eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2025

Psychologists call this deeper kind of fulfillment eudaimonia –a sense of meaning, purpose, and the belief that what you do truly matters. Theres another dimension of mental health, emphasizing deeper experiences of purpose, competence, and fulfillment.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

Nam’s work is grounded in the belief that education must be both empowering and compassionate—equipping learners not only with knowledge, but with resilience, empathy, and the confidence to shape a better world. I am also pursuing a Ph.D.

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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? Picture this: a student enters your classroom, a negative attitude at the ready.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It’s a common belief that testing anxiety affects only older students, such as those taking high school or college placement exams. In special education programs, many of our students’ disabilities are closely related to anxiety, and testing can be a trigger that heightens those negative thoughts and feelings.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

In a healthy school culture, there’s a belief that every student holds unique gifts and talents, and has the innate ability to be successful. An effective school culture is a positive environment that supports learning for each and every student.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2020

So far, the best idea has been the growth mindset—the belief that ability to learn isn’t fixed, that it can change with your effort,” Duckworth says during her talk. . “How [do we] build grit in kids? The honest answer is, we don’t know. What we do know is that talent doesn’t make you gritty.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

It takes communication, organized teamwork, and a belief in modern data-driven approaches to bring forth learning success. As a former music teacher, I see it as an orchestrated process where all members, from school leadership to teachers to custodial staff, realize their role, importance, and dynamic in the school’s overall symphony.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

However, this belief is often misguided or a direct result of imperfect execution by school systems that struggle to adapt to a virtual format.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2020

The next three are belief ecologies: attitudes, habits of mind, and ways of thinking about the world. Stephanie Jones, director of the Ecological Approaches to Social-Emotional Learning (EASEL) Lab, explained that there are six SEL domains studied and documented by researchers. Related content: 5 benefits of SEL in classrooms.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2023

Promotes a growth mindset and a belief in the potential for improvement. Enhances metacognitive skills, such as self-regulation and self-monitoring. Encourages engagement and active participation in the learning process. Fosters effective communication and dialogue between teachers and students.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2017

Despite my passionate belief that discussions are an integral part of the learning process, early in my teaching career I failed at generating successful equitable discussions in class. Even the opportunity to ask questions can help students to begin to deconstruct challenging ideas or concepts.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2020

This belief caused me to start The Glimpse Group , a diversified VR and AR platform company made up of 9 unique software and services subsidiaries. I use VR in my classroom because I see its success, but it’s not just me–multiple studies point to the academic advantages of immersive tech.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

That belief has informed the way I define blended learning. The person doing the work in a classroom is the person doing the learning. So, students should do the heavy cognitive lift of making meaning and applying their learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

It is a commonly-held belief that algebraic concepts are directly related to critical thinking skills. And yet, it has long been reported by Brookings (Loveless, 2008) and others like the Algebra Project (Moses, 2001) that Algebra I is the gatekeeper to higher level math classes, higher education success, and careers in the technical fields.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2022

“This idea that interest-driven learning directly influences longevity of engagement drives our belief in the power of Minecraft and Roblox as teaching tools,” Kreutter said. What’s more, Minecraft and Roblox take core ideas from popular games and learning tools and make the possibilities infinite.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2021

If your team, your students, and your staff don’t have the mental framework or the belief system to overcome the challenges, then sustained achievement won’t happen. If you’re going to have sustained high achievement, you need a culture that allows for that.

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eSchool News

JULY 24, 2024

However, educators said changing traditional beliefs about what education looks like is the #1 hurdle to implementing more personalized learning models, showing that many leaders recognize the need for personalized learning but struggle with how to shift traditional views.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In this unprecedented time, we will do well to acknowledge that our long and firmly held beliefs about school, teaching, and learning will never be the same again. “Calls for a redesigned education system are growing in number and volume,” says Susan Patrick, Aurora Institute President and CEO and report co-author. “In

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2019

Student SEL is the process of deep change—changing beliefs, assumptions, and paradigms of reality. 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.

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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.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2025

From pre-kindergarten through high school, the district is guided by the belief that all students can – and will – learn, preparing them to thrive in a globally competitive world. Serving more than 5,500 students across 19 schools, Stokes County Schools is committed to delivering a 21st-century education in a safe and supportive environment.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

It is my belief that all three need to be consistently present and observable on any given day of learning, to keep the student-centered learning journey moving forward. Primarily, the school learning experience is focused on convergent thinking, where the product is emphasized and not the process. Breakpoint and Beyond ).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence. This perspective transforms data analysis into an empowering process; data is a tool for improvement amongst our students rather than a measure of failure. This mindset shapes how we view data.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A positive school culture is characterized by strong, healthy relationships among students and staff members; core beliefs and values that are taught and reinforced throughout the school environment; and high expectations accompanied by robust support systems.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2022

Students told tales that reflected their beliefs, their families, and even their worries. With all the anxiety of being judged and graded this year, this kind of self-expression has been going a long way, and I see that continuing next year. I saw tales about COVID, racism, LGTBQIA+ issues, social media, and more.

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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.

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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. To make long-term change, we have to construct new mental models that support and reinforce these new approaches to teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

However, if a student uses generative AI to help them edit their college admission paper or brainstorm a science fair idea, there’s a belief that it is dishonest. The second reason why cheating with AI is being mishandled is the belief that it will encourage students to cheat.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2020

She an educational leader who is fueled by the belief that learning anytime, anywhere, is critical for both our students and educators. Eileen Belastock,Director of Technology and Information, Nauset Public Schools. Eileen Belastock, CETL, is Director of Technology and Information at Nauset Public Schools in Massachusetts.

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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. At the heart of this vision is a simple but powerful belief: joyful learning changes lives. And not just livesit can change the world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Internal barriers are intrinsic to the teacher — for example, their beliefs and attitudes about the usefulness of technology, and their real and perceived knowledge. In these cases, teachers faced no internal barriers when it came to beliefs and attitudes, but they were still hampered by using edtech effectively in instruction.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Most often it is because they are trapped in their own minds, with unexamined beliefs and assumptions about who they are “supposed to be.” Why don’t students more often take self-responsibility and self-initiative to tap into their inner drive to create a better world and a better self?

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

The foundational belief that intelligence is malleable and that each child’s “true potential is unknown and unknowable.” Our mantra through this work has been “the relentless belief that every child has an unlimited capacity to learn.” We needed to foster a growth culture that fostered high expectations and support for the whole child.

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

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eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2021

Here are three practical steps for getting started: Educate yourself (and your students): One of the biggest steps we can take to address equity in the classroom is to challenge our own beliefs. What assumptions, experiences, and biases are we holding on to that may implicitly shape how we present information to our students?

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Older Gen Z students entered college with a stronger belief in the system. There are differences between the older and younger ends of Gen Z. I see them. But I don’t see a divide: I see a continuum, stretched across different cultural moments. Younger ones have been forced to question it more openly.

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Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

Because contrary to popular belief, not every Black child is navigating poverty, violence or a broken home. Where Black history wasn’t a side note but a central narrative. A place where Black children could learn through joy, not just survive through trauma, or presumed trauma.

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