eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

Teachers can help students see how math animates science, history, music, social studies, art, and sports. Restore, affirm, and sustain positive mathematical identities. In teaching math, we also can’t lose sight of early numeracy.

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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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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

To date, FEV Tutor has delivered more than 60,000 hours of live one-to-one instruction to 7,000 students in 116 schools in JCPS. The online tutoring sessions are available to students in grades 3-12 and focus on the core subjects of math, English, science, and social studies. Adell, principal of Newburg Middle School.

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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 Kim Booth, sixth grade teacher at Coleman Middle School in Duluth, Ga.: “I This isn't easy for us either.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2021

This experience is suitable for upper elementary and middle school students. Divided by K-2, 3-5, and 6-8 grade bands, the ready-to-use resources support weekly instructional goals and were created based on the most searched terms during each month of the school year. STEM Activities for Hands-On Learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) is equipping each of its 30,000 middle school students with a laptop this year in the district’s latest move to make its classrooms more tech-savvy. Robinson Middle is even using them to create animated movies. A new arts class at Jay M.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Mystery Science , which joined the family of Discovery Education services in 2020 and recently won SIIA’s Best Science Instructional Solution CODiE award for Grades PK – 8, provides K-5 educators simple to use, open-and-go, hands-on lessons that inspire students to love science.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

School administrators have the opportunity to turn around retention challenges by providing solutions to these areas that educators are saying matter most to them. The corporate world offers a broader variety of paths, whether in sales, product development, marketing and more.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

As a part of an ongoing initiative to enhance the health and wellness resources available to its students and families, the Baldwin Union Free School District (UFSD) is proud to launch the Baldwin Schools Wellness Center and to be among the first school districts in the nation to establish such a resource directly on campus at no cost to families.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

When it comes to middle schools and high schools, the average classroom looks more like a typical startup office than the traditional classroom of the past. Today, schools across the country look to educators to customize lesson plans to the learning requirements of their unique classrooms and students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

NEW YORK – Students are gearing up for the 2023 school year, and new research from Brainly reveals that AI is an integral element in middle and high school students’ academic life – even as educators debate and worry whether the revolutionary technology belongs in the classroom.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Consequently, for the simulations to be effective learning experiences, I must then teach them the foundational knowledge they should have been taught in younger grades. This can eat up days of instructional time before we’re ready to dive into grade-appropriate topics. This is not just a problem for teachers like me.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Ohio’s Brunswick City Schools launched a new seven-year partnership with Discovery Education. Helping students achieve state education standards can be a challenging process, but it is even more so when a state mandates the use of new high-stakes tests.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Plenty of students find social studies lessons a bit dull. Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Caleb Brown : My third grade teacher, Ms. history class and had always enjoyed my social studies classes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks.

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eSchool News

JULY 25, 2016

Kids are going to learn computers one way or another,” said Bryant, a 10th-grade history teacher at Gadsden City High School. Bryant was one of 25 middle school and high school teachers on Thursday who were learning cyber security techniques at Jacksonville State University.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Personalized Notes Claire Peterson, teacher at Pat Neff Middle School in San Antonio, Texas: “Words are always good to hear. Every ripped out sheet of paper with the words, ‘Thank you, Mrs. Stephen Guerriero, sixth grade teachers at Needham Public Schools in Needham, Mass.: Gifts are sweet, but I keep every note I get.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2023

It’s about more than tests and grades. My middle school choir teacher recorded and released an acclaimed gospel album. My high school English teacher starred in commercials and made a name for herself as a voice actor. Sometimes I bring home papers to grade or spend my evening talking to parents.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

To find out, I spoke to educators from across grade levels and content areas who are actually using VR with their students. Anthony Caccavo is a middle school curriculum coordinator and social studies teacher at St. His goal is to help them to see the academic and creative potential while at school.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2021

Digital Promise recently spoke with educators from Lone Star Middle School in Nampa, Idaho, an HP Spotlight School. HP Spotlight Schools are part of the Reinvent the Classroom initiative , a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft and Intel, recognizing Powerful Learning with technology.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2016

In response to this growing need, Tynker’s comprehensive, fun, game-based curriculum has been used by more than 50,000 schools to introduce students to computer programming. Tynker’s drone curriculum offers a structured approach to get elementary and middle school students flying drones in minutes. Tynker’s Drone Curriculum.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

There are certification tracks on Google, Microsoft, Apple, SMART, among other topics, like online assessment, STEM, ELA, Math, Social Studies, and PBL. The 15 articles and 53 lessons have been released in conjunction with ADHD awareness month and include parent and teacher strategies to support learners in school and at home.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 21, 2025

By middle school, your students are starting to discover their places in society. From social media to community resources to economic inequality, sociological issues affect them and their families every day. 10 Sociology Questions for Class Discussions Do your middle schoolers come into class with questions on their mind?

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. I have a daughter who's in fifth grade right now. Is 2/7ths larger than 4/11ths? The concept just wasn’t intuitive.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2018

In Oakland, CA, more than 60 students at James Madison Middle School gather to talk about money. We’ve seen social studies teachers include personal finance in their civics curriculum and math teachers use digital courses to teach topics like unit cost. The conversation is robust.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Kahlfeldt has touched on the census many times in his 15 years as a middle school social studies teacher at Winfield School District 34 (22 years total as an educator). He also shares how his zesty attitude toward social studies makes lessons on the census—and many other topics—pop for his students.

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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. Social Studies / Current Events. The initiative?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

But he says colleagues have also adapted the platform for other traditional subjects including science and social studies. It becomes relevant to them when you turn your class into a game,” says Isaacs, a 50-year-old teacher at William Annin Middle School and Ridge High School in Basking Ridge, N.J.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2025

Margaret Honey, President & CEO, Scratch Foundation I expect to see even more K12 leaders embrace a holistic vision of student success–one that recognizes that academic knowledge and durable skills need to be developed in tandem in our schools and classrooms. Success will no longer be measured only by grades or course completion.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2018

The initiative requires every student in grades 7-12 to have a personalized learning plan—a document that guides each learner through a meaningful learning experience that leads to college and/or career readiness. Students are required to have PLPs beginning in 7th grade, but many schools start the process sooner.

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Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

When we set out to design an engaging kickball unit for our middle school students, we asked ourselves how we could learn from the 2002 A’s. Data Goes to the Gym As a self-confessed nerd, my memories of middle school kickball are of being picked last and worrying about taking errant kicks to the face. How, you ask?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 10, 2023

These apps come in all shapes and sizes, catering to various subjects including math, language arts, science, and social studies. The fusion of technology with traditional subjects paves the way for well-rounded education experiences that keep middle schoolers engaged and eager to learn.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years. Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I’ll never forget when my 5th-grade teacher had our class reenact a scene from the book "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry".

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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. PSA project on human-created environmental problems.

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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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