eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2022

“D&D saved my life, I’ve seen it save and change the lives of others, and I watch as it shapes the lives of the children who learn to play in my class,” said Kade Wells, Harrisburg North Middle School ELA Instructor in South Dakota and founder of Building Heroez.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2019

And even though 15 states have adopted a policy to give all high school students access to computer science courses, universities prepare way fewer computer science teachers than we need. It’s more abysmal in the younger grades, with only six states giving all K-12 students access. Beverly Sklar.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. For instance, an often cited study showed that first-grade teachers with math anxiety passed it to their female but not their male students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The teaching experts who sponsored the training hope it will prepare college instructors to become “advocates,” empowering them to explain and defend the rigor of this way of teaching calculus to skeptical scientists from other departments. This idea is what drew instructors to sweaty Cambridge in July. the instructor asked.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The lack of computer science technology educators in middle schools continues to be a genuine crisis, especially considering the critical role of STEM education in preparing students for future careers. 00:05:29 Speaker 1 Well, now the teacher can open up the students workbook, see what they did, and give them a grade.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. If anyone knows the importance of belonging, it’s Columbia University instructor Marcelle Mentor, who grew up as a Black child under apartheid in South Africa. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2022

When students returned to the classroom after COVID-19 lockdowns, teachers found themselves in a triple role: instructor, mental health proctor and public health enforcer. There have been plenty of adjustments to the classroom due to continued health precautions, and that has meant differences in what school supplies are needed.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2024

The resources are available for students in grades three through eight who are participating in the ALL In Tutoring Reading Initiative and who are not proficient on the Virginia Standards of Learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. They LOVED sharing what they learned using Adobe Spark!

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Often there are lessons to be learned from the very act of teaching, whether it’s an instructor finding new ways to reach—or not reach—students, to watching students grow before your eyes to discovering what makes collaborative learning so successful. Teaching isn’t a simple one-way exchange.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

A number of instructors say it’s partly reconsidering how calculus, a crucial step toward STEM careers and often a “weed out” course in higher ed, is taught. Get rid of the societal lies that everyone needs to go to college and everyone must strive to go to an Ivy League school rather than one that is their best fit.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

“We really wanted to explore that question, and in a direct application that made a difference to the thousands of children across the country who found themselves facing significant learning loss by virtue of the absence of the traditional modality of brick and mortar schooling.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

. — Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. We see older readers struggle with foundational literacy skills, which are often only taught up until the third grade.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

I just get up and grade papers. She discovered multiple studies on the efficacy of peer feedback when well-guided by an instructor, some with numerous tips to be mined and applied. Middle school students role-play feedback interactions, 2019. The other mom looked sympathetic. “Oh, Oh, it’s okay,” I assured her. “I

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

The CoderZ professional development program introduces instructors to the concepts of teaching computer science and computational thinking using an online tool. One example is Todd Leff, a CS and technology teacher who has been teaching programming at Kingsview Middle School in Maryland. About CoderZ.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

The district was the first in the state to open STEM Academies as part of their general public-school program. At the middle school level, they function as a school within a school. The program started with 1:1 iPads in two first grade classrooms in 2010.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. - Jill Hill “It was just a great chance to learn more about artificial intelligence and machine learning and how to encourage K-12 teachers to use more AI tools in their classrooms,” said Hill, the technology integration specialist at her middle school. What stood out to you most from participating in this program?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Right now I teach grades 1 through 9 at Lake Travis STEM Academy, just outside Austin, Texas. A couple years ago, while I was teaching percussion classes at Clark High School in Dallas, a sixth-grader, Sam, would come to class for his percussion lessons. Taylor Haun is a music instructor at Lake Travis STEM Academy in Austin, Texas.

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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. in grades five through twelve. The STEM Challenge offers game design and mentoring workshops in approximately 20 cities across the nation for youth and mentors, featuring professional game designers and industry professionals as instructors.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

Both Ranson IB Middle School, also in North Carolina, and Franchise Schools threaded a fine needle by collapsing grade levels, increasing class sizes and (in Ranson’s case) reducing the number of teachers hired for a grade level. At Navigator, pay for part-time small-group instructors was as low as $15 per hour.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

But it really kicks in during middle school. What we find in our middle schools is that students are starting to develop their own voices as writers,” Cotton says. Henry County students in grades six through nine participate in district-wide writing prompts three times a year. The writing helps.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Xiong Fanyan, who oversees instructional affairs at a middle school in Beijing, has recorded a short tutorial video and uploaded it to Tencent Video for his students to watch. She has a younger brother in second grade, and says “my mom is going crazy.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

The subjects and projects that use 3D printing are almost limitless, especially in science, technology, engineering and math classes: At Harlan Rowe Middle School in Athens, Pa., How Teachers and Students Use 3D Printing in Today’s Classrooms. MORE FROM EDTECH: Check out these 4 steps to create a strong 3D printing curriculum.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

After a chance meeting with Rob Warren of Curriculum Associates, Ray, the founder of the consultancy K20Connect and former executive director of learning technology for Nashville public schools, took him along to visit Stratford STEM Magnet School Lower Campus, a middle school in Nashville that was failing at the time.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2023

If you’re EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo, who’s currently in grad school, you’ve recently experienced all three of these scenarios. So we not only have it where everybody is responsible for different components of the project, but as an instructor, it's really easy to track who's doing what and what they've contributed.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. Microsoft Forms is flexible enough to support formative assessments of an entire grade.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

“It felt like a safe haven sometimes,” says Richard, a recent graduate of the program and a new fifth grade teacher. And yet, the program has graduated about 300 African American men from college education departments in South Carolina, more than doubling the number of Black men teaching in elementary and middle schools in the state.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The network began the Greenfield Schools design project to research what the future of school could be, with the goal of opening two new schools in 2015—an elementary school and a middle school. The first Greenfield Schools launched in August 2015 in New Haven, CT.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. These students were in early middle school or ninth grade when the pandemic started, and had to take classes like pre-algebra online.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2023

Montero: Before Mater Academy became a Verizon Innovative Learning School, our IT person already had a lot on his plate, with 135 teachers and 300 different classrooms. When the middle school became a Verizon Innovative Learning School, that meant adding 1,200 extra iPads to the list of devices.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

For novice programming students, having access to a widely-used, industry-standard tool can give them a sense of how coding projects are done professional settings, says Sheena Vaidyanathan, a middle-school computer science educator in Los Altos School District in California. billion acquisition offer from Microsoft.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum? So, [the instructor] was able to see just about everything we did. We are almost out of time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This is great for third to ninth grade students who want to learn lists of facts such as state capitals, states in the US, state shapes, state culture, and more. In an age when anyone can produce and sell an app, the fact that lessons are designed by Ivy League instructors is a plus. There is little higher-order thinking requiredf.

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Learning Assistantships in Community Colleges Learning assistants (LAs) are undergraduate students who engage as classroom support for faculty instructors in college courses (Ellerbrock et al., LAs also took on tasks such as leading short sections of class, helping with course content design, and grading/providing feedback.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

When students — and adults — think of learning to keyboard, it usually generates images of rote drills where you sweat over a keyboard as you’re graded on speed and accuracy. Type to Learn –fee, aligned between home and school. Typing Instructor –complete online program (fee). TypingWeb.com—a graduated course.

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