The Hungry Teacher Blog

MAY 28, 2025

Thats why I started using a six-day middle school research project before I dove into an entire research unit because it gave students a strong foundation for writing. This research project is also a good way to review skills or fill time at the end of the school year.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Charlotte, NC Discovery Education , the creators of indispensable K-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around the world, today announced an exciting new slate of standards-aligned educational content and instructional resources for Back-to-School 2025 that will inspire teachers and engage students.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

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. For many schools and districts, integrating environmental topics like this into the curriculum can feel like a heavy burden.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

In 2014, I got my first teaching job at a brand new high school in Detroit. The building had once been an elementary school with a fully functioning library. Two years later, that room had become a dumping ground for unused supplies, and the school football team frequently used it as a meeting space. newsletters.

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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. PORTLAND, May 12, 2021 – Blackbird today announced the official release of the world’s first educational version of JavaScript.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Sign up for our free New York newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading. And those who didn’t?

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

On its face, the cell phone policy at Forest Hills High School seems clear: Phones cannot be used in school and must be turned off during the day, unless a teacher allows them as part of a lesson. Storage of phones can be expensive, at a time when schools are seeing budget cuts. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2023

The district reports 70 screens are live today with Carousel digital signage content coming from multiple contributors per school, with approximately 150 screens expected upon completion. The district has adopted a “one school at a time” rollout strategy that helps its technology specialists effectively train staff before using the system.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

As the back-to-school season unfolded in New York, the city’s teachers set up their classrooms how they usually do: by putting up posters, reading through curriculums, sharpening pencils, and, for roughly a decade , charging Chromebooks. The one place where I was free from the pressure to snap and scroll was school. newsletters.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. In middle and high school courses, its really difficult to connect math to the real world, says Lindsey Henderson, policy director of math for the nonprofit ExcelinEd. When would I ever use this?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Chronic absenteeism remains a widespread challenge in schools across the country, but in Wisconsin, Racine Unified School District s Julian Thomas Elementary and Jerstad-Agerholm Middle School are demonstrating that innovative, data-driven approaches can make a difference. I took that on right away, Paproth said.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Ed Madison, a media professor and researcher at the UOs School of Journalism and Communication , created Sassy, an online career coach thats been officially adopted by the state of Oregon. Knapp plans to integrate Sassy into his future curriculum to help middle school students get a jump-start on career planning.

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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. At Spokane Public Schools (SPS), educators and administrators are reversing the side effects of social media by re-connecting with students through school-based extracurricular activities. A lot of them wanted an art club.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The air is crisp, the colors are beautiful, and, as school has been in session for two months, students and teachers alike have settled into a nice routine. Just as in classrooms nationwide, Montana’s teachers place an intense focus on supporting literacy in elementary school instruction.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Until now, the story of how COVID affected who got their high school diploma went something like this: Graduation rates dipped a little for the class of 2021, but recovered the following year. Where a student lived and what policies their school followed during the pandemic affected how likely they were to graduate from high school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Both are middle school teachers in the swing state of Pennsylvania and well as part of the Bobblehead George geek squad. It’s tough enough for the average American to navigate through the torrents of mis- and disinformation flooding social media platforms. How about having to guide a classroom full of eighth graders?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Acton, MA – Discovery Museum announced a 30-year milestone for its in-school STEM program, Traveling Science Workshops, having delivered hands-on science to more than half a million PreK through 8 th grade students from hundreds of communities throughout Massachusetts since the program began in 1992.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2021

The 2020-21 school year brought a lot of new students to online school who otherwise may not have even tried it. Many families were unsure of how their local districts would handle new guidelines brought by COVID-19, and others felt most comfortable going with an existing virtual school with years of experience.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2021

In recent years, schools have tried to broaden the traditional extracurricular definition to appeal to a more diverse, and often disengaged, group of students who are at-risk of dropping out of high school. Summer Jibril was a 16-year-old high school sophomore, and she was in a bad place. Esports just might be the natural fit.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2023

4, 2023 – Twelve schools and one district-wide project are a few of the most recent educational institutions to make MiEN Company their furnishing and design partner in creating or upgrading spaces within their school campuses. The categories of projects and the participating schools are listed below: Café Space Projects.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2025

A nonprofit organization for career and technical education (CTE), SkillsUSA serves more than 413,000 middle school, high school, and college students and instructors nationwide.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

That’s why, when I retired from the school system to pursue my PhD, Industrial Organizational (I/O) Psychology seemed like such a perfect fit. That’s why, when I retired from the school system to pursue my PhD, Industrial Organizational (I/O) Psychology seemed like such a perfect fit. There is no one-size-fits-all approach to change.

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eSchool News

MAY 23, 2023

Dexter, Michigan — Dexter Community School, a mid-size school district located in Dexter, Michigan, has implemented Rise Vision’s digital signage solution to encourage student expression and creativity. Rise Vision’s digital signage solution has allowed Dexter Community School to engage students in a new way.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2024

From poor reading skills to chaotic classrooms, the stubbornly high rate at which kids are absent from school makes it harder to solve every other problem in education. The goal is to reverse what happened during the pandemic, when the share of kids who miss a lot of school nearly doubled. We have to break that cycle.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Passive uses of technology that primarily support adult goals: Taking an online test (weekly): 75 percent of high school students and 66 percent of middle school students Using a learning management system for organization (weekly): 72 percent of high school students and 67 percent of middle school students Active uses of technology that support students (..)

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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. But that picture differed by state.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2024

  – 3M (@3M) and Discovery Education (@DiscoveryEd) named Sirish Subash, a 9 th grader at Gwinnett School of Mathematics, Science, and Technology in Snellville, Georgia, the winner of the 2024 3M Young Scientist Challenge, the nation’s premier middle school science competition.

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eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

To help fill the gap we began using two products, both of which were recommended by a teacher who had used the literacy programs at a previous school. At the middle school, Lexia PowerUp is used as a tool within English Language Development classes. Teach to a group or individuals.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

Sign up for our free New York newsletter to keep up with NYC’s public schools. The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading. And those who didn’t?

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eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2024

Jay highlights two major updates: enhancements to their core offerings with new tools for differentiation and assessment, and the introduction of AI-powered features in their middle school science program. Click to hear the details.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

More than a decade ago, while running a high-performing school that I loved, a small moment forever shifted how I lead. As a Black woman who was a teenage mother and had dropped out of high school, I was proud of my career and taking great care to figure out what was next. What if schools retain and grow these educators?

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2023

But I did not choose this career path because I had an amazing school counselor in middle school. I did not have access to a school counselor at all. I was in the academic middle and did not need school counseling. This is my passion and the focus of my efforts every day. In fact, it’s the opposite.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2024

. “And we know that middle school teachers in particular play such an important role in a student’s journey which is why they are the key to bringing technology education to more schools. Students gain a solid foundation in key technology concepts to prepare them for future opportunities — in high school and beyond.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Soon, the tone of the workshop changed, and the group of middle schoolers was on its way to gaining proficiency in the fundamentals of full-stack development and adding one more coding language to their repertoire. We use an interdisciplinary approach to the STEAM education we provide in our Digital Explorers program.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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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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