Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

Key focus areas include developing a philosophical AI framework that guides decision-making, establishing governance structures, fostering a culture of experimentation and innovation, and implementing policies that ensure transparency, accountability, and inclusivity. Department of Commerce’s District Export Council for Maine.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

This program helps students turn frustration into achievement by teaching them how to manage tasks effectively and approach learning with a problem-solving mindset. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. But learning doesnt stop with formal training.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

Key focus areas include developing a philosophical AI framework that guides decision-making, establishing governance structures, fostering a culture of experimentation and innovation, and implementing policies that ensure transparency, accountability, and inclusivity. Department of Commerce’s District Export Council for Maine.

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Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 74

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Describe your family culture and explain how it shapes who you are. How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? Describe a goal you’ve worked hard to achieve or are still working on. Challenge your advanced writers with writing prompts for middle school that go beyond 7th grade expectations.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2017

The good news was that she was reconsidering her beliefs and was now convinced that she had been underestimating her students. If we are to tap the potential of emerging tools and the web to increase student achievement, we need to better prepare our leaders and teachers to understand the emotional side of change.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

They are distant during class, uninterested in engaging with the material, and their beliefs confirmed every time they get a question wrong – “I can’t do math.” How can teachers combat this belief? Furthermore, research suggests that having a positive attitude toward math can boost math achievement. Make math relevant.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Within the educational landscape, the concept of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) has emerged as a multifaceted approach that aims to promote equitable excellence and validate the diverse experiences of students. Effective teaching is deemed as inherently and inevitably culturally responsive.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

K-12 teachers, counselors, and other front-line educators all need an effective framework with a set of tools to assess, intervene, and empower our students to see and achieve their own unique potentials, whether in the classroom, guidance counseling sessions, student orientation, or community service opportunities.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2018

When educators think about diversity in the classroom, culture may be one of the characteristics that crosses their mind. But as they select their curriculum and develop their lessons, most teachers are not accounting for how culture will impact a student’s ability to participate and learn, says Almitra Berry-Jones, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2021

Three years ago, we implemented an SEL curriculum that’s not only helped students overcome some of life’s natural barriers, but has also given both our teachers and students the mental framework they need in order to achieve high performance both in and out of the classroom. Supports strong culture.

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Curriculum Beliefs Culture Achievement 318

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A growing body of research confirms that school culture significantly influences student learning. Indeed, it’s in the culture that classrooms build their success. Culture is the collective beliefs and commitments that enable individuals, who might otherwise only be loosely connected, to rally around an effort.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2023

Feedback is one of the most powerful tools a teacher has to support students in achieving standards-aligned goals. Promotes a growth mindset and a belief in the potential for improvement. The chapter emphasizes three key strategies that promote a culture of feedback and empower students in the feedback process.

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Feedback Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Beliefs 423

eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Educators who believe in student growth and achievement are the reason students grow. Understand Learning Beliefs. To develop collective teacher efficacy, it’s important for educators to take time to dig into their own learning beliefs by answering questions such as: What are your beliefs about learning?

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

While thoughtful assessment design and implementation are necessary for student success, building a strong assessment culture in schools is often overlooked but equally important. ISTE is collaborating with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) to explore the characteristics of a healthy assessment culture.

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Culture Beliefs Testing Evaluation 195

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , Nelda Reyes, a dyslexia interventionist at De Zavala Elementary in San Marcos (TX) Consolidated Independent School District, shared how she was able to establish a culture of reading at her school by creating a sense of belonging, building awareness, and never taking no for an answer. Build students’ self-esteem.

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Reading Beliefs Culture Motivation 274

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

At the 2016 Visible Learning Conference, John Hattie revealed that collective efficacy is the number one factor influencing student achievement, more than other important factors such as student expectations, feedback, or teacher-student relationships. Read more here ) The bottom line: this is essential. Because a lot is at stake.

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Culture Teachers Coaching Communication 189

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Create a school culture that teachers won’t want to leave. Research shows that a positive school culture is associated with higher attendance rates and deeper engagement for both students and faculty. Reducing the stress that teachers face is critical in helping them achieve success and improving staff retention.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

We needed to foster a growth culture that fostered high expectations and support for the whole child. The foundational belief that intelligence is malleable and that each child’s “true potential is unknown and unknowable.” Growth mindset is now woven tightly into our school culture.

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Beliefs Ethics Achievement Culture 279

eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Across the nation, the pandemic has taken a toll on our children’s mental and physical health, behavioral development, social and emotional well-being, academic achievement, and plans for their future. It challenges student achievement and school improvement efforts. Prioritizing Academic Acceleration and Achievement.

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Achievement Beliefs History Blended Learning 283

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Mary Jo: What is Reconstruction, and what do you hope to achieve with it? It is an online platform that focuses on providing a culturally-affirming identity development classes for African-American young people. I think that the formal space is actually hungry for more culturally relevant content. I don’t want to be “school.”

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Culture Instructors History Education 208

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Here are three ways to help special education students engage in the college and career planning process: Identify goals Establishing goals is a critical first step for all students in the post-secondary planning process, as this provides a clear vision of what they want to achieve, and begins to create a road map of how to get there.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rolling out a globalized curriculum will achieve just that—and more. It will culturally enrich students Culture influences us all, and the mediums we participate in, but much of it is neglected in the traditional curriculum–particularly in Western countries. Finally, a globalized curriculum creates unity through diversity.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes. This alarming trend jeopardizes students’ academic achievement, graduation prospects, and life outcomes.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2020

You have so much culture and tradition. The speaker asked participants to partner up and share stories about our personal experience of our race, within a cultural context. That means that an understanding of context is key—whether it is one’s family, community or the broader cultural and sociopolitical environment.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2019

CASEL , The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, defines social and emotional learning (SEL) as the “process through which children and adults understand and manage emotions, set and achieve positive goals, feel and show empathy for others, establish and maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.”

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Beliefs Schools Culture Language 210

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. As far as the school system was concerned, this was the group destined for low-level achievement.

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Math Curriculum Beliefs Achievement 217

eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

Below are some details: The CoSN Volunteer of the Year Award recognizes the achievements of one CoSN member who has provided exemplary support to the organization over the past year. The innovations shared and insights delivered are what drive the best strategies for districts in the months and years to come.

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Beliefs STEM Feedback High School 229

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

Study of grades 3-5 students showed improved math achievement with personalized learning approach. A research study from the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University demonstrates a link between an adaptive learning program and improvement in mathematics achievement for students in grades 3-5.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

By graduation, those students had achieved an average score of 3.09 You can have the best seed but if the soil–or culture–is not cultivated, there will be no growth. You can have the best seed but if the soil–or culture–is not cultivated, there will be no growth.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Encourage confidence through preparation I set high expectations in my classroom, creating a culture where students rise to the challenge. Passion and belief in their potential go a long way. I couldnt be prouder about what my students are achieving. Its simpler than you might think and can make a world of difference.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Our student body is predominantly Black, but we are quite diverse and have many cultures represented among our students. One thing I appreciate about the headsets is that they really highlight the belief that technology does not have to exist in its own standalone class, or even be the main point of any activity it’s used in.

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Beliefs English Coaching Elementary School 303

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

One can see school reform, and actual schools, continue to reflect society’s dominant cultural tropes regarding modernity. Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e.,

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Education Beliefs History Culture 167

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 24, 2019

One of our activities with Zac was using the Question Formulation Technique to unpack teachers’ and students’ beliefs about school culture and climate. As Zac said, “ [Your school] culture will tell you what it needs, but only if you ask it.” Then in small groups we can brainstorm questions like crazy without any self-censoring.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. To me, it seems that research and best practices have been manipulated to police the education of a particular population of students, thus embodying the adage that systems designed for achievement are failing Black and Brown students. What was I negotiating?

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Culture Students Failure Beliefs 185

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In a particularly jarring study by Sian Beilock, girls in first and second grade classrooms with female teachers high in math anxiety had lower achievement in math and held more stereotyped beliefs about girls' abilities. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female. Math anxiety hurts those who have the most to lose.

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Math Elementary School Elementary School Beliefs 216

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The limited but growing body of research on experiential learning suggests it can deliver superior educational outcomes by facilitating practice and feedback, increasing student motivation and helping students achieve higher rates of employment and wages.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Let Data Inform (Not Drive) Many educators urge their fellow professionals to move away from the concept of “data-driven,” and instead towards a culture of “data-informed.” But Firman expresses a firm belief that the scores from these types of testing are far from the only types of data schools and/or teachers should be collecting.

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