Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator for the district, sat down with EdSurge this week to discuss the program, how his team has translated it into even lower levels (think middle school), and what he recommends other schools and districts do to make their students more college and career-ready. . Goodness gracious.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers say that positive teacher-student relationships tend to start declining after first grade, with the lowest drop in middle school, before evening out in high school. Instructional monitoring: Monitored student progress and adjusted their teaching strategy as needed.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Wong says her team realized through those conversations that high schools and elementary schools had plenty of data-literacy resources to draw from. It was middle school that experienced a gap. That really motivated our focus toward middle school teachers and students,” Wong says. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

Erin Haley, middle school teacher at The Bayshore School in Daly City, Calif.: “YES I’ve had fully educated parents tell me that they appreciate what I do, coupled with those now infamous words, ‘I don’t know how or why you teach.’” Noppinger, eighth grade math teacher at Dumbarton Middle School in Towson, Md.: “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

Middle schoolers, they warned us, are unable to work at their own pace because they lack academic fundamentals, intrinsic motivation and basic time management skills. This is especially true for sixth graders, they said, who are managing a challenging transition to middle school and lack independence.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Midwood High School students —created I Motivate You , a device that displays uplifting phrases. Barrett Elementary School second graders —designed their own pyramids. Jordan Reeves —created Project Unicorn , a prosthetic device that is also a glitter cannon. Alexis Lewis —inventor.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, all middle and high school students within the district will have access to Reading Plus for the following three years. The significant expansion follows a successful pilot program and small implementation at six of the district’s middle schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

I wish the public knew how creative a teacher must be to motivate students. Kim Booth, sixth grade teacher at Coleman Middle School in Duluth, Ga.: “I I wish the public knew how creative a teacher must be to motivate students. Sheri Clyde, first grade teacher at Mary Finn School in Southborough, Mass.: “How

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

But by being able to take students who are motivated and put them in these dual-enrollment classes, you get a greater percentage of those who are going to recognize theyve got the ability and [will] go to college, she adds. Other districts have community organizations demonstrate how dual enrollment can help students outside high school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Grades should not be the driving motivator for students to learn.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2016

Independent academic research of New York City middle school students shows LightSail’s adaptive literacy platform helps sustain, grow reading performance in summer months. They evaluated the technology’s impact on student learning, impact on reader identity, and perceptions of the technology.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. Middle school students are navigating the most vulnerable and self-conscious developmental phase. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

Middle school often gets a bad rap. Unfortunately, the challenges of early adolescence are often misunderstood, which too frequently results in negative experiences for educators, families and students. But what if we understood the neurological reasons behind the bizarre middle school behavior we often see?

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

Anthony Caccavo is a middle school curriculum coordinator and social studies teacher at St. Middle school technologist Benjamin Lloyd knows his students are already using VR to watch movies and game at home. His goal is to help them to see the academic and creative potential while at school.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. The trend that could have a huge impact on education, at the K-12 and college level, Evans argues.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. Fully asynchronous online learning is probably best suited to adult learners who are motivated to apply what they learn to their work.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The drop affected both struggling and proficient readers, and was most pronounced among middle school students. Material targeted to their ability will allow them to feel like they’re making gains, and aligning that material with their interests will help motivate them to practice. Parents also have a role to play here.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Marcus told me that he’d been viciously bullied during elementary school, peaking in middle school. Hearing this context profoundly changed how I viewed Marcus’ motivations and aspirations. Purpose dives deeper than mindsets—it taps into someone’s core motivation for choosing a path.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2024

Combined, the duo provides a comprehensive, evidence-based math solution from kindergarten through middle school. The ISTE Seal is awarded to educational technologies that excel in innovation, accessibility and enhancing student learning experiences. To learn more about Mathletics, please visit [link].

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2022

Keeping my students motivated is still a challenge, and I’ve noticed an important change in their attitude to technology: Just using tech for activities and projects has not been inspiring my students like it did before the pandemic. Being a middle school teacher, learning on Zoom was hard for the majority of my students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2025

With increased practice, they become more proficient and confident readers, and because everyone loves doing things theyre good at, theyre motivated to read more and more joyfully. elementary, middle and high schools, and the results were striking.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2021

Breakthrough SJC is an education nonprofit embedded in an independent school but serving about 300 students across our Orange County, Calif., Their answers ran the gamut, from supporting their mental health, to helping them stay motivated, to allowing them a place where they can socialize and stay connected to others.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

That approach is informed by a learning science framework developed by the team, which posits that the right combination of motivational experiences, repeated practice and real-world projects are key to helping students grasp new concepts. But motivation is not enough. Each resource on Composer is classified as one of three types.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

In the last decade, schools have dedicated tremendous resources to deploying technology into the classroom. As they invested in hardware and software, they began employing educational technology specialists to incorporate technology that improves pedagogy.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The practice is known as “data walls,” and is designed to serve as a motivational tool. Students are told that “everyone is working to move their number” even higher, says Demetria Tumpkin, a second grade teacher at the school. At South Newton Elementary School In Newton, N.C.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

In many schools and districts, half or less of their students participate in remote learning. For those who can, it’s become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning. In turn, students retained greater motivation to continue their learning even during the shift to remote instruction.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

ISTE: What motivated you to join the AI Explorations PD program? Zayas: I knew that it was a perfect chance to learn from other educators and experts in the field. All of the ISTE groups have phenomenal educators. So, I was motivated to take the industry and peer knowledge and then bring it into my classroom.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of the first things I noticed was that all the students had to abide by a strict uniform policy, including shoes, belts and school colors, and middle school-aged children were walking in straight lines through silent hallways.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As a school counselor, I spend my days serving 835 middle school students in a rural district in Livingston, California. Personally, I have gained an incredible sense of purpose over the last year and that motivates me a great deal. The borrowed words of Congressman John Lewis often echo in my mind: “If not us, then who?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma. 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.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2016

I was trying to think of a way to both motivate students to complete projects and, at the same time, find a use for their projects once they were finished. In our elementary school, FH Gizmos is a third-grade-run pop-up store. In our middle school, it is a student-run, online school startup that functions just like Amazon.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2024

Twenty-five years ago, Carnegie Mellon University created the first adaptive AI-driven tutor for teaching middle school mathematics, MATHia, which is still one of our flagship products. Of course, the technology wasn’t as advanced as today, but it was still an artificial intelligence-driven, adaptive learning-driven product.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Looking at these projects, it’s clear that some kids have been so motivated to make beautiful graphs that they’re going out to learn math that most kids don’t learn until college,” says von Oy. “We The company plans to expand the numbers for the upcoming school year. The rules were simple enough. Last November, the company raised $4.5

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

One of my challenges as a music teacher is finding learning tools that inspire and motivate my students and engage them musically, regardless of their individual abilities. Just as important, they’re building relationships essential to navigate those influential middle-school and high-school years.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

For most of them, however, that wasn’t their real motivation; learning was, and we didn’t feel we were making much progress. Some of them may well be capable—and interested—in being the next coding educators for your students, who in turn can grow into teachers themselves. The kids had plenty of fun. Do the math.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2024

The 10 future teachers we interviewed span different geographies, backgrounds, education experiences and motivations. Some took a traditional path, from high school straight to college and then the classroom. Each story — each person — is unique.

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