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5 approaches that engage middle school students in STEM learning

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Plus, when they make mistakes, they’re motivated to try new approaches to test theories. As students progress through middle school, STEM learning should focus on building curiosity, confidence, and foundational skills that students will carry with them through high school and beyond.

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Middle School students use green screens, technology to connect to learning

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Longfellow Middle School students are using green screen technology to transport themselves and their classmates to new worlds of learning.

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What? Test scores won’t predict academic growth over time

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For years, parents and policymakers have looked to test scores to gauge the effectiveness of school districts and teachers. New research from Stanford Graduate School of Education Professor Sean Reardon provides a different measure: students’ academic progress over a period of years.

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How this middle school teacher gets students to challenge themselves in math

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State test math scores remain a cause for concern, as Newark’s overall passing rate sits at 15% for students in grades 3 to 9. Both traditional public and charter schools in the city have prioritized increasing math proficiency during the 2023-24 school year. Now, Quijada channels that positivity into his lessons.

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How a middle school teacher grew students’ math scores despite pandemic challenges

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The school’s sixth grade growth scores in math are at nearly 58 percent, meaning more than half of the students met their individual growth targets on the state’s ILEARN test. Throughout the pandemic, Gregory held his students to high expectations, whether they were learning in person or virtually.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. But the high turnover rate for teachers and the cadence at which they must prepare students for state testing forces educators to rely on overly procedural materials, she argued. When would I ever use this?

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Leading K-8 Educational Company Introduces Middle School Science Solution

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Recent research from Gallup and the RAND Corporation shows that BrainPOP is already one of the most widely used digital learning tools that elementary and middle school educators turn to for teaching students science. In the last year alone, more than 3.1 Key features of BrainPOP Science include: ?