Middle School Resources
Middle School ELA/Literacy 📖
No Red Ink
Click here for the instructional resources available.
Discovering Newsela
Click here for a link to a recording on implementing Newsela in your classroom instruction.
Newsela - Reteaching Skills and Standards
Revisiting skills and standards across varied learning activities help students reencounter concepts and expand their understanding. Newsela ELA organizes standards-aligned content to engage students in reviewing essential reading skills along with instructional strategies and lesson resources.
Click here for an asynchronous learning opportunity to explore how to implement this in your classroom.
Newsela - Developing Vocabulary
Word awareness and language development are most effective when vocabulary is taught in context. Newsela ELA supports vocabulary instruction with content and features that scaffold unknown words, foster Tier 2 vocabulary practice, and build a love of language.
Click here for an asynchronous learning opportunity to explore how to develop student vocabulary with Newsela.
Newsela - Enriching Writing
This is an asynchronous learning opportunity to explore ways to utilize Newsela to enrich the writing of your students.
Middle School Math 📊
Big Ideas
Use this link for "getting started" tutorials on Big Ideas.
This document contains Robin's notes from our spring 20236 training days.
Online Self-Paced Training—we offer an online training resource through Big Ideas Learning Academy. Your teachers can walk through the components we discussed in our initial training session, review materials and take a deeper look at preferred resources. The link for your district to share with teachers is: https://bigideaslearning.northpass.com/g/0f0b9bf0060b0718ed305b1d7704a77f63cd2bae
Summer Training Offerings for Teachers—we also are excited to be offering summer learning opportunities and office hours for teachers to prepare for back-to-school. Here is a document to share with your teacher: Big Ideas 2023 Summer Learning For Teachers.pdf
Middle School Science 🔬
Middle School Social Studies 🎎
Middle School Fine Arts/Music 🎨🎼
Middle School P.E. 🏀
Middle School Practical Arts 👩🍳💻
CFA Data in Google Sheets💻
This video will show you how to input and easily analyze CFA data in Google Sheets
CFA Cond Format.mp4