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. Elmwood encourages students to create and lead clubs that reflect their passionswhether thats robotics, creative writing, or cultural heritage. Leadership isnt limited to official titles, either.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

A growing body of research confirms that school culture significantly influences student learning. Indeed, it’s in the culture that classrooms build their success. Culture is the collective beliefs and commitments that enable individuals, who might otherwise only be loosely connected, to rally around an effort.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

While thoughtful assessment design and implementation are necessary for student success, building a strong assessment culture in schools is often overlooked but equally important. ISTE is collaborating with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) to explore the characteristics of a healthy assessment culture.

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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? What are the steps you take to learn something new? How do you learn best? Develop a Plan for Success.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2021

Supports strong culture. I’m a firm believer in the fact that culture precedes achievement. If you’re going to have sustained high achievement, you need a culture that allows for that. What we needed was a culture of resilience, grit, and “everything is possible.”

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2023

Promotes a growth mindset and a belief in the potential for improvement. The chapter emphasizes three key strategies that promote a culture of feedback and empower students in the feedback process. Enhances metacognitive skills, such as self-regulation and self-monitoring. Builds confidence and self-efficacy in learners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And not long ago, legislation passed in the Indiana House , prohibiting teaching or assessments that may “affect the student’s attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings without parental consent.” Educators are not alone in the belief that this work is important. The timing of these latest attacks couldn’t be worse.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

The faculty must work together to make this difference, and communication at the level of impact implies a sense of trust and belief in the competence of the others who work with you. How do we create this climate of trust? Because a lot is at stake.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It is an online platform that focuses on providing a culturally-affirming identity development classes for African-American young people. The George Floyd murder really kicked off a completely different conversation where people have started to talk about what is culturally relevant, especially for kids who protested.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Create a school culture that teachers won’t want to leave. Research shows that a positive school culture is associated with higher attendance rates and deeper engagement for both students and faculty. Improving teacher retention starts with building a positive and supportive school environment.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

And although I live in California, a left-leaning state, I teach students from across the state whose core beliefs fall all along the political spectrum. Here are three ways I build a culture of respect in my classroom. Set guidelines. It’s no secret that this generation’s students are comfortable with communicating via social media.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

As math educators, we can help those students by finding ways to relate their classroom learning to more recognizable cultural frames of reference that are authentic to the range of experiences in the room. This mindset and belief system could not be further from the truth.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

This lack of belief in Black students potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C., These biases manifest in various ways, such as underestimating Black students math abilities and providing less encouragement.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2018

In a recent edWebinar , Nelda Reyes, a dyslexia interventionist at De Zavala Elementary in San Marcos (TX) Consolidated Independent School District, shared how she was able to establish a culture of reading at her school by creating a sense of belonging, building awareness, and never taking no for an answer. Build students’ self-esteem.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

It was a way to rekindle hope, driven by the belief that we must do better. A Global Youth Culture study found that 60% of young people report experiencing depression, 66% struggle with anxiety, and 35% have had suicidal thoughts. That was my call to action. As I grieved, I co-founded an organization called Safe and Sound Schools.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

It was a way to rekindle hope, driven by the belief that we must do better. A Global Youth Culture study found that 60% of young people report experiencing depression, 66% struggle with anxiety, and 35% have had suicidal thoughts. That was my call to action. As I grieved, I co-founded an organization called Safe and Sound Schools.

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Multidisciplinary Students Beliefs Culture 130

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.”

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Achievement Counselling Beliefs Students 271

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

It will culturally enrich students Culture influences us all, and the mediums we participate in, but much of it is neglected in the traditional curriculum–particularly in Western countries. Rolling out a globalized curriculum will achieve just that—and more. Finally, a globalized curriculum creates unity through diversity.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

We needed to foster a growth culture that fostered high expectations and support for the whole child. The foundational belief that intelligence is malleable and that each child’s “true potential is unknown and unknowable.” Growth mindset is now woven tightly into our school culture.

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Beliefs Ethics Culture Achievement 279

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The review highlights how student motivation is shaped by more than just individual attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, and traits, but it does not comprehensively address the effects of AI on student motivation ( Frausto et al., However, even after these efforts, AI systems may remain biased toward certain cultures and contexts.

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Motivation Essay Learning Beliefs 335

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the initial “I used to think…” stage, students reflect on their beliefs or opinions about a specific topic, subject, or issue. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness. This helps students understand the impact of their learning better and how their ideas have developed over time.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Roylco’s determination and commitment to bringing high quality and performing toys is a testament to its core beliefs of promoting cognitive and motor skill development through the course of play. “We

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

He was motivated, in part, by the September opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Washington Mall, just 30 minutes away from Dominion High. But if you search for designs related to identity, history, or culture,” he says, you find nothing. That was something that made this pretty powerful.”.

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Culture Beliefs History Students 135

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Parents push for intense studying out of the belief that even a single point on these exams can make a difference in their child’s fortures, Hu says. Some parents pay the equivalent of tens of thousands of U.S. Photo by Andy Feng / Shutterstock.

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Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 164

eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2017

While many of us agree that’s a step in the right direction, “whats” typically compartmentalize efforts and building tasks instead of culture. As such, we all—regardless of community, economy, demographic, age or any other data point—are compelled by one factor: belief.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Our goal is to shift pedagogy toward a “culture of thinking” that supports more student agency and more effective use of the learning space itself. 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.

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eSchool News

MARCH 28, 2019

These misconceptions are having a detrimental impact on struggling readers, and school leaders need to set the tone and build a school culture where best practices and evidence-based research are shared to create a system of support for all readers. “School leaders are just following along and are starting to believe them.”

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Disabilities Teaching Beliefs Schools 264

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Yet as confident as they may seem, many are yearning for guidance and a way in which to align their beliefs with the pull of popular culture. For many students, high school and college are times of tremendous personal growth and experimentation. This is especially apparent during an election cycle.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Everyone who is a part of the student’s team–administrators, teachers, counselors, paraeducators, and parents–needs to embrace a culture and belief system that Special Education students are capable of high-level work, can succeed in postsecondary education, and can embark upon meaningful careers.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 11, 2024

The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is psychosis, such as experiencing auditory hallucinations (voices) and delusions (fixed false beliefs)” (Frankenburg 2024, para. Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia.

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Culture Beliefs Learning Interdisciplinary 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2020

You have so much culture and tradition. The speaker asked participants to partner up and share stories about our personal experience of our race, within a cultural context. That means that an understanding of context is key—whether it is one’s family, community or the broader cultural and sociopolitical environment.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

My visit reinforced my belief that every student and educator has the right to learn and teach in an environment that is safe, supportive, and free from any threat of violence. To help schools create these cultures, CISA partnered with the U.S. School safety is not just the job of school administrators or school resource officers.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

Students used the PlayLab platform to experiment with and iterate on their ideas, with projects like an inquiry-based guessing game for students and a tool to make lessons more culturally relevant for teachers.

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Teaching Essay Teaching Methods Intelligence 329

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. in effect transferring local knowledge into the realms of math and computing.

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Art Culture Science Exams 113

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 11, 2024

The hallmark symptom of schizophrenia is psychosis, such as experiencing auditory hallucinations (voices) and delusions (fixed false beliefs)” (Frankenburg 2024, para. Auditory Hallucination Simulation To help my students, I thus took part in a cultural immersion exercise to learn more about what it is like to live with schizophrenia.

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Culture Beliefs Learning Interdisciplinary 105

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Creating an empowering learning environment starts with a school culture built on structure, consistency, and emotional support. Small class sizes ensure that every student receives the individual attention they need.

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