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Ron King

They Need Us to Understand Them « Middle Grades Math Focus - 1 views

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  • Ron King on 03 Aug 12
     
    A coworker of mine summed up perfectly the issue of classroom management in middle school: "If you treat them like babies, they will act like babies."  I believe the logic then dictates that if you treat them like adults, then they will become one of your greatest professional assets.
Ron King

Holidays Are Stressful for Middle Schoolers, Too - 0 views

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  • Ron King on 09 Dec 13
     
    According to the National Association of Health Education Centers, the chief stressor for students ages 9-13 is school. No middle grades educator is surprised by this, given the factors involved in a student's school day-grades, homework, friends, bad hair, etc.
ocalmy

23 of MiddleWeb's Best New Teacher Resources - 0 views

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  • ocalmy on 06 Nov 16
     
    Several useful links and resources for middle level educators
Ron King

Standards Based Grading: District-Wide Journey - 1 views

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  • Ron King on 07 Apr 13
     
    It's a pretty exciting time to work in my current school district. About twenty years ago, the elementary school implemented a standards-based report card. Over the past several years, we've seen a grassroots movement in the area of assessment and grading reform in our secondary buildings. Dozens of teachers and building leadership teams have visited and/or inquired about what's going on in our high school and middle school, which is one of the reasons we'll soon be co-hosting a standards-based grading conference in eastern Iowa (before you ask, we've reached our registration capacity and the waiting list has been closed as well).
Ron King

A Dress-Code Enforcer's Struggle for the Soul of the Middle-School Girl - Atlantic Mobile - 2 views

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  • Ron King on 29 Apr 13
     
    Junior high is a weird, often heartbreaking time for young women-and it might be just as weird and heartbreaking for their teachers.
Ron King

Student principals - 2 views

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  • Ron King on 23 May 12
     
    What changes would middle school students make if given the chance to run the show?
Troy Patterson

The Principal: The Most Misunderstood Person in All of Education - Kate Rousmaniere - T... - 1 views

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shared by Troy Patterson on 02 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • In American public schools, the principal is the most complex and contradictory figure in the pantheon of educational leadership.
  • A few years ago when I walked the hallways of a high school with my five-year-old niece Evie, she remarked, without prompting: “There’s the principal’s office: you only go there if you are in trouble.”
  • Most remarkably, those very people who did not understand what a principal did were often the first to argue for the abolition of the role.
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  • The history of the principal offers even more contradictions. Contemporary principals work in the midst of unique modern challenges of ever-changing fiscal supports, school law and policy, community values, and youth culture.
  • The complex role of the principal is not an accidental by-product of history; rather, the principal’s position at the nexus of educational policy and practice was an intentional component of the role when it was originally conceived.
  • Like other middle managers, the principal had a “dual personality,” standing “on the middle ground between management and employee,” as both a loyal sergeant to a distant supervisor and a local administrator who had to negotiate with workers in order to get the job done properly.
  • Through the mid-20th century, the principalship was an inconsistently defined position, as often a teacher with administrative responsibilities as an administrator who supervised teachers.
  • As the principalship evolved away from the classroom to the administrative office, the principal became less connected with student learning, and yet more responsible for it.
  • Modern principals came to have less to do with student learning and more to do with upholding administrative structures and responding to public pressures.
  • For all those efforts, however, the history of the principalship is marked by an increasing discrepancy between the popular image and the actual work of the position. Ironic too, is the dominant image of the principalship with an office, given the great variety, mobility, human interactions, and community relations of principals’ work.
Ron King

The Door to Common Core - 0 views

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shared by Ron King on 07 Oct 13 - No Cached
  • Ron King on 07 Oct 13
     
    Middle school math teachers have a challenge-they need to help students become mathematical thinkers who truly understand concepts and don't just memorize. One way we recommend doing this is by using the new Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMP) to help students build a foundation of thinking and communicating math. We find it most helpful to think of the standards as a door.
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