When a whole school district decides to make middle level education a priority, amazing things happen The relatively low priority for middle level education is a nearly universal condition particularly well known to those engaged in educating young adolescents. These passionate educators are committed to pouring themselves into educating students in one of the most
How to engage teacher teams in whole-school literacy and learning improvement It’s 7:30 Tuesday morning and groups of teachers are sitting in their first meeting of the year for their professional learning communities (PLCs). Thick binders filled with colored tabs and volumes of files of student literacy achievement data are in front of them. Teachers
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Here’s what students had to say and what educators can do to have camp-inspired lessons Middle schools and summer camps play different roles in society. Middle schools are a legally required step in a child’s development meant to prepare them for college and career, while summer camps are often elective experiences focusing on a broad
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How to help students struggling with the move from elementary to middle school Gena was failing most of her sixth grade classes when she decided to stop going to school. Her mother, Sheryl, called me in a panic. I hadn’t talked to Sheryl in years, but we’d grown up together, and she knew I was
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Tapping into the arts helps students—and teachers—make an emotional investment in reading Plagiarism is both easier to commit due to the tremendous amount of content “out there,” but also ridiculously easy to catch with a simple Google search. As an English teacher, I’ve found that if my assignment can be easily plagiarized, it probably isn’t
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How poetry written from a new perspective deepens knowledge and encourages synthesis of new ideas Much of the writing we assign our students is public writing—writing to communicate with others. Writing-to-learn is personal writing, writing that helps students increase comprehension of texts—fiction and nonfiction—in all disciplines. Reader response compels readers to interact with the text
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