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SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. With increasing coursework and extracurricular activities, a structured approach to studying helps manage time effectively, reduces stress, and boosts learning outcomes. These resources can complement your study plan and provide additional support.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2024

In just a few months, I transitioned from being a student at the University of Montana’s College of Education to leading the instruction of a room of rambunctious middle school students interested in STEM. To say that the year has been a whirlwind is an understatement. Plus, students LOVE AR/VR!

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JANUARY 27, 2020

Before I get into how edtech enhances social studies lessons, let’s ask a foundational question: What the heck is Social Studies ? According to Brookings , roughly nine percent of educators consider themselves social studies teachers. Here are five ways edtech can kick up your social studies program: Simulations and games.

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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. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Effective feedback is vital for several reasons, allowing for students to adopt new study strategies, identify weaknesses, and chart development over time. Let’s take an example of a middle school student struggling with systems of equations. Concept mapping can be particularly beneficial in subjects like history and science.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

Stanford History Education Group, 2016. The fact that 70 percent of middle school students in a recent study could not distinguish between fake news and authentic news on the web shows that we, as educators, have to do a better job of teaching media literacy in the digital age.

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eSchool News

MAY 22, 2018

A student who isn’t overly interested in science but loves history may have little interest in looking for dominant and recessive genes, until she examines more closely the links between her grandmother’s brown eyes and her own blue eyes. Students were given the freedom to choose what they studied.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources.

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MARCH 31, 2021

history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

Teachers can help students see how math animates science, history, music, social studies, art, and sports. It’s two baskets for a four-point lead at halftime. Bridge mathematical learning to a world beyond the classroom. Restore, affirm, and sustain positive mathematical identities.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Composed of education leaders with firsthand experience in K-12 districts and schools around the county, this board will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s strategic direction and product roadmap, building on SchoolStatus’ long history of collaboration with educators. Dr. Shepherd was the Asst.

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eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

According to a recent study, over 60 percent of educators believe traditional assessments fail to fully measure student understanding. For a history project, I ask students to create a Wakelet collection on the causes of the American Revolution.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

In its Back-to-School survey, Brainly , the leading learning platform for all school subjects and grades, highlights a growing trend – a remarkable 66.5% of students in grades 6-12 actively seek external support for their homework and study needs. Forty-five percent of these students spend more than two hours daily on homework.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2019

When Kimberly Head-Trotter, a teacher at McKissack Middle School in Nashville, Tenn., realized how enthusiastic her social studies students were about the civil rights movement, she decided to help them explore the rich history of their own city through project-based learning. marquita.brown_tC0Z. Fri, 06/21/2019 - 14:43.

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APRIL 24, 2015

Part of it’s the history, but a lot is that space is our final frontier, a wild untamed land that man knows so little about. They choose what science their satellite will study, select the wavelengths, instruments, and optics that will be required, and then build! Age group: High school and college. Age group: 2-8.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2016

As part of our constant brainstorming of new ideas and tools, my team heard about an online music recording studio called Soundtrap that runs on Chromebooks and we developed a curricular program to use it at many schools in our district. I personally use it at both of my middle schools. Brain research shows key role of music.

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JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination. Middle school is awful. If worrying about belonging is powerful enough to be a learning roadblock for students, does that mean that a potential solution is compassion?

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DECEMBER 17, 2019

If you were fortunate enough to have music education in school, what were those classes like? Did you listen to the classics and learn about the history of music? The second year, it launched a violin program with instruments that were rescued from a dumpster at a nearby middle school. And they came through.

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DECEMBER 6, 2023

Every week at the Nysmith School in Herndon, Virginia, Philip Baselice breaks out a game to teach his class about key world events. Baselice teaches history to middle schoolers, and game-based simulations have been part of his teaching arsenal for the last nine years, ever since he first tried it. “I

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. In 1998, critical research that examined data from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) revealed teaching methods varied significantly across cultures , resulting in a “ teaching gap.”

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MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. What’s an example? That's a critical turning point.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Eleven years later, as I walk through the halls in a middle school/high school setting, I see students sitting on a tile floor crowded around a device trying to type, communicate, take videos, and record their voices with background noise and distractions often interrupting their progress. The pedagogy.

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APRIL 12, 2017

Anthony Caccavo is a middle school curriculum coordinator and social studies teacher at St. In a unit on the refugee experience throughout history, he shows students 3D films like Clouds Over Sidra and The Crossing , which sometimes prove so intense that his students take breaks to process what they were seeing.

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OCTOBER 31, 2018

A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. But I’ve never done well in history,” they say. Abby’s story is hardly unique.

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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.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

Jill Weber, Cheney Middle School. We all strive to develop students with the skills necessary to be successful after high school graduation. The National Council for the Social Studies urges us to find ways for our kids to “take informed action” based on what they have learned. What happened? It's not important.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2020

“Our Learning At Home Center is filled with resources that share our expertise of the English language in digestible bites to help kids of all ages continue their studies.” ” Dictionary.com ‘s vocabulary resources are backed by lexicographers, offering thoroughly researched and vetted definitions and synonyms.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

It’s one thing when master teachers successfully implement learning games in a carefully controlled research study. Griffin Middle School in Smyrna, Georgia. The large sample, controlled Vanderbilt-Legends of Learning study covered three weeks of game play content. Forest Middle School in Bedford, Virginia. “I

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APRIL 14, 2020

Past Teachers-in-Residence include a middle school science teacher, a kindergarten teacher and a performing arts teacher, but for this year’s program, the library specifically wanted to bring on a civics teacher to build out its digital collection of civics-focused curriculum materials. Sorry, figure something else out.”

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OCTOBER 3, 2023

Deborah Appleman: I [used to be] a high school English teacher, but at Carleton I'm in the educational studies department. I didn't know about the history of Hawaii and what we had done to have it become part of the United States. And in high school I wasn't taught those things. That includes librarians as well.

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eSchool News

JUNE 11, 2024

Kailey McCarthy from Canton High School in Connecticut. History: 1754-1877 , U.S. History: 1877-Present , 101 Ways to Write a Short Story , and Poetry Writing. Kate DiPardo from Providence Country Day School in Rhode Island was one of the four $250 scholarship winners. She took Spanish 2 and Algebra 2.

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MARCH 31, 2023

Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington and walked through an exhibit that highlights the history of the building as well as former President John F. As a music teacher and the coordinator for the Academy for the Fine Arts at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, I consider myself fortunate. How Did We Get Here?

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

History in Baltimore City Public Schools, I was always looking for new ways to engage my students. This spring we are launching 900 middle school science games on our content platform. I joined a cohort of 13 eighth grade teachers, representing 1,000 students participating in the research study. How We Did It.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

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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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Rose , a middle school in Las Vegas, where I supported teachers and students with tech-based initiatives. . history students wanted to learn more. . We agreed to use the technology to connect the students for a once-in-a-lifetime history lesson. In February 2017, I was a digital coach at Pinecrest Academy St.

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