eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Key points: Encouraging reading is a top priority, no matter how the material is presented Boycotting book fairs no more Science teachers, math teachers, history teachers–we’re all reading teachers For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub I love a good classic. After all, I named my son Holden. Absolutely not.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If the interest at your school is bigger, engineers can make an all-school presentation at a middle- or high-school career day. Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. Future City.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2021

the winner of the 2021 3M Young Scientist Challenge ( #YoungScientist ), the nation’s premier middle school science competition. an eighth-grader at Dodgen Middle School in Cobb County High School Area 1. a seventh-grader at Clifford Crone Middle School in Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

high school students during the 2021 school year. The assessment is best started in middle school or within the first two years of high school, so students can use their results to work with educators to make individual graduation plans. The students represent all 50 states.

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Students Fairness Lecturing Science 246

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Nonprofit’s 8GA program aims to extend learning day for 8th graders to support them through high school and beyond. If a child can succeed in the 8th grade, he or she has a greater chance of graduating high school, attending college and securing a good-paying job.

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Middle School Middle School Fairness High School 149

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

On a memorable morning in my high school civics class, the students—seniors, full of energy—learned about the formation and function of our legislative branch. One student, standing up and projecting his voice, declared: “Virginia objects to New Jersey demanding that She give away Her fair and right voice in the new government.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Arizona] Prisha Shroff, Accelerated Middle School, Chandler Unified School District. PAUL, Minn.

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Middle School Middle School STEM Fairness 130

eSchool News

MAY 29, 2023

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the annual 3M Young Scientist Challenge invites students in grades 5-8 to compete for a mentorship with a 3M scientist, a $25,000 grand prize, and the chance to earn the title of “America’s Top Young Scientist.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

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. “If you go to school and graduate, this is exactly what you will be doing in a job.” But a lot of the stuff I forgot.”

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Waiting to address science achievement gaps by middle or high school may be waiting too long. Their science achievement gaps remained fairly stable from third grade through eighth grade. Funding for this study was provided by the National Center for Special Education Research, Institute of Education Sciences, U.S.

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Achievement Science Elementary School Elementary School 190

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Right now, millions of students around the country are comfortably in their seats for the 2023-24 school year. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. This year, in Indiana, sixth graders will take an inaugural civics course in the spring semester.

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History Education Social Studies Essay 198

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Even though they will move on to a different teacher the following year, or even other schools, they will be in the same grade cohort for many years. Next up is Abigail Joseph, a middle school director of learning, innovation and design at the Harker School in San Jose, Calif.

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eSchool News

JUNE 24, 2021

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Clifford Crone Middle School, Indian Prairie Community Unit School District 204 Samarth Mahapatra , Marietta, Ga.,

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Middle School Middle School STEM Science 130

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

A recent study using data of high school students found that kids who in high school reported having a natural mentor were 12 to 26 percentage points more likely to go to college than kids who did not, controlling for everything else. What is the biggest obstacle to implementing the ideas based on your research findings?

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History Culture Science Fairness 212

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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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2016

The STEM Challenge is open to middle school and high school students in the U.S. Nearly 4,000 middle and high school youth participated in the 2014-15 competition. Previous winners have showcased their games at the White House Science Fair. in grades five through twelve.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta.

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STEM Laboratory Peer Review Schools 143

Edsurge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

A few classrooms down, Baselice’s colleague Jonathan Nardolilli teaches middle school mathematics using a board game he created himself to instruct students about the different angles created by parallel lines intersecting a transversal. Like Angie, Croft’s online game options also get stuck in the school’s filters.

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Teachers Quizzes Testing Learning Outcomes 215

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

In fact, I was a peer mediator when I was in high school, though truth be told, I became a mediator so that I could opt out of health class. We set norms and ground rules, we gave each person involved a fair opportunity to speak and we followed that darn script. We embarked on a journey that was quite vulnerable for me.

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Counselling Confidentiality Middle School Middle School 165

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. Even in our school, when assignments are handed back in class, students still rush to ask their classmates, “What did you get?” Personally, I have always enjoyed competition. A rush of emotions shuffles through the crowd.

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Motivation Students Middle School Middle School 174

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

For instance, it now groups student users who are at the same level of mastery together, to make competition more fair. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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Gamification Motivation Game-Based Learning Math 205

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2017

Many years ago, I also ran a college prep mentoring program, so I had some experience working with middle school and high school students. While I was studying at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design, I did a lot of work with the Harvard Education school, and that was fantastic. Danish Kurani.

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Schools Middle School Middle School Science 136

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Valenzisi’s district, located in southwestern Connecticut, comprises 11,600 students attending 12 elementary schools, four middle schools, two high schools, and one alternative high school program. Among the goals of the district’s IT department is to “seamlessly infuse technology at all grade levels.”

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Students Fairness Elementary School Elementary School 124

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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Education Schools Attention Language 158

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The Board of Supervisors voted to bring back middle-school algebra, and a city ballot measure to reinstate eighth-grade algebra passed with about 82 percent of the vote. Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. This year San Francisco unraveled its nearly 10-year experiment.

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Math Grades Counselling Beliefs 181

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job.

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Science STEM Failure Middle School 110

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Role : High school biology teacher Location : Berlin, Maryland Salary : $71,000 Years teaching : 11 Second job : Co-owner of Buzz Meadery Megan Hines holds a glass of honey wine at Buzz Meadery, which she owns with her husband, a fellow teacher. Megan Hines. Teaching, in a lot of ways, was perhaps getting in the way of that growth.

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Teachers Special Education Elementary School Elementary School 198

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2018

Listening to Nicole’s impassioned and detailed presentation on the Puerto Rican debt crisis and its impact on the island’s healthcare system, it was easy to forget a high school senior was addressing a group of 100 students and teachers. Students are exposed to each of the program areas during their lower and middle school years.

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Students Art STEM Exams 143

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Past Teachers-in-Residence include a middle school science teacher, a kindergarten teacher and a performing arts teacher, but for this year’s program, the library specifically wanted to bring on a civics teacher to build out its digital collection of civics-focused curriculum materials. I currently work in an alternative high school.

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History Social Studies Study Writing 181

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI. They were immediately taken with the museum’s learning model and wanted to incorporate elements of it into their classrooms at Simon Baruch Middle School 104.

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Science Learning Schools Gamification 145

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

In an effort to increase the number and diversity of high school students taking AP CS classes, this fall the College Board will launch a new AP course that teaches a broader range of computing skills, especially skills that involve art, design, and other non-CS practices.

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Art Culture Science Exams 112

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

EdSurge will be hosting jobs fairs in the following cities: San Francisco ( April 25 ). It is, in fact, Design Tech High School in the Bay Area, a young school out of the San Mateo Union High School District that’s looking to hire teachers for roles that involve instruction, design thinking and curriculum development.

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English Curriculum Design Attention Curriculum 100

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

By middle school, your students are starting to discover their places in society. Do you feel like this is fair? Important Sociology Topics for Middle School Looking for additional ways to bring sociological topics into a middle school social studies class? Explore middle school resources

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Questions Grades Social Studies Middle School 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Sioux Center High School. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Davenport West High School. Learned enough English to transition into regular classes in 8th grade, finished all high school coursework by 11th grade, now taking 5 AP classes as a senior. Pleasant Middle School.

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STEM Interdisciplinary Quizzes Math 94

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Also by the NEA , this site includes Middle School lesson plans on the Lincoln-Douglas Debates and anti-slavery, background resources, interactive maps, games, quizzes, video, and audio. Activities for High School. Activities for Grades 6-8. Learn about each President. President for a Day!

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Activities Quizzes History Fairness 88

eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This is what’s called the high Desert Antelope Valley in my school district, there are 30. We are actually a kinder through 8th grade school district. We bought a high school four years ago. But initially when I first came into the school district, you know, everything’s about timing.

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Technology Schools English Mobile Devices 164

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.

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Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 195