The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

Under a first-in-the-nation law that took full effect this year, students from across the state must take part in at least two “student-led, nonpartisan civics projects” — one in eighth grade, and another in high school. Peyton Amaral, an eighth grader at Morton Middle School in Fall River, Mass., Credit: Christopher Blanchette.

Civic Engagement 141

Civic Engagement Civics Teaching Middle School 141

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Indeed, many advocacy groups, including the Learning Policy Institute and Ed Trust , are recommending extending learning time next year. I haven’t heard about many school districts announcing longer schedules yet but I was curious to learn what research evidence shows for students at schools that have extended the day or lengthened the year.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Charter School Middle School Advocacy 140

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

In fact, the coach at Andover Middle School in Miami, Florida, created a flexible schedule to allow teachers to book learning consultations, classroom visits, and one-on-one instruction. Now, with video conferencing tools, coaches are able to “visit” more classrooms on a given day.

Artifacts 139

Artifacts Middle School Advocacy Lesson Plan 139

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Elementary school girls make up nearly half of computer science students, but that percentage falls to 44 percent in middle school and 32 percent in high school.

K-12 139

K-12 Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 139

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

During my first year as principal of a Mississippi middle school, I fought to recruit Black teachers and retain the ones I already had on my campus. We provided statewide access to training and tutoring for assessments in partnership with our teacher advocacy organizations and focused on building community among Black educators.

Education 140

Education Tutoring Pedagogy Advocacy 140

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Fewer than 20 percent of high school students knew that simply looking at one photo online is not enough research to gauge if something is really happening. And among middle school students, 80 percent did not understand that “sponsored content” on a news organization’s website is paid advertising.

Civics 112

Civics Advocacy Elementary School Middle School 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Dawn Lineberry, a sixth grade math teacher at Jackson Middle School in Guilford County, North Carolina, noticed that some of her students were struggling with long division. Principal Angela McNeill of Eastern Guilford Middle School said that students had lost ground in multiplication, division and problem solving.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring Middle School K-12 High School 140

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

As the principal of a multicultural, socioeconomically diverse public school in San Francisco, I’ve seen seventh and eighth grade classes where only one or two students had their cameras on. Yet over Thanksgiving break, a former student of ours, who had moved on to high school, died by suicide. In other words, talk to the district.

Middle School 138

Middle School Advocacy Public School High School 138

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Implementing reforms in a district, like eliminating grade levels in Kettle Moraine Middle School, is not a feasible task without community understanding. Student advocacy reinforced Kettle Moraine’s implementation of CBE and expanded opportunities around personalized learning.

Education 115

Education Advocacy Professional Development Middle School 115

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

As in Szoo’s case, the disparity begins in high school, where classes in subjects such as math, engineering and computer science “are still pretty gendered,” said Mynatt. And if you don’t know you want to be a computer scientist as a sophomore in high school, you’re going to have a hard time getting into that program.”

Middle School 142

Middle School Leadership Advocacy Cultures 142

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. They offer an invitation to analyze how mathematics can be applied to promote civic engagement, advocacy, policy change and increased access to resources.

Cultures 136

Cultures Civic Engagement Civics Pedagogy 136

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. Since the pandemic, mental health strains on youth have been put in the spotlight.

Advocacy 137

Advocacy Psychology Middle School Tradition 137

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. On the opposite end of the Lone Star State in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Principal Anabel Ibarra likewise developed a plan for culture change at Bowie Middle School.

Cultures 140

Cultures Junior High Middle School Tutoring 140

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2018

And a number of schools in Washington, D.C., For example, at the Howard University Middle School of Math and Science, on the university’s campus, 78 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and about half are considered “at-risk.”

Education 108

Education Charter School Middle School Advocacy 108

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Elizabeth Forward, for example, implemented middle school-level robotics to engage students in maker learning and activate their imaginations before they begin advanced computer science coursework in high school. Community Engagement and Advocacy. Integrating with the Maker Movement.

Education 109

Education K-12 Advocacy Elementary School 109

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

It seems to work: Vertus says that 71 percent of its students pass their Regents exams, required by the state of New York for graduation, compared to 38 percent in the Rochester City School District. The LEAP Learning Framework urges schools to personalize learning in multiple ways. Here it feels totally different,” he said.

Charter School 111

Charter School Advocacy Middle School High School 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

But other districts, like the Schenectady City School District near Albany, New York, are ramping up social work services to address the need, including a relatively new program targeting kids who land in trouble for the sometimes destructive reactions to the trauma they’ve experienced.

Tutoring 142

Tutoring Middle School High School Advocacy 142

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

The resources are organized by: Early childhood/elementary Middle school/high school Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles. It has a collection of creative and artistic activities for kids, including an advocacy poem, talking points for families, and collage activity.

Teaching 88

Teaching Social Justice Advocacy Middle School 88

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

I started by organizing cultural awareness sessions in my school during the in-service days, where I shared my personal stories and the significance of the hijab. The Journey Continues My journey as a Muslim teacher in a predominantly white school has been challenging, but deeply rewarding, oddly enough.

Professional Development 23

Professional Development Advocacy Cultures Humanities 23

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe is still a rural district with a high-poverty student body, but a new staffing model has made its schools newly desirable for teachers who want to be school leaders without leaving the classroom. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.

Elementary School 111

Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

Library 111

Library Artifacts Advocacy Professional Development 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

They launched a website , an advocacy group and an auxiliary group for teachers. I worry that the science of math is so focused on rote memorization,” said Dykema, a middle school math teacher. “I The researchers continued to meet almost every month during 2021 as their campaign gained momentum.

Advocacy 145

Advocacy Research Elementary School Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Nearly 15,000 of Philadelphia’s more than 197,000 students attended a virtual cyber charter school last year — a 55 percent increase since the 2020-21 school year. In fact, Pennsylvania has quietly become the “cyber charter capital of the nation” according to a report from the education advocacy group Children First PA.

Charter School 94

Charter School Tradition Advocacy K-12 94

ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Becoming an Outsider It would be hard to identify a single cause of Bradley’s school avoidance, according to his mother, Deirdre. But it began in middle school, around the seventh grade. Bradley would miss school here and there, but the growing tally of absences worried his mom.

Advocacy 128

Advocacy High School Middle School Tradition 128

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

A good student with dreams of working in neuroscience, Eli, a 17-year-old junior who uses the pronouns they and them, did very well in middle school and was accepted to a competitive magnet high school. But at the new school, Eli struggled with more challenging coursework and shorter deadlines.

Education 136

Education Advocacy Public School High School 136

Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

middle school curricula. high school curricula. Advocate to bring CS to your school. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. A great way to build your knowledge and skills is doing exactly what students would do and go through curriculum yourself. Start a club.

K-12 90

K-12 Advocacy Professional Development Middle School 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2019

Approximately 77 percent of the more than 3,827,000 teachers in public elementary and secondary schools in the U.S. during the 2015-16 school year were women, according the data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. Related: Learning while you earn in college.

History 103

History Charter School Archiving Advocacy 103

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

In Indiana, third grade students who were retained were more likely to perform better in math and language arts immediately after retention, and the improvements continued into middle school, according to a study published last year. Melissa Knapp, Harpeth Valley Elementary’s literacy coach, observes a first grade class.

Tutoring 127

Tutoring Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 127

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

For Black and Brown students, though, the negative effects of having SROs in schools are disproportionately higher. Middle-school suspension rates are double the national average in urban school districts, with schools often suspending more than a third of their Black male students.

High School 113

High School Advocacy Public School History 113

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities. Christina Rodriguez teaches a math lesson at Bloomfield Middle School. No one taught her these strategies. Photo: Jackie Mader.

Middle School 95

Middle School Professional Development Teaching Advocacy 95

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2017

Ray heads up Future Ready Librarians, part of Future Ready Schools — a network for sharing education technology solutions, which is sponsored by the Alliance for Excellent Education, a Washington, D.C.-based based education advocacy group. “It Getting kids reading is still a huge part of what we do here.

Library 111

Library K-12 Digital Resources Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2022

States oversee the spending of a smaller $12 billion slice of this money and the law expressly requires them to spend 1 percent of it, or $120 million, on after-school programs. Another 5 percent of the state money is to be spent on overcoming learning loss, which can also be used on after-school programs.

Museum 98

Museum Tutoring Advocacy Elementary School 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Today, middle and high schools are still the least likely to have daily physical education or recess.

Elementary School 108

Elementary School Middle School Charter School High School 108

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

A middle school teacher shared how her values compete with her capacity to care for her own mental well-being while caring for her students from underserved communities in Georgia: "My values are advocacy and mental health. This integrity moves us from individual to collective or communal healing.

Education 127

Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 127

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2023

“How do you expect me to do well in school? Related: When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail The educational options available to suspended students often pale in comparison to what they would get in the classroom. It just tortures a person’s mind.” That’s not what happens.”

Tutoring 109

Tutoring Middle School High School Economics 109

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

In 50 elementary schools, according to officials, these students now take classes in Spanish and English with an ultimate goal of achieving academic proficiency in both languages by middle school. Both programs aim to make students fully bilingual. Both feature instruction in two languages.

Multicultural Education 111

Multicultural Education Social Justice Elementary School Advocacy 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

Nationwide, K-12 schools are leading a fledgling “net-zero” building boom that has grown from a few proof-of-concept structures a decade ago to hundreds of buildings completed or under construction. Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives.

K-12 111

K-12 Elementary School Middle School Advocacy 111