Remove Culture Remove High School Remove Middle School
article thumbnail

5 approaches that engage middle school students in STEM learning

eSchool News

Build a culture of curiosity and encourage questioning An environment that encourages curiosity and allows students to ask questions and explore concepts they’re genuinely interested in can significantly enhance engagement.

article thumbnail

3 tips to combat chronic absenteeism in high schools

eSchool News

In elementary school, there’s frequent outreach. A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How this middle school teacher gets students to challenge themselves in math

eSchool News

When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School, thinks back on his own journey as a mathematician, he gives credit to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus. As a Newark resident, I see new restaurants, shows, and opportunities for culture and arts.

article thumbnail

Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

Edsurge

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. In middle and high school courses, its really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson, policy director of math for the nonprofit ExcelinEd. When would I ever use this?

Math 179
article thumbnail

How we turned around our school culture and student performance

eSchool News

“We needed to get our students working toward the types of skills they needed to be successful after high school.”. Emerson says there was a huge culture shift, but thanks to the five-year plan Discovery designed, they rolled it out slowly, starting with four innovators at 20 elementary schools.

Culture 244
article thumbnail

PBLWorks Announces its 2022 PBL Champions

eSchool News

The 2022 PBL Champions are: District PBL Champion Broward County Public Schools (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) School PBL Champion Thomas A. This year’s recipient was Rose Moe, a 6th-grade math teacher at Lincoln Middle School in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. About the Champions.

article thumbnail

This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

Edsurge

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. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

Culture 202