Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2025

The energy was electric: Three teams of students from three neighboring school systems faced off in a high-stakes competition, their colorful jerseys and team pride on full display. For the students, it was more than a game. For many students, these programs provide a sense of belonging and a platform for leadership.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

In that time, each fellow has managed to speak vulnerably about educational leadership, student engagement and systemic challenges in K-12 education. Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

A good classroom management system, a novel list, and a set of writing prompts go a long way to set students and teachers up for success. Decide how you’ll communicate with students, caregivers, and admin 8. Check with your admin for any supply stipend, or take advantage of those back-to-school sales.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 27, 2025

At the start of every new school year, conversations often turn to one thing: goal-setting. Vision boards are a powerful tool to help students visualize their academic and personal goals. Explore unique vision board ideas for students to help you individualize this activity to each of them.

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1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 1, 2025

With so many options—ranging from traditional workbooks to story-based programs and online tools—it can be tough to know what will best suit your student. It is a family favorite that we used all the way through high school. Students correct and mark up errors in a continuing story. See a full review I wrote here !

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

It’s the first day of school, and your high school class is quiet. How do you get students interacting when they’re feeling shy, all while keeping your class management under control? Use these ice breakers for high school students on the first day of class or when starting a new semester.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Ready to ignite your students’ imaginations and sharpen their writing skills? With these engaging 7th grade writing prompts, students will dive into a world of self-expression. Challenge your advanced writers with writing prompts for middle school that go beyond 7th grade expectations. Want to take it up a notch?

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 16, 2025

Hispanic Heritage Month is an excellent opportunity to teach students about influential Hispanic figures from the past and present. You can also celebrate this important month by showcasing Hispanic history, culture, and the Spanish language in your curriculum, no matter what class you teach.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

These simple questions are an easy way to get students talking and thinking without the pressure of a writing prompt. Ease into the new year with these fun and lighthearted Would You Rather questions for high school students. Try them for a morning meeting, first-week-of-school activity, or SEL check-in.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 23, 2025

Keep students engaged with a collection of fun debate topics and “would you rather” questions for high school students that they’ll enjoy talking about. Keep students engaged with a collection of fun debate topics and “would you rather” questions for high school students that they’ll enjoy talking about.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Incorporate hands-on activities and experiments Hands-on activities let students engage directly with STEM concepts, making learning tangible and memorable. In a unit on electricity, students can create simple circuits with batteries, wires, and bulbs.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2020

As a language arts teacher at a partial STEM Magnet middle school in Southern Georgia, I have the opportunity to teach an amazing group of students; their willingness to expand their educational horizons amazes me every day. So, how do I keep my math, science, and STEM-minded students engaged in the language arts?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

Longfellow Middle School students are using green screen technology to transport themselves and their classmates to new worlds of learning. I like to learn new ways to do things,” Longfellow student Marissa Pickar said. Student Alex Weinberger was using the green screens and an iPad to create an eight-page comic book.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Created to Address the “Middle School Gap” – Blackbird Teaches Real-world Computer Science Skills, Aligned to Educational Standards. Blackbird’s integrated LMS enables instructors to easily track student progress, review errors and make direct comments. Blackbird has been the best thing for my students.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2019

s first computer science middle school last year in a struggling, historically black community to help bridge the technology achievement gap. Today, 99 percent of the students at Digital Pioneers Academy (DPA) are on a free lunch program. What are you doing at DPA to include these groups of students?

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

The problem for many struggling math students is that often those “universal” numbers and symbols hide in surrounding contexts of unfamiliar vocabulary, settings, and narratives. Through my own work in the classroom with students and educators, I’ve discovered a few key ways to change the narrative around math. Math is joyful!

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

PITTSBURGH, PA – Carnegie Learning , a leader in artificial intelligence for K-12 education and formative assessment, today announced that its blended core Middle School Math Solution received perfect scores in a new report published by EdReports.org. Do they help teachers build productive habits of mind in their students?

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

First Educational Version of a Programming Language Enables Middle School Code Education – Bridging the Middle School Gap. Traditionally, code teaching systems use unmodified programming languages.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Tennessee’s Clarksville-Montgomery County School System (CMCSS) is on a mission to bring language learning resources to its diverse community and student body of more than 33,500. To improve and broaden language learning resources for its students and community, CMCSS today announced it has partnered with Rosetta Stone Inc.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2021

As we prepare students for college, career, and life, it’s vital that we foster skills that will ensure students are successful. As educators, we’ve heard about the importance of the “21st century 4 C’s” to our students’ future success.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Key points: Virtual reality offers learning beyond just verbal communications 3 AR/VR resources that nurture student curiosity Reaching the 4Cs with 3D and virtual reality For more on VR in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Multilingual students face unique challenges that can hurt their performance in school.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In fact, some of the most powerful learning in my middle school science classroom has happened when I’ve pretended to NOT know the “right answer.” That’s when students take the lead and start to offer up their own ideas, share their experiences, and make powerful connections—sometimes amazing ones that I would never have thought of.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The pandemic’s on students’ social and emotional well-being continues to be felt in schools nationwide. Here at Lincoln County R-III School District in Missouri, we are no different. Many of our students are struggling with regulating their emotions. We’re seeing students needing more social and emotional support.

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eSchool News

JULY 12, 2021

As we prepare students for college, career, and life, it’s vital that we foster skills that will ensure students are successful. As educators, we’ve heard about the importance of the “21st century 4 C’s” to our students’ future success.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Click To Tweet In my role as a coach, I had the opportunity to facilitate an articulation day with a group of middle school English language arts teachers. The basic idea is that teachers identify 5 “outs” or skills students will master by the time they leave their class. 2 Teachers interpret the standards differently.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

The field trip was part of the Foundation’s annual enrichment trip centered on exposing students to burgeoning aerospace and technology careers. So, how did the Crockett Foundation’s students, most of whom attend Title I schools and live in historically under-resourced communities, achieve this sort of success?

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Kennedy Middle School would pivot to remote learning because of the pandemic. We had to figure out how to get students engaged online, which was already a focus in the brick-and-mortar setting. “We Her Title I school in Riviera Beach has a growing population of English language learners.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Boone County School District is offering digital world language learning to 10,500 students—half of its student population. Three hundred kindergarten and first grade ELL students and 10,200 WL students in grades 2-8 have access to the digital learning program. It’s a win-win situation for our students.”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

As a middle school Spanish teacher, my #1 goal is to have my students fall in love with learning a language the way I did in middle school. When learning a second language, it’s important to teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Students still love Kahoot!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2024

But what if we reimagined attendance not just as a policy to enforce, but as an essential part of the curriculum for both students and parents? This paradigm shift could revolutionize how schools, students, and families approach this critical aspect of education. According to recent data, over 20 percent of U.S.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

Whether you use a planning guide or not, they are a great place to make notes on what worked well and what didn’t for you (and your students) this year. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school. Ask yourself: What do I want to keep? What should I let go of?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Lunch hours are spent hunched over smartphones, and after-school time means less sports and more Snapchat. The adverse effects of this excessive screen time have significantly impacted students social- emotional health. Engaging with students was a top priority for workgroup members. A lot of them wanted an art club.

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eSchool News

MAY 16, 2022

Having access to diverse texts helps children expand their vocabularies, deepens their understanding of language, provides opportunities for problem-solving, provides critical affirming experiences to students’ lives, and presents opportunities for students to learn about people with different lived experiences.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

Time management is a constant struggle for teachers since they spend most of their days working directly with students. Planning is critical to creating meaningful learning opportunities for students. She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Twig Science Next Gen for middle school is an investigation-based science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) solution developed for the three-dimensional Next Generation Science Standards.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2015

A few months ago, I was searching for resources to support computer science education for middle school students—girls in particular—when I came across Google CS First. Not really knowing what it was, I went ahead and registered my school, and then myself—as a teacher host, advocate, volunteer, and guru all at the same time.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Exeter (CA) Unified School District is a small, rural district with approximately 2,800 students, 61 percent of whom are Hispanic and 62 percent of whom are socioeconomically disadvantaged. Approximately one in seven of our students are English language learners. Starting with the standards.

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