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. Instead of focusing on what students cant do, we emphasize what they can achieve.

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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2019

But I have two systemic suggestions: the first likely a pipe dream, and the other very achievable. I ran a school for seven years, and constantly struggled with the balance of this issue. First, let’s work to make non-accredited vocational education free to students, or shift the burden of cost to taxpayers or corporations.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Failure to capture where students are this fall and how they are performing relative to grade-level expectations at year’s end may result in an inability to direct resources to students who need it most, further exacerbating deep and long-standing inequities within our communities and school systems.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

To build Kiddom Academy, a platform that allows every stakeholder in a school community to be connected and informed to drive student achievement. We’ve learned so much from these passionate educators about what makes a school leader successful in driving achievement, and which qualities act as barriers to school success.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

Related: 4 evidence-based ways parents improve student achievement. A successful relationship between educators and parents requires this sort of constant communication, whether via phone call, email, or even an in-person conversation. Establish a positive relationship.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. In many classes (e.g., References Abdullah, M. link] Brady, S.,

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. In many classes (e.g., References Abdullah, M. link] Brady, S.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Retaining students based solely on their reading achievement is punishing them for a failure in a specific area, but the punishment will not have effects in that area alone, but in the rest of their lives. Retention takes away their social group and identifies them for all their peers as not being good enough to advance.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

The randomized controlled trials also found that Saga’s tutoring model reduced math course failure rates by 60 percent. About Saga Education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

I know that teachers—tasked with helping students achieve and dealing with adolescents—can quickly become energy depleted , even disenfranchised, seeing slow progress for the most at-risk and time-consuming among our students. If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. The 5-Minute MicroPD.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. The emphasis on grades instead of growth fostered a fear of failure, making students hesitant to take risks.

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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. Reduces Fear of Failure When students receive feedback that focuses on the process rather than just the end result, they are less likely to fear failure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

No, this is about how challenging it is to deal with the shame of experiencing resignations and how I am learning to cope with moments of failure in leadership. The reason failure feels so hard for me to accept in this work is because of how important and personal it is. My colleague was supportive and understanding.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

According to an article from Screencastify , “a Columbia University study showed a 12 percent increase in attendance and a 27 percent decrease in course failures when parents received weekly texts about student progress.” Something as simple as text messages has the power to be highly effective in reaching those busy parents.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is a good thing, because it will take motivation from all sides to achieve simpler data connections between systems. The continuing failure to meet the needs of a growing number of students will demand different approaches and practices taught in Colleges of Education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

How this leads to cheating : In environments where grades are the primary focus, students may be more inclined to take shortcuts–such as using AI–if they feel it will help them achieve the grade they desire. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. The on-average claim has historically been that those individuals who have a growth mindset tend to achieve better than they otherwise would, and are able to work through challenges. And that is what leads to better understanding.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 18, 2017

Rainesford Stauffer said: As children, we’re trained to avoid failure, not learn from it. I think this is the hidden cost of a K-12 curriculum that is achievement-oriented. Failure is never presented to us as a different kind of educational experience, a universal (and ceaseless) part of being human. via [link].

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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2018

In an algorithm, the steps or processes we follow determine whether we achieve success or failure. Repeating a real-life routine can be a great way to teach children of all ages the concept of algorithms, which are a set of rules that define a sequence of operations.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2016

If educators want to see results in student engagement and achievement, they must adapt their leadership practices to an increasingly digitally-focused learning environment. “If you don’t get instructional design right, technology is just going to speed up the rate of failure. It’s about building a foundation.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

The aforementioned tools align with my stance, allowing teachers to fine-tune and modify the generated output using natural language prompts to achieve an end goal that works for them and for their students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. The answer? How can schools use your findings going forward?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Students are taking ownership of their writing and focusing on their improvements, not their failures.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When Failure Is an Option “I have seen students really focus on the material and engage with one another and not worry as much about a grade because if they fail something they can always make up the points from somewhere else,” Queen explains. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

When he later won an achievement award in math, Lynem determined that the decision had been a good one. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says. They hoped it would increase his confidence and mastery, she wrote. In 2018, Ohio adopted one such policy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education? Education reformers and technologists often lament that the best ideas or tools don’t win.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

New insights on scale, global achievement gaps, open science, & personalization. Reich, of MIT, has incorporated the experience into a new book that is due out in September, called “ Failure to Disrupt: Why Technology Alone Can’t Transform Education.” “If New study in @PNASNews on MOOC persistence- 2.5

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2023

Learning to prioritize tasks and set realistic goals will help you stay focused on achieving those goals in a reasonable amount of time. Conclusion Having the right skills and qualities can distinguish between success and failure when securing a job.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

That said, it is an imperative element to ensuring students are able to achieve greater student agency and drive the course of their own learning. It’s about trying different strategies, seeking out and making use of feedback, asking for help, and analyzing the reasons behind successes and failures. Embrace the journey.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

But we don’t tend to talk about the ugly details–the challenges, the failures, the frustrations. Students pay the price for our failure to talk about failure. We engage in short talks that allow for a lot of direct exchanges; we include open and honest failure-sharing sessions.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

He also prioritized inclusion by creating an Equity Committee and launching initiatives to address achievement gaps. Under his guidance, the district introduced innovative programs such as College and Career Pathways, a K-12 STEAM curriculum, and a high school block schedule.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

And the most successful were those that shared their work—their successes and their failures—as well as those who were empathetic and learned from others. They soon discover that “compassion and courage are best achieved if a leader is agenda-less.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Two areas for sure: poverty and inequitable academic achievement. Failure to do so will only compound the disparities present, particularly with our low-income communities. COVID-19 has accelerated and exacerbated many of the shortcomings in our society and education system.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

Open Badges is a technology standard that allows the user to take any learning achievement, whether formal or informal, and recognize it with a portable micro-credential. A business’s ability to find and contract with skilled workers will be the difference between the success and failure of that business. Fast forward a few years.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Alef Math allows students to review the content just taught and then practice without fear of failure. Due to the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic, many students were falling behind in achieving their learning objectives this academic year. ” About NexGen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. Effective teachers care about the student, their goals, and their achievement of goals. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on. You see it right away.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

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. Honor and implement the knowledge gained from Black scholars.

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