How to Keep Middle Grades Students Motivated in the Edu-Kitchen If you read last week’s moving, marvelously humble post about Mulch, you know that we’ve moved from the letter C to the letter M in the ABCs blog. Before we put the next M word in the cognitive crockpot, let’s use our senses to explore the letter itself
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Leadership Lessons to Help Middle Schools Blossom and Grow It’s finally spring—and time for blossoming, growing, flourishing, and mulch. That’s right, mulch. For anyone unaware of the joys of mulch, mulch comes in many shapes, sizes, and colors, and you can buy it in large bags or even have it delivered in one large heap to your
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In September, my seventh grade students gave me a quick social snapshot of their class. As their new school counselor, I had asked them to submit their thoughts anonymously in a box, and they didn’t hold back. Their comments and questions ranged from the philosophical to the practical: “Why do people spread lies? If someone’s
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Six Words to Create a Great School for Young Adolescents! It’s time for us to bid farewell to our good friend, the letter C, for the ABCs blog. Before we move to our next letter, let’s take a look back at sensational, scintillating C. We’ve looked at the magical middle grades through the lenses of Conversation, Cross-Content
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Walk the Walk about Talking the Talk! Conversation is something that we often take for granted—like air. It swirls around us. We breathe it in. We listen to it as it bends and curves. Our ears hear it. However, even though it is as critical as the air we breathe, we often aren’t really listening. By
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Many people have a misconception that administrators are the only definitive leaders in a school, and while they do hold degrees in leadership, they do not hold sole possession of the trait itself. Rather, in effective middle level schools, everyone is a leader. This is also true for successful restaurants. While there is either a
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