A teacher's ability to facilitate self-assessment and student reflection on (independent of you) is essential during the middle grades years. Self-assessment is a student's ability to check and understand his or her...

The following is an excerpt from the newly released book titled Is It Working in Your Middle School? I highly encourage any middle level educator to access the book and use it as tool for ensuring the success of any...

In its keys for educating young adolescents, AMLE calls for educators to use a variety of assessments in an effort to both advance and measure student learning. Daily, teachers are using assessment to guide...

What's best for students? I hear this question repeatedly in schools, yet day-to-day responsibilities often seems to get in the way of answering and fulfilling this promise. Best practices tell us that the more...

Move the desks out of the way, pull up a piece of rug, and invent something using the engineering process and leftover parts. Just like anything else, the Internet provides a plethora of ideas to define and design...

As a family and consumer science teacher at the middle school level, the Lead2Feed Student Leadership Program lessons seem to blend seamlessly into my curriculum. Some of the major units of family and consumer...

Some start because of something they saw on TV. Others are moved by the challenge facing a loved one, or one they're facing themselves. Over the past 21 years, The Prudential Spirit of Community Awards has heard...

Just when you thought you understood the "Touch Screen Generation" today, they get even younger on you. In a recent publication of the Journal, Pediatrics, researchers found "almost universal exposure" to tablets and...

You're invited to participate in the National Student/Parent Mock Election, the nation's largest civic education project, and the world's largest national mock election. And it's entirely free. Since 1980, more than...

How are you addressing the social and psychological development of your middle grades students? The No Child Left Behind (NCLB) legislation caused many schools to place an enormous emphasis on promoting academic...