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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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OCTOBER 3, 2017

My job is to make sure that the tech use is meaningful and purposeful - when used correctly technology can help enhance and transform my lessons, provide real-world activities, and increase student engagement. Jill Weber, Cheney Middle School. Creating their own A recent trend in education is the use of 3D virtual reality.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

In the past 18 months, educators across the country learned how to adjust their instruction to online learning environments. Digital Promise recently spoke with educators from Lone Star Middle School in Nampa, Idaho, an HP Spotlight School.

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APRIL 16, 2018

In Oakland, CA, more than 60 students at James Madison Middle School gather to talk about money. In 2015, we launched the FutureSmart Digital program—a gamified, web-based financial education course, in partnership with education technology company EVERFI. The conversation is robust.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. PSA project on human-created environmental problems.

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MARCH 6, 2017

Civilization by Sid Meier—More than 35 million units sold worldwide; kids apply social studies lessons. The sample size was large enough—more than 1,000 students in seven states and in schools with differing student bodies, socioeconomic factors, and geographical locations—to answer the hypothesis in a statistically significant manner.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education. For instance, last spring, I was in a middle school classroom engaging in one of our prompts that asked students to analyze how enslaved people resisted their enslavement.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2019

For social studies educators, a presidential election year is a big deal. I’ve always relished these times because they’re part of what makes social studies special. Social studies teachers must support their students as they encounter: Major attacks on journalism. Evolving forms of media delivery.

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MAY 4, 2020

Personalized Notes Claire Peterson, teacher at Pat Neff Middle School in San Antonio, Texas: “Words are always good to hear. Kind Words, Thanks and Acknowledgement Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: Gifts are sweet, but I keep every note I get. Every handmade card.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Below, we’ve gathered some of the latest and most relevant marketplace news to keep you up-to-date on product developments, teaching and learning initiatives, and new trends in education. There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL.

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OCTOBER 17, 2017

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. Social Studies / Current Events.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

There are more than 50,000 courses available, ranging from traditional subjects (middle school social studies) to hobbies (card tricks), games (Pokémon), performance arts (piano) and whimsical science ( why animals fart ).

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MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive. That really wasn’t the rule that she was being taught.

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

The second year, it launched a violin program with instruments that were rescued from a dumpster at a nearby middle school. Van Zandt says TeachRock is more than just music history; the idea is to use music as a hook to explore all kinds of subjects, from English to science and social studies. And they came through.

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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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JUNE 12, 2017

On the second day of his current job, as principal of nearby Lexington Middle School, he discovered that a social studies teacher was also using the game. Among education technology apps, Kahoot’s reach puts it in the ranks of ClassDojo (which claims usage in 90 percent of U.S. He happily obliged.

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APRIL 19, 2023

My middle school choir teacher recorded and released an acclaimed gospel album. My high school English teacher starred in commercials and made a name for herself as a voice actor. In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education.

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Teaching English Culture Social Studies 218

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. It recognizes the individual journey of every student.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. As a middle school teacher, my students need to learn conflict resolution tactics, so my solutions usually entail letting the students problem-solve together. The period couldn’t end fast enough.

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JULY 25, 2018

When we set out to design an engaging kickball unit for our middle school students, we asked ourselves how we could learn from the 2002 A’s. Data Goes to the Gym As a self-confessed nerd, my memories of middle school kickball are of being picked last and worrying about taking errant kicks to the face. How, you ask?

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Science Middle School Middle School Social Studies 167

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Kahlfeldt has touched on the census many times in his 15 years as a middle school social studies teacher at Winfield School District 34 (22 years total as an educator). He also shares how his zesty attitude toward social studies makes lessons on the census—and many other topics—pop for his students.

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Teachers Local Government English Social Studies 168

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But he says colleagues have also adapted the platform for other traditional subjects including science and social studies. It becomes relevant to them when you turn your class into a game,” says Isaacs, a 50-year-old teacher at William Annin Middle School and Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J.

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Textbooks Classroom Management Social Studies History 166

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APRIL 28, 2017

Ariana Garcia doesn’t take a break as she goes from tutoring a small group of students to teaching a social studies class at the Great Oak Charter middle school in New York City. Next year, I just want to teach,” Garcia exasperatedly tells EdSurge.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me.

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History Knowledge Textbooks Social Studies 168

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APRIL 3, 2017

We embarked on research that not only answered my question, but also provided the genesis of our education start-up Legends of Learning. This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform. The Hero of Middle School. Andrew Jackson is now the Hero of Middle School.

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APRIL 19, 2018

Students are required to have PLPs beginning in 7th grade, but many schools start the process sooner. Mount Anthony Union Middle School (MAUMS) begins the process in sixth grade, giving students a head start on understanding the concept, process and language they will use moving forward.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Over the last year, she’s noticed ads peppered throughout the communications app, which is used by most students, parents and teachers at her 13-year-old’s middle school. Most of the ads seem innocuous—a virtual charter school or a set of digital worksheets, for example—and don’t bother her much. They’re middle-school kids.

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MARCH 18, 2020

The app covers subjects that range from science to social studies to economics. That’s the hope, anyway, for the founders of this startup, currently in beta testing and targeted toward high school and middle school students. The startup claims to have $7,000 in monthly revenue through subscriptions.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

It was 2006, and Miller—then an investigative reporter in the Washington bureau of the Los Angeles Times—had just spoken to 175 sixth graders at his daughter’s middle school about his job as a journalist and why it mattered. The journalists were one part of that.

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JUNE 26, 2017

Comments observed by Education Week showed that some teachers were riled up by the idea that their union was propagating what they saw as a tech-focused classroom, replacing teachers with computers. Was this perception shared by teachers at one of the biggest education technology conferences in the world? Kelley Patin.

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Teachers Special Education Learning Styles Social Studies 142

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

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., In particular, she has studied their use at the middle school level. “We

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

The next semester those four teachers repeated the same PD process and present their sample lessons to the other core content teachers in their school. Middle-school teachers in the pilot became so excited that the middle school produced twice the number of lessons using Google Slides than the high school.

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Technology Teaching Education Middle School 142

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JULY 10, 2017

Don’t let technology mishaps scare you Increased reliance on technology, some rightly fear, can result in computer crashes and outages that lead to difficult (and embarrassing) situations. Ryan Connole, dean of students at Providence’s DelSesto Middle School, offered a contrary perspective.

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Blended Learning Teachers Culture Middle School 142

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AUGUST 15, 2017

There are plenty of “innovators” and “early adopters” of education technology out there, from educators who make the rounds on the ISTE and SXSWedu conference circuits to consultants and entrepreneurs who push for adoption of certain tools or practices. But what about those who are more skeptical? Half of the staff?

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Middle School Middle School Math Grades 145

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APRIL 14, 2020

Past Teachers-in-Residence include a middle school science teacher, a kindergarten teacher and a performing arts teacher, but for this year’s program, the library specifically wanted to bring on a civics teacher to build out its digital collection of civics-focused curriculum materials.

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History Social Studies Study Writing 181

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JANUARY 22, 2019

In the process, they also learned plenty about social studies and civic engagement. too much technology is still used to replace routine tasks rather than turbo-charging the experience of learning. She wears a number of hats as middle school teacher, instructional coach, and author (@tweenteacher).

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Skills Critical Thinking Communication Gamification 167

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APRIL 2, 2019

Right now, it’s used primarily in our four middle schools and three high schools. English, social studies and science are our highest users. How does your district use it? It’s very much choice-based for our teachers. We also have a good handful of world language teachers who utilize it.

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