MiddleWeb’s July Articles
What if multigenerational faculties combined superpowers? Also: launching math class; cultural responsiveness; the mobile principal; scaffolding struggle; poetry anthologies; math games; electives.
MiddleWeb Substack
MiddleWeb Substack highlights some of MiddleWeb.com’s best articles and reviews, drawn from our collection of 3500+ posts. We feature timely topics in each twice-monthly issue. It’s a free, quick five-minute read for busy middle grade educators.
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3 Power Moves for a Smooth Year
Productivity coach and former school leader Frank Buck can help you communicate, document, and delegate your way to a smoother, more organized school year.
The Heart-Centered Classroom
A humane approach to teaching, learning, and living well goes a long way to making all aspects of all our lives more generous, authentic, and joyful.
MiddleWeb’s June Articles
Summer's here and there's some time for optional reading. Our June articles explored digital speaking skills, leadership self-coaching, MS attention spans, AI & vocab; teacher as novelist, and more.
MW Substack 039: 18 Themed YA Book Lists
Kasey Short recommends fiction and non-fiction titles around themes like fiction genres, empathy and identity, making real world connections, science, history, and more.
Why Spelling Matters in Middle School
Even in middle school, students are still learning how to read. Because spelling is for reading as well as writing, it's an important part of the instructional day.
MiddleWeb's May Articles
Lots of choices in our May article collection: AI vs. accelerated learning; principal self-coaching; moving to learn; math wars; grammar + reading; makerspaces; PLNs; warm demanders, and more!
MW Substack 038: Class Discussions
Active classroom talk helps students process complex ideas, grow vocabulary, increase confidence, build voice, and develop collective understanding. Lots of ideas here!
Students Still Love The Outsiders
If bibliotherapy is an effective way to ease the growing pains of adolescents, writes 7th grade teacher Laurie Lichtenstein, The Outsiders is the gold standard of therapy in middle grades literature.
MiddleWeb's April Articles
Celebrate your year together with students. Slow down skim reading. Stop over-helping math students. Emphasize productive struggle. Try pen-pal engagement. Teach annotation. Build your own resilience!