Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths.

Math

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.

Gamification

eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2016

The Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop, E-Line Media, and founding sponsor the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) aim to motivate interest in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) among youth by transforming their natural passions for playing video games into designing and creating their own.

STEM

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.

Teachers

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 8, 2023

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. They are good at math or they aren’t. If they fail at the Science Fair, they’ll fall in love with art instead.

Critical Thinking

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2024

This was randomized to middle school math teachers and multiple randomized control trials, and it reduces school-wide suspension rates through the year and even into the next year. And people have that history in their awareness and the fight that their communities have engaged in to be able to access education.

History

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

We set norms and ground rules, we gave each person involved a fair opportunity to speak and we followed that darn script. Across the country, we have lost time in school to just talk to each other. I remember sitting in rows of desks with other mediators, practicing a script that was written for conflict resolution.

Counselling

EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

In fact, with some supervision, I tasked two middle school students to unbox and set up the printer, and in less than 15 minutes , we were printing our first test object. That’s what my middle school football coach told me. The filament then feeds up a tube and into the direct-drive extruder.

Middle School

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Unlike the typical public high school, this program is selective, meaning classes are much smaller. Students must be high achievers in middle school with recommendations from math and science teachers, in addition to high test scores. Pedersen says the lack of testing allows more time for laboratory experimentation.

STEM

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 11, 2019

To be fair, kids who use technology regularly at home do have both a baseline set of skills and a fearless enthusiasm for anything with a screen and a power button. I’ll never forget when the Director of Technology at my school decided kids didn’t need keyboarding lessons until middle school.

Teaching

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Count Connie Scalzetti, a middle-school teacher at CICS West Belden in Chicago, among the believers. Allowing students to move on when they’re ready—or revisit something when they need support—is giving everyone a fair chance at being successful.”. In the middle school, students leverage the.

Learning

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.

Art

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.

Science

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2017

So in 1998, he and seven colleagues launched an animated e-learning platform designed to engage elementary and middle school students in math, reading and Spanish curriculum while supporting teachers with assessment tools. We can measure how the teacher is doing in a fair way because we'll know if the children are far behind.

Testing

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

Role : High school special education teacher Location : Chicago, Illinois Salary : $45,000 Years teaching : 6 Additional jobs : Bartender, nanny Reaghan Murphy guides students through a math problem. Outside of teaching, he’s had a graphic design business for more than 20 years. Instead, he wound up taking a job at a brewery. “I

Teachers

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Iowa’s 25th place math ranking shows we have work to do. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Hoover High School. Pleasant Middle School. Belie-Blank – Spencer CSD is doing math-science extracurricular with 6-8 graders. Sioux City CSD – opening a K-5 STEM specialty school in Fall 2015.

STEM

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. They are good at math or they aren’t. If they fail at the Science Fair, they’ll fall in love with art instead.

Critical Thinking

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. Games and online activities. Learn about each President. President for a Day!

Activities

k12

MARCH 23, 2025

Research shows that by middle school, many girls can begin to lose confidence in math and science , even when they perform just as well as boys. STEM Curriculum at K12 K12s STEM curriculum is designed to spark curiosity and keep students engaged through real-world applications of science, technology, engineering, and math.

STEM

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I don’t love math. I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. Dr. Brandee Ramirez Like if you have if you have one, one teacher who’s not using it and one teacher who is, I just don’t think that’s fair. Thank you.

Schools

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 26, 2025

Establish School Hours Set clear learning hours that mimic traditional school timings, with blocks allocated for live classes, independent study, breaks, and meals. Additionally, students can join local sports teams, music classes, or volunteer organizations outside of school to stay socially and physically active.

Motivation

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

More than a decade after the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Moses realized that the next frontier was economic justice, and that fluency in math and science was the springboard for peoples of color and low-income whites to be full citizens, fully enfranchised—the civil rights issue of the 21st century. While Moses was completing his Ph.D.

Math

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2018

At the annual Tinker Fair in De Queen, Ark., science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) education is put into action. The Tinker Fair is the culmination of three years of a robust K–12 STEM curriculum , says Nena Land, technology coordinator for De Queen Public Schools , which serves roughly 2,500 ­students across five schools.

STEM

eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2024

Now in its 10th year, this program offers training, stipends, and year-round support to STEM educators and mentors helping students from traditionally underrepresented races/ethnicities and low-income households to enter STEM research fairs and competitions. The Society is awarding a total of $326,000 in funding. Virgin Islands.

Middle School

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Carl Brownlee, middle school teacher Here’s a popular movie plot: Great teacher goes into a troubled neighborhood and turns around a low-performing school. In fact, in a broken district such as Detroit’s, schools in hard-bitten neighborhoods sometimes go from “turnarounds” to closure. They need it. They deserve it.”'

Teachers

Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Courses on niche topics may not be counted for school credit, but Nathoo believes it’s doing something much more valuable than that: getting students engaged and excited about learning. I would be surprised if they did not maintain their momentum,” Newman says of Outschool.

Internet

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2024

Many teachers that I have talked to don't like to call parents,” says Crystal Frommert, a middle school math teacher at a private school in Houston. “We And that's not fair because we never really know what's going on in someone's house. And I can give you an example of a story that's happened to a friend of mine.

Technology

Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

I mean, you're learning math and you're learning how to tie your shoe or whatever, right? Mary Jo Madda— @MJMadda —is Manager of Audience Development (previously Senior Editor) at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator. Francisco Nieto: I'm tired of hearing the term "lifelong learner".

Blended Learning

eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Department of Education , remove woke ideology from public schools, and return to the basics of reading, writing, and math. After the election, Chalkbeat asked teachers around the nation: What do you want Donald Trump to know about your school, your job, and about your students? Our schools need more nerds in them.

Teachers