eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2025

The senior at Washington state’s Toppenish High School first considered the career after he joined a STEM group in middle school. In a ninth grade class, he researched the earning potential for a STEM degree (“so much more money”) and the demand for mechanical engineers (“exploding”).

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

Teach to a group or individuals. At the middle school, Lexia PowerUp is used as a tool within English Language Development classes. While using Core5, during the 2023-2024 school year, 208 students (40 percent) using the program advanced at least one grade level of material.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 15, 2025

With low-prep setup, challenging concepts, and the coolest finished projects ever, these class projects for middle school engineering classes are sure to inspire the next generation of future engineers in your class. It’s not a great joke, but creating a potato clock is a great science experiment for middle school.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2025

Today: K-12 Technology Curriculum Overview The K-12 Technology Curriculum is Common Core and ISTE aligned, and outlines what should be taught when so students have the necessary scaffolding to use tech for grade level state standards and school curriculum. Lessons build on each other kindergarten through 5th grade.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

Phase 3 Live Finale: Elementary, middle and high school teams competed in a 30-minute esports showdown, held at the Levan Center of Innovation at Nova Southeastern University, to design climate-resilient schools. The way the Showdown brought together students from every district and grade level. What stood out most?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) ” You’ll also find tips for getting middle schoolers to write in every class. If you could teach a class on anything, what would it be? What middle school class has been your favorite so far? Yes, even math!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 14, 2025

Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. She is the editor/author of over a hundred tech ed resources including a K-12 technology curriculum , K-8 keyboard curriculum, K-8 Digital Citizenship curriculum.

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Teach Hub

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? Use budgeting activities to teach percentageshave students plan a trip with a set budget.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

Its a middle-grade math game in which aliens come to Earth to learn about decimal fractions. Real-World Math Problems Many of the terminated awards had something to do with teaching future elementary and middle school math teachers how to meet the needs of more than one type of student.

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

MAY 28, 2025

Thats why I started using a six-day middle school research project before I dove into an entire research unit because it gave students a strong foundation for writing. This research project is also a good way to review skills or fill time at the end of the school year. Day Three: Practice Research The research continues!

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2025

Developed by Urban Arts in collaboration with Minecraft Education , the program offers middle school teachers professional development, ongoing coaching and a 72-session curriculum built around game-based instruction. According to Amy Patterson, Chief Program Officer at Urban Arts, “We’re not just teaching video games.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

It also lets you check “About Me” pages off your back-to-school checklist. Back To School All About Me Flip-book Activity By Love Live Laugh TEACH Use an “all about me” activity to create your first bulletin board of the year! With the right design, you can even tie it to CCSS , like retelling a story. forms and title letters.

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JULY 9, 2025

Grades: 1st & up Approach: Orton-Gillingham based, multisensory, explicit phonics instruction. Purchase Options : All About Learning , Christian Book 180 Days of Spelling We tried this for one year when my daughter was in middle school, and we did like it. This is the program we used the most and kept coming back to.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 1, 2025

It is a family favorite that we used all the way through high school. Grades: Grades 4th–12th (levels vary) Approach: Editing-based. Grades: 1st–8th Approach: Traditional workbook style, incremental lessons with exercises. It was a fun change in the middle of the others we used. GRAMMAR We used Fix It!

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

Teach students to use the SMART formula to ensure that any goals they set are specific and measurable. Vision Board Student Workbook By Danielle Knight Grades: 4th-12th Subjects: English Language Arts Students will create a 15×20 vision board using this eight-section guide.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

If you had to teach a class, what would the class be called? Creative Conversation Starters and Discussion Topics Take your topics past getting-to-know-you activities for high school students and into meaningful conversations. What was middle school like for you? Do you hope high school is the same or different?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Hispanic Heritage Month is an excellent opportunity to teach students about influential Hispanic figures from the past and present. You can also celebrate this important month by showcasing Hispanic history, culture, and the Spanish language in your curriculum, no matter what class you teach.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Fun Debate Topics Persuasive Speaking Activity Middle School, High School By Lindsay Ann Learning Grades: 6th-9th Subjects: English Language Arts, Speaking & Listening Standards: CCSS SL.9-10.4, Should high schools give up one year of history in favor of a financial literacy class? 8; CCRA.SL.4

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2025

The Case for Starting Career Exploration in Middle School Many states are now mandating career exploration as early as eighth grade, for good reason. Middle school is a pivotal time when students begin forming their academic and career identities. Visit pearson.com/ccr to learn more.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

As the pandemic continues to impact another school year, a lot of focus has been on “accelerating learning,” which is about maintaining on-grade level instruction or infusing pre-requisite skills in the instruction so students can access on-grade level instruction. With College- and Career-Ready standards, the learning builds.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Responding to a critical gap in technology education, CompTIA Spark has launched free technology curriculum specifically for middle grade classrooms, grades 5-8. It aims to support teachers so that they can teach the critical skills students need to succeed in whatever path they choose.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2019

s first computer science middle school last year in a struggling, historically black community to help bridge the technology achievement gap. One component of working with middle school students that continues to push my thinking around the work we are doing is the challenges and obstacles our scholars face outside of school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Discovery Education Science Techbooks —which are currently used in classrooms across the United States and Canada—are a comprehensive, research-backed science solution for grades K-12 that combine digital-first teaching and learning resources to deliver impactful, blended instruction in person or at a distance.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School, thinks back on his own journey as a mathematician, he gives credit to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus. What’s your favorite lesson to teach and why? Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Meanwhile, just 20% of principals said their school offered the class in eighth grade and that any student could take it. According to a new nationally representative survey released Tuesday, 65% of U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

As a senior at Indianapolis’ Ben Davis High School, Jacob Gregory enrolled in an Exploratory Teaching program. He thought of it as an easy way to leave school for a few hours, but it ended up sparking “an unknown interest in teaching,” he said. I never looked for ‘gaps’ or ‘learning loss.’

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Best practices now suggest that instead of cocooning students, we teach them to be good digital citizens , confident and competent. 1st Grade A critical skill for first graders is to not only understand the idea of a “digital citizen” but why it’s important to be one. It didn’t work. Then, it’s called an avatar.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (June 12, 2022) —New Jersey’s Middle Township Public Schools (MTPS) announced it has initiated a new partnership with Discovery Education that will enhance science instruction for middle school students districtwide. Discovery Education Science Techbooks.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2022

. – When young students learn coding, they hone skills – such as computational thinking and collaboration – that enhance their success in school and future careers. The course is aligned with relevant standards frameworks, such as CSTA and NGSS, and includes extension opportunities for middle school classrooms.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2019

We have to teach the skills that will let students enjoy their earnings and look forward to financial security. Related: What is your school doing to teach financial literacy? 3 things I’ve learned about teaching financial literacy. Make it personal. We have to help the students connect to the material.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

The proliferation of AI tools has outpaced efforts to understand how AI’s presence might change teaching practices or the role of the teacher. How do teachers view and position AI tools in their teaching? Teachers who used AI as a teaching partner saw AI feedback as a tool to enhance their teaching and their students’ learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for our free New York newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading. And those who didn’t?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Here’s how it has worked since we introduced virtual robotics at our middle school. Existing STEM programs A few years ago, we were looking for a robotics solution for our middle school students to use primarily to get them engaged with engineering before high school.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

At the same time, schools are placing a stronger emphasis on mental health, equity, and future-ready skills, ensuring students are not only academically successful but also are prepared for the challenges of today’s every-changing world.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Illinois’ Shiloh CUSD #1 today announced an expansion of its partnership with Discovery Education that adds a new, cutting-edge resource to the district’s middle school and high school science curriculum. Pivot Interactives offers opportunities for students to explore and learn for themselves.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

  CHARLOTTE, NC — Portsmouth Public Schools (PPS) today announced it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education supporting the district’s five-year strategic plan, Expedition to 2025: Purpose. The school system has 13,000 students enrolled throughout the city and approximately 2,100 staff members working each day.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. As I researched articulation strategies, I found “5 Ins and 5 Outs” mentioned in a Teaching Channel video. These “outs” become the “ins” for the next grade level.

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