eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

With that question in mind, I made the root of my work about connection. One of my earliest projects as the Director of Environmental Education for a public school district in New York was in a middle school English Language Arts classroom.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Illinois’ Shiloh CUSD #1 today announced an expansion of its partnership with Discovery Education that adds a new, cutting-edge resource to the district’s middle school and high school science curriculum.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Students more immediately see the relevance of courses that relate to careers of interest, particularly data science, which allows students to interrogate data with real-world questions, Henderson says.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2021

Kennedy Middle School would pivot to remote learning because of the pandemic. Then, they present the lesson and engage students with questions or quick formative assessments (like exit tickets)—even send feedback to students privately if they need help. We didn't have the tools or the training,” explains Smith.

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eSchool News

MAY 24, 2023

The ChatGPT Dilemma In schools across the nation, educators have, once again, had to call into question how technology meshes with teaching and learning with the advent of ChatGPT. A few years later, the discussion changed to an argument about the pros and cons of using a Desmos calculator on their classroom iPads.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

Lessons include: Lesson objectives Essential questions Materials–teaching strategies, handouts, and texts Key vocabulary Procedure. The Teaching for Black Lives website published a resource titled Materials from Teaching for Black Lives/Rethinking Schools for Black Lives Matter at School Week of Action.

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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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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.

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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. When learning a second language, it’s important to teach reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Grammar games. Fly Swatter!

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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.” When I was growing up, I assumed that my teachers knew everything, including all of the “right answers.” Now that I’ve been a teacher for 15 years, I know this simply isn’t true.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

The “Bored Board” can help give students options and eliminate the question, “ I’m done, now what? Wrong Answers Only: Have students come up with the best wrong answers to a question. This can be a physical handout, but it also works great as a digital tool that can link to text, videos, interactive simulations and more.

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Angela Maiers

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Use the following template to get your started as you explore the questions below. This single question can cause some to to lie awake at night, wondering what happened to our lives and to our world and for others it can light a fire so bright it propels them to a greatness they never dreamed possible. What makes you happy?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

After students have completed moving through the station rotation, I post these self-reflection questions for students to think about and discuss with a partner: On a scale of 1-5 (five being the highest), how well do you think the class did when moving from station to station? questions and helps students get on-task quickly.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 6, 2021

You may need to ask yourself some additional questions: . She currently teaches Language Arts and Technology at a bilingual public middle school. Which of the new tools that you explored this year would you like to not only use again but explore more thoroughly? Which of them didn’t work for you? Why didn’t they work?

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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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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. We worked collaboratively on a shared Google Document so teachers could see the outs for the previous grade, ask questions, and make suggestions.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Secondary students in particular need to be able to see and ask questions during remote STEM instruction, such as during laboratory experiments or when receiving feedback when developing their own solutions to math problems. Related content: How collaboration enables meaningful distance learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2020

High school students from LaGuardia High School, aka the Fame School, have been hosting a series of free public information sessions for New York middle school students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. The truth is when you teach middle schoolers, you feel like you don’t make a difference. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 7, 2019

A Challenge-Based Learning model pioneered by Apple is now helping teachers engage middle school students in deep learning through projects that combine developing questions, investigating scientific phenomena, and solving problems in their classrooms, schools, and communities.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2020

During this free eSchool News Virtual Leadership Event , eSchool News will highlight best practices from district leaders grappling with remote security issues and provide answers to these ever-changing questions. Michael Kuhrt is Superintendent of Schools for Wichita Falls Independent School District (WFISD). 7 at 2 p.m.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Worcester Polytechnic Institute will partner with Brown University and Bootstrap to examine those questions. million, is of critical importance as middle schools and high schools across the country look to integrate computer science into their curricula, while at the same time grappling with a projected shortage of computer science teachers.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

That’s exactly what is happening at Trailside Middle School in Loudoun County, Virginia; at high schools in Gaston County Schools, North Carolina; and at a few other pioneering classrooms around the country where I have had the opportunity to work with innovative educators. The answer is a resounding YES.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

The answer can be found in a small but mighty after-school and summer program that sets high expectations to inspire young people to explore technology career pathways and become leaders committed to improving their communities. Every day we get closer to answering those questions.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Traveling Science Workshops (TSW) are state curriculum-aligned, small group, in-classroom workshops that use simple, everyday materials and a hands-on approach to allow students to be scientists: exploring, observing, asking questions, and sharing discoveries.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

That’s why at Jacksonville Independent School District we like to combine social-emotional learning with coding education. Here’s how it has worked since we introduced virtual robotics at our middle school. At the time, we did not have a robotics course for middle grades at all, though we did have an after-school STEM club.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

. – Aperture Education, the leading provider of research-based social and emotional learning assessments for K-12 schools, has added two new solutions to its product suite. DESSA Middle School Student Self-Report Adolescents’ engagement is critical to learning success.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

With so much publicity, it is reasonable to assume that all students from middle school through post-secondary are aware of its power. The critical question is, “ What is the right type of co-learning ?” ” “I work every day after school and then look after my siblings…. The answer: we ask them.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Zach Knapp, a teacher in career and technical education at Vale Middle School in Eastern Oregon, and his students were some of the first to try Sassy earlier this year. He said he saw how the platform provided a safe, conversational space for his students to comfortably ask any questions about future careers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

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. I got my first iPhone on my 11th birthday. Remote learning at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic only made things worse.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. The truth is when you teach middle schoolers, you feel like you don’t make a difference. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A few years ago, my husband left a career in finance and went back to school to obtain his teaching credential. History to the amazing kids at Helms Middle School in San Pablo, CA. They raised their hands and shouted out answers and sought me out to ask more questions. Today they asked questions. Today they cared.

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eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2023

A 2022 survey by the Consortium for School Networking shows that more than 80 percent of U.S. schools now have a device for each K-12 student. That’s way up from pre-pandemic numbers, where about two of three high schools and middle schools were one-to-one and less than half of elementary schools had a device for each student.

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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. Additionally, standardizеd tеsts can bе adaptеd to measure critical thinking skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

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. If the children are the future, the future might be very ill-informed.”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

We’re in the Golden Age of Educational Apps, according to Shannon Holden, assistant principal at Republic Middle School in Missouri. However, many parents and educators question the educational value of apps and worry they are taking away from actual instructional time.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The Bored Board can help give students options and eliminate the question, I’m done, now what? Wrong Answers Only: Have students come up with the best wrong answers to a question. This can be a physical handout, but it also works great as a digital tool that can link to text, videos, interactive simulations and more.

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