Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

When Angela Dominguez took the helm of Donna Independent School District in Texas in 2021, she thought the districts original decision to use most of its federal Elementary and Secondary School Relief (ESSER) money to pay for existing fourth- and fifth-grade teacher positions was short-sighted. Dominguez called the results remarkable.

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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? In this internationally renowned bestseller, Todd Whitaker reveals 19 keys to becoming more effective in the classroom.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Challenge your advanced writers with writing prompts for middle school that go beyond 7th grade expectations. What habits help students stay focused at school and at home, and why do they work? How do friendships influence school life, and what would school be like without them? Why might some geniuses struggle in school?

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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

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

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

JANUARY 13, 2023

Professor John Hattie defines “collective teacher efficacy” as “the collective self-perception that teachers in a given school make an educational difference to their students over and above the educational impact of their homes and communities.”. Educators who believe in student growth and achievement are the reason students grow.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2021

With our district demographics, it’s no secret that—to be considered a high-performing school—our students are going to have to hurdle some barriers. Getting there requires grit, persistence, and resilience, and the ability to push past mental limits to reach new levels of achievement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

Key points: Light-touch, low-cost interventions focused on attendance can pay dividends Student success is impacted by issues outside of school, survey finds How bullying contributes to K-12 student absenteeism For more news on student success, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub One surefire way to support student success?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Many of our students entered the school year below grade level, and while achieving grade-level mastery is challenging, a growth mindset allows us to see their potential, celebrate progress, and plan for further successes amongst our students. A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence.

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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. O’Neill school desegregation settlement. At NPS, we've had our share of challenges, just like any other community, yet we remain a high performing, progressive school district. Let me explain.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, Mercy was the first all-girls school in the country to earn a STEM certification. The interest in our program has been intense; the school’s 500+ students come from 95 grade schools across several counties and even the neighboring state of Indiana. By graduation, those students had achieved an average score of 3.09

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2019

Teachers, school counselors, and school leaders impact student social-emotional learning (SEL) to the degree that they transform each student’s mindset by empowering the self of the student. Student SEL is the process of deep change—changing beliefs, assumptions, and paradigms of reality.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

Even mainstream media has picked up on the trend and called it the fastest-growing segment of schooling. But broadly speaking, this parent-power movement is creating a flourish of different schooling arrangements as parents want to ensure their children make progress in their development. My read is slightly different.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2018

After 29 years in education, one thing remains the same: Every time I walk the halls during class in any school, I encounter what I call “the hallway kid.” This may not sound monumental in fighting the achievement gap, but this child just demonstrated self-awareness and a life lesson that transcends academic work. The power of words.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

After several years of disrupted learning, schools are taking stock of the range of challenges that need to be addressed—challenges resulting from the most significant disruption to K-12 education in history. Rather, educators anticipate a multi-year process of helping struggling students recover from pandemic-related school disruptions.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2018

However, doing just one thing to take action can cause a wave of reaction throughout the entire school. Promoting a school-wide reading culture, as well as recognition for the struggling readers (many who have never had that feeling before), was crucial to curbing these negative feelings. Be a reading cheerleader.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

McMinnville School District serves 6,800 students across 9 schools. We are a Title 1 school in rural Oregon with over 60 percent of our students experiencing poverty and our best estimate tells us that 36 percent have also experienced some sort of childhood trauma. I can’t say that looking back at our school four years ago.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A growing body of research confirms that school culture significantly influences student learning. Yet, too many schools accept pockets of excellence. Culture is the collective beliefs and commitments that enable individuals, who might otherwise only be loosely connected, to rally around an effort. Establish the vision.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Special education students can be perceived as being unable to succeed in general and advanced level high school classes, engage in challenging job training, or succeed in postsecondary education. Creative opportunities for skill building and workforce training can be found within many schools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

There are lots of different ways that high school students earn college credit, but one of the most powerful is also one of the least known. Today, working in both a state and a school committed to helping students earn college credit before graduation, I saw a world of opportunity in Modern States, which debuted in 2017.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key points: What priorities will be a focal point in the new school year? Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. . This year at St.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Greenwood College School is a not-for-profit, independent, grade 7 to 12 school with about 450 students and about 60 teachers. We focus not only on academic achievement, but also on each student’s character development through connecting to their varied interests, both inside and outside the classroom.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

The stress that teachers are feeling is causing many to leave the profession, and this is affecting the ability of school systems to recruit and retain highly qualified teachers. School districts nationwide are scrambling to fill open teaching vacancies, and this crisis has a profound effect on the quality of education that students receive.

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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

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Data Quality Campaign (DQC) and the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) today announced that 40 national education organizations officially support the Student Data Principles. “Everyone who uses data to help students achieve should adhere to and build upon these 10 principles.”.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Should schools play a role in supporting their wellbeing, too? Research has shown that children do better in school , and are more likely to be physically and emotionally healthy, if their parents are also healthy. The program is offered at our school in East Palo Alto, California, where most of the community is low-income.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Teachers must employ cultural scaffolding to help diverse students use their backgrounds to enhance academic achievement, including collaborative learning opportunities that empower students to participate actively in decision-making processes. Educational pluralism is prevalent in many democratic school systems.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2018

First, Berry-Jones discussed culture—the values and beliefs students bring to the classroom. Culture is a social construct, not genetic, and most students have at least three: home, peer, and school. Or, what some teachers see as a behavior disorder is just the contrast between the culture at home and at school.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

Key points: Many teachers who use AI found it helpful in addressing pain points at work An alarming number of educators are jumping ship Key strategies for education leaders to boost morale For more news on teacher burnout, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub As the 2023-2024 school year comes to an end, K-12 teachers in the U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. It’s fairly standard belief that professional development (PD) must go deeper than the one-and-done workshop; it must be more sustained, more relevant, and offer tangible takeaways.

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eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2025

Despite this growing belief, 97 percent of surveyed teachers say they lack the necessary resources to integrate emerging technology like AI and concepts like entrepreneurship into their curriculum. public middle and high school teachers. At that crucial post-pandemic inflection point for U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

FEV partners with schools and districts to provide high-quality, structured 1:1 online tutoring solutions, delivered by an extensive 24/7 network of highly trained tutors. FEV Tutor’s products meet the Level Two Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), the national education law that helps ensure success for students and schools.

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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? Leaders like Du Bois and Love have shaped my belief that I can lead a school where students love themselves and succeed academically.

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