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Making a Middle School Magazine

Making a Middle School Magazine

A student-produced magazine celebrates middle level student voice.

In October 2015, a team of seven editors—all eighth grade boys at St. Christopher's School in Richmond, Virginia—met during lunch to compare two digital publishing platforms. They judged entries for the...
Author: Lisa Brennan
Number of views (35017)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and LiteracyTeaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent MotivationActive LearningWritingLiteracyProblem-solvingStudent Leaders
Prep-Once Activities

Prep-Once Activities

Bust worksheets and lectures with these activities you can reuse many times over.

We've all experienced it—you look up from your lesson to notice a virus spreading among your students. First one, then three, and before long, the whole class is overtaken. It's a zombie virus ... the virus of...
Author: Katie Powell
Number of views (14917)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Teaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent Motivation
Leading with the Student Voice

Leading with the Student Voice

Recently, in response to a group of middle school students who asked about my journey to becoming a school leader, I recalled my 23-year journey to being awarded my Ph.D. in 2004 and my mother's sage advice. I...
Author: Nikki Woodson
Number of views (13072)/Comments (0)/
Topics: InspirationLeadership
Tags: Student EngagementStudent Motivation
Necessary Noise: The Importance of Collaborative Learning

Necessary Noise: The Importance of Collaborative Learning

An old-fashioned radio broadcast encourages deeper reading.

Connections between students, connections between texts and students, and connections between texts and the real world are vital to student learning. In classrooms, one way to make connections is by linking people,...
Author: Lesley Roessing
Number of views (24028)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and LiteracyTeaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent MotivationActive LearningLiteratureReadingWritingInterdisciplinary TeachingLiteracy
Ignite the Reading Spark in Young Adolescents

Ignite the Reading Spark in Young Adolescents

Speed date a book? Let students give it a try!

Although it's been said that all learning should come from the teacher, sometimes it's the students who do the teaching. In my second year of teaching, Chad, an eighth grade student, taught me my first lesson. Under...
Author: Leta Simpson
Number of views (14840)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Language Arts and Literacy
Tags: Student MotivationReading
Pick Me! Pick Me! Experimenting with Discussion Interventions

Pick Me! Pick Me! Experimenting with Discussion Interventions

Creating a balance during classroom discussions.

"Fine! Don't call on me!" My student was obviously upset. I hadn't called on him during the entire lesson. I wasn't trying to be mean or purposely picking on him. I was experimenting with different lesson...
Author: Jared Anderson
Number of views (13876)/Comments (2)/
Topics: Teaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent Motivation
Mixing Up the Teams: All Students Deserve the Very Best

Mixing Up the Teams: All Students Deserve the Very Best

Why tracking based on ability means everyone loses.

Let's say we have two soccer teams. One is populated by all of the strongest, fastest, toughest, athletic students. These kids attend practice every day after school and work out on their own in the evenings and on...
Author: Krista Venza, Nancy Doda, Robert Salladino, Jonathan Treese
Number of views (15742)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Diversity and Social EquityLeadershipMiddle School ConceptTeaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent MotivationGrouping
Why Awaken the Middle School Voice?

Why Awaken the Middle School Voice?

Middle school voices are not always what their teachers want to hear. Those voices can be high-pitched and rowdy, full of criticism and negativity, whining with complaint, or bent on distracting others, destroying...
Author: Elyse S. Scott
Number of views (19846)/Comments (0)/
Topics: InspirationTeaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent MotivationNew Teachers
Compassionate Discipline: Dealing with Difficult Students

Compassionate Discipline: Dealing with Difficult Students

Reaching and teaching all students requires an understanding of them inside and out.

If you are tired of dealing with negative student behaviors day in and day out, you are not alone—in fact, you are firmly in the center of the average teacher's experience. Still, managing difficult student...
Author: Grace Dearborn
Number of views (127196)/Comments (4)/
Topics: Classroom ManagementTeaching
Tags: Student Motivation
How I Won the Grading Game

How I Won the Grading Game

One single event can change teaching forever.

With more than two decades of experience, I have seen my share of the unusual, but one event in one eighth grade class forever changed the way I think about instruction and grading. It lead me on a personal and...
Author: Theresa Heilsberg
Number of views (22026)/Comments (0)/
Topics: Teaching
Tags: Student EngagementStudent MotivationGradesGames/Gaming
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