Edsurge

MAY 11, 2021

The funds will help expand the district’s college readiness centers into its three middle schools. The district is also repurposing a middle school building into a career and technical education center, where students can work toward certifications during the day, and adults can take classes with local college instructors at night.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. If anyone knows the importance of belonging, it’s Columbia University instructor Marcelle Mentor, who grew up as a Black child under apartheid in South Africa. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 3, 2019

High school and middle school students spend a lot of time in hallways, moving between classes. You can envision hallways as a learning commons: Activate that space in the service of education, and set the tone for continuous learning. MORE FROM EDTECH: Here is how K–12 schools can envision the future of education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Virginia Standards of Learning are embedded in programs’ reporting, and instructors can easily identify Virginia SOL Primary Standards in the online libraries and offline materials. With a complete offering of professional learning, curriculum, and embedded assessment, Lexia helps more learners read, write, and speak with confidence.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

When students returned to the classroom after COVID-19 lockdowns, teachers found themselves in a triple role: instructor, mental health proctor and public health enforcer. There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2018

It was a bittersweet moment for Ashley Lamb-Sinclair as she walked away from her middle-school classroom for the final time last year, flicked the light switch off and locked the door behind her. In her mind, that platform would not only be a place for instructors to discover new ideas, but also keep those ideas there. “As

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

Both manufacturers and educators are leveraging the benefits of 3D printers in education. 3D modeling and printers can bring almost any educational concept to life, while building practical skills such as problem-solving, creative coding and design. 3D Printing Engages Students. by Erika Gimbel.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2021

But is it a good thing for the teaching profession that classroom instructors are part of a site known for dance crazes, jokes and other irreverent content? Brooke Rogers, who teaches at a private middle school in the San Francisco Bay Area, aims to spread joy about teaching and kind of boost the profession.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A number of instructors say it’s partly reconsidering how calculus, a crucial step toward STEM careers and often a “weed out” course in higher ed, is taught. Get rid of the societal lies that everyone needs to go to college and everyone must strive to go to an Ivy League school rather than one that is their best fit.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

“We really wanted to explore that question, and in a direct application that made a difference to the thousands of children across the country who found themselves facing significant learning loss by virtue of the absence of the traditional modality of brick and mortar schooling.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

Coditum , SummerTech’s Hoboken-based coding lab, earlier this year joined forces with Hoboken Middle School. We hired computer-science students from Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken to teach HMS students, who in turn may become junior instructors themselves once they reach high school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2018

We’re seeing more of a “consumerized” mentality on the part of parents, who expect an engaging, productive educational experience for their children. Unfortunately, the levels of student engagement begin to drop significantly at the middle-school level and trend downward throughout high school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

Particularly for STEM courses, Nguyen says it’s important to have an instructor who has not just the pedagogical knowledge but also the content knowledge to effectively teach the class. [Or they might] put somebody who isn't qualified to be there, like an English teacher teaching biology.” Washington, D.C.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Just as important, they’re building relationships essential to navigate those influential middle-school and high-school years. Making Music in the Cloud Today’s music technology offers programs that are simpler and easier to use than the clunkier, more expensive programs of the past.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She discovered multiple studies on the efficacy of peer feedback when well-guided by an instructor, some with numerous tips to be mined and applied. Middle school students role-play feedback interactions, 2019. She also found the work of U.K.-based Several hands went up: “The teacher!” “No,

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Xiong Fanyan, who oversees instructional affairs at a middle school in Beijing, has recorded a short tutorial video and uploaded it to Tencent Video for his students to watch. Proud of her students’ artistic creativity, Zeng shared their drawings everyday via her Weibo account.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Jessica Campos, Instructional Technology Coach, Mesquite Independent School District In the 2024 to 2025 school year, districts will be asking more questions about evidence of impact when they’re evaluating and selecting education technology solutions. Schenker, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Often there are lessons to be learned from the very act of teaching, whether it’s an instructor finding new ways to reach—or not reach—students, to watching students grow before your eyes to discovering what makes collaborative learning so successful. Those are some of the examples educators shared with us on this week’s podcast.

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Edsurge

MAY 29, 2018

The students were taking part in virtual reality experiences in Chris Caldwell’s language arts classes at Chisholm Trail Middle School in Texas, and in various classrooms at Hawaii’s Mid-Pacific Institute. Both Caldwell and the instructors at Mid-Pacific have prepwork and postwork related to using virtual reality in their classrooms.

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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

JULY 17, 2023

If you’re EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo, who’s currently in grad school, you’ve recently experienced all three of these scenarios. So we not only have it where everybody is responsible for different components of the project, but as an instructor, it's really easy to track who's doing what and what they've contributed.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

But in practice, they “used technology to reduce their student-to-teacher ratios during teacher-led instruction” to help lighten the load, according to the report. At Navigator, pay for part-time small-group instructors was as low as $15 per hour. Eventually, they would be eligible to earn about $60,000 as experienced teachers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 31, 2017

Professor Gina Sipley, Instructor of Reading and Basic Education at SUNY Nassau Community College in New York, says she and her fellow educators are often looking for closed captioning technologies. “As In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education. The result?

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The district was the first in the state to open STEM Academies as part of their general public-school program. At the middle school level, they function as a school within a school. The academies allow for personalized—and engaging—instruction.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. - Jill Hill “It was just a great chance to learn more about artificial intelligence and machine learning and how to encourage K-12 teachers to use more AI tools in their classrooms,” said Hill, the technology integration specialist at her middle school. What stood out to you most from participating in this program?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

But it really kicks in during middle school. What we find in our middle schools is that students are starting to develop their own voices as writers,” Cotton says. Find more readers for your students The effort begins in his district’s preschools—with rubrics, writing prompts, and oodles of creative spelling.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

And yet, the program has graduated about 300 African American men from college education departments in South Carolina, more than doubling the number of Black men teaching in elementary and middle schools in the state. Maybe, the math instructor hopes, simply by standing at the front of the classroom, he changes the equation.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

My children are now on regular video chats, as is my husband, a middle school science teacher. The instructor supports you in getting the best workout through encouragement, reminders and guidance. Now that COVID-19 is keeping many of us home, I understand their struggles, ranging from isolation to time management.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. These students were in early middle school or ninth grade when the pandemic started, and had to take classes like pre-algebra online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2023

Montero: Before Mater Academy became a Verizon Innovative Learning School, our IT person already had a lot on his plate, with 135 teachers and 300 different classrooms. When the middle school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School, that meant adding 1,200 extra iPads to the list of devices.

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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

JUNE 19, 2018

For novice programming students, having access to a widely-used, industry-standard tool can give them a sense of how coding projects are done professional settings, says Sheena Vaidyanathan, a middle-school computer science educator in Los Altos School District in California. billion acquisition offer from Microsoft.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Less robust courses, scaling down the curriculum to just a semester or nine weeks, are also on tap, and a simplified version will be tailored especially for middle-school classrooms. Students should have at least a semester’s worth of programming knowledge, according to the company.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI. They were immediately taken with the museum’s learning model and wanted to incorporate elements of it into their classrooms at Simon Baruch Middle School 104.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

And with some of the instructors that were already in their careers but also volunteering at Black Girls Code — who are software engineers at Adobe or Pinterest or whatever, right? And there was this girl, I believe she was like in middle school, and she comments under my video, “Oh, my God! It's so interesting you say that.

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