eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

Jay McTighe, Author and Consultant, McTighe and Associates (Columbia, MD) Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD (Paris, France) ISTE Distinguished District Award This award honors school districts that demonstrate effectiveness and innovation in using technology to improve student outcomes and engagement.

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JUNE 4, 2025

STEM isnt just the latest teaching topic: Its an innovative, cross-curricular way to strengthen problem-solving and critical thinking skills across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Check out STEM activities for middle school that are sure to catch teenagers attention and inspire them to learn more.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

These essential, durable skills are at the heart of frameworks like ISTE’s Standards for Students and the Partnership for 21st Century Learning’s framework , which emphasize what students need to thrive in school and beyond. Future-Ready Skills: Participants gain experience in public speaking and digital design.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Among the new content and resources now available to users of Discovery Education Experience are: Ready-To-Teach Lessons Enhancing Curriculum Built around research-based instructional strategies, these new ready-to-teach lessons and activities target critical classroom needs and help teachers create unique learning opportunities for each student.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

A follow-up study in 2025 confirmed this trend, highlighting even steeper declines where secondary students have fewer opportunities to build new skills. Creativity now ranks among the top skills employers seek , alongside analytical thinking and AI literacy. This isn’t just an education issue — it’s a workforce one.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Reimagining Curriculum to Foster Engagement and Identity Over the years, fellows have noted how hard it has become to not only create engaging curriculum for students but also find ways to foster community and identity development in the classroom. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

Jay McTighe, Author and Consultant, McTighe and Associates (Columbia, MD) Andreas Schleicher, Director for Education and Skills, OECD (Paris, France) ISTE Distinguished District Award This award honors school districts that demonstrate effectiveness and innovation in using technology to improve student outcomes and engagement.

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JULY 9, 2025

As a homeschooler for over 20 years with my three kids, I have seen and used a lot of homeschool curriculum. I plan to share about all of the subjects and all of the homeschool curriculum we have used over the years. It was an extra thing, not our main spelling curriculum. The combo of vocabulary included was a neat feature.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 1, 2025

One of the most common questions homeschoolers ask is: Which homeschool grammar curriculum should I choose? As a homeschooler for over 20 years with my three kids, I have seen and used a lot of homeschool curriculum. I plan to share about all of the subjects and all of the homeschool curriculum we have used over the years.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

Families are asking for more flexible, real-world learning options, and schools are stepping up to meet that demand. What Teachers Need: Quality Curriculum and Career Awareness But theres still a gap. These arent just add-on skills; theyre essential capabilities for every student, no matter their career goals.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

All you need to add is a classroom full of eager middle schoolers, and you’ve got the best school year ever! Include review materials in your curriculum 3. Editable ELA Word Wall for Middle School By Erin Beers from Mrs Beers Language Arts Classroom Grades: 5th-8th Standards: CCSS CCRA.L.5,

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

To explore how this school partnership is taking shape, EdSurge spoke with Antigone Davis , global head of safety at Meta , and Dr. Kevin Martin , principal at Parkway Northeast Middle School in Missouri. Davis leads safety efforts across teams, ensuring that protections are built into products and company policies.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

Use these engaging questions and thought experiments to get middle schoolers to open up while practicing writing skills. What middle school class has been your favorite so far? Practice writing skills based on the CCSS for history and social studies and your 8th grade history curriculum with tailored prompts.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lauren Tingle | High School Counseling Hype Girl (@counselorclique) Mix math into back-to-school fun When it comes to back-to-school bulletin boards, a major part of your curriculum deserves the spotlight. That’s why your math boards should be more than just decorative.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

National Science Foundation, aimed to solve that problem with a drone-focused curriculum for rural middle schools. It seemed “touchy feely” to the digital learning specialist who works in a rural New Hampshire middle school and is known as the “drone lady.” Take Flight, a research project backed by $1.5

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Vision Board Project & Rubric – Back-to-School, New Year, End-of-Year Activities By Jenn Liu — Engaging to Empower Grades: 9th-12th Subjects: Life Skills Teach middle and high school students how to make a vision board using this no-prep, interactive Google Slides lesson!

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

You can also celebrate this important month by showcasing Hispanic history, culture, and the Spanish language in your curriculum, no matter what class you teach. Discover ways to integrate Hispanic Heritage Month activities into your school day and honor the contributions of Hispanic leaders, artists, athletes, and icons worldwide.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

To date, some states have developed standards for teaching financial literacy, but where do schools turn for resources to implement those standards and who do they turn to for advice on what aspects of money management they should teach and when? As a country, our financial literacy skills are dismal. scored below the OECD mean.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This process reinforces scientific inquiry and builds critical thinking skills as students see, touch, and analyze real results from their experiments. Teachers can then incorporate these topics into the curriculum or design small projects based on students’ inquiries.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

As the pandemic continues to impact another school year, a lot of focus has been on “accelerating learning,” which is about maintaining on-grade level instruction or infusing pre-requisite skills in the instruction so students can access on-grade level instruction. With College- and Career-Ready standards, the learning builds.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Created to Address the “Middle School Gap” – Blackbird Teaches Real-world Computer Science Skills, Aligned to Educational Standards. Not just because of distance learning but because of the logical step to advance skills from block coding to programming,” said Ben Durham , technology teacher for Portland Public Schools.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Responding to a critical gap in technology education, CompTIA Spark has launched free technology curriculum specifically for middle grade classrooms, grades 5-8. It aims to support teachers so that they can teach the critical skills students need to succeed in whatever path they choose.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-aligned digital curriculum resources, engaging content, and professional learning for K-12 classrooms. The program consists of 16 modular units, allowing schools and teachers to choose the order in which to complete the units based on their preferred pathway.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2019

s first computer science middle school last year in a struggling, historically black community to help bridge the technology achievement gap. One component of working with middle school students that continues to push my thinking around the work we are doing is the challenges and obstacles our scholars face outside of school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Patrick emphasizes the value of helping students explore different career paths and develop essential skills early in their education. The conversation also highlights the evolving nature of CTE in middle schools and its potential to provide students with a more comprehensive and purposeful educational experience.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

PITTSBURGH, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, today announced that its blended core Middle School Math Solution received perfect scores in a new report published by EdReports.org. Do they help teachers build productive habits of mind in their students?

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

With this partnership, schools that work with Maplewoodshop will now also have the opportunity to utilize the Carpenters International Training Fund (CITF) Career Connections curriculum from NCAF. “We’ve About Maplewoodshop Maplewoodshop is a leader in teaching woodworking to elementary and middle school students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

The answer can be found in a small but mighty after-school and summer program that sets high expectations to inspire young people to explore technology career pathways and become leaders committed to improving their communities. Few mistakes are corrected.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

14-18, 2016 to provide an introduction to coding skills for elementary and middle school students. The winning school will receive a one-year subscription to EasyTech and EasyCode Premium, Learning.com ’s digital literacy and coding curriculum for grades K-8. Schools can register for the Code-a-Thon from Oct.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2020

Before we spent a cent, though, we made certain to connect every purchase with our two important goals: improving each individual child’s academic and career prospects, and improving our students’ scores on state assessments, which are critical to whether we’re succeeding or failing as a school. Robotics and coding.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

First Educational Version of a Programming Language Enables Middle School Code Education – Bridging the Middle School Gap. PORTLAND, May 12, 2021 – Blackbird today announced the official release of the world’s first educational version of JavaScript.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

While mastering technical skills is essential, students must also develop soft skills like communication, collaboration and critical thinking to thrive beyond the classroom. As the workforce continues to shift, Keeney argues, equipping students with soft skills that can adapt to any career path is more important than ever.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2015

Teachers at Holly Pond Middle School are turning to a popular reality TV show as inspiration to get students interested in flexing their research and presentation skills. The school used public funding to add an eLearning library environment for students this year. TV game show format comes to the classroom.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2017

This method uses inquiry-based observation skills to determine an artist’s intention and message. Lura noted that her students recognized that they also used these “life skills” in other areas, like providing evidence in English or giving an explanation in math. Art for Communication Skills. Art for Different POVs.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

While more students are falling behind in foundational reading skills, some schools buck the trend with positive practice in the pandemic’s wake, according to new research released by Curriculum Associates today. . Students in upper elementary and lower middle school grades showed the greatest persisting setbacks in 2022.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for our free New York newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading. And those who didn’t?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2022

All of them, I’ve found well-suited to the task of scaling and differentiating tech skills for age groups, scaffolding learning year-to-year, taking into account the perspectives and norms of all stakeholders, with appropriate metrics to know learning is organic and granular. Today: K-8 Keyboard Curriculum. Who needs this.

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