eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Serving diverse demographics, ensuring maximum investment impact Our district—Fayette County Public Schools in Lexington, Kentucky—encompasses 70 schools and programs that serve more than 41,000 students from backgrounds representing 95 home languages. But the data doesn’t always support preconceived notions.

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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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

Soon, the tone of the workshop changed, and the group of middle schoolers was on its way to gaining proficiency in the fundamentals of full-stack development and adding one more coding language to their repertoire. What could happen if they have the right console, an extra laptop, a smart TV, or a drone?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It gives students a sense of direction, helping them understand what they are striving to achieve and how their current performance is positioned in relation to those objectives. User-friendly (more specifically, student-friendly): It’s important that the feedback is communicated to students in language they can understand.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2017

His analysis of 50,000 educational studies involving more than 80 million students gave us vital information about the relative effectiveness of different teaching practices on student achievement. It changed our beliefs about things like ability grouping and whole language reading, showing their impact to be negligible.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The UDL framework starts with the belief that every student is different and that’s the norm. In English language arts, students need to analyze how complex characters develop over the course of a text, interact with other characters, and advance the plot. We call these differences “variability” and we embrace it.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2015

From the beginning of kindergarten to the end of middle school, minority children are less – not more – likely than white students with similar performance and behaviors to be identified as having learning disabilities, speech or language impairments, intellectual disabilities, other health impairments, or behavioral disorders,” Farkas said.

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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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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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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Approximately 20 percent of our scholars speak English as a second language. 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. It has made a difference in our scholars’ lives, too.

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English Beliefs Coaching Elementary School 306

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

I recognized I was credentialed in teaching students English language arts, but didn’t have a credential in communicating effectively with adults. The faculty must work together to make this difference, and communication at the level of impact implies a sense of trust and belief in the competence of the others who work with you.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The concept of growth mindset shows that contrary to popular belief, people aren’t born smart. Currently, we try to foster a growth mindset largely through lessons and supportive language. But since English was his second language, he often didn't understand the definitions themselves. “Ah, The idea is quickly gaining traction.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The online program offers a solution to families seeking alternative ways to have students educated, while maintaining the core belief that traditional schooling is valuable and not easily replaced. Weinraub’s leadership, the health services department at Cherry Creek has achieved substantial growth.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

Such a model assumes a deficit of knowledge in other parts of the world and a belief that non-Western parts of the world have less or even nothing to contribute to online learning. This excludes vast amounts of people, and the potential for a truly pluralistic global knowledge base vanishes to colonial and imperial languages and cultures.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Tools like instant translation for language learners, real-time captions to support student note-taking, individualized, self-directed practice for students in different subject areas and easy well-being check-ins can provide support for all learners. Hattie noted that this has the greatest influence on student achievement.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2016

This collaboration stems from a shared belief that technology has the power to transform learning, and can do so most effectively when it’s embedded in how a school or educator thinks about and drives new learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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. I think they’re a treasure trove of insight in the story behind student achievement,” he says. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education.

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Multiple Choice Questions Beliefs Education Culture 166

Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

In a secondary English language arts class, rather than assigning a single text to the entire class, teachers can provide a curated list of books or short stories, each highlighting different themes or literary styles. Some might opt for the rainforest, while others may be captivated by the desert or ocean ecosystems.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. Another cause for the achievement gap is that Black and Latino students experiencing poverty are more likely to have teachers with weaker mathematical backgrounds.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As an English language learner in southern New England, she navigated linguistic and cultural barriers to build a life that nurtured her family and sustained her Portuguese heritage. Her work was not just a job but a mission, and she was relentless in her belief that education should be equitable for all.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. These differences include the areas of the brain responsible for working memory, impulse regulation, visuospatial skills, language and cognitive control.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Joey empowers students and teachers to achieve great success in the classroom and in the future. These are exactly the goals that Adam has tried to achieve through edtech during his 24-year teaching career. This dedication exemplifies his belief in the potential of every learner. Smart transportation, and VR, among others.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In the piece, he challenged the common belief that big, sexy ideas are always best. I believe we do so by starting with a simple concept: Connect the dots to create a more accurate picture of student learning and achievement. The Folly of Big Ideas. Instead, he suggested that sometimes the simplest ideas can be the most effective.

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Achievement Beliefs Testing Languages 129

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Despite these differences, there was little disagreement about Kwan’s description of making as “messy” or “chaotic” and Flamm’s belief that making approaches could teach “outside-the-box” thinking through student-directed activity and collaboration. Watch your language. One of our tips?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. food, water, warmth, rest, and security).

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

“Our extensive experience with major leagues has strengthened our belief in the power of sports to ignite student curiosity,” said Amy Nakamoto, Executive Vice President of Corporate Partnerships at Discovery Education. “We Learn more about LIV to Learn at livtolearn.discoveryeducation.com or within Discovery Education Experience.

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STEM Skills Beliefs Education 141

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

But these hierarchies affect students belief systems and also tend to lower teachers expectations of students labeled worse at math, Nguyen says. By then, Californias K-12 math framework, the state-level guide for math instruction, had altered language about the ninth-grade algebra approach.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2021

This model compared students' results on a battery of IQ tests to their actual academic achievement levels and anticipated grade-level performance. A significant discrepancy between expected and actual achievement resulted in placement in special education services. The results were monitored for student growth.

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Special Education Disabilities Education Schools 168

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. Examples might be “How do we do this with English language learners?” Then in small groups we can brainstorm questions like crazy without any self-censoring.

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Culture Beliefs English Languages 94

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Here is what the research tells us about how to help students grow and achieve their writing goals. The belief is that writing affords students extended opportunities to think about, manipulate, and transform ideas and reflect on their existing knowledge, beliefs, and confusions,” says Troia. More Writing Resources.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

We are teaching [our students] to be professional with people that have different beliefs and perspectives.” He relocated to New Orleans to open and lead the local office of The Achievement Network in 2009, a position he held for two years before starting to work on Bricolage, which opened in 2013.

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Schools Beliefs Culture Achievement 126

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

When it comes to increasing rates of student achievement, satisfaction, and graduation, what really makes the difference? Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. food, water, warmth, rest, and security).

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 103

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

But I also held fast to the belief that if they simply did the work, it would be easy for them as well. To achieve this perspective, I’ve settled on three strategies: (1) knowing my subject as thoroughly as possible, (2) being open to two-way communication with my students, and (3) embracing a patient form of empathy.

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Knowledge Beliefs Communication Feedback 105

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

But there’s also a quieter revolution taking place that applies a different strategy to achieve the same principles. Around the country, “ math wars ” are raging over attempts to increase equity by playing down calculus from the curriculum in favor of statistics or computer science, or by delaying when students take algebra.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Sometimes self-confidence and the belief in one’s self as a reader gets waylaid by a less than ideal reading environment, such as parents who don’t read at home or classroom instruction in reading that centers on worksheets rather than rich texts. Students need a support system to bolster self-belief.

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Motivation Beliefs Reading Assignments 126

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Core to the charter network’s vision is a belief that students can be empowered to make choices that direct their learning, with guidance from teachers and access to real-time data. What sets Summit apart is how they combine the technology and an instructional model around a belief that students such as Pozo can become self-directed learners.

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Beliefs Schools Assignments Grades 131