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 Teachers Essay 198

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2025

Their Pennsylvania school district, Haverford, consistently places among the top districts in our state. Their middle school benefits from stable funding, high-quality teachers, and a strong IT department, all leading to discussions about AI in their sixth grade classrooms. So I leave you with this.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Victoria Salas Salcedo English Language Arts Teacher, Rancho Milpitas Middle School Victoria Salas Salcedo, a Bay Area middle school teacher who recently achieved National Board Certification in English Language Arts for Early Adolescence, has incorporated artificial intelligence in her classroom for the past three years.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Grade-Specific Topics : Digital citizenship is taught progressively from kindergarten to middle school. Tools and Resources : Each grade level includes specific resources and projects to enhance learning. By starting early, students learn essential skills that will serve them throughout their lives.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2024

When my principal asked if I would be interested in teaching one elective period per day for the middle school population, I suggested a STEM elective since I had just taught a summer full of STEM during NYC’s annual STEM in the City programming. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

This ethical question formed the center of a thoughtful, deep discussion about an email from the school administration asking teachers to tell students not to “like” a YouTube video posted by a comedian who had been accused of making anti-Semitic statements.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

By middle school, your students are starting to discover their places in society. Whether youre planning five-minute bell ringers or long-term research assignments, these sociology questions for 8th grade are sure to get them talking and writing. What is the biggest ethical issue facing American society today?

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Common Sense is a pioneer in helping educators foster digital citizenship when new devices arrive and throughout the rest of the school year. Well, it looks different depending on the student’s grade level, but largely lessons are made up of digital civility, digital literacy and cyber hygiene components. Manteca (Calif.)

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Common Sense is a pioneer in helping educators foster digital citizenship when new devices arrive and throughout the rest of the school year. Well, it looks different depending on the student’s grade level, but largely lessons are made up of digital civility, digital literacy and cyber hygiene components. Manteca (Calif.)

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Curriculum Internet Middle School Middle School 126

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. Then in 2010, after two years of research, Sanborn implemented a district-wide shift.

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k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

He currently serves as the Proud Superintendent of the Texarkana Arkansas School District, where he is committed to making a lasting impact on students, educators, and the community. He later became the Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership for Kansas City Public Schools before taking the helm in Texarkana.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

The ever-changing conditions require responsible decision making, the ability to make constructive and respectful choices about personal behavior and social interactions based on consideration of ethical standards, safety concerns, social norms, the realistic evaluation of consequences of various actions and the well-being of self and others.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

We influence our classrooms, schools, and districts. A middle school teacher shared how her values compete with her capacity to care for her own mental well-being while caring for her students from underserved communities in Georgia: "My values are advocacy and mental health.

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Education Participation Feedback Beliefs 197

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. This plan of attack always started out strong, but it unraveled quickly.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

Gaggle Speaks

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

From the Project Tomorrow Speak Up survey, we learned that 51% of parents of middle school students are worried about their children’s safety online, including being harassed or bullied on school-provided online collaboration tools, whereas in 2007 only 32% of parents expressed this concern. Opting Out Isn’t the Answer.

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Ethics Middle School Middle School Communication 84

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Every school system has pockets of innovation. Those three forward-thinking teachers in the elementary school, that one grade-level team in the middle school, the department that’s really trying to do something different at the high school, that amazing principal over there, and so on. You’re out of luck.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

I think it’s important to learn about that and brace ourselves for what may come in the future,” said Parker, a blue-haired, enterprising seventh-grade from Mohawk Trail Regional School in Massachusetts. The task is difficult if they are not part of the conversation. “It Right now I still think there is a divide in the sessions.

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Learning Intelligence Ethics Testing 99

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

I was bright-eyed, optimistic, and excited to start out a new role that combined administration with teaching middle-school math. Why is it important that we address sexism and sexual harassment the education industry—and, particularly, in schools and universities? A sense of ethics or morality is high on the list.

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Education Communication Ethics Questions 116

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

If your students are struggling with this, try one of these gamified approaches to learning math: Dimension M – math simulations for middle school and high school. ProdigyGame — game-based approach to teaching hundreds of math concepts for grades 1-8. Quandary – an ethics problem-solving game from MIT.

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Blended Learning History Math Learning 84

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

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

We teach them all the rules and ethics of the press. And it could be offered at the middle school level. It could be offered at the high school level. Because kids are consuming news pretty early, sixth, seventh, eighth grade, they're already consuming news. They're a way to get information across.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

She was outside supervising a group of students during a mask break at her middle school in South Berwick, Maine, when she felt a sense of overwhelming dread. But before she could drag herself to the nurse’s office, she had to find someone to watch her sixth grade class. I’m having a heart attack , she thought.

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Teachers Coaching Testing Middle School 216

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Weston, who teaches at a public middle school, says she was even beginning to think about growing the business, launching affiliated child care centers throughout southwest Georgia. That was the ethical dilemma,” she continues. “Do Things were really rolling,” she says of her program prior to March. I can’t afford another bill.”

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Ethics Middle School Middle School Schools 192

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Activism Reading Club - teamwork and ethical responsibility. Teach the Brain's Biology We rightly think of the brain as the center of knowledge, and yet we often don’t spend enough time teaching students about how the brain works—especially in the elementary and middle grades. Art Reading Club - self motivation. Stay foolish.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 140

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Higher ed organizations are generally pretty ethically minded. I saw, in the '90s, when I first became a high school teacher, [then a] middle school teacher, I saw the way in which the digital world was impacting people's lives, even their most deepest-seated beliefs and values about life and the world. That is massive.

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Education Beliefs Art Internet 132

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

In the coming year, we will continue to see a growing number of these partnerships as well as a growing commitment to career readiness programs at the high school level which will empower students to pursue college or meaningful careers upon graduation. We know that many students across the country are not reading on grade level.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2025

Founded in 1959 in California, the initiative offers high school juniors from around the globe a chance to do college-level research in subjects, including astrophysics and biochemistry. Anushay Anjum, 22, taught middle school science classes to pay for her own high school tuition while growing up in Pakistan.

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STEM Science Intelligence Ethics 146

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