Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

If learning benefits from risk-taking, trust, and social connection , educators coming from an egoistic perspective may ironically make the achievement of the learning outcomes more difficult, not to mention joyless, as interpersonal connections become less natural.

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Beyond the Worksheet

JULY 19, 2025

Achievable. You are not a failure. I Tried Everything… and Nothing Changed On January 1st of this year, I made a commitment to everyone on Instagram : 20 minutes of exercise every single day. That felt manageable. And I kept my promise. For months. But the scale didn’t budge. Not even a pound. Eventually, I gave up. You are not alone.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They all worked for a while and then, maybe when the novelty wore off, I was back to the same Bell curve of successes, failures, and those in between. His eight mindframes for teachers include: My fundamental task is to evaluate the effect of my teaching on students’ learning and achievement. Or not occurring. I am a change agent.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable? So that means were starting from a perspective of: Were concerned about the impact that this is having on your students, outcomes on their achievement and their attainment. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Failure can be a painful experience for anyone, but it is especially tough for teens who are still forming a sense of self. When people experience failure, they often report feelings of embarrassment, shame and depression. But, as many educators know, failure is an essential part of the learning process. Define failure.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

While the systems that are spotlighted vary greatly, each leader is united in their laser-like focus on student achievement.” . “The UVA-PLE report offers an array of replicable practices from systems and districts of all sizes. ” UVA-PLE has partnered with more than 400 schools across 100 districts in 25 states since 2003.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

King now serves as president and CEO of Education Trust, a nonprofit that aims to close educational opportunities and achievement gaps. So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. They had the same exact achievement. On the Persistence of the Pandemic Sigh.

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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. But too often, they dont.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

According to a 1996 study from the National Center for Education Statistics, 46 percent of children in the United States enter kindergarten at risk of failure and a stunning 88 percent of these never catch up.

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

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. Third, struggling readers have low achievement. Imagine you are a struggling reader. You dread reading…in any class. One day, your science teacher brings in a Microsoft HoloLens headset. You begrudgingly begin reading.

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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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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

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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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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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

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

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

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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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

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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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

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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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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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

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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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

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

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

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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