Young Adolescent Development Archives

Research to Practice: Self-regulation and “Wayside Teaching” in the Middle Grades

By: David Virtue, Merlaina Davis, Kaitlyn Fletcher

Merlaina Davis recalled a day early in her first semester of internship when students entered the seventh-grade language arts classroom noticeably stressed. She learned that students were having their first “math check-ins,” a benchmark assessment administered during the school day. One student approached Merlaina, sat down, and talked about how anxious she was about the

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Limits Plus Autonomy—Helping Kids Learn and Thrive In the Digital World

By: Ellen Galinsky

A Child Development Perspective The debates on kids and the digital world are heating up. The main focus now—as in the past—is on protection. Protecting children from harm is fundamental. But if we only pay attention to limits, our efforts will fall short. We can’t ignore an axiom of child development—children need both limits to

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With A.I., Let’s Keep Students’ Learning Paramount

By: Rick Wormeli

Eight guiding principles when choosing to use or not use AI in the classroom The rise of ChatGPT-4 and the use of Artificial Intelligence in the modern classroom is astounding. We’re a little gobsmacked wondering at the evolution of its capacity and use in the years ahead. Today, we’re only scratching the surface of its

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The Most Brilliant Use of 60 Seconds

By: AMLE

Creating Belonging in the Middle Grades, No Matter the School Setting When Laurie Barron became Superintendent of Evergreen School District in Montana, she knew it’d be different than the previous two decades she’d spent as a teacher and school leader in the suburbs of Atlanta. “We do not ride horses and buggies to school,” Barron

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8 NEW Characteristics of Middle School Kids: What Can We Do?

By: Jack Berckemeyer

As an educator, do you ever feel like you might be at a point in your career where you’re like the old person sitting on the front porch complaining about people walking across their lawn? Have you started saying things like: “These kids today!” or, “When I was a teenager … ?” Some argue that

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It’s The Holiday Season, So Whoop-De-Do: Managing the Holiday Madness

By: Todd Brist

The holiday season is upon us and that can mean madness in our classrooms. Why is that? The truth is, we are often the primary culprit of the chaos. We spend months tirelessly pre-teaching routines and procedures and establishing behavior expectations, only to ease up on them or even abandon them during the holiday season.

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