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. The deadline to enter is January 8, 2024. The submission period is open through January 8, 2024.

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Math Middle School Middle School Essay 261

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

The pair joined forces in 2012 after Morris, who teaches sixth grade English and History at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, Calif., With Morris focused on middle school and Thomasson on high school, the pair brings different attributes to the planning and flipping table.

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Course Outline English Middle School Middle School 279

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar. Kids aren’t as sneaky as they think they are.

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Assignments English Essay Ethics 194

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For example, a high school student exploring topics related to climate change could navigate to an interesting article about the pros and cons of Daylight-Saving Time that leads them to write a persuasive essay arguing for a nationwide Sunshine Protection Act.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 273

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Personalized Notes Claire Peterson, teacher at Pat Neff Middle School in San Antonio, Texas: “Words are always good to hear. Every ripped out sheet of paper with the words, ‘Thank you, Mrs. Stephen Guerriero, sixth grade teachers at Needham Public Schools in Needham, Mass.: Gifts are sweet, but I keep every note I get.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Essay 152

The Hungry Teacher Blog

MARCH 29, 2025

Every ELA teacher has been here : you spend weeks teaching students how to write an essay, and when you sit down to grade, youre blown away by just how bad the writing is. Additionally, the essays feel choppy and unorganized. 3 Grading is Time-Consuming: After the hard work of teaching , now comes the grading!

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Middle School Middle School Writing Curriculum 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is Of course, there’s still a place for longform essays and formal writing, and strong writing instruction will effectively incorporate both, she says. Is it quality writing?

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 319

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? When was the last time you read one other than for grading? Yet most high school and middle school students are illiterate when it comes to online texts, and can’t discern real information from fake news. We can not omit digital literacy from our curriculum.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. Read Grading for Equity by Joe Feldman. High school students, especially, can feel singled out and embarrassed, even when you do something meant to help.

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Teachers Students Special Education History 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Creating an online graphic organizer on the animal kingdom doesn’t necessarily conflate with knowing how to compare-contrast (a skill mentioned thirty-eight times by Common Core between kindergarten and eighth grade). mouse skills.

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Skills Students Plagiarism Knowledge 155

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

West-Smith, a former English teacher, middle-school principal, and district curriculum supervisor, is the Curriculum Content Manager at. Prompts, Essays and More. Revision Assistant's Secondary Education Prompt Library —middle and high school writing prompts organized by grade level. Patti West-Smith.

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 132

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Rather than being stuck at a desk, forced to sit still for long hours, shuffling boring papers, at culinary school he’s physically active. I can’t love an essay, but I can love my food,” he says. When the regular public school he attended several years ago closed during the pandemic, Bradley switched to remote learning.

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Schools Students Counselling Special Education 190

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

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Special Education Disabilities Education Distance Learning 195

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

I later found out that he had dedicated two hours every week after school for three months of his fifth grade year to developing his idea and practicing how to share it. I was in awe of his dedication and truly admired his teacher and the school community that supported them.

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Students Participation Essay Culture 166

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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Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 94

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2019

Once my family moved to the mainland from Honolulu when I was in third grade, I don’t remember ever having any Asian or biracial teachers through elementary, middle or high school, or even in college or graduate school. We held Socratic seminars rooted in essays by Amy Tan and Daniel José Older.

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Culture Teachers Schools Syllabus 165

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2016

Each student compares their results to classmates and to other grade levels. Did most students by a certain grade level type faster than they write? Did most students by a certain grade level type faster than they write? Communicate results: Share results with other classes and other grade levels. Middle School.

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Beliefs Writing Essay Testing 102

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I tried to fit everything from 8th, 9th and 10th grade into the curriculum. I had high hopes for my students, but the average lexile score at my school was 800, which is equivalent to a late elementary or middle school level. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 128

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

I was diagnosed in 5th grade. There were complications in my birth, and so they've kind of always known, but it wasn't formally a learning disability until about 4th or 5th grade. 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?

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Disabilities Lecturing Learning Disabilities Learning 124

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 28, 2019

As a result, usually I settle for less-impassioned but easier-accomplished pieces like short stories or essays. A vignette is a verbal sketch, a brief essay, or a carefully crafted short work of fiction or nonfiction based around a setting, an atmosphere, or the same characters. Middle School lesson plan for writing an ebook.

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Essay Writing Achievement Middle School 88

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

When students — and adults — think of learning to keyboard, it usually generates images of rote drills where you sweat over a keyboard as you’re graded on speed and accuracy. Using word lists is a great way to practice keyboarding while learning those important word lists that populate every grade level. Word lists.

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Quizzes Essay Grades Knowledge 89

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 14, 2025

Writing Center: Build-A-Story with Creative Writing Picture Prompts By Teacher Gems Grades: K-3rd Subject: Creative Writing Standards: CCSS.W.K.3; Anytime Writing Prompts with Pictures & Word Bank By Primary Planet by Hilary Gard Grades: 2nd-4th Standards: CCSS.W.2.1, Supercharge creative writing with this engaging center!

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Writing Grades Elementary School Elementary School 86

Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Academic competitions can be exciting and rewarding additions to your school club options. For upper elementary and middle school students, these challenges not only promote academic growth and productive struggle but also social connections. It focuses on enhancing problem-solving skills through timed, written tests.

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Critical Thinking Essay Participation Math 52

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

They hired me over the phone to teach fifth grade, and I moved there, and so that was definite eye opening and a bit of a culture shock, but also the most memorable experiences I’ve ever had in teaching. I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school.

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Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 198

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication.

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Activities Schools Ethics Writing 87

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. When students feel they have control, learning becomes something theyre doing for themselves, not just for a grade. Use Humor and Surprise to Boost Engagement Remember your favorite teacher from school?

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

. “I went to the ESL program, and I exited in fifth grade,” he says. And this is what happened all the way through middle school and high school.” Huynh gives an example from a 9th grade science lesson on solubility. And that’s when his language support ended.

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English Language Languages Testing 52

EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

We're committed to educational equity and we focus on students from 11th grade all the way through to college graduation. Someone would say, "Yeah, I'll come to your college essay editing event," or they'd volunteer for something. I'd love the chance to talk about Let's Get Ready and the work that we do. JW: I guess, absolutely.

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Coaching Communication Essay High School 91

Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Dennis Allen doesn’t think the five-paragraph essay is dead. In the years before his retirement in May from West Virginia University, the Professor Emeritus did not assign “strict” five-paragraph essays. The five-paragraph essay is a topic long debated by educators, and strong opinions abound. Consider paragraphs.

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Essay English Writing Art 144

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

So I would say in that regard, I've met some of these students last year when they were visiting, and some of the students I may have met when they were in middle school because they come to visit us. And they're in 12th grade and they're in algebra two. The students are doing that so much through their essay writing.

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Culture History Questions Essay 40

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2024

Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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Essay Education Culture Elementary School 159

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2022

Patrick Harris II (he/him), author from Detroit, middle school English teacher and dean of students at The Roeper School. Matt Homrich-Knieling (he/him), youth organizer with MIStudentsDream, a Detroit-based coalition focused on immigration and education justice, and former middle school English language arts teacher.

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Writing Essay English History 155

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2023

They meet with parents, participate in professional development, grade papers, and more – work that regularly tips teachers’ work weeks past 40 hours. We suspect the teachers out there may nod along when they read this personal essay by Patrick Harris II, a middle school English teacher and dean of students at The Roeper School in Detroit.

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Reading Teachers Essay English 180

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Implementation ideas Curriculum design: Instead of generic prompts like “create a lesson plan on photosynthesis,” a high-impact prompt would be: “Design a 40-minute 6th grade lesson plan on photosynthesis, including a hands-on activity, vocabulary support for ELL students, and one formative assessment question.”

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Ethics Teachers Essay Feedback 280

Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

The administration has now made that verboten in DoDEA schools. The lawsuit argues that DoDEA has pulled books without considering the caliber of the texts or their grade-level appropriateness since award-winning childrens books are among those singled out.

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Schools History Students Culture 111