Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

Normalize Struggle Students from under-resourced schools often view academic struggle as failure. He is the co-founder of a grassroots nonprofit that advocates for equitable access to education, mentorship, and financial literacy in underserved communities. The quieter students thrive—and the louder ones gain new perspectives.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

A gamification system–if well-designed–offers the ability to make transparent not just success and failure, accolades and demerits, but every single step in the learning process that the gamification designer chooses to highlight. ’ As are Boy Scout Badges.

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Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

See [link] Access of teachers to research is minimal Again, something that I have highlighted often is that it is nearly impossible for teachers to get access to recent research. How do we expect teachers in NI to stay up to date with recent research if they cannot get access to it? But what is available beyond this?

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The case reveals insights about a question relevant to a marathon course or an academic course: How can the integrity of results be ensured when there is easy access to technology that can be used to cheat? In other words, regardless of students access to AI tools, cheating has been and continues to be endemic. Come back for more.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable? Jeremy Singer (Image courtesy of Jeremy Singer) Jeremy Singer: Schools have immediate access to how much school their students are missing, but they dont know the reasons. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

“There are no easy answers to complex challenges, but we can shift the paradigm and move beyond the status quo.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2023

.” In New Frontiers, UVA-PLE identifies four key areas of focus needed for change and innovation in K-12 educational systems: Innovative Secondary Models – a commitment to changing the secondary model to enhance student pathways and ensure access to opportunities for every student, along with a district and system recognition that investments (..)

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. We give low-income students and students of color less access to early childhood education, less access to resources in K-12. Low-income and students of color get less access to the strongest teachers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Instead, technology has allowed students to have almost instant access to different types of information, tools, and more in today’s day and age. The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students. We are no longer keepers and passers of knowledge as we once were. link] Dorland, A.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Grades from individual classes then get averaged together, semester by semester, into GPAs that permanently carry the marks of any prior failures and shortcomings in a students’ learning. They create a stifling atmosphere where failure is a brand to be avoided rather than an experience to learn from. The outcome?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

To streamline material usage, students should know where materials are located, how to access them, when they can use them, and the appropriate ways to use them. Encourage students to embrace failure as a part of the learning process. Providing visual aids like stop signs and bin cheat sheets enhances understanding.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

But more than a dozen national surveys of teachers, parents, students, and school administrators conducted over the past few months offer the clearest initial tally of successes and failures. The surveys offer more evidence that educators were right to worry that remote learning would exacerbate inequities.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. These goals could “push the rapid adoption of access codes across the institution,” the report states.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2019

It is a system built on old communication methods, inequitable access, and ineffective gatherings. Some parents remember their success, but others remember the negative adults and failure from their school career. Be intentional about giving families access to all support services.

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eSchool News

JULY 31, 2024

Online learning, for example, requires constant connectivity–should the network go down, students will have no way of accessing learning materials or turning in assignments. Likewise, network outages can block staff from accessing financial and operational systems and learning management applications.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2021

When IT is that critical to the educational mission, network failures or outages can have serious consequences. IT issues can prevent students from accessing course materials, endanger research projects and…

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2021

After a year and a half of uncertainty and now with concerns about COVID variants emerging again, we want educators to feel prepared to tackle whatever challenges come their way while providing diverse groups of students with engaging, inclusive, and accessible learning experiences.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

These children shared a trait which Professor Carol Dweck has termed “growth mindset:” a belief that their abilities are more like a muscle that can grow and flex, even if failure was met along the way. Making things work at scale is something technology is good at. And we’re already seeing it. In a recent report, 96% of teachers in the U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

They will have some amazing successes–and some failures–as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. But despite these challenges, there are bright spots in teaching and learning. Read more about Ross-Kleinmann’s thoughts on AI in schools.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

The special free-access offer for ALEKS MathReady is available now through October 18, 2020 and subscriptions will automatically renew on a monthly basis at a rate of $19.95/month.*. For more information about ALEKS MathReady or to sign up for free trial access and $19.95/month month after, visit: [link].

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority. Although there’s nothing wrong—and some things right—with those solutions, what none of them do is upend the fact that today’s schools were not designed to optimize learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Key points: AI tools have great potential–as long as students use them correctly The best way for teachers to get started with AI is just to play around with it See related article: Is generative AI a beacon for more accessible education? Putting AI to work on administrative tasks will free up their time to focus on supporting students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The district also decided to support educators through that critical time by ensuring strong, ongoing implementations of the literacy programs as teachers adjusted to remote teaching by expanding access to just-in-time professional learning resources. “We

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Embracing setbacks as vital parts of the process, rather than as failures, enables leaders to cultivate the mindset needed to lead with courage and optimism. Dallman-Weiss noted that many women in sailing struggle to gain the same level of experience as their male counterparts due to fewer opportunities and less access to resources.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

As schools are adopting and using more digital tools, they are looking for solutions that not only consolidate functions to reduce the risks of privacy or security failure, avoid confusion among teachers and parents, and also better connect and engage school communities. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As they collaboratively engage in real engineering practices and persist through failure, students strengthen their STEM and language proficiency, simultaneously. “We It will be available to educators free of charge to ensure equal access and provide opportunities for students, everywhere, to reach their full potential as budding engineers.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. And GPS systems in smartphones and watches let families pinpoint their locations at all times.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2025

One club’s failure to pay a bus company for transportation, for example, could risk the bus company withholding service to an entire district. If cash or a check is left in a locked classroom, there is no way to access that funding until the following morning when the school reopens.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Guidance for using AI in education AI is already impacting education in several areas: plagiarism detection, learning management platforms, analyzing student success/failure metrics, and curriculum development. Data privacy is very important in education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

For students struggling to simply show up for school, this can translate to poor access to the basics. Housing is not always available, let alone stable access to food, a ride to and from school and the other conditions that have to be met for a student to really sink into learning, like internet access and a dedicated space for homework.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” The problem is finding the will to pay for that, and to make high-quality education accessible. But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded. This week’s episode raises a bigger question: Why does education seem prone to faddism?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Students are taking ownership of their writing and focusing on their improvements, not their failures. Since parents have the ability to access student portfolios, my hope is that we can increase family engagement inside and outside of the classroom as well. Next week: See how a district turned around its reading program.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

To keep up with this breakneck pace of innovation in virtually every sphere, educators must employ the very tools that are enabling it, using AI to create classes that are not only up-to-date but are also engaging, intellectually stimulating, and accessible to their students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

This approach brings together different parts of school security that had traditionally been siloed to detect, delay, and respond to threats and risks so there is no single point of failure. To help schools locate and access the federal funding that’s available to them, SchoolSafety.gov developed the Grants Finder Tool.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2015

At Tustin USD, for instance, he said “a couple of gigs of capacity” and numerous access points seemed suitable before the one-to-one rollout. “It Similar issues come into play when students and teachers are traveling and, say, trying to access the school’s platform in a hotel or via a Wi-Fi hotspot. “We More filters, please.

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