eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Databases are essential for helping middle and high school students understand the value of research, appreciate the importance of validating sources, and make connections between different topics — all of which are necessary for building information literacy skills. They are also valuable teaching tools.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 273

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 246

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. Kind Words, Thanks and Acknowledgement Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.:

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Essay 154

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. Perhaps all this is for the best.

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Motivation Grades Students Beliefs 218

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. 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

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold.

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History Education Social Studies Beliefs 194

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? 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. Increasingly, writing doesn’t mean a five paragraph essay written by hand. After all, the best way to learn is to teach.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

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 114

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

I was a senior in high school when the pandemic started. And we were watching old teaching videos from, like, 2005, and they were expecting us to write essays about what we learned, how we can integrate that with our teaching. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there.

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Teachers Elementary School Elementary School Students 172

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

A high school senior with long curly hair who participates in a vocational program, Bradley spends about half the day at culinary school and then half in “at-home instruction” through a nearby high school run by a statewide public education service. I can’t love an essay, but I can love my food,” he says.

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Schools Students Counselling Special Education 192

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus. While teaching media arts technology in Grades 1–5, Adam continues to push the boundaries of edtech forward and discover new, insightful ways to keep his students, and his entire school community, excited about learning.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 319

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 166

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 135

Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

On December 9th, 2017, 300 students and educators came to Grover Middle School in West Windsor to learn more about TED-Ed Clubs. After a very successful event in December, we will be launching our first after school club program at a new STEM high school in Union City in January 2018. TED-Ed D.I.V.E.

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Students Participation Essay Culture 166

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

Tasking students with submitting a video essay, for example, provides teachers with the opportunity to assess students’ understanding of a topic. For instance, a high school freshman might undertake a service learning project that lasts until his graduation. Portfolios also highlight learning’s natural progression.

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Authentic Assessment Game-Based Learning Learning Evaluation 117

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 143

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

McClarin Success Academy in College Park, GA is an alternative high school and many of our students have never passed a standardized test. 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.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

I went to a small high school there in the city, and yeah, that's a little bit about me. 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.

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Disabilities Lecturing Learning Disabilities Learning 124

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 14, 2025

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. Try these narrative writing prompts to help your students sharpen their storytelling skills!

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Writing Grades Elementary School Elementary School 86

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 80

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. And so then I moved to a comprehensive high school with a really, Dr. Brandee Ramirez Dr. Brandee Ramirez A major need for intervention. And so then I was there for a year, I loved it.

Schools 198

Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 198

Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

Students will first read a shared text of any length, from a haiku, photograph, painting, or song to an article, essay, short story, or novel. Some educators count it as a summative assessment, similar to an exam, essay, or project. Some facilitators may simply assign the text for students to read prior to the Socratic seminar.

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Critical Thinking Coaching Discussions Evaluation 52

EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So before I came to Let's Get Ready, I've worked with a number of community-based organizations to directly support high school students on their post-secondary planning, and I actually started my work at Let's Get Ready in our direct student work as well. So I just transitioned more recently into an external-facing role.

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Coaching Communication Essay High School 91

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Real School Example A teacher introduced the Cold War by comparing it to a dramatic “high school friendship breakup.” Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays.

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

And this is what happened all the way through middle school and high school.” chunking : Rather than squeeze multiple steps into an essay-type question, break multi-part questions into separate, individual chunks with their own spaces to respond. And that’s when his language support ended.

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English Language Languages Testing 52

EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And a significant portion of my work revolves around engaging these institutions and being more effective in terms of, one, recruiting these students, but also marketing to the community’s organizations, the advocates, the advisors, the counselors, high school teachers who might be also engaged in this work, too. But Penn is hard.

Culture 40

Culture History Questions High School 40

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. Lee High School in Baytown, Texas.

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Essay English Writing Art 145

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 162

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2022

This second cohort includes eight talented educators teaching at public, charter, independent and parochial schools, from Hawaii to Michigan: Whitney Aragaki (she/they), high school biology and environmental science teacher at Wai?kea kea High School in Hilo, Hawai‘i. Have a story idea to share?

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Writing Essay English History 155

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2024

If you have a document known to be written by a student, you can run a newer essay they turn in against the original fingerprint, and see whether or not the linguistic style matches the syntax, the word choice, and the lexical density. … So when a kid finishes an essay, I'm doing it a lot more now where I'm saying, all right.

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Essay Local Government Writing Plagiarism 201

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

69% believe it should be utilized for research in classrooms or at school. On the other hand, only one-fourth (25%) of parents with children ages 5 and up are very confident teachers will be able to identify assignments or essays produced by AI. 48% trust lesson plans and curriculum created with AI tools. Virgin Islands.

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Middle School Middle School Education STEM 139

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Something that was a really common thread was older students who said they had the exact same experience in middle school or high school, where for 20 minutes, they thought they were dying, and they were texting their goodbyes to their parents, and then it turned out to be just a drill,” she says.

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Activities Essay Schools Middle School 176

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2023

As Elizabeth Neilson, a former high school English teacher who lives in Minneapolis, says, “I was at a fork in the road. 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 English Essay 180

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

Clint Smith Well, I taught high school English in Prince George’s County, Maryland, for a few years before I went to graduate school, and for me, that experience very much served as the catalyst for every decision that I've made about how to navigate my life moving forward. That essay is a reminder.

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Technology History Learning Writing 121