Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

She hears from teachers who have bad memories of math class when they were growing up of the stress of timed tests and of impatient instructors who discouraged them from pursuing math. When she was in middle school, she wanted to try for the advanced math track. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Everyone has a memory about feeling lost on the first day of school — figuratively or literally. Yes, it can be, according to two groups of researchers who have tested how programs aimed at fostering belonging have impacted students’ academic performances. Middle School Blues It’s not just your imagination.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Three winning teachers — one middle school teacher, one high school teacher, and one college instructor — will each receive prizes valued at $5,500. Applications for the contest are due by January 15, 2016, and winners will be announced on March 5, 2016 on the Vernier website and Facebook page.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Virginia Standards of Learning are embedded in programs’ reporting, and instructors can easily identify Virginia SOL Primary Standards in the online libraries and offline materials.

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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. They LOVED sharing what they learned using Adobe Spark!

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2018

It was a bittersweet moment for Ashley Lamb-Sinclair as she walked away from her middle-school classroom for the final time last year, flicked the light switch off and locked the door behind her. In her mind, that platform would not only be a place for instructors to discover new ideas, but also keep those ideas there. “As

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Three winning teachers — one middle school teacher, one high school teacher, and one college instructor — will each receive prizes valued at $5,500. Applications for the contest are due by January 15, 2016, and winners will be announced on March 5, 2016 on the Vernier website and Facebook page.

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Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Xiong Fanyan, who oversees instructional affairs at a middle school in Beijing, has recorded a short tutorial video and uploaded it to Tencent Video for his students to watch. Other art classes can test parents as much as students, as is the case for Zoe, a college senior who lives in Luoyang, in central China.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

She pushed me to test and measure the quantitative and qualitative data I was gathering. She discovered multiple studies on the efficacy of peer feedback when well-guided by an instructor, some with numerous tips to be mined and applied. Middle school students role-play feedback interactions, 2019.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

. - Jill Hill “It was just a great chance to learn more about artificial intelligence and machine learning and how to encourage K-12 teachers to use more AI tools in their classrooms,” said Hill, the technology integration specialist at her middle school. Well, we shouldn't be doing that now.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Transcend’s leaders consider their work “research and development” for schools and districts that are redesigning their models because they apply learning sciences, motivation sciences and implementation sciences to the biggest questions school operators are wrestling with.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Often there are lessons to be learned from the very act of teaching, whether it’s an instructor finding new ways to reach—or not reach—students, to watching students grow before your eyes to discovering what makes collaborative learning so successful. Teaching isn’t a simple one-way exchange.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin. These students were in early middle school or ninth grade when the pandemic started, and had to take classes like pre-algebra online.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Test and evaluate: Conduct testing and evaluation to assess the technology’s performance and suitability for your specific use case. Include necessary background information to help the technology understand the context better. Adjust prompts and fine-tune as necessary.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Stefany Gurgel, NC3 Master Instructor, Festo and Instructor, Jewish Leadership Academy In the last few years, we have seen a change in workforce needs–there is strong emphasis on skills-based education, technological proficiency, and adaptability.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

But it really kicks in during middle school. What we find in our middle schools is that students are starting to develop their own voices as writers,” Cotton says. Find more readers for your students The effort begins in his district’s preschools—with rubrics, writing prompts, and oodles of creative spelling.

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Writing Feedback Exams Middle School 124

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

The course is so new it hasn’t even entered beta testing yet (it will this spring), but it’s set to include modules on common vulnerabilities, phishing attacks and cryptography, all of which challenge students to get hands-on as they complete controlled experiments in each of these areas.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI. They were immediately taken with the museum’s learning model and wanted to incorporate elements of it into their classrooms at Simon Baruch Middle School 104.

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Science Learning Schools Gamification 145

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Test and evaluate: Conduct testing and evaluation to assess the technology’s performance and suitability for your specific use case. Include necessary background information to help the technology understand the context better. Adjust prompts and fine-tune as necessary.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum? So, [the instructor] was able to see just about everything we did. We are almost out of time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 7, 2016

This app is well-suited for its purpose of SAT language prep, as well as useful for PSAT and GRE prep needs and general vocabulary building skills at a middle school and high school level. This included a click-the-right-answer skill builder followed by games to test my knowledge. Education Applications. Conclusion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

Type to Learn –fee, aligned between home and school. Typing Instructor –complete online program (fee). By fifth grade, just in time for a focus on touch typing required for the volume of middle school computer work, students should know where all the keys are without looking at their hands. Top Typing Test.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 21, 2024

From elementary school through middle school and on to high school, in wealthy and poor school districts, full-time, part-time, and substitute teachers are in short supply. The lack of continuity in their classes can have a measurable impact on test scores by the end of the school year.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Why It Works A study published in the journal Learning and Instruction showed that humor used by instructors can improve knowledge retention and student satisfaction. This creates a natural sense of progression.

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

They test, analyze and modify ideas in both the design and production stages. – Nicholas Provenzano ( @thenerdyteacher ), Middle School Technology Integrator and Makerspace Director at University Liggett School and author of ‘ Your Starter Guide to Makerspaces.’. Raymond School of the Archdiocese of San Francisco.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2023

Getting to middle school, where I had a counselor, Mrs. Bennett — God rest her soul — she was a Black woman who told me, “You really need to be in the advanced courses.” I took the test. I didn’t pass the test for the math part, but she put me in the class anyway. So they have to kind of pass the vibe test.

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Math Testing Instructors Teaching 174

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Currently in beta testing, KiraKira plans to begin raising a $2 million seed round in January—the same time it’s planning to launch a mobile app. CEO Lindsey Tropf says the company has plans to expand beyond its middle-school ecology content, and is pitching for a $3 million seed fund to do so. But entrepreneurs behind Comprend.io

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Education Mobile Devices History Game-Based Learning 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

In early middle school, by the time my parents struggled to assist with math homework, I began to compare myself to my maternal grandfather, Aladin Perkins, a retired electrical engineer who had little patience for dullards. Like in many other cases, it was born of a feedback loop. That caused insecurity, she says.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

He contends that the five-paragraph essay may be dead in the literal sense because instructors of college composition classes don’t assign it, but he believes its structure is still around. “I She wants kids to write about topics they care about, but at the same time, recognizes that instructors do need to teach writing.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

–Tiago Costa, Cloud & AI Architect, Microsoft; Pearson Video Lesson Instructor In the two years since GenAI was unleashed, K-12 leaders have ridden the wave of experimentation and uncertainty about the role this transformative technology should have in classrooms and districts.

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