Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers say that positive teacher-student relationships tend to start declining after first grade, with the lowest drop in middle school, before evening out in high school. In addition, as course content becomes more challenging in higher grades, teachers may tend to use these complex strategies more often.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator for the district, sat down with EdSurge this week to discuss the program, how his team has translated it into even lower levels (think middle school), and what he recommends other schools and districts do to make their students more college and career-ready. . Goodness gracious.

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2023

Reading scores dipped considerably due to the pandemic, with fewer than half of students qualifying at their grade level standard. Educators continue to work hard to keep students motivated and engaged in learning to read while helping them cope with mental health challenges.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2015

school district leaders are rethinking traditional approaches to instruction. For the past five years, the district has had a “no zero” grading policy to encourage the completion of all student work. We’re doing everything we can to motivate and engage them.”. In Meriden, Conn.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

The seven teams – Carnegie Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Eedi, Rising Academies, the University of Colorado Boulder, Khan Academy, and the University of Florida – are committed to harnessing the potential of AI and machine learning to develop innovative, affordable interventions to enhance middle school math education.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2015

Innovation can’t be tested or graded — but it can be built up. Here, I outline eight basic principles for the “Innovative Classroom,” around which I designed a middle school course called Physical Computing. Next page: How to motivate creative thinking. But rest assured, it is possible.

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eSchool News

JULY 23, 2015

All middle school students will use Discovery Education’s Math Techbook. Illinois’ Mundelein School District 75 and Discovery Education are launching a new partnership bringing Discovery Education’s new digital math textbook to all middle school students district-wide.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Aperture’s student-facing portal offers a new DESSA Middle School Student Self-Report to capture student voice regarding their social and emotional skills and deliver gamified activities to build student’s competence, guiding them through self-paced key growth areas designed specifically for grades 6-8.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

In eighth grade math, the gap between the highest- and lowest-performing students was the widest in the tests history. Fourth grade math was the lone bright spot, with average student scores ticking up two points on the 500-point scale. Proficient is considered a high bar, above what most states set as grade level expectations.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

This year’s recipient was Rose Moe, a 6th-grade math teacher at Lincoln Middle School in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. Broward County Public Schools (BCPS) was selected as District PBL Champion for their commitment to better engage their middle school students. About the Champions.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2019

How can a teacher with a class of 15, 20, or 25 students, many of whom read below grade level, address each learner’s instructional needs while keeping them all on track to read age-appropriate materials and have the learning confidence to succeed? Eisenhower Middle School in Freehold Township, N.J., Here’s how.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2020

A resounding ‘yes’ Gabriel Vogel, 11th grade teacher at Grassfield High School in Chesapeake, Va.: “Yes! I am hoping that parents can appreciate and understand, even more now, all that teachers do to be surrogate parents and help them help their child in the school setting. How can you tell? YES THEY HAVE! I think so, yes.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

When we decided that we’d be giving our sixth-grade students control over their own learning this year, our colleagues told us we were crazy. Middle schoolers, they warned us, are unable to work at their own pace because they lack academic fundamentals, intrinsic motivation and basic time management skills.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

Stephen Guerriero, sixth grade teacher at Needham Public Schools in Needham, Mass.: “I A Simple Note Is All It Takes Susanna Stratford, third grade teacher at Maple Hills Elementary in Renton, Wash.: “I I wish the public knew how creative a teacher must be to motivate students. And, give the teacher some grace.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

Cedar Creek Middle School in Texas is flipping that idea on its head, using a student behavior management platform called Hero to track positive as well as negative behaviors in real time—and school leaders are noticing a significant change in student conduct, and overall school culture, as a result.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Based on feedback from the companys school-based partners, these updates make teaching and learning even more relevant, engaging, and personalized for users of Discovery Education products. The DreamBox Math team will continue to make updates to standards and curriculum alignments throughout the year.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

Wong says her team realized through those conversations that high schools and elementary schools had plenty of data-literacy resources to draw from. It was middle school that experienced a gap. That really motivated our focus toward middle school teachers and students,” Wong says. “We

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2015

Scholastic has launched student pre-registration (K-8th grades) for its 2015 Scholastic Summer Reading Challenge at scholastic.com/summer. Educators who register students in reading challenge before June 30 can enter to win a free classroom library of 50 books. Next page: Details for educators and students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2022

School is not the problem. This statement was shared by a former middle school student of mine during his freshman year of high school. John* was getting all A’s and one B in stark contrast to the B’s, C’s, and D’s received in middle school. Grades should not be the driving motivator for students to learn.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Middle schooler Hannah Levenberg always liked taking things apart, but she didn’t make the connection between her tinkering and technology until she took a class from Mr. Moredock. He taught her how to code in her seventh grade Innovation and Design class at Redwood Day School. Alexis Lewis —inventor.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Middle school students in grades 6-8 flex their civics knowledge for a chance to win recognition and cash prizes. Chambers of commerce across 27 states will host in-person contests in their communities this school year. The deadline to enter is January 8, 2024.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Beginning with the 2021-2022 school year, all middle and high school students within the district will have access to Reading Plus for the following three years. The significant expansion follows a successful pilot program and small implementation at six of the district’s middle schools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s a great choice for teacher teams or PLCs who want to brainstorm ideas and work toward a consensus in areas like grading and assessment or professional development. One middle school teacher overestimated the amount of time her students spent talking during a lesson by 10 times (she guessed five minutes; it was actually 30 seconds).

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

Founded by Aadhav Prabu and Akshar Raikanti, The Steam Foundation is a California-based nonprofit with a mission to make STEAM education equally accessible to all students in kindergarten through 12 th grade. Prabu and Raikanti are currently juniors at Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, Calif.,

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2020

Read to Lead is a 100% free and proven blended learning solution that leverages game-based learning to help students in grades 5-9 build reading, writing, and leadership skills. If students read their way through 12 episodes, that’s equivalent to completing a middle school chapter book!

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability. Parents also have a role to play here.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2025

With increased practice, they become more proficient and confident readers, and because everyone loves doing things theyre good at, theyre motivated to read more and more joyfully. Project Tomorrow surveyed approximately 1,500 students in grades 4-12, as well as 56 teachers and librarians from 13 U.S.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Its exactly how we felt before our team at South Park Middle School went on a PBIS journey that produced results and led us to an opportunity to present at training conferences and spread the word to our fellow educators in Pennsylvania. We know what youre probably thinking right now: Thats great, but how do we get there?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Critical Thinking Development in Middle School Education Fostеring critical thinking skills in middlе school еducation is paramount to equipping studеnts with thе intеllеctual tools necessary for succеss.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

Middle school often gets a bad rap. But what if we understood the neurological reasons behind the bizarre middle school behavior we often see? So, after a decade as a teacher and administrator, when I was presented with an opportunity to start a new middle school, I seized it. Wells Middle School.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Innovation can’t be tested or graded — but it can be built up. Here, I outline eight basic principles for the “Innovative Classroom,” around which I designed a middle school course called Physical Computing. Next page: How to motivate creative thinking. website traffic) to No. But rest assured, it is possible.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

RIF will continue to align our model based on complementing the science of reading with the critical element of the joy of reading which will be especially important as educators look for ways to motivate and encourage greater frequency and engagement in reading. Within 5 days, everyone just loved KIBO—students and teachers!

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The average math score among both fourth and eighth graders in 2023 was statistically the same as in 1995 when some of todays students' own parents were in grade school themselves. Even with almost double the median amount of advanced fourth-grade students, the U.S. But it definitely needs that concentrated effort. In the U.S.,

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

For example, if you’re working on improving your grade in history, you might set a goal to raise your exam score by 10% over the next month. Digital tools like Grade Calculator or My Study Life can help you track your grades and monitor your progress in real-time.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Thats according to a survey of 700 elementary and middle school teachers by Study.com, an online learning platform, that queried educators in January about student achievement. Students improve in math when parents motivate them, set high expectations and connect them to help at school.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

For those who can, it’s become abundantly clear that grades alone are insufficient to motivate learning. According to Rocky Bragg, a high school English teacher in the district, this policy has created some havoc. But Bragg has witnessed a different reaction in his classes.

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