Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Build up foundational knowledge Many students enter high school with gaps in their instruction, making many lessons and activities feel impossibly difficult. Conduct a casual formative assessment during a class discussion or group activity, and regularly check in with students who need more support.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Multi-sensory learning techniques, such as hands-on activities, visual aids, and interactive discussions, further enhance understanding and retention. Communication is at the heart of this partnership.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

When this approach is harmoniously integrated with essential pedagogical actions for engaging in activities that require independent work or collaboration, students have the chance to discover their preferred learning methods, solve problems, and explore concepts on their own or with peers.

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Art Curriculum Interdisciplinary Teaching 97

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

Active Stakeholder Engagement : Regularly involve faculty, students, and staff to create a sense of shared ownership. His work is grounded in a belief that great design and strategy should serve access, equity, and outcomes.

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Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 75

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

There was no fanfarejust a vision, a small classroom, and a deep belief in what girls could achieve when given the right environment to grow. Its active, collaborative, and forward-looking. At the heart of this vision is a simple but powerful belief: joyful learning changes lives. At Elmwood, learning is never static.

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Schools Culture Interdisciplinary Beliefs 209

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. Then follow with interactive tasks like a drag-and-drop activity where students can match new vocabulary words like evaporation, clouds, or rain to corresponding images. Why it works: These activities make learning sticky.

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Languages Language Participation Writing 52

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself. Her belief in me helped me overcome self-imposed limits. I am who I am today because of their mentorship, encouragement, and belief in me.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself. Her belief in me helped me overcome self-imposed limits. I am who I am today because of their mentorship, encouragement, and belief in me.

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Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 98

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

School leaders can support this safety by co-creating group agreements that promote active listening, confidentiality, and respectful participation. When staff feel secure in their learning community, they are more likely to reflect honestly on their beliefs and biases.

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Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 213

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

School leaders can support this safety by co-creating group agreements that promote active listening, confidentiality, and respectful participation. When staff feel secure in their learning community, they are more likely to reflect honestly on their beliefs and biases.

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Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 130

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? Describe the fire, the people, and the activities around you. What impact do the characters’ choices have on the tone and outcome of the story? In what ways did you personally connect with the novel? Compare this story to another you’ve read.

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Cal Matters

JULY 7, 2025

Trump’s executive order says antisemitism may violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, but does not cover discrimination based solely on religious belief.

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Questions Study Beliefs History 100

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I always love redesigning instructional activities with teachers and school leaders. understand that every person brings their own beliefs, ideas, assumptions, and values to the table. Both vocational and professional partnerships, internships, and mentorships are created.

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Schools Beliefs Motivation Discussions 167

eSchool News

JULY 25, 2024

.” There exists a group of AI skeptics that cannot be ignored: “There is a not insignificant group of educators who have little to no interest, low trust, and are not actively seeking information on AI.

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Beliefs Ethics Education Middle School 288

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2019

To some, curiosity suggests actively seeking out challenges and new experiences. Scientists at the University of California, Davis, found that brain activity increased when participants were more curious about certain questions, resulting in greater quick recall as well as long-term memory. Why build curiosity? Take action.

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Activities Beliefs Internet Math 279

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Sketchnote from Belief #5 about Mission, illustrated by Brad Ovenell-Carter. We looked for where and how teachers and school leaders were learning most actively, most intensely, most vividly. Blending Leadership: Six Simple Beliefs for Leading Online and Off by Stephen J. And this search led to our first critical concept.

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Beliefs Schools Assignments Writing 162

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

That belief has informed the way I define blended learning. Blended learning is “active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline to give students more control over time, place, pace, and/or path of their learning.” They are not passive consumers but rather active participants.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Online Learning 521

eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

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? For maximum impact, educators can do this activity in PLCs. How do you learn best?

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Beliefs Teachers Students Coaching 314

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2023

Encourages engagement and active participation in the learning process. Promotes a growth mindset and a belief in the potential for improvement. By incorporating technology and targeted learning activities, teachers can provide timely feedback as students engage in their learning tasks.

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Feedback Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Beliefs 423

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The social presence is composed of three behaviors–a) expressing feelings, beliefs, and values, b) engaging in open and productive conversations, and c) feeling connected to the other members of the learning community. Most of the teachers I know feel spread thin and short on time.

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Beliefs Discussions Assignments Blended Learning 494

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

If you’ve been tasked (or voluntold) to run this activity, here are six activities that will tech-infuse participants: Debate. Explain that some students might be debating positions opposite to their beliefs. There you are–five activities that will easily fill an entire year of after school tech club.

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Activities Schools Writing Knowledge 202

eSchool News

MAY 26, 2020

The next three are belief ecologies: attitudes, habits of mind, and ways of thinking about the world. Regardless of setting or age, the goal of SEL is for students to engage in classroom learning activities, and four key components must be in place for this to happen. Related content: 5 benefits of SEL in classrooms.

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Beliefs Study Skills Activities 305

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2022

A Connected Camps team led session attendees through some brief examples of how they can begin teaching with Minecraft and Roblox with simple coding and building activities. Meeting students where they are, and teaching them content via a platform they already use, creates direct positive outcomes in building interest in that content.

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Teaching Beliefs Student Engagement Learning Tools 301

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Enhances Self-Efficacy Process feedback can bolster students’ self-belief and confidence. When they receive feedback that acknowledges their effective strategies and effort, it reinforces the belief that they can succeed. This ensures that they comprehend the destination or desired result of the activity or assignment at hand.

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Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

However, these beliefs about learning may stand in stark contrast to the mental models people have constructed based on their expeirences in school 10, 20, or 30 years ago. What learning activities successfully engaged learners? What would you expect to see in classrooms? Which instructional models were most effective?

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Mental Models Education Hybrid Learning Blended Learning 541

eSchool News

MAY 23, 2022

That’s to send better signals for career preparation and to diversify their workforce, on the belief that opening up professional career tracks to those without college degrees will help feed their hiring pipelines. Skills are becoming and will soon be the currency in the new emerging global talent and hiring ecosystem.

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Skills Beliefs Study Activities 269

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

I always knew her persevering belief in me made a difference in my life, but I never understood the science behind her impact until recently. Research shows that when these children become teens, they are far more likely to take part in risky behaviors such as drug use, promiscuity, and other unsafe activities. She was a lifeline.

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Beliefs Science Study Grades 262

eSchool News

MAY 4, 2022

They found that attitudes, beliefs, and emotions are the major influencers. It is a math resource that is free of charge and provides a wide range of fun, learning activities. We inspire students’ desire to learn by making them feel important, leading by example, praising their successes, and developing their confidence.

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Math Education Beliefs Schools 254

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

this model features students moving through different stations in the classroom while following a set schedule, and at least one of the stations includes digital tools and online learning activities. Students could have a to-do list for items to complete on devices, or could engage in exploration and choice activities.

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Blended Learning Learning Assignments Beliefs 265

eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2019

Environmental mastery – a sense of mastery and competence in managing the environment, controls a complex array of external activities, makes effective use of surrounding opportunities, and is able to choose or create contexts suitable to personal needs and values.

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Beliefs Students Schools Evaluation 277

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Schools and districts must approach this year with that same level of creativity and urgency as they did in the early days of the pandemic, rethinking long-held beliefs about schooling and implementing new ideas that once seemed impossible to meet the changing needs of their communities.

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Teachers Beliefs Study Participation 288

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

I have been in education for 18 years and my strongest belief is that all children deserve a fresh start when they begin each school year. In our K-4 buildings, our goal is to integrate technology into the curriculum and enhance the lesson, activity or the critical thinking skills of the student, not just to use technology.

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STEM Education Beliefs Game-Based Learning 273

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

At this age, preschoolers are curious, adventurous, and active, always seeking ways to engage their bodies and minds. It allows me to share my morning message, where each student comes up to the board to write their name, circle the letter of the day, and engage in drawing and coloring activities.

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Beliefs Classroom Management Reading Elementary School 245

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2018

Hope is the belief that things can get better and is the foundation upon which motivation is built. Hope creates active engagement with learning. Hope is critical to greatness but not the strategy to achieve it. Hope is not wishful thinking—as in “I hope I win the lottery.” Learning becomes real, powerful, and useful.

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Beliefs Motivation Achievement Activities 229

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Now, we know it’s not all butterflies and unicorns, but we feel really optimistic and hold a strong belief that change has to start somewhere. We formed a committee of stakeholders that included district administrators, site principals, classroom teachers, and other individuals focused on creating more “active” learning spaces.

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Learning Spaces Learning Elementary School Elementary School 269

eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes. In elementary school, there’s frequent outreach. When they see a clear path from classroom to career, attendance improves.

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High School High School Counselling Communication 282

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

We do that by ditching the lectures and embracing experiments, multimedia, discussions, and hands-on activities that resonate with most learners. By fostering an atmosphere where trial and error are celebrated as crucial steps on the path to growth, we empower students to become active participants in their own learning journeys.

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Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 300