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. High school students in need of advanced mathematics courses need look no further than Stanford University.

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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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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. Extensive lecturing is not a good use of your time, or learners’ time, in synchronous online learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2022

high school students during the 2021 school year. The assessment is best started in middle school or within the first two years of high school, so students can use their results to work with educators to make individual graduation plans. The students represent all 50 states.

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MAY 13, 2020

Teachers might break down lectures in bite-sized video clips, and use live streaming, or synchronous, time to conduct wellness checks with students and connect with them individually or in smaller groups. Middle school teachers often must focus on combating student distraction and loss of focus.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2016

Members of the media were able to tour the new Phillips 66 Innovation Lab at Bartlesville High School on Monday with Phillips 66 Chairman/CEO Greg Garland and Oklahoma Superintendent of Public Instruction Joy Hofmeister. Equipment: Bartlesville High School. — Madison and Central Middle Schools. —

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MAY 28, 2024

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. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says.

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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. There’s pressure from parents to accelerate students in middle school math so they can do advanced placement in high school,” she says, echoing Lura. “We

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

So how do we prepare today’s high school journalists (and tomorrow’s mainstream reporters) for such an era? 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. I think it's a great poster.

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MARCH 9, 2020

high school science teacher Nicole Vick says that new approaches to science teaching over the past few years, including the introduction of new standards, has encouraged more hands-on activities and personal relevance that makes the subject more meaningful to students. At Century High School in Bismarck, N.D., she says.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Kiddom , an all-in-one education platform for high-quality digital curriculum, has expanded its partnership with Kendall Hunt Publishing. Kendall Hunt will offer a customized version of OpenSciEd’s high-quality middle school science instructional materials in a dynamic format through Kiddom’s comprehensive digital curriculum platform.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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

JANUARY 18, 2020

Having previously leaned toward large-group lectures, we began using small groups to teach straight coding to our campers. Coditum , SummerTech’s Hoboken-based coding lab, earlier this year joined forces with Hoboken Middle School. They wanted to become real-life coders and they weren’t headed in that direction.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. In an early morning class, bleary-eyed and still vibrating from coffee, the instructors met with high school-aged students. Critics have alleged the framework rejected rigor for “wokeism.”

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Marc Pedersen Paulding County High School Students At Paulding County High School in Dallas, Georgia, science classes are messy and alive. Marc Pedersen leads the biotechnology career pathway classes at Paulding County High School, a magnet school in Georgia about one hour away from Atlanta.

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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. We have seen this transformation first-hand here at Arizona Science Center’s CREATE makerspace , where I work.

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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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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The station rotation model is utilized across the district, at the elementary, middle and high school level, in both bilingual and mainstream classes. Mark Manning, the principal at Morristown High School , emphasizes this point. It build rapport in a way traditional lecturing simply cannot.”

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MARCH 27, 2017

I went to a small high school there in the city, and yeah, that's a little bit about me. 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? Middle school and elementary school were extremely challenging for me.

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JUNE 4, 2020

At East High School in Rochester, N.Y., With support from school administrators, they have created an accessible weekly approach to distance science learning that emphasizes hands-on experimentation, the use of common household materials, student explanation and the development of science literacy. Christina Cipriano, Ph.D.,

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

First, online interactions for children have to be fun, not lecture-like. The collaborative aspect of CoCo has caught the attention of high school students like Nagamitesh Nagamuralee, who introduced the beta version in his robotics clubs in his former middle school in Lexington, Massachusetts.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

Are they pleased with their experiences, or wishing they could return to the brick-and-mortar, traditional schools where they started? Virtual High School in Ontario, Canada, and Kiaha Raigoza, a product of California Virtual Academies and the Flex Program through the University of Wisconsin. Amanda Regan: Thanks for having me!

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JANUARY 11, 2017

Teaching Strategies Cult of Pedagogy Podcast Jennifer Gonzalez, a former middle school teacher, hosts this podcast as part of her popular blog on teaching strategies, education reform, and ed tech. Recent episodes include “How to Approach Your Teaching Like a Master Chef,” and “Creating a Welcoming Classroom for Special Ed Students.”

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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.

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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. Simmons: Sure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2018

Designed to offer lessons, videos, lectures, quizzes, and more that differentiate for individual students, its real power is making the resources of the most respected names in edtech available with one click. ” –Jenna Rodgers, Middle School Teacher. ” — Anna Marie Sossong, High School Teacher.

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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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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Last year, only 61 percent of students who took the ACT high school English achievement test were deemed college-ready. An option several school districts I converse with are trying is called “mastery-based learning” — MBL. In math, it was even worse — only 41 percent.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2019

Professor of Curriculum, Instruction and Technology at California State University Fresno and Teacher on Special Assignment at ACEL Charter High school. She is a welcome presenter at keynotes, lectures, and workshops. Richard Byrne is a former high school social studies teacher at Oxford Hills Comprehensive High School in Maine.

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k12 Online Schools

JULY 5, 2024

With the advent of online school programs and virtual learning platforms, homeschooling has evolved into a comprehensive and accessible option for students all over. From online schooling for elementary to online high schools , the flexibility and variety offered by the best K12 online schools make homeschooling a viable and enriching option.

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Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

Whatever we call it, a seminar is different from a talk/recitation/ lecture-with-discussion. Sometimes we call it a ‘class discussion’ to signal that the class will discuss, with the teacher playing a moderator role.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

And a significant portion of my work revolves around engaging these institutions and being more effective in terms of, one, recruiting these students, but also marketing to the community’s organizations, the advocates, the advisors, the counselors, high school teachers who might be also engaged in this work, too. But Penn is hard.

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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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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.

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JUNE 9, 2021

The high school sophomore’s grades were not where they needed to be when schools first closed for the coronavirus pandemic. Some high-school students are enrolling for the flexible schedules, which allow them to keep the jobs they started during the pandemic to help support their families. But that has changed.

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