high-level feedback” for students, reports CRO Liz Nell. Hence, Admit.me

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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. But a case of “senioritis” caused her to drop out of high school calculus.

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