k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Instead of relying on rigid teaching methods, AEF Schools tailor their curriculum to each student, ensuring academic progress while strengthening executive functioning, social skills, and real-world problem-solving abilities. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible.

Skills 137

Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

No matter what subject you teach, spend time showing students how to take notes, how to study for tests and quizzes, and how to balance their time between homework and other after-school activities. ” Check in with students regarding their goals, and reinforce to reluctant learners that every small achievement adds up to big success.

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Assessing Effectiveness: KPIs for AI Initiatives To ensure that AI initiatives are achieving their intended outcomes, institutions must establish clear metrics for success.

Ethics 71

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 71

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning. Dominguez called the results remarkable.

Coaching 133

Coaching Math Achievement Grades 133

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2025

Summer is a great time to reset your personal pedagogy to an education-friendly mindset and catch up on what’s been changing in the ed world while you were teaching eight ten hours a day. The Happy Teacher Habits by Michael Linsin What do daffodils, baseball announcing, and Tina Fey have to do with teaching?

Reading 92

Reading Education Classroom Management Intelligence 92

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.

Beliefs 281

Beliefs Schools Culture Knowledge 281

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.

Culture 301

Culture Math Beliefs Achievement 301

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?

Beliefs 319

Beliefs Teachers Students Coaching 319

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Key points: Focus on what students can do, instead of what they cant Design thinking in the 21st century is an imperative Empathy, adaptability, and real-world readiness: Supporting students in 2025 For more on a growth mindset, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In the words of Carol Dweck, Becoming is better than being.

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Interdisciplinary English Math Failure 308

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

She tapped into my untapped potential, fostering a profound sense of self-belief and cultivating my passion for learning. We also leverage DESSA data for professional development (PD) to encourage more modern teaching practices that nurture stronger connections between teachers and students.

Teaching 294

Teaching Students English History 294

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.

Beliefs 116

Beliefs Motivation Instructors Students 116

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2020

Teaching them to be aware of their racial identity would allow them to better understand the privileges that accompany that identity, and to see how those privileges shape their lives and relationships. We are doing white children a disservice by teaching them to think of themselves as not possessing race within a racialized society.

Teaching 218

Teaching Beliefs Culture Learning 218

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. One of the biggest challenges district and school leaders continue to face is how to attract and retain a stable teaching workforce.

Achievement 280

Achievement Beliefs History Blended Learning 280

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. In part, it's because of the diverse group of students we serve. The secret to our success? Let me explain.

Beliefs 128

Beliefs STEM Laboratory Middle School 128

eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2017

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. Greenwood College School is a not-for-profit, independent, grade 7 to 12 school with about 450 students and about 60 teachers. Clear Data Earns Buy-in from Parents.

Teaching 197

Teaching Beliefs Learning Schools 197

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

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. Providing high-quality professional learning experiences can help instill this belief by ensuring that teachers have the skills they need to be effective.

Teachers 317

Teachers Beliefs Culture Coaching 317

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

Our teaching staff was struggling with knowing how to meet both of these needs simultaneously, focusing on both SEL and academics. The foundational belief that intelligence is malleable and that each child’s “true potential is unknown and unknowable.” Dweck, 2006). We began this work by starting with the adults.

Beliefs 279

Beliefs Ethics Achievement Culture 279

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. The student replied that he would’ve felt bad if he gave up.

Beliefs 279

Beliefs Grades Languages Language 279

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.

Special Education 310

Special Education Education Students Beliefs 310

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.

Beliefs 98

Beliefs Motivation Instructors Students 98

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2018

Emphasize that they each have their own beliefs and opinions that they can bring back and share in their classrooms. Instill that attitude is just as important as ability to achieve success. They will see that they can achieve success too. Build students’ self-esteem.

Reading 274

Reading Beliefs Culture Motivation 274

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.

Culture 294

Culture Education History Learning Styles 294

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

As the only K12 solution that uses objective cognitive data to teach students how they learn best, MindPrint offers personalized strategies based on each students learning strengths and needs. TORONTO Tutor Doctor , the leader in one-to-one private tutoring, announces its global partnership with the world-class brand MindPrint Learning.

Learning 251

Learning Beliefs Motivation Teaching Methods 251

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. Samsung Solve for Tomorrows second The State of STEM Education survey, conducted in partnership with DonorsChoose , polled1,039 U.S.

STEM 237

STEM Beliefs Ethics Plagiarism 237

eSchool News

JUNE 21, 2018

I couldn’t understand why they weren’t understanding when I was teaching everything so clearly and putting so much time into scaffolding my lessons. As teachers and adults, it is easy to suffer from the “curse of knowledge,” or the incorrect assumption that everyone has the same background knowledge when teaching a new topic.

Teaching 146

Teaching Beliefs Questions Knowledge 146

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2018

Hope is critical to greatness but not the strategy to achieve it. Hope is the belief that things can get better and is the foundation upon which motivation is built. As leaders we tend to focus on academics, but without students present—both physically and cognitively—we can’t teach the academics.

Beliefs 234

Beliefs Motivation Achievement Activities 234

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Our students’ belief that everything they need to know is online can, without the right skillset, leave them prey to misinformation. Let’s teach our students to steer through the online ocean of data to be both effective researchers and responsible digital citizens.

Reading 300

Reading Learning Beliefs Learning Styles 300

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2024

AI can improve the education experience: Among those using AI, 92 percent found it helpful in addressing teaching pain points. We often hear from our teacher communities about needing to achieve more with less. Teaching stress is complex and can’t be solved with any one tool.

Teachers 294

Teachers Beliefs Communication Achievement 294

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

When Dr. 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.

Math 217

Math Curriculum Beliefs Achievement 217

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The UDL framework starts with the belief that every student is different and that’s the norm. Our job is to teach them as they come. In UDL, I start with the goal and consider which options and choices students need to achieve that goal. We call these differences “variability” and we embrace it. Q: Can you give me an example?

Disabilities 280

Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

JULY 5, 2024

Each spring, MIND sends out an annual survey to educators who use ST Math, a program created by MIND Education, to find out how the tool is delivering value, to guide future research and development, and to benchmark the understandings and beliefs of the teachers they serve. million students and 115,000 educators across the country.

Math 264

Math Education Beliefs Motivation 264

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Our mission within the Office of Information and Analysis is to provide solutions that support more effective teaching and learning. Usage statistics have given credence to our educators’ long-held beliefs that offering students independent reading choice and behind-the-computer-screen privacy increases interest and participation.

Reading 265

Reading English Beliefs Languages 265

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.

Technology 221

Technology Teachers Beliefs Learning 221

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.

Feedback 363

Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2023

One of my colleagues at New York University disagreed, cautioning even decades ago, that the belief was “pretty naive.” Colleges found new ways of scaling, rethinking how teaching is done online. teach remote students. To make online financially viable, he predicted, “remote classes will need to enroll many more.”

Teaching 173

Teaching Instructors Syllabus Assignments 173

eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2024

ESAs are popular among people with different political beliefs. That mindset can be seen in many districts’ immediate action to ban generative artificial intelligence, not explore how it could help them achieve their goals for each student. But they have largely been passed in right-leaning states to this point. What should schools do?

Schools 300

Schools Beliefs High School High School 300

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

It’s how less experienced teachers might work through teaching a lesson on an unfamiliar topic, or a veteran teacher might find a new approach to freshen up an older unit. Collective efficacy, coined by Albert Bandura in the 1970s, is a shared belief that a school’s staff and faculty can positively impact student learning and achievement.

Teachers 273

Teachers Beliefs Achievement Coaching 273