eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2020

Dictionary.com announced today it has launched the Dictionary.com Learning At Home Center , offering free, educator-reviewed materials and resources for kids from pre-K through 12th grade and their parents. Written by the Dictionary.com editors with the help of educators from around the U.S.,

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AUGUST 25, 2022

My son and I started The Middle School Mind podcast last fall as a way to give him a platform to express his, sometimes random, 6th grade thoughts. Meet The Middle School Mind. We started The Middle School Mind because we also love listening to podcasts. Creative outlet. We’ve got you covered.

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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. Fath found this when she designed a board game called Outbreak for middle schoolers.

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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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AUGUST 4, 2023

The exception is BrainPOP — there are no ads, but it requires a hefty annual fee: BrainPOP Fremium BrainPOP is a collection of three-five minute animated movies, learning games, quizzes, and interactive activities for grades 3-8 addressing a wide variety of topics such as math, science, social studies, health, art, and technology.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy?

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Some say third grade, some leave it until sixth. Their demographics include: private school. First Grade. This I tell them is the ‘big kids’ program, one they’ll use throughout Lower and Middle School. Second Grade. Third Grade-Fifth Grade. 3rd Grade: 15 wpm.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

These short, informal quizzes can offer snapshots of individual student performance and allow teachers to adjust their teaching as the student grows. . “At In one middle school that participated in the Digital Promise study, teachers used Microsoft Forms, which utilizes Azure to collect and analyze data.

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JANUARY 22, 2018

Challenge: The Education Trust also found that only 4% of typical classroom assignments teach higher order thinking , a troubling statistic that proves teachers desperately need instructional tools that go beyond worksheets, apps, online games, and quizzes. Sample Lesson Plans for Your School.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In my school, the award ceremonies began in first grade, and after I received my first one, I wanted more. In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. I figured that what gave me joy in elementary school would do the same for my students.

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AUGUST 31, 2017

This past April, while administering the 5th grade ELA standardized test in Louisiana, I did as I was supposed to—I circulated and stuck to the script. Somehow Mike scored ‘Approaching Basic,’ which is not the lowest score, but is below the grade level standard. And this was a mistake because kids are motivated by goals—not grades.

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

For example, completing homework requires executive function skills, and the benefits of homework increase as students move into middle school and high school. Students remember more and experience less mind-wandering when lectures are interpolated with other learning activities, such as short quizzes.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Over the last year, she’s noticed ads peppered throughout the communications app, which is used by most students, parents and teachers at her 13-year-old’s middle school. Most of the ads seem innocuous—a virtual charter school or a set of digital worksheets, for example—and don’t bother her much. They’re middle-school kids.

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JUNE 14, 2019

“Differentiation can take hours and hours and hours, but I’ve found a super-efficient way to differentiate well,” enthuses Dorseyville Middle School teacher Cathie Gillner. They spend less time completing projects and receive higher grades because their projects are clearly more focused. It’s BrainPOP. It’s the creation.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her school is located in Houston’s Fifth Ward neighborhood and serves a student body that is nearly 100 percent classified as economically disadvantaged. The Texas Education Agency awards letter grades to schools and districts based on test scores and other student performance metrics. Map by Nadia Tamez-Robledo for EdSurge.

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MARCH 11, 2016

Every year, students face new iPads, apps, online grading systems, webtools, digital devices, LMSs, cloud-based homework, digital portfolios, and more. online quizzes. With it, students can take notes in their books, fill in online rubrics and quizzes, and automatically link to additional resources without having to retype URLs.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Here are fifteen ways to celebrate in your classroom including websites, games, activities, printables, quizzes, audios, songs, interactive maps, crafts, flashcards, videos, webquests, books, posters, trading cards, lesson plans, word searches, puzzles, speeches, articles, animations, biographies, and more: 1. Activities for Grades K-5.

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APRIL 28, 2020

In fact, the Saxon math curriculum my teachers used when I was in middle school over 25 years ago leveraged interleaving. These activities take no more than 15 minutes and are graded so students are incentivized to try in earnest. Spacing The third technique is spacing.

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JUNE 27, 2017

Quizzes on Google Forms now allow for a bit more customization: Teachers can offer partial credit for answers choices while auto-grading multiple choice questions. Our bread and butter has always been middle school ELA,” a representative from the company explains.

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MAY 25, 2017

But more importantly, every single one of them is listening attentively for their next instructions—right in the middle of math class. Middle school math students ready to save the world What may seem like an odd day in a “typical” math class is just the beginning. Students let out a sigh of relief, realizing it’s all pretend.

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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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

BrainPOP is a collection of three-five minute animated movies, learning games, quizzes, and interactive activities for grades 3-8 addressing a wide variety of topics such as math, science, social studies, health, art, and technology. They can even create quizzes to assess their learning. Info Please. SchoolsWorld.TV.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Buy one grade level school license; get the second free. Just in time for summer preparation for the new school year! As many installs as the school wants for one low fee. Purchase a School License for one grade and get the second grade level for free on either of the following: student tech curriculum workbooks (K-8).

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JULY 14, 2017

Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. Owned by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, MeeGenius is a nice selection of over 700 books for grades 2-8. Many of the books include complete lesson plans and quizzes. Access this collection via the website. Listen and Read. Mighty Book.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions of their lives. ” He started his daily routine with his own students, and when it worked well, the system caught on across the ninth grade the following year.

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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. Using word lists is a great way to practice keyboarding while learning those important word lists that populate every grade level. Word lists.

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JUNE 26, 2017

Education Dive , quoting a Renaissance Learning’s 2016 report, said: “high school seniors are reading at a 6th-grade level, and only 9% of students in high school read texts above a middle school complexity level of 8, leaving students ill-prepared for college-level reading at about 13.”.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

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. In 9th grade, participated in an aviation program at the Des Moines International Airport. Pleasant Middle School. to move to the U.S.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

Alice Chen , an eighth grade language arts teacher and technology coach at Suzanne Middle School in Walnut, California does not use Strunk and White in the classroom. Though she still doesn’t assign it as required reading, Blanton-Stroud refers to parts of Strunk and White in her teaching.

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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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Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Academic competitions can be exciting and rewarding additions to your school club options. For upper elementary and middle school students, these challenges not only promote academic growth and productive struggle but also social connections. Encourage students to practice in pairs or groups to strengthen their teamwork skills.

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APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication.

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Priceless Ponderings

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Now, before you worry that economics is too complicated to teach at this grade level, let me stop you right there. with Activities Your Students Will LOVE Economics is not just for the big kids in middle school or high schoolits actually the perfect topic for 2nd-4th graders. Lets Make Teaching Economics Fun (and Simple!)

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. This helped make school fun for students. Recommended Tools Kahoot and Quizizz: Great for quizzes that feel like competitive games. This creates a natural sense of progression.

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JUNE 27, 2017

Back in May 2016, Curriculet , a venture-backed startup that built a student-facing platform with digital books, articles and quizzes, announced that it was shutting its doors. Since then, the organization has predominantly produced literacy and STEM curriculum materials for Pre-K through 2nd grade students.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

How much can administrators, grade level chairs and central office folk see? Emmanuel Andre, a Baltimore educator, describes his ideal checklist question as, “How much can administrators, grade level chairs and central office folk see? “We just switched to Whipple Hill/Blackbaud , which everyone hates!

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

For many, study of the human body starts in second grade with an introduction to what’s inside that stretchy, durable skin that coats our bodies. As students progress through school, they dig deeper into concepts of body systems, organs, cells, diseases, and the importance of good health.

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