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Andrea Bertoni; Andrea Maffia – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2024
While the development of creativity, or creative thinking, in mathematics is considered important by many researchers, there are several difficulties in implementing creative tasks, especially before secondary school. Within the original context of a mathematical escape game, this paper reports two episodes exemplifying the difficulties met by…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Learner Engagement, Mathematics Education, Creativity
Julie Stivers – Knowledge Quest, 2023
The students at the author's alternative, academic-recovery school come from their base schools and at the author's school are able to rewrite their own school stories. Some of that rewriting naturally happens in the library. Many of the students have experiences at multiple schools, but it is not until they come to the author's school that many…
Descriptors: School Libraries, Grade 8, Middle School Students, Student Participation
Kimberly Hellerich; Rachael Ramsey; Carolyn Curtis – New England College Journal of Applied Educational Research, 2022
The unprecedented switch to distance learning due to COVID-19 highlighted some social, economic, and learning inequities and presented opportunities for educators to reframe our approaches to learning environments. Through our lenses as a high school teacher, middle level teacher, and high school social worker, we document successful structures…
Descriptors: Distance Education, Equal Education, High School Teachers, Middle School Teachers
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Maguth, Brad M.; Tomer, Andrea; Apanius, Avery – Social Studies, 2019
This manuscript considers Berman's (1990) "Despair to Empowerment Curricular Curve" as a possible guiding curricular framework in global education. The authors describe how this curricular curve was used by teachers to enhance a seventh-grade world history unit on the Black Death to move middle-level learners away from despair and toward…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Global Education, World History, Grade 7
Zhu, Pei; Garcia, Ivonne; Alonzo, Erick – MDRC, 2019
The growing awareness of the importance of the first year of high school for future success has prompted schools and districts across the country to develop interventions designed for ninth-graders. "Growth mindset" is an intervention that aims to increase students' desire to take on challenges and to enhance their persistence in school…
Descriptors: High School Students, Learning Motivation, Intervention, Grade 9
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Julia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
Villeneuve, Jennifer Curry; Conner, Jerusha O.; Selby, Samantha; Pope, Denise Clark – Phi Delta Kappan, 2019
Adolescent stress, anxiety, and self-harm behaviors are on the rise, and the consequences have significant implications for how youth engage in school. While the data trends paint a worrisome picture of rising student stress and disengagement, evidence shows that listening to the voices and concerns of youth and implementing research-based reforms…
Descriptors: Stress Variables, Stress Management, Anxiety, Adolescents
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Groman, Jennifer L. – Gifted Child Today, 2019
This article discusses bullying among the author's gifted sixth graders within their general education classes, in situations where the gifted were both victim and bully. There are few studies of the gifted child as bully. Using depth psychology, visual arts, and writing, the students constructed the bully and victim using torn paper and writing…
Descriptors: Bullying, Sleep, Journal Writing, Gifted
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Curran, Marialice B. F. X.; Ribble, Mike – New Directions for Student Leadership, 2017
This chapter explores a P-20 digital citizenship model that builds upon the respect, educate, and protect REP model beginning with our earliest learners through elementary, middle, high school, and college.
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Information Literacy, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students
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Amy (Amanda) Cavanaugh – English Journal, 2019
Although plagiarism is not new, the rate and frequency of plagiarism has steadily (and somewhat alarmingly) risen in the past twenty years, coinciding with the ease of access to the Internet. The current generation of students - Gen Z, they've been labeled - is growing up in a world of sharing, a world where, with a quick tap of a button,…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Grade 9, High School Teachers, High School Students
Kelleher, Joanne – Educational Leadership, 2016
Students are often required to create work in a vacuum, handing in papers to an inauthentic audience for the purpose of receiving a grade. As a result, students often neglect to consider the effects that their work can have on others. In this article, the author highlights an art project from her middle school in Kings Park, New York, that…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Action Research, Educational Environment, Student Projects
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Bonner, Layla; Hicks, Janet; Pennie, Gerald – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2019
Predominantly White Educational Institutions often fail to meet the needs of gifted African American students. Racial discrimination, lack of teacher cultural competence, and deficit ideologies create barriers impacting student academic success, emotional well-being, and sense of belonging. School counselors are in optimal positions to assist…
Descriptors: Group Counseling, African American Students, Academically Gifted, Sense of Community
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Cunningham, Andie – LEARNing Landscapes, 2017
Trauma affects our classrooms frequently. Children who observe or experience trauma directly often demonstrate an altered learning process and shifting emotional needs. What guidance might inform K-12 instruction productively? This article frames the patterns discovered when a teacher researcher studied the teaching practices, strategies, and…
Descriptors: Trauma, Stress Variables, Elementary Secondary Education, Psychological Patterns
Weissbourd, Richard; Anderson, Trisha Ross – Educational Leadership, 2016
When asked about their child-rearing priorities, parents in the United States are likely to say it's more important to raise children who are caring than to raise high achievers. Schools, too, typically trumpet values such as caring, honesty, and fairness. These values are posted on walls, reiterated in assemblies, and included in mission…
Descriptors: Caring, Child Rearing, High Achievement, Institutional Mission
Clark, Caitlin M. – Online Submission, 2017
The AISD student climate survey provides the opportunity to monitor students' opinions regarding topics such as behavioral environment, adult fairness and respect, student academic self-confidence, teacher expectations, student engagement, and social emotional learning (SEL) skills. [For "Student Climate Survey Results: Spring 2017,…
Descriptors: School Districts, Educational Environment, Student Attitudes, Learner Engagement
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