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Joining Forces for Good: Middle School/High School Collaboration
Middle school and high school students collaborate on a hands-on service-learning project.
The transition to or from middle school can be smooth for some, but those of us who serve in a middle school know just how stressful these moves can be for a large percentage of our students. Students worry about...
Author:
Vonda Beavers
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Service Learning
Transition to High School
Five Must-Have Components of Active Learning Environments
As educators, we are constantly battling the pressures to bolster test scores, give more time and resources, and stay up to speed with new technologies and teaching methods, all while providing a comprehensive...
Author:
Pam Powers
Number of views (16394)
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Building School Community by Empowering Students
The disruptive behavior of some students can be a top concern of middle school teachers, administrators, and parents in many schools. While time is spent considering approaches to decreasing behavioral incidents,...
Author:
Stanley Pollack
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Leadership
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Student Engagement
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Professional Learning and Professional Development in the Middle Grades
Research Summary
Practitioners, policymakers, and researchers have touted the importance of improving educator quality as fundamental to enhancing school and student outcomes (Darling-Hammond, Wei, Andree, Richardson, & Orphanos,...
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Dana L. Bickmore
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Research Summary
Creating the Cougar Watch: Learning to be Proactive Against Bullying in Schools
Despite reticence from the central office, strong middle level teacher leaders worked together to develop an effective anti-bullying program that addresses a significant need for safety and inclusion for all middle school students.
This we believe: The school environment is inviting, safe, inclusive, and supportive of all. According to a nationally representative survey conducted by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development...
Author:
Robert W. Smith, Kayce Smith
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Safety
The School Is a Teacher—But What Are the Lessons?
We want students to remember the positive lessons we teach.
Middle grades educators spend almost all their time and energy dealing with what is taught, the content that is presented in classrooms and courses. This is understandable, given the great attention placed on...
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John H. Lounsbury
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Relationships Matter: Transformation Through Wayside Teaching
There's no getting around it—we teach who we are. By our presence in a classroom, it is inevitable that students learn about us. We teach who we are, so who we are matters. Who we are becomes evident through...
Author:
Sara Davis Powell
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School Culture/Climate
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Student Engagement
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Break the Silence and Make School Safe for All Kids!
Awareness and Strategies for Teachers
On January 2 1997, 14-year old Robbie Kirkland committed suicide after a four-year struggle to accept and find peace with his homosexuality. Robbie’s family loved, accepted, and supported him, but that...
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Norma J. Bailey
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Sexual Orientation
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Focus on School Climate
The Maryland State Board of Education recently approved new school discipline regulations designed to end disparities in how students of different races are punished for violating school rules. The new policies are...
Author:
Bob Wise
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School Culture/Climate
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Achievement Gap
Education Policy
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Lessons Learned from a Startup
Education is indeed a noble calling. Among and between the frustrations, red tape, glacial speed of change, monotony, and normal emotional fallout of “crucial conversations,” there are those wonderful,...
Author:
Jason Larocque
Number of views (8650)
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