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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...
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Manipulatives in Middle Grades Mathematics
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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,...
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Dianne Goldsby
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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...
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Kim Campbell
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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...
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Joél Lewis, Monica Hunter, and André Green
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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...
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John Helgeson
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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...
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Lisa Brennan
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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...
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Rick Wormeli
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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...
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Pam Powers
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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,...
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Lesley Roessing
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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....
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John Helgeson
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