eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

“We’re seeing the impact at a younger and younger age,” added David Campos, the district’s middle school principal. The documentary was screened by students at the middle and high schools, along with members of the community and parents, who were invited to a public viewing Oct. Steiner-Adair said. “A

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2024

Our county funded our literacy program purchase, and because our elementary schools were already using another program from our literacy partner, they were able to transition to the former as soon as they entered sixth grade. We also have PLCs where grade-level teachers meet to discuss student progress.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

An elementary school teacher discussed how math can be integrated into PE class–for instance, students can measure and make calculations related to how far they jump or how fast they run, or myriad other activities. At our district, we started with installing the L system in an elementary school that serves grades 3-5.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Charlotte, NC — New Mexico’s Aztec Municipal School District (AMSD) today announced the renewal of its multiyear partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in three district elementary schools. Editable, ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

Katie Blagden, K-4 STEAM educator and coach, Ayers Ryal Side Elementary School, Beverly, Mass. Lesa Wang, STEAM teacher, Marymount Lower Middle School, New York, NY. Our robot, Milo , has been a great addition to our school team. 4th-grade teacher, Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, Joliet, Ill. “I

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Gaggle Speaks

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The conversation around mental health in schools has often focused on older students—those in middle school, high school, and even college—where the pressure to perform academically and socially becomes overwhelming.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2017

When implemented within an elementary-school environment, middle-school students can mentor incoming fifth-grade students and help dispel anxious beliefs and urban myths that typically exist upon entry. Implementation can also exist between differing grade-levels within the same school, or even between schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. Located in Boerne, TX, Boerne ISD is a PK-12 school district with over 10,000 students across 12 campuses.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

It’s back-to-school season across the country, and while this is met with mixed emotions, like it or not, classroom doors are open and welcoming students. Here are some back-to-school tips, advice, and valuable insights from educators, stakeholders, and industry experts. They were coding, collaborating, and creating. –Dr.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources. Cleveland successfully secured funding to expand to these 25 elementary schools, bringing Hazel services to more than 25,000 additional students in the district. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

Middle school often gets a bad rap. But what if we understood the neurological reasons behind the bizarre middle school behavior we often see? So, after a decade as a teacher and administrator, when I was presented with an opportunity to start a new middle school, I seized it. Wells Middle School.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Huinker, who was once Robinsons instructor, argues that math-specific instructional coaches like Robinson are crucial, especially for elementary school students. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Robinson had to sort through her own math trauma. But she struggled with geometry.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

VCSC is one of Vigo County’s largest employers, serving nearly 14,000 students across three traditional high schools, five middle schools, 15 elementary schools, an alternative school, and a virtual school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

This time, we chose something different for the middle grades because middle school students are kind of a different band of learners. Middle schoolers need this kind of structure for familiarity.” Lana Wimberly, Milagro Middle School How have teachers responded to the change in pedagogy? Students in Ms.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 9, 2018

Fleming says whether the district sets up a makerspace in an elementary school library, in a middle school classroom or in a high school cafeteria, each makerspace has a unique quality. Some schools send out formal paper surveys, while others hold informal discussions in the classroom.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey. She says she loved working in elementary school but the switch to middle school was tough. Or not burnout, exactly, but demoralization.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

In a four-week unit on Albert Camus’ “The Stranger,” his senior year English students helped design guiding questions and themes, decided on daily and weekly assignments, determined how assessment and evaluation would be conducted, led each day’s discussion, and held each other accountable to mutually agreed-upon expectations.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

When Mr. Jasper was an elementary school teacher he did a fine job of making connections and getting to know kids as people. He has since moved on to a middle school assistant principal position and I am confident he continues to care about kids much in the way he did when he was in the classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Participating in a simulation of the Constitutional Convention offered them a structured experience to practice the skills necessary for civic discourse—listening, discussing and compromising. If we want an active, informed and engaged republic, then commitment to those goals must begin in elementary school—if not earlier.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Starting with the 2021-22 academic year, the 7 Mindsets curriculum will be used throughout the district’s 11 elementary schools, middle school, and two high schools. 7 Mindsets was initially implemented in a select number of Decatur’s elementary schools for that pilot project.

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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

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

Ayanna Pressley from Massachusetts, encouraged the nearly 100 middle school, high school and college-aged girls in the audience to keep at it anyway, adding that “computers are creative, they’re dynamic, they’re detail-oriented”—just like them. But Rosen, sitting alongside Sen. Shelley Moore Capito from West Virginia and Rep.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. . by Jennifer Brown.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One of my favorites is from Kate Wagner, principal of Red Mill Elementary, who says, “ We are no longer teaching to the middle.” Another comes from Jeff Silverman, principal of Christa McAuliffe Middle School, who explains that implementing personalized learning ”finally got us over the hurdle we were stuck at.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Personally, I have always enjoyed competition.

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Gaggle Speaks

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

The conversation around mental health in schools has often focused on older students—those in middle school, high school, and even college—where the pressure to perform academically and socially becomes overwhelming.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Lilly Brunnick from Newburyport High School in Massachusetts won one of the two $1,000 scholarships. Volunteer teaching in the Bahamas during her junior year had made Brunnick seriously consider becoming an elementary school teacher. Isaac Kakiko from Hatboro-Horsham High School in Pennsylvania also won a $1,000 scholarship.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

It’s interesting that some variation of “kindness” is included in most non-academic measures of what students should learn in school, including Habits of Mind , a Growth Mindset , and Mindfulness (click links for further discussion). Elementary School Students Do a chore without being reminded.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Michelle Kruse, Content Lead for Libraries, Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy, Cedar Rapids Community School District Nominated by: Follett Michelle Kruse is the teacher librarian at Roosevelt Creative Corridor Business Academy (RCCBA), a magnet middle school in the Cedar Rapids Community School District (CRCSD).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

But don’t we want them to master middle school math?” From elementary school through high school and college, these tracks often become “ traps ” that reinforce systemic inequalities in our society. Except we rarely took time to explicitly teach those skills or discuss them. I would reply. “Do

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2019

AUSTIN, Texas — Even in elementary school, Luz Annette got into a lot of fights with other girls. At most schools, when kids do something suspension-worthy, you take away support,” says Reece Hartle, the middle school principal at Austin Achieve. “At At our school, they get more support.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

Steadman, who teaches at Mendell Elementary School in this highly-diverse Boston neighborhood, passed along her concerns to a colleague, Madeline Gillespie, a family support coordinator. Gillespie spoke with the girl’s mother and learned they were living in a shelter and had no way to get to school. ROXBURY, Mass. Does It Help?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The network began the Greenfield Schools design project to research what the future of school could be, with the goal of opening two new schools in 2015—an elementary school and a middle school. The first Greenfield Schools launched in August 2015 in New Haven, CT.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Groven made the point during a recent panel discussion about how best to encourage viewpoint diversity in classrooms, hosted by the Free Speech Project , a nonpartisan initiative run by Georgetown University. Listen to the full discussion on the EdSurge Podcast. That includes librarians as well.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Minnesota’s South Washington County (SoWashCo) Schools today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in K-8 classrooms across the district. SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Department of Education’s recent edtech plans] discussed active vs. passive consumption of technology. We have a class we call Tournament of Technology in our middle school geared toward design, coding, robotics, and video production. How do these DEI concepts play out in your districts? AR: [One of the U.S.

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