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Supporting Students During Times of Change

Supporting Students During Times of Change

Working with students to adjust to new environments and expectations.

Moving away from home to attend college was the first time a transition from one school to another was a remarkable, memorable event. While I can recall school transitions during childhood and young adolescent years,...
Author: Valerie Benjamin
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Topics: Transitions to/from Middle School
Tags: Transition to High SchoolTransition to Middle School
Young Adolescent Voices

Young Adolescent Voices

Students share valuable insights when we take time to listen.

Middle level educators engage in a variety of professional development experiences in order to continue to learn about effective ways to work with young adolescents as they develop their identities, ideas, and...
Author: Ann K. Yehle, Connor Drevs, Kelly Garrity, McKenzie Larson
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Topics: TeachingYoung Adolescent Development
Tags: Student Motivation
Professional Learning through Cross-Pollination!

Professional Learning through Cross-Pollination!

5 Ways to Create Buzzworthy PD

Spring is in the air. Trees are beginning to bud. Flowers are starting to blossom. And bees are doing their critical work among us, which makes me think about cross-pollination and how it connects with improving...
Author: Dru Tomlin
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Topics: InspirationLeadership
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Middle Grades Longitudinal Study of 2017-18 (MGLS:2017) Webinar

Are you passionate about middle grades education? Interested in an unprecedented new study designed to fill the gap in national data related to this critical developmental stage of adolescence? Join representatives...
Author: AMLE
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Topics: ResearchMessages from AMLE
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The News Literacy Project

The News Literacy Project

A tool to help students determine news they can trust

It has been years since we've kept up with the world around us by reading the local paper over breakfast in the morning and watching the national news on television in the evening. The last two decades have seen an...
Author: Alan C. Miller
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Topics: Language Arts and Literacy
Tags: Critical ThinkingMedia Literacy
Courageous Construction in the Middle Grades!

Courageous Construction in the Middle Grades!

7 Questions & Actions to Build Great Teaching, Learning, and Leading

Put your hard hats on and grab your tool belts, people. It's time to discuss construction in the critical middle grades. As a middle school and high school teacher, I always believed that learning happens as a...
Author: Dru Tomlin
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Topics: Leadership
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Passion is not enough: Preparing middle level preservice teachers to be advocates for change

Passion is not enough: Preparing middle level preservice teachers to be advocates for change

Each year, thousands of middle grades preservice teachers assume their places in classrooms across the country, through practica, internships, and student teaching experiences. Over 600 U.S. colleges or universities...
Author: Jessica DeMink-Carthew, Penny A. Bishop
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Topics: Middle School ConceptProfessional DevelopmentProfessional Preparation
Tags: Preservice Teachers
The 4 New 22nd Century Cs for Education!

The 4 New 22nd Century Cs for Education!

Are Your Students Ready for the 22nd Century?

The four new 22nd Century Cs are here everyone, so buckle up. Get your mental crockpots ready to add these ingredients to the recipe. They are fresh. They are ready. They are now. And they mean no disrespect to the...
Author: Dru Tomlin
Number of views (15695)/Comments (7)/
Topics: Leadership
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When Every Educator in a Middle School Shadows a Student for a Day

When Every Educator in a Middle School Shadows a Student for a Day

A transformative experience that will inform your approach to teaching

As educators, we take a mental snapshot of our students. We figure the funny seventh grader who goofs off with boys in the hallway has plenty of friends to sit with at lunch. We assume the cynical loner who tries to...
Author: Phyllis Fagell
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Topics: School Culture/ClimateTeaching
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Time for Vitamin C: Let's Get Critical in the Middle Grades!

Time for Vitamin C: Let's Get Critical in the Middle Grades!

How Will You Share Our Critical Story?

Now we begin an exciting journey with the letter C, which is one of the most important letters in the world of middle level education. From the shape of it, it resembles an opening, a welcoming place, a safe...
Author: Dru Tomlin
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Topics: Leadership
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