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Ruthie Smith Stevenson

Ruthie Smith Stevenson, Ph.D., is a professor and coordinator of the doctoral program in educational leadership K–12, at Mississippi College in Clinton, Mississippi. She is a member of the Mississippi Board of...

Author: AMLE
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Topics: Achievement Gap Action Research Active Learning At-risk/RTI Bullying/School Safety Classroom Management Data-driven Decisions Differentiated Instruction Diversity and Social Equity Family and Community Leadership Middle School Concept PLCs Poverty School Culture/Climate Student-led Conferences Teaching Teaming Transitions to/from Middle School

Tags: Achievement Gap Active Learning Data-driven Decisions PLCs Poverty Student-led Conferences Action Research

Manipulatives in Middle Grades Mathematics

Research Summary

Current research on the use of manipulatives in the middle grades is not as extensive as research on manipulative use in the elementary grades and with students with disabilities (Cobb, 1995; Driscoll, 1980; Sowell,...

Author: Dianne Goldsby
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Topics: Research STEM Teaching

Tags: Active Learning Math Research Summary

Get Your Students Moving

Incorporating movement in the classroom keeps students and their brains engaged in learning.

As a 20-year veteran middle school teacher, I learned very early in my career that if you don’t physically move middle school students sometime during your lesson or class time, they will move you in ways you...

Author: Kim Campbell
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Topics: Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation Active Learning New Teachers

Teaching Student Leadership in an Inner-City School

Leadership training for youth is an investment in our present and future. Yet providing effective training can be challenging in terms of time and curriculum—especially in high-poverty communities, as we...

Author: Joél Lewis, Monica Hunter, and André Green
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Topics: Student Leadership Teaching

Tags: Active Learning Character Education Service Learning College Readiness

Let's Get Physical: Reading and Movement

Active reading gets a boost when teachers add movement to the lesson plan.

We often assume that by the time they walk through our doors, middle school students know how to read well. Yet, that’s not always the case. And with the complex text requirements of the Common Core State...

Author: John Helgeson
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy Teaching

Tags: Active Learning Reading

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
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation Active Learning Writing Literacy Problem-solving Student Leaders

Moving Students from Passive Consumers to Active Creators

In the 1997 film Good Will Hunting, an arrogant graduate student in economics embarrasses Will Hunting's non-academic friend (Ben Affleck) by pointing out his lack of education and tries to prove his own intellectual...

Author: Rick Wormeli
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Topics: Teaching

Tags: Active Learning Rick Wormeli Problem-solving

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
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Topics: Health, Wellness, Guidance School Culture/Climate

Tags: Active Learning Physical Education

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
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy Teaching

Tags: Student Engagement Student Motivation Active Learning Literature Reading Writing Interdisciplinary Teaching Literacy

Addressing Writer's Block Through Physical Movement

Encouraging student thinking and writing with opportunities for movement.

Almost all students will experience writer's block at one time or another. Helping them work through this common experience with the use of physical activity may add success to the writing process for all students....

Author: John Helgeson
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy Teaching Young Adolescent Development

Tags: Active Learning Writing

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