eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

The 2024 Female Students and STEM Report reveals that beginning in middle school, female students experience significant STEM exposure gaps that continue through high school. They allow students to align their education with career aspirations. “The solutions outlined in this report must be applied promptly.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

Interdisciplinary approaches Incorporating an interdisciplinary approach can significantly enrich the learning process for students. Rethinking content teaching at the middle level: An interdisciplinary approach. Middle School Journal , 50 (2), 1727. link] Moser, K. Ivy, J., & Hopper, P.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2015

The practices support interdisciplinary learning, too. Check out these books from the NSTA Press: Doing Good Science in Middle School, A Practical STEM Guide by Jorgenson, Vanosdall, Massey, and Cleveland. Pat Dickerson is a sixth grade science teacher at Falcon Creek Middle School in Colorado. Relevant learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

. –James Hood, Principal, Rodburn Elementary School , Rowan County Schools The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are transforming the educational landscape, ushering in a more integrated and dynamic approach to teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Although data science is interdisciplinary, one possible home for data science standards is in mathematics standards, as there are important mathematical tools and methods that support data science. high-achieving students engage in what is known as a “race to calculus,” missing courses in middle school to get to the calculus pinnacle.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

In collaboration with Discovery Education —the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place—HCS is integrating a suite of award-winning, flexible digital resources into teaching and learning across the district’s elementary and middle schools. interdisciplinary K-8 resource,?STEM

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2025

It introduces career-ready practices as a core element and embraces interdisciplinary learning that mirrors todays job landscape. Empowering Students Through Career Exploration One of the most exciting shifts in CTE is the growing emphasis on exploration, especially in middle school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The next generation of renewable energy workers who will power New Jersey are sitting in middle school classrooms right now,” said John Dempsey, CEO of Bluepoint Wind, a partnership between Ocean Winds (OW), an international offshore wind energy company and joint-venture between EDPR and ENGIE, and New York-based Global Infrastructure Partners. “As

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Critical Thinking Development in Middle School Education Fostеring critical thinking skills in middlе school еducation is paramount to equipping studеnts with thе intеllеctual tools necessary for succеss.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2021

The feedback from teachers was exemplary, so we want to see that number grow during these essential back-to-school months,” said CEO of CoderZ, Ido Yerushalmi. Our mission this year is to introduce 200,000 more students to the interdisciplinary skills that STEM develops, including future-ready skills, SEL, and more.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

All avatar voices that iKNOW users encounter are provided by real middle school students, educators and administrators. The research team has implemented VOISS, available on the Apple Store and Google Play, at schools across the country.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Beyond the professional realm, she is a proud mom to a rising Senior in high school and a 6th grader beginning middle school. Principal and Principal for Avalon Middle School from 2014-2018 before being appointed the district’s Public Information and Family and Community Outreach Officer. Dr. Shepherd was the Asst.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Middle school teachers often must focus on combating student distraction and loss of focus. And in high school, the chief concern is keeping up attendance. As an example, Trust pointed to an interdisciplinary choice board , which gives students multiple options for learning about a subject.

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eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2024

Utilizing interdisciplinary teaching systems to make core concepts, including English, biology, and mathematics, relevant for real-world applications and future career pathways. As the Vale Middle School CTE teacher, Mr. Knapp’s innovative approach not only inspires but also empowers our students to reach their full potential.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Embracing Interdisciplinary Connections Writing is not an isolated endeavor; rather, it is inextricably intertwined with various disciplines, ranging from philosophy and psychology to sciences and the arts.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke to Hadzovic about her experiences using AI in her instructional practices in middle school English classes. Aida Hadzovic English Language Arts Teacher, Brooklyn School District Hadzovic: At first, to be honest, I was hesitant.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such. It can be about expression and creativity, and we want to give students every opportunity to create things using math.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

Without dedicated time, attention and materials teaching our younger children about this country’s history—including a multitude of narratives and perspectives—how will students enter middle school with a historical foundation and shared civic values, ready to practice and deepen their civic knowledge and skill set?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Discovery Education Experience will now be available in all district elementary and middle school classrooms. With Discovery Education Coding, elementary and middle school students are inspired to learn important coding concepts as they develop computational thinking skills through decomposition, logical reasoning, and problem solving.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

What it looks like : Imagine a middle school math teacher who works with her specialist to create an interdisciplinary, maker-and-technology-infused lesson covering concepts like scaling, common denominators and equivalent fractions.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Her mother was a middle school science teacher whose parenting “really incorporated a lot of that curiosity and wonder and awe, kind of like we saw at the Smithsonian here today,” she says. Rivera grew up to become a middle school science teacher, too. Department of Education and celebrated at a gala in their honor.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Charlotte, NC — Minnesota’s South Washington County (SoWashCo) Schools today announced a new partnership with Discovery Education supporting science education in K-8 classrooms across the district. SoWashCo Schools is a suburban district located southeast of St. STEM Connect.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 11, 2018

This is the second part of a two-part story looking at how one school is piloting MIT research on playful assessments to measure student growth. Part of the Albemarle County School District, Community Middle feels and functions differently than most other schools in America. Read part one for background.

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

In parallel, though, we also need to double down on “softening” schools—to focus on building social emotional skills of students and educators and strengthen relationships between students and educators. Teach SEL Skills Socio-emotional learning is demonstrated to help reduce violence and make schools safer.

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k12 Digest

MARCH 4, 2025

He currently serves as the Proud Superintendent of the Texarkana Arkansas School District, where he is committed to making a lasting impact on students, educators, and the community. He later became the Assistant Superintendent of School Leadership for Kansas City Public Schools before taking the helm in Texarkana.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

The school blends tradition with forward-thinking education, creating an environment where students grow both academically and creatively. This interdisciplinary approach encourages students to think critically, problem-solve, and make connections across different subjects.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 11, 2023

Choose an interdisciplinary topic for broader appeal Freshmen often have not yet decided what their major would be, nor should they! Julia Miller began her teaching career in 2007 in New Orleans where she taught middle school English for the next 14 years.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

This new age of teaching and learning will be more integrated into the day-to-day, more interdisciplinary, and more based on the lived experience of the teacher and student. Leaders in education now have the opportunity to leverage GenAI to accelerate the transformation of data into feedback for students across subjects.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Can we graduate preservice teachers that come out of the gate with interdisciplinary STEM competencies? Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Hoover High School. Pleasant Middle School. How do endorsement seekers get engineering experience if the university doesn’t have an engineering program? See Iowa’s 2014 Battelle Report.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Academic competitions can be exciting and rewarding additions to your school club options. For upper elementary and middle school students, these challenges not only promote academic growth and productive struggle but also social connections. It can vary slightly by area, but this is the link to our Colorado Knowledge Bowl.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

And his work draws from his experiences in school, weaving across the realms of interdisciplinary thinking, social-emotional learning, self care, and the steady search for creativity on a human scale. It’s an approach that is intuitively connected to the evolving priorities of conscientious educators and schools around the world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

First, let’s talk about Gestalt Community Schools , which is a charter management organization in Memphis, Tennessee. They had already begun a process of designing a new middle school, called Nexus Middle School, to be a STEM-based school that incorporated personalized learning.

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