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. Jakob Sperry —created GyRings , a fidget widget for people with ADHD. Alexis Lewis —inventor.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Wizprodigy is a new and exciting online STEM competition focused on inspiring middle school and high school students across North America to learn coding and to build their own design of a mini Tesla Cybertruck. Find out more at [link].

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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

RIF will continue to align our model based on complementing the science of reading with the critical element of the joy of reading which will be especially important as educators look for ways to motivate and encourage greater frequency and engagement in reading. They were coding, collaborating, and creating. –Dr.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. And what motivates me is seeing the students. I'm excited to go into the schools.

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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

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 elementary school, FH Gizmos is a third-grade-run pop-up store.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. What motivates them? What worries them?

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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

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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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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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Each of our 10 elementary schools has a digital learning specialist. We have spent time focused on creating a culturally proficient school system , which is a framework that we use to make sure that we are putting students first, and we’re thinking and talking about our values, beliefs, and assumptions. . Photo: Rachel Gorton.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

Though there are a number of strong language programs across the country, a 2016 report published by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences showed evidence of declines in foreign language course offerings in elementary schools and middle schools over the years.

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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Jill Edwards Yet, Principe worries that this roulette of school models, where there is little consistency between schools and grade levels, creates more challenges for students. “I I talked to an elementary school teacher at a Boston meetup, and she put together a whole personalized learning system for grades K-3.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

With over 70 clubs, organizations, and honor societies, plus a robust athletics program featuring 25 varsity teams, Middle School teams, and a Youth Sports program, students are encouraged to step outside their comfort zones and discover new interests. Exposure to the arts is a cornerstone of the Gulliver experience. The result?

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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. In the state’s 600 elementary schools, there were fewer than 200 Black men teaching. “So

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

There are three components of the organization’s work: partnering with school leaders to create and implement new school models; building a group of experts who can support school innovation; and helping schools share stories from their journeys of school model redesign.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

In my district, for example, elementary students spend an average of 300 hours a year engaged in arts-based instruction including music, visual art, theater and movement. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours. When I taught in elementary schools, I was greeted by excited, engaged students.

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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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Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2018

We must get out of the “catch-up” business, where we’re trying to fix problems when a child reaches the end of elementary school or middle school. They deserve a chance to find joy in learning—to become lifelong learners motivated by the challenge of solving problems. Poverty is not destiny.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

In other cases it was a teacher, mentor, coach, sibling or family friend that motivated them to persist. Schools of course are no stranger to the power of relationships that studies like these highlight. Not all schools, however, are designed to ensure that a single relationship—much less a web—reaches each and every student.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2023

What was motivating you, at the time, to enroll in this program to get your teaching license? So when we first met, my now-wife started working at a school nearby. Well, there’s the great motivator of money. One of our kids attends the school that I work at. Three of them are at an elementary school nearby.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Topics range from grit and empathy to manners and motivation. Q Wunder provides a complete elementary school SEL curriculum with 15 social-emotional learning topics rolled out in 48 CASEL-aligned lesson plans, all powered with engaging music, videos, games, and activities. Mightifier. Grades 3-6.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Mastery Design Collaborative also believes that there is an aspect of readiness that a district and school must have in order to work together successfully. The organization’s ideal partners have the leadership, motivation, the team and funding to make change happen. All students in grades K-5 will have a multi-age literacy block.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

You've been in school for quite a while now, so, what has your experience been as a student both when you were in K-12 and now in college? Middle school and elementary school were extremely challenging for me. I learned things like metacognition, self advocacy, motivation, determination, resiliency.

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Teach Hub

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

When students feel valued, involved, and successful in school, they become grateful and motivated to do well. Many students come to school daily carrying challenges that may be obvious and some that are unknown. We usually think of elementary schools engaging in this with a higher grade paired with a longer grade.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 14, 2025

12 Narrative Elementary Writing Prompts Like any writing skill, students build the ability to narrate over time. By providing increasingly complex narrative prompts throughout elementary school, you can help prepare them for writing prompts for middle school , high school, and real-world writing situations theyll come across.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

I'm a bit flabbergasted at the idea of you leaving at the end of the school day going to a Starbucks, and then basically working on this for five hours, everyday. Where does the motivation come from—professional life? The motivation is personal. We are going to be building a K-8 elementary school. Personal life?

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Cemd

MARCH 26, 2025

Most districts in the sample chose a single core curriculum for math in elementary and middle school grades, which aligns with the guidance and recommendations from the majority of states and instructional experts. For example: Nearly one in five districts serving elementary schools selected more than one core curriculum.

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k12 Digest

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Is the key in motivating students to work hard and aim higher. By 7th grade, some of them are already working on Advanced Algebra I, and by 8th grade, they might complete Honors Geometryeffectively finishing two high school math courses before even leaving middle school. And confidence? Take math, for example.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Topics range from grit and empathy to manners and motivation. Q Wunder provides a complete elementary school SEL curriculum with 15 social-emotional learning topics rolled out in 48 CASEL-aligned lesson plans, all powered with engaging music, videos, games, and activities. Mightifier. Grades 3-6.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

However, there are groups of smart, highly motivated people who are coming up with some creative ways to address this situation, surprisingly affordable pathways for training good, enthusiastic educators. In 2022, we explored some of the reasons teachers are leaving the classroom , so we won’t go into them here.

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