Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 22, 2025

You become their biggest advocate as they grow in subjects like math, science, and English. Make math hands-on and incorporate vertical learning 4. Introduce core subjects, like math, English, science, and social studies, through play, creativity, and real-world experiences. Table of Contents 1. Start with core concepts 2.

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MAY 27, 2025

These biases manifest in various ways, such as underestimating Black students math abilities and providing less encouragement. This narrow role was exhausting and disingenuous. I found myself dialing down my teacher self, showing up in ways that neither reflected nor respected my commitment to teaching and learning.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

Financial Aid and FAFSA High School Bulletin Board By Counselor Clique Grades: 9th-12th “Slay your way to financial aid” is a premade bulletin board package that provides everything you need to answer the FAFSA and financial aid questions. That’s why your math boards should be more than just decorative.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

Use these ice breakers for high school students on the first day of class or when starting a new semester. Perfect for class members working on social skills or for those too-silent periods, these questions, activities, and getting-to-know-you resources are just what you need to warm things up in class.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

” You’ll also find tips for getting middle schoolers to write in every class. Yes, even math! Use these engaging questions and thought experiments to get middle schoolers to open up while practicing writing skills. What middle school class has been your favorite so far? Do you like sub days?

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2025

With a dipping economy, a fight about school voucher options and confusion about what the “Montessori” term even means, is Montessori still the “it” trend in the preschool world? The questions arise as one prominent chain of Montessori-inspired schools shrinks rapidly. Lillard, who studied play and cognition during her Ph.D.

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JULY 18, 2025

In many public schools, keyboard and computer navigational skills have been a standard part of the curriculum since the 90s. At the very least, kids entering middle school should have foundational computer skills. For example, if your kid asks you a question, you can encourage them to look up the answer online.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2025

National Science Foundation, aimed to solve that problem with a drone-focused curriculum for rural middle schools. It seemed “touchy feely” to the digital learning specialist who works in a rural New Hampshire middle school and is known as the “drone lady.” Take Flight, a research project backed by $1.5

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Challenge your advanced writers with writing prompts for middle school that go beyond 7th grade expectations. They also complement cross-curricular themes in middle school sociology discussions. Are classes like art, gym, and life skills as critical as math and English? Explore middle school resources

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

This story about math recovery was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. In early February, seventh grade math teacher Jamie Gallimore tried something new: She watched herself teach class. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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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. Music and art are as valuable as math and science. Are fries better with ranch or ketchup? Is GIF pronounced gihf or jihf ? Students should not be informed about the news.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

It’s easy to see why when you look at fundamental programming concepts: abstraction and symbolism – variables are common in math, but also in education. Essential Question. Draw a Stickman is a web-based tool or app that turns a simple drawing into a story by asking questions of the creator. Teacher Preparation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

For math, measurement and geometry activities like building models or plotting data can turn abstract numbers into something students can visualize and manipulate. Teachers can guide students in designing their own models related to class lessons, from creating geometric shapes in math to building replicas of simple molecules in chemistry.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2016

I enjoyed science in elementary and middle school. However, in high school, my science classes were primarily comprised of lectures and worksheets. Next, we talk about students’ findings and how they relate to the initial question about tire pressure. I, too, used to have that mindset.

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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. Addresses the “Middle School Gap” in Computer Science education. ? Blackbird is a user-friendly system that enhances the autonomous learning experience – as well as group lessons.”.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2015

How do students and teachers learn math and computer science, and how can we ease the coming shortage of computer science teachers? Worcester Polytechnic Institute will partner with Brown University and Bootstrap to examine those questions. An NSF study will examine how computer science shortages can best be addressed.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

. – June 23, 2022 – Students in Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) who participated in online tutoring sessions with FEV Tutor , the most comprehensive virtual tutoring solution in K-12, demonstrated accelerated rates of growth relative to national norms in both math and reading on the NWEA MAP Growth Assessments. About FEV Tutor.

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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 3, 2023

The seven teams – Carnegie Learning, Carnegie Mellon University, Eedi, Rising Academies, the University of Colorado Boulder, Khan Academy, and the University of Florida – are committed to harnessing the potential of AI and machine learning to develop innovative, affordable interventions to enhance middle school math education.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2023

That’s the question the middle school class was struggling to answer. Fractions hadn’t really connected with the students, says John Barclay, a teacher in Richmond Public Schools in Virginia. Or even newer math ?) So I’ve been wondering: What do we know about the science behind good math education?

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2024

The answer to that question, it turns out, depends a lot on two things: how your school identifies students for advanced math, and where you live. principals said their elementary or middle school offered algebra in eighth grade, but only to certain students. Algebra is often considered a gateway class.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. When America’s math performance is lagging , it could have big consequences.

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eSchool News

MARCH 24, 2016

New report finds Common Core is affecting reading and math — but not test scores. The question of whether students should focus on analyzing fiction, which has been traditionally favored by schools, or nonfiction, which is favored by the CCSS, was considered a major implementation hurdle just a few years ago.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Providing science and math content online can be relatively straightforward, but engaging students in true distance learning requires more than just transmittal of information. Math made meaningful. Related content: How collaboration enables meaningful distance learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2018

Think back to your days in middle school, specifically to what you did after you slung your backpack off at home and began to unwind. What would your answer have been if a teacher asked, “What am I doing outside of school that I want to tell other students about?”

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Looking at these projects, it’s clear that some kids have been so motivated to make beautiful graphs that they’re going out to learn math that most kids don’t learn until college,” says von Oy. “We These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks. Math isn’t just the regurgitation of formulas.

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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. Cooperative activities: Question game. Here is an example of a sheet used in a 4th grade math class. Grammar games. Fly Swatter! Communication activity.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Kennedy Middle School would pivot to remote learning because of the pandemic. Her Title I school in Riviera Beach has a growing population of English language learners. Many students also have significant deficits in reading comprehension, literacy and foundational math skills. Podcast: Leading Equity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!” The brain makes sense of the world, and mathematics, through culture.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

After several decades of experimentation with technology in schools, we continue to face fundamental questions: What role should technology have in the classroom? As the CEO of Woot Math and previously of Kerpoof, I have spent the last ten years grappling with questions like these. Woot Math in an Algebra 1 Classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Sam Brooks, Personal Learning Coordinator for the district, sat down with EdSurge this week to discuss the program, how his team has translated it into even lower levels (think middle school), and what he recommends other schools and districts do to make their students more college and career-ready. . Sam Brooks.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

So, where does this come into play for me as a math teacher? For as long as I can remember, I have loved everything about math—especially teaching young people and seeing the lightbulb come on in their eyes. But, sadly, after 20 years teaching math to middle and high schoolers, I have experienced the pain of watching students struggle.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Some superintendents across the city even require dedicated time for math and reading practice on computers. In these preteen years, I never understood why my parents questioned how much time I spent on my phone. I was just texting my friends, sending memes, sharing homework answers, and opening up about school crushes.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

Educators can now more easily customize assessments according to reading level, question type, Blooms Taxonomy, and more ensuring optimal learning experiences for students. Educators can also review and tailor the questions and, once ready, export those questions into a variety of formats.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. If you ask seventh and eighth graders what their hardest subject is, they’ll hands down tell you it’s math. And that opinion doesn’t improve in high school. Fee or subscription.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Most American students are still performing below their pre-pandemic counterparts in reading and math, while the yawning gap between high-achieving and low-performing students got even wider, data from the nations report card shows. That is a crucial skill that students really need for entering middle school. newsletters.

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