eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

The idea had come from Ed Baker, district math coach at Tennessees Weakley County Schools. Baker set up an iPad on a cabinet in Gallimores classroom at Martin Middle School and hit record. Amid a grim landscape nationwide for middle school math, Tennessee fared better than most states.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Plus, when they make mistakes, they’re motivated to try new approaches to test theories. As students progress through middle school, STEM learning should focus on building curiosity, confidence, and foundational skills that students will carry with them through high school and beyond.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. Perhaps all this is for the best.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. According to research conducted at Stanford University, over 70% of high school students report feeling stressed about their academic workload. Start by identifying the subjects or topics that require the most attention.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

If you ask middle school and high school students these days the most important skills they’re learning, they’re likely to name something they picked up on their own, outside of normal school hours. Evans says these students’ eyes light up when they talk about the self-directed learning they’re doing.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. The idea is to keep learners motivated in a class. Competing [in a game] doesn’t work as motivation for every student. Almost a decade into experiments with gamification, edtech companies are changing the way they approach motivation.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When I first started working with middle school and high school students on organization and time-management nearly two decades ago, most students would tell me their biggest distractions were food, pets, siblings and sleep. Last year I visited a middle school twice in the span of six months.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Math made meaningful.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Chronic absenteeism remains a widespread challenge in schools across the country, but in Wisconsin, Racine Unified School District s Julian Thomas Elementary and Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School are demonstrating that innovative, data-driven approaches can make a difference. Weve seen an 8 percent reduction in absences.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

The 2022 PBL Champions are: District PBL Champion Broward County Public Schools (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) School PBL Champion Thomas A. This year’s recipient was Rose Moe, a 6th-grade math teacher at Lincoln Middle School in the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District. About the Champions.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

In Tennessee, the education system made headlines a few years back when the state announced the “ Tennessee Promise ”—an initiative granting thousands of high school students the opportunity to attend two years of free community college. And you’ve even gotten middle school students involved? Goodness gracious.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In middle school, I participated in Future City , a STEM competition for middle schoolers. Competition can be thrilling and motivating to those who choose to engage. They were used as gimmicks and antics to “motivate” students. They believed that students’ motivation should come from within.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2015

school district leaders are rethinking traditional approaches to instruction. Middle school students can take online courses for high school credit, and high school students can design their own studies with the help of a faculty advisor. “We In Meriden, Conn.,

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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. Instructional monitoring: Monitored student progress and adjusted their teaching strategy as needed.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

That’s exactly what is happening at Trailside Middle School in Loudoun County, Virginia; at high schools in Gaston County Schools, North Carolina; and at a few other pioneering classrooms around the country where I have had the opportunity to work with innovative educators. “In The answer is a resounding YES.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Career-connected learning helps students understand how academics connect to real-world careers which can improve academic motivation. According to the Association for Career and Technical Education (ACTE) , students who engage in career exploration are more likely to understand the relevance of their coursework.

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eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

The impact of probeware on student motivation and interest, particularly in science subjects often perceived as “ difficult, boring, and abstract ,” is significant. By using these tools, students can actively conduct investigations, gather data, and observe results, making abstract concepts more concrete and understandable.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

. – Aperture Education, the leading provider of research-based social and emotional learning assessments for K-12 schools, has added two new solutions to its product suite. DESSA Middle School Student Self-Report Adolescents’ engagement is critical to learning success.

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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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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. YES THEY HAVE!

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

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

The organization, which is also run by a team of students, offers free workshops that teach 3D printing, robotics, graphic design, and coding to students as well as programs to help bring 3D printing into schools. Prabu and Raikanti are currently juniors at Dougherty Valley High School in San Ramon, Calif.,

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Eighth graders who fall below NAEP Basic would have trouble identifying basic literary elements, such as character motivation and the main idea. Proficient is considered a high bar, above what most states set as grade level expectations. That is a crucial skill that students really need for entering middle school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

(September 29, 2021) – Reading Plus, an evidence-based online program that uses personalized instruction to improve students’ reading proficiency, today announced the expanded use of its platform within the Beaufort County School District in South Carolina. years of proficiency grade-level gains in a single school year.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

I wish the public knew how creative a teacher must be to motivate students. Kim Booth, sixth grade teacher at Coleman Middle School in Duluth, Ga.: “I I wish the public knew how creative a teacher must be to motivate students. Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: “The

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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. Students are the problem.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Wizprodigy is a new and exciting online STEM competition focused on inspiring middle school and high school students across North America to learn coding and to build their own design of a mini Tesla Cybertruck.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Midwood High School students —created I Motivate You , a device that displays uplifting phrases. Barrett Elementary School second graders —designed their own pyramids. I picked the high school that I’m going to next year, Lick-Wilmerding in San Francisco, partly because of its science and maker programs.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

If the interest at your school is bigger, engineers can make an all-school presentation at a middle- or high-school career day. Future City challenges middle-school students to take four months to imagine, research, design, and build cities of the future using the free platform SimCity. Future City.

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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.

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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. elementary, middle and high schools, and the results were striking.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. "The He has since left the school system, in part over frustration with the policy, and now teaches overseas.

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Edsurge

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. Fully asynchronous online learning is probably best suited to adult learners who are motivated to apply what they learn to their work.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

I started my first college advising session with Marcus with the same question I always asked: “If you could do anything after high school knowing that you would be successful, financially secure, and your friends and family would support you, what would you do?” His speed of response surprised me.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2024

and its Connections Academy , the fully online public school program serving K-12 students for more than 20 years, announced today their partnership with HOSA–Future Health Professionals , a career and technical student organization (CTSO), to connect middle and high school students to healthcare careers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

ISTE: What motivated you to join the AI Explorations PD program? So, I was motivated to take the industry and peer knowledge and then bring it into my classroom. Then, they can develop their interest in taking other STEM courses as they continue in middle school and high school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2017

Anthony Caccavo is a middle school curriculum coordinator and social studies teacher at St. Heidi Bernasconi , a biology and marine biology teacher at Clarkstown High School North in New York, is one of the lucky teachers who piloted Google Expeditions in her classroom. John’s Prep in Massachusetts.

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