Growing Middle Minds
Constance LeungGrowing Middle Minds is a record of instructional decisions designed to stretch adolescent thinking. I document the slow, deliberate work of teaching middle school—where cognitive growth, visible thinking, and thoughtful design intersect.
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Architect Mode
I consider myself fairly tech-savvy. I always have been, and my students usually are too. But for most of the last year, I’ve been quietly resistant to putting AI in front of them. Lately, the more I watch eighth graders work, the more I se...
Teaching Students to Question What They Read (Before They Can Question Everything)
Most of my eighth graders have never been taught to question what they’re reading. In my ELA classroom, I watch this play out daily — students who accept what they read at face value, or who’ve learned to slap the word “biased” on anything...
Going Analog and the Cognitive Wobble
For this comparative literary essay on Unbroken (Hillenbrand) and They Called Us Enemy (Takei), I made a choice that immediately unsettled… annoyed… and rattled my eighth graders.
I took away the laptops. Oh, the collective groans and whi...
The Visual Synthesis - More Than an Art Project
After our Tug of War discussions around Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand, I didn’t ask students to write an essay.
Instead, I asked them to draw their thinking.
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Shifting Students from Answer-Finding to Thinking Building in ELA
There’s a moment in almost every class when a student looks up and asks, “So… what’s the right answer?”
This year, I’ve been trying to sit with that moment instead of rushing to resolve it.
While reading Part 4 of Unbroken (YA edition) wi...
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Middle School Language Arts Teacher, Head of Department, and International School Teacher. Third Culture Kid. ISTE Certified Teacher. NSTA Author
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