Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2025

Having said that, here’s a granular list of teacher-approved books to keep you busy this summer: What Great Teachers Do Differently by Todd Whitaker What are the beliefs and behaviors that set great teachers apart? Utilize reflection questions to help you think through which strategies worked — and which didn’t.

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Reading Education Classroom Management Intelligence 94

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? Paired Passages Argumentative Writing Prompts 6th & 7th Grade Junk Food By The SPARKLY Notebook Grades: 6th-7th This argumentative writing paired text set with common core-aligned questions prepares students for 7th grade writing adventures.

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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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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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Culture Math Beliefs Achievement 301

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Dweck’s work compares the effects of how a fixed mindset, or the belief that skills, talents, and intellect are unchangeable, to that of a growth mindset—the belief that skills, talents and intellect can be developed through hard work and persistence. The power of words. She asked, “What did you do to get this higher grade?”

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Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

i] Beliefs are called mindsets when they filter how we make sense of the world and ourselves. Students’ academic mindsets directly impact their behavior and achievement in your classroom. [ii] When students feel accepted, they form a belief about belonging, leading to their choices to engage and persist.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

At Newington Public Schools (NPS) in Connecticut, the belief in all students is at the heart of every decision we make. Believing in every student, and enacting initiatives that demonstrate that belief. The tools and gadgets and innovative school structures are without question helpful, but alone they can’t make the difference.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

The foundational belief that intelligence is malleable and that each child’s “true potential is unknown and unknowable.” We challenged one another to ask deep, difficult questions and foster each other’s learning as we tried new things. Dweck, 2006). We began this work by starting with the adults.

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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. Enhances Self-Efficacy Process feedback can bolster students’ self-belief and confidence. The second question is, How am I going there?

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Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

i] Beliefs are called mindsets when they filter how we make sense of the world and ourselves. Students’ academic mindsets directly impact their behavior and achievement in your classroom. [ii] When students feel accepted, they form a belief about belonging, leading to their choices to engage and persist.

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Beliefs Motivation Instructors Students 98

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

As far as the school system was concerned, this was the group destined for low-level achievement. This experience inspired Dr. Boaler to work with her school to shift to a mixed achievement approach for students. It’s not just answering number questions. How can we address the achievement gap through math education?

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Math Curriculum Beliefs Achievement 217

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2019

These are the questions that matter to our administration because they matter to teachers and the learners who we want to prepare for lifelong success. Without any real data to support these beliefs, decision making was a challenge. This is directly tied to the technology our students are exposed to. How is it unique?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Here’s how it works: a user enters a question they want the group to consider. They then send the question directly to group members or get the ideas started by listing a few options for the group to consider.

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Teachers Feedback Evaluation Intelligence 327

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The UDL framework starts with the belief that every student is different and that’s the norm. But that doesn’t tell the teacher if the students understand characterization; it only proves they can answer questions about that novel. In UDL, I start with the goal and consider which options and choices students need to achieve that goal.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2018

Decades of attempts at closing the persistent (and perhaps even widening) achievement gap, along with the knowledge that this is an immense and deeply historical issue to address, make it feel as if the task may be impossible. And for some time now we’ve seen school improvement plans focused on “closing the achievement gap.”

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Discussions Beliefs Achievement Disabilities 166

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Students’ growth is measured in four areas aligning with the ACT college readiness standards for science: Evaluating scientific questions Formulating hypotheses Analyzing evidence Justifying conclusions We’re happy to report that our students show definite growth in those areas throughout their time at Mercy.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

A big question for this movement will be the sustainability of the supply of microschools and other educational options. ESAs are popular among people with different political beliefs. Many of the microschools that have popped up are small co-ops that a single teacher, who is disaffected with their public school, decided to create.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

For instance, when discussing natural resources in geography, I pose a thought-provoking question: What is something you cannot live without? I pose the question: How can we identify an issue within the town of Lexington and address it while ensuring we do not contribute to urban sprawl? According to Moser et. link] Moser, K.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2024

So, how did the Crockett Foundation’s students, most of whom attend Title I schools and live in historically under-resourced communities, achieve this sort of success? Every day we get closer to answering those questions. What could happen if they have the right console, an extra laptop, a smart TV, or a drone?

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Skills Interdisciplinary Middle School Middle School 267

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It’s a well-worn idiom, which shapes the belief systems of too many schools and districts across the country. If the district’s goal was to be high achieving, then what was the point of tinkering with a formula that was working? We’ve all heard the old cliche, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.” That mantra remains.

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Achievement Elementary School Elementary School Schools 116

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., This is a dilemma.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 188

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Unfortunately, DPS follows a nationwide trend where Black students are overrepresented in discipline and underrepresented in academic achievement. This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly.

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Math Beliefs Students Essay 215

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Their developing brains observe and question the new, unfamiliar or confusing in an effort to understand the world and their place in it. At GoGuardian , our philosophical belief is that students are inherently curious, and it’s a matter of supporting teachers and schools to enable the right set of educational experiences.

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Learning Outcomes Beliefs Student Engagement Feedback 217

eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2018

As a new teacher, I worked hard to deliver concise lessons at the front of the room, and I became resentful when students asked questions or did not understand. It wasn’t until the last few years that I started to question my attitude about mistakes in the classroom. Every time we make mistakes, our brain makes new connections.

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Teaching Beliefs Questions Knowledge 154

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

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., An “Age of Achievement” (1983-?) be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity.

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Education Beliefs History Culture 166

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In an age when acronyms and educational programs are continually tossed at teachers—only to be discarded a few years later—it’s difficult to determine what will actually move the needle on student achievement. In Pennsylvania’s Elizabeth Forward School District, classroom iPads are closing the achievement gap. Source: eSpark Learning.

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Learning Achievement Students Grades 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2024

Motivation is a phenomenon built on the idea of the action of inside and outside factors that together influence an individual to act in the achievement of his/her aims. Curiosity is the trigger for intrinsic motivation, which pushes students to wonder, ask questions, and of course, discover new things. What does motivation entail?

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Motivation Students Feedback Achievement 174

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. Consider how you ask questions when you do ask one wait for the person to respond.

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Culture Teachers Coaching Communication 189

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

These questions swirled around my head like leaves blowing in the wind. I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. One example of “best” practice is the widespread popularity of SLANT—Sit Up, Listen, Ask Questions, Nod, and Track the Speaker. What was I negotiating?

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Culture Failure Students Beliefs 189

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? To shed some light on the questions above, EdSurge talked to six educators to get their take. Here’s the big takeaway: Data doesn’t just come in the form of grades, attendance records and answers on multiple choice questions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. 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. Tick tick tick.my

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Math Elementary School Elementary School Beliefs 217

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

Alexa is a virtual assistant developed by Amazon where users verbally ask questions and the AI responds with an answer. Suguey created a skill that allows English and Spanish-speaking immigrants to get answers to questions related to their rights. For example, users may ask Alexa, “Am I allowed to get my driver’s license?”

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Beliefs Exams Science STEM 167

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

Our research question was, Is teaching with arts integration the same as or better than traditional instruction? And interestingly, in both studies what we found was the real drivers of this are for students at the lower levels of achievement. For kids at the higher levels of achievement, there was no difference, really.

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Art Learning Beliefs Achievement 167

Edsurge

AUGUST 20, 2017

Research shows that educators play a profound role in promoting students’ social-emotional skills and beliefs. In Panorama’s surveys conducted during the 2016-2017 school year in 68 schools, we asked teachers several questions about how possible it is for their students to change various qualities about themselves.

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Beliefs Teachers Intelligence Elementary School 128

eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2018

As a new teacher, I worked hard to deliver concise lessons at the front of the room, and I became resentful when students asked questions or did not understand. It wasn’t until the last few years that I started to question my attitude about mistakes in the classroom. Every time we make mistakes, our brain makes new connections.

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Teachers Beliefs Knowledge Math 140

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Mary Jo: What is Reconstruction, and what do you hope to achieve with it? That is the question that I was asking myself over and over again, and I shared this idea with Roland Fryer. I think that this is just a question of: How fast can the formal field move in this direction? That’s a good question.

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Culture Instructors History Education 209

eSchool News

MARCH 15, 2016

Are you asking candidates the right questions? The problem is not that they question change but rather they continue to question the change long after explanations, guidance, and support have been provided. All of the normal interview questions should remain. How could interviews change?

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Technology Blended Learning eLearning Teaching Philosophy 189