How Do We Guide a Student Teacher in a Year When We Are All Still Learning? As a cooperative teacher, my hope for my student teacher is the same one I carry for my students: a desire to [...]
Mindfulness Matters: A Middle School’s Experience with Managing School Avoidance What does calm mean in a middle school? It might sound like students presenting pieces of writing in clear, sure voices in a language arts classroom, or offering [...]
Design to Make a Difference at Highland Middle School: Empowering Students to Solve Problems at School Students have a unique perspective on the life of a school. We wondered what would happen if we asked students to identify [...]
The Fall of Grades “Grades during this time should be used as feedback instead of instruments of compliance.” The Illinois Governor, J. B. Pritzker, made this statement when announcing that schools across the state would be closed until [...]
If you were unable to make the Exploratory Expo Showcase, or just want to review the helpful materials presented, click the links below to view the presentation materials. Presented by: Chris Cooper and Samantha [...]
On Homework The past few years, this topic has undergone a barrage of scrutiny. From the arguments of it being absolutely necessary for a student’s development, to the ones reviewing the number of hours students spend at school [...]
Recalibrating This School Year Educators everywhere have embarked on a school year unlike any other. In the spring, we were in survival mode, doing everything we could to stay afloat and be there for our kids. We learned [...]
This article was originally published in the February 2021 edition of School Administrator, AASA's award-winning monthly magazine. Joe Sweeney is an AIMS Board Member and the principal of Old Quarry Middle School. AIMS is proud to know and [...]
“What do you notice?” Writing Like the Experts In our classrooms, we spend time brainstorming and coming up with interesting and personalized writing topics. We take hours to gather relevant research. We invest the time in helping students plan [...]
3 Ideas to Fit Problem-Based Learning Into Your Instruction One thing that is a constant in our profession is that nothing is constant. Pedagogy, technology, assessments, and even the students themselves are ever-evolving, and it sometimes feels like [...]
