eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Crafted with the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), this resource inspires the next generation of creative thinkers, risk takers and ethical problem-solvers. . Put mobility at the heart of engineering with the Innovation Ignition Challenge from Keys to Connect , a program created with Toyota.

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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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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2024

Department of Education's YOU Belong in STEM and the National Science Foundation's vision for the STEM Education of the Future underscore a national commitment to equipping students with the skills and knowledge needed to thrive in a tech-centric world, ensuring equitable access to opportunities that foster innovation and sustain the economy.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

A shortage of trained teachers in Oregon is leaving school districts short-handed, so replacements without educational backgrounds are being recruited from other professions to fill the gap. This school year at Umatilla School District, two science teachers are embarking on a new career after years of real-world experience in the subject.

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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 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. This lesson required spatial reasoning skills, which engage the parts of the brain most closely associated with mathematical thinking.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Grade-Specific Topics : Digital citizenship is taught progressively from kindergarten to middle school. By starting early, students learn essential skills that will serve them throughout their lives. Highlights Digital Citizenship Defined : Understanding rights and responsibilities as internet users is crucial.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI-powered assistants can also provide valuable feedback on student work, helping them improve their skills and knowledge (Xia et al., One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI-powered assistants can also provide valuable feedback on student work, helping them improve their skills and knowledge (Xia et al., One should note, however, careful attention must be given to ethical considerations, data privacy, the role educators play in its use, and the transparency of AI systems.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2018

Roberta Duvall is a Washoe County School District principal at B.D. Billinghurst Middle School. With a ratio of up to 38 students per teacher, which rose after budget cuts, her school is trying to do a lot with a little. She has pinpointed developing these skills in teachers and students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Within the first five years of the transition, Sanborn schools also built a competency-based curriculum and performance-based assessments based on those standards. Both schools decided to keep CARES in place and align its habits to the WSP. They wanted to find meaningful ways to measure these critical skills.

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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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Gaggle Speaks

OCTOBER 14, 2015

.” Diana Graber, co-founder of Cyberwise, an online resource for adults seeking to help kids be safe and productive online, started the webcast with some statistics and information about her middle school digital citizenship media literacy program called Cyber Civics. “It all starts with education,” she said.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Digital Citizenship for Students at Middle and High School Levels. Generally, as students reach middle school, Mendoza notes that they will likely be getting their first smartphone, which can open up the conversations educators can have with their students. “In For example, Scarlett Middle School in Ann Arbor, Mich.,

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2018

Digital Citizenship for Students at Middle and High School Levels. Generally, as students reach middle school, Mendoza notes that they will likely be getting their first smartphone, which can open up the conversations educators can have with their students. “In For example, Scarlett Middle School in Ann Arbor, Mich.,

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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

JANUARY 11, 2017

Teaching Strategies Cult of Pedagogy Podcast Jennifer Gonzalez, a former middle school teacher, hosts this podcast as part of her popular blog on teaching strategies, education reform, and ed tech. Recent episodes explore the ethics of coding and diversity in tech. Please share your own picks in the comments section below.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

When an exam is designed to assess a wide set of skills and content, and success is calculated by one total score, students walk away identifying as a letter, number or percentage. 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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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

Africans were skilled laborers, mathematicians and astronomers. We influence our classrooms, schools, and districts. Researchers have distinguished an ethic of care associated with Black women’s motherwork. As Black womxn educators, we have a connection with education that is ancestral.

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Gaggle Speaks

JANUARY 27, 2017

What I’m referring to are soft skills, such as digital citizenship, empathy, communication and self-awareness. The value of these moral skills are at least as necessary for students. The question is: What are you doing in your classroom to foster these soft skills?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

That was an important part of what kept a little middle school girl coming back to those competitions. I was also very fortunate at that young, impressionable age to have two female mentors coaching my team; one was in high school and one was a recent college graduate. And with FIRST I could compete but also have fun.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

That’s why educators need to pay attention to cultivating skills in students that robots don't do efficiently. “We I would like to see us invest more in developing student’s creativity, interpersonal skills, teamwork, unstructured planning, empathy, motivation, and leadership.”

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

By middle school, your students are starting to discover their places in society. 10 Sociology Questions for Class Discussions Do your middle schoolers come into class with questions on their mind? Should students have the same rights and privileges in schools that adults have in society?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 26, 2018

Statistics say over the summer, kids lose over two months of math skills, two months of reading skills, and one month of overall learning. Efforts to prevent summer learning loss propel often-unpopular year-round school initiatives and all manner of summer school and summer camps that focus on cerebral topics.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

If you’re looking for meaningful lessons to wrap up your school year, here are my top picks: Digital Passport. Applied Digital Skills. Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). Applied Digital Skills.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

We teach them all the rules and ethics of the press. How do teachers balance the need to make sure that certain skills are taught but also, if they wanted to, offer students the autonomy that you talk about? I wonder how that's impacting the way you're teaching news in school and what skills students are seeking?

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2020

The professor also acknowledged the many ethical questions raised by such efforts. You don't go to school to learn how to tie a shoelace. But in some sense, tying my shoelaces and brushing my teeth are perhaps two of the most important skills that I've learned. This also raises all kinds of ethical issues.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

—a career move she describes as a dream fulfilled—Weston had built out a staff of skilled early childhood professionals who were caring for some 50-plus children. 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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

While AI offers promising enhancements to education, ethical and safety implications give many parents pause. Twenty-nine are middle school teachers, 56 are high school teachers, two are affiliated with universities while six work in nonprofit settings. AI continues to shape our daily lives and education is no exception.

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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. In a RAND survey of nearly a thousand former public school teachers, nearly two-thirds of those who left during the pandemic said their salary was a factor.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Resilience, in particular, is a core SEL skill that translates well across subject areas. By teaching skills ranging from self-management to responsible decision-making , educators can instill in students the positive mindsets, resilience, and grit they need to succeed in school and in life. Art Reading Club - self motivation.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

. –Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind Overwhelming evidence confirms that persistent gaps in adolescents foundational literacy skills are preventing them from attaining educational, career, and life success. They level the playing field and ensure every student has access to career exploration and skill-building opportunities.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Implementation ideas Rubric-aligned scoring: “Use this rubric to score a middle school social studies response. When teachers control how AI is used through skillful prompting, it becomes an ally–not a replacement. More than a technical trick, its a pedagogical shift.

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Cal Matters

MAY 20, 2025

Some earned master’s degrees in their home countries, while others never finished middle school. Cully said she admires her students work ethic and resilience. She said the years she spent watching her parents struggle to navigate life in the United States without strong English skills spurred her to teach ESL.

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