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Michael DiCicco; Shawn A. Faulkner; Mac Cooley – PDS Partners: Bridging Research to Practice, 2023
Purpose: The purpose of this viewpoint article is to share the reflections of school and university leaders on the success of their emerging school-university partnership for the preparation of middle school teachers. Design/methodology/approach: The article is a reflective paper in which the leaders of the school-university partnership discuss…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation, Teacher Education Programs, Middle School Teachers
Michael DiCicco; Ryan Alverson – Current Issues in Middle Level Education, 2023
This study seeks to share teachers' and principals' voices from middle schools in the Southeastern United States who are attempting to help their students achieve academic success. Obtaining a snapshot of middle schools in the Southeastern United States provides opportunities to recognize trends and identify challenges about the current…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Principals, Barriers, Teacher Attitudes
Kentucky Department of Education, 2022
School climate has been connected to many important school and student-level outcomes: student achievement, teacher retention, and more. However, the understanding of the extent to which school climate and educator well-being are connected is less robust. This paper explores the extent to which school climate predicts educators' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Well Being, Teacher Attitudes, Predictor Variables
Alverson, Ryan; DiCicco, Mike; Faulkner, Shawn A.; Cook, Chris – Middle Grades Review, 2019
For more than 100 years, education communities have debated how best to educate the young adolescent. Proponents of both the junior high school model and the current middle school model have advocated for a specialized approach to educating adolescents that emphasizes the developmental needs of students. To accomplish this, various organizational…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Models, Middle School Teachers, Principals
John A. Huss; Shannon Eastep – i.e.: inquiry in education, 2024
The passage to middle school has been identified as a confusing period for adolescents, involving a series of major transitions. A new variable that permeates these already lofty transitions is the firm entrenchment of Generation Alpha in the middle grades classroom, a cohort that includes anyone born from 2010 onward, making them the first…
Descriptors: Middle School Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Student Characteristics, Early Adolescents
Roberts, Greg; Vaughn, Sharon; Wanzek, Jeanne; Furman, Gleb; Martinez, Leticia; Sargent, Katherine – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2023
Promoting Adolescents' Comprehension of Text (PACT) is a text- and discourse-based set of instructional practices that engage students with disciplinary texts as a means of building content knowledge and improving reading comprehension. PACT)s "efficacy" has been the subject of extensive previous trials. The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, History Instruction, United States History, Reading Comprehension
Stephanie D. Sullivan; Abigail L. Morris – Educational Research Quarterly, 2024
Has in-person learning and virtual learning produced equivalent results when it comes to student achievement? How can a district be flexible with learning options but also strategic with how to best achieve student learning gains? This case-study examines how one district leveraged virtual learning and flexible learning options during COVID-19 and…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Electronic Learning, Blended Learning
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Literacy Design Collaborative" aims to help teachers improve their effectiveness in the classroom with a focus on supporting their literacy instruction. "Literacy Design Collaborative" provides professional development, coaching, and resources to support teachers to work collaboratively in their schools to create and use…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Literacy Education, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Driessen, Emily P.; Wilhelm, Jennifer; Cole, Merryn; Dunn, Ashley; Anderson, Kameisha – Journal of Educational Research, 2023
K-12 science teachers in the United States are encouraged to teach their students engineering. When incorporating engineering into their science curricula, teachers commonly either focus on: (1) engineering and lace science throughout; or (2) science and lace engineering throughout. This study explores middle school students' nature of engineering…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Engineering Education, Science Curriculum, Student Attitudes
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Literacy Design Collaborative" aims to help teachers improve their effectiveness in the classroom with a focus on supporting their literacy instruction. "Literacy Design Collaborative" provides professional development, coaching, and resources to support teachers to work collaboratively in their schools to create and use…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Literacy Education, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
"Literacy Design Collaborative" aims to help teachers improve their effectiveness in the classroom with a focus on supporting their literacy instruction. "Literacy Design Collaborative" provides professional development, coaching, and resources to support teachers to work collaboratively in their schools to create and use…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Literacy Education, Academic Achievement, Program Effectiveness
Robyn Walsh; Brett Zyromski; Jennifer Betters-Bubon; Sarah Shrewsbury-Braxton – Professional School Counseling, 2024
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are potentially traumatic events occurring in the household or community that hold painful or distressing outcomes for children immediately and in their future (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2019). School counselors work with children and young adolescents suffering from negative mental health…
Descriptors: Trauma, Early Experience, School Counselors, Experience
Hannah E. Brown; Melinda J. Ickes – Health Education Journal, 2024
Objectives: More than 2.5 million middle and high school students in the United States reported current use of e-cigarettes in 2022. With continued curiosity and initiation of e-cigarette use among youth, it is critical to explore new and innovative ways to communicate about the dangers of e-cigarettes. The purpose of this study was to determine…
Descriptors: Smoking, Electronic Equipment, Health Behavior, Drug Use
Wilhelm, Jennifer; Cole, Merryn; Driessen, Emily; Ringl, Samantha; Hightower, Andromeda; Gonzalez-Napoleoni, Javier; Jones, Jasemine – School Science and Mathematics, 2022
This research with middle school students from Kentucky (KY) and Nevada (NV) provides a snapshot of students' spatial-scientific understandings as we explored how well students understand lunar-related content, both spatially and scientifically, after receiving instruction with similar curricular Earth-Space content. Utilizing a lens of spatial…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Spatial Ability, Astronomy, Grade 6
Deirdre Dlugonski; Avery Douglas; Jamie Henning; Johanna M. Hoch – American Journal of Health Education, 2024
Background: Adolescent girls are at an increased risk of low physical activity and the associated health consequences. Girls Can Move!, an after-school intervention guided by social cognitive theory, was designed to increase physical activity. Purpose: To examine the feasibility and initial effectiveness of Girls Can Move! Methods The 8-week…
Descriptors: Physical Activities, Females, Physical Activity Level, Adolescents