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APRIL 23, 2025

Engaging Middle Schoolers in Math Middle school is when students start wondering, When will I ever use this? Make Math Real with Real-world Connections The best way to hook middle schoolers? Apps like these help kids explore math concepts at their own pace while making learning an adventure.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts. That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2017

Even at the middle school level, there is pressure,” says Jessica Lura, director of strategic initiatives and partnerships at the K-8 Bullis Charter School in Los Altos, Calif. Algebra is not an 8th grade standard,” Lura says. We set up a criteria, and then we’re pressured to let students slide by.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Numerous online resources exist where you can find lecture notes, study guides, and other helpful materials. homework, lecture notes, practice tests). Keeping lecture notes, study guides, and other resources well-organized saves time and reduces the frustration of searching for materials during study sessions.

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JULY 24, 2024

Teachers no longer lecture from a dais with student learning contained within the schoolhouse walls. They already visit web-based edutainment sites as early as preschool, use ‘Instagram’ and multi-player XBox games in elementary school, and have made text messaging and Facebook their communication of choice by Middle School.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2017

(And how many elementary and middle schoolers do you see hanging out at Starbucks?) Fifteen years ago, when I was a middle school English teacher, I introduced flexible seating to my class, before it became the latest buzzword. Focusing on decorations and interior design alone is missing the point, however.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. My classroom was set up with desks in rows and my lessons included lectures with PowerPoint presentations, worksheets and textbook work. The period couldn’t end fast enough. I was tense and ready to throw in the towel.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Students are grouped by academic need so teachers can review topics with struggling students while the rest of the class works at their own pace, often on a playlist of exercises assigned by Canvas (grades 6-12) or Google Classroom (K-5). Students at Normandy Park Elementary in Morris School District. PARCC Scores-Grade 5 ELA.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2019

High school students have created prototypes for innovations that redefine how we travel in the air and support sustainable living on Mars. And even our fourth grade students have worked through a variety of design challenges, building boats that can stay afloat with increasing loads and using magnets to power cars.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” Welch, an 8th-grade teacher at North Hills Middle School in Pittsburgh, is charting his own path—one that doesn’t include a textbook.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2024

Arnold, Director of School Pathways, New York City Public Schools (New York, NY) Nkiru Azza, Elementary Teacher, Digital Lead Learner, Toronto District School Board (Toronto, ON, Canada) Ronda Blevins, Ed.D., Since its inception in 1995, more than 800 educators from around the world have received the award.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The very first year I taught middle school science, I found myself teaching more reading lessons than I had ever expected—and that didn’t change when I switched to a middle school math classroom two years later. The initiative?

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

I was diagnosed in 5th grade. There were complications in my birth, and so they've kind of always known, but it wasn't formally a learning disability until about 4th or 5th grade. You've been in school for quite a while now, so, what has your experience been as a student both when you were in K-12 and now in college?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta. A former wildlife biologist and lecturer at the University of Wisconsin, he has been teaching since 2005. They are graded on a pass or fail basis.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2020

At East High School in Rochester, N.Y., first year teacher Gavin Jenkins and New York state master teacher Mary Courtney are co-teaching 9th grade chemistry for the first time. is a Research Scientist at the Yale Child Study Center and Director of Research at the Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence at the Yale School of Medicine.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Sean entered Locust Grove Middle School as it was implementing “competency-based” learning, which tailors schooling to each child’s ability. On a recent afternoon in her bustling seventh-grade science and math class, students were choosing whether to take a computerized quiz or draw a diagram of a concept they were learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Digital resources can save teachers innumerable hours of planning, grading, assigning, and assessing in the classroom. As online resources develop and create more curricula, teachers will transform classroom dynamics by devoting less time to lecturing and spending more time enriching and mentoring. About the Author.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

For example, Dr. Nicole Abera is the director of elementary and middle school programs at the Katherine Thomas School in Washington, D.C., Shira Moskovitz is a fifth grade inclusion classroom teacher in New York City, an epicenter of the pandemic. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D., Follow her @drchriscip.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Since the 1950s, the setup of your average second, sixth or tenth grade classroom hasn’t changed all that much. Desks lined up, students facing forward, teacher up at the front giving a lecture. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. The traditional sequence for math in middle school and high school is algebra I, geometry, algebra II/trigonometry and then pre-calculus, with advanced students making it to calculus.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 11, 2016

Every year, students face new iPads, apps, online grading systems, webtools, digital devices, LMSs, cloud-based homework, digital portfolios, and more. Each brief description includes the appropriate grade level, whether the tool is critical/important/optional, a ranking from 1-5 scale for how intuitive it is, and popular examples.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

EdSurge: Where did you attend, and why did you and/or your parents choose to send you to a virtual program, over a traditional school? I went to Virtual High School based out of Ontario, Canada. I did all of my high school online, grade 9 through grade 12, every single credit, in the Virtual High School.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. The takeaway?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Progress — and success — is dependent on the completion of various tasks rather than seat time as is the metric used in most states (for example, in my state of California, students must attend class 175-180 days a year to pass that grade). Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

A stand-out webtool among standards-based grading platforms is a free online program called Kiddom ( click for my review ). While it offers many appealing pieces (homework assignment and grading, easy communication, and built-in metrics), one unique to Kiddom is their robust K-12 content library. More about Kiddom.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Then actively pick sometime within their lecture to say, "Here's a summary of the collection of the feedback I've received, here's what I would do based on this feedback." But we were also expected to participate within this online environment that was created through our school.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

In such schools, replicative uses of technology are quite common, but transformative uses that leverage the unique affordances of technology are quite rare. Teachers who used to lecture with a chalkboard or whiteboard may now lecture with an expensive interactive whiteboard.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

And then that was followed by putting me in a lecture center because my class got so big. I propose teachers do the traditional lecture, textbook method for 80 percent of the time. And it could be offered at the middle school level. It could be offered at the high school level.

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k12 Online Schools

JULY 5, 2024

K12 Schools For parents considering this path, there are numerous online homeschooling programs available, including highly acclaimed K12 online programs that provide accredited curriculums for grades K through 12. The K12 online school curriculum is designed to cater to all learning styles and ensure a solid educational foundation.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

Ten years ago two Colorado chemistry teachers unleashed a brash concept on a K-12 landscape where few questioned the age-old formula of lecture, homework, assess, repeat. A New York Times headline went so far as to call it a “ Death Knell for the Lecture ,” while other mainstream media outlets scrambled to cover the craze.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

We're located in a building in the middle of campus with two other cultural centers, La Casa Latina and PAACH. In addition to running the center, I also lecture on campus I teach a couple of different classes. And they're in 12th grade and they're in algebra two. It's one of six different cultural centers on campus.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

China’s Ministry of Education (MOE) issued school closure policies for the entire country between January 20 and February 8, affecting China’s 278 million students across primary and postsecondary grades. Most provinces are likely to reopen schools on April 27 for students in grades 9 and 12 who are taking entrance exams.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

This meant I was consistently rewarded at school for putting my head down and striving to be a “good student” and “high achiever,” but never for challenging authority or speaking up when something was wrong. I broke that mold on the day that a substitute lecturer addressed my Ph.D. Wait, what? I spoke up. There is a way we can connect."

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

Do projects where your grade is your hard work alone, or count on your friends to help you make the grade? Icebreaker Activity DIGITAL Middle & High School Would You Rather? By Mindful and Kind Counseling Grades: 6th-12th You can create your own slides or use one of these 40 premade Would You Rather question slides.

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JULY 13, 2016

It is well-designed, full of facts, with excellent graphics that convey visually the lecture-type presentation. It is well-suited to Middle School civics classes. The site automatically scores student grades and provides an opportunity to move on to other civics-based topics. Sanford, and Miranda vs. Arizona.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2021

The high school sophomore’s grades were not where they needed to be when schools first closed for the coronavirus pandemic. I was able to get a lot of my grades up.” For the first time all school year, the 10th-grader suddenly found herself with straight As. “I I was actually able to get everything done,” she says.

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