Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

In those environments, creativity was often seen as defiance, and culturally relevant teaching was just as perilous. Because contrary to popular belief, not every Black child is navigating poverty, violence or a broken home. Something shifted, not just in education, but in me. My students were growing. They were curious.

Schools 148

Schools Beliefs Culture Testing 148

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to evolve at a rapid pace, educational institutions find themselves at a crossroads. Central to our discussion is the assertion that a “one-size-fits-all” approach to AI adoption is inadequate for educational institutions, whose missions and values differ significantly.

Ethics 71

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 71

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

Jeff LeBlanc (image courtesy of Jeff LeBlanc) I’m a business and leadership lecturer, and I’ve worked with Gen Z since the earliest wave entered higher education. But I don’t see a divide: I see a continuum, stretched across different cultural moments. Older Gen Z students entered college with a stronger belief in the system.

Beliefs 142

Beliefs Communication Lecturing Culture 142

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. Systems thinking helps students understand the broader purpose of their education and how different disciplines interconnect.

Art 109

Art Curriculum Interdisciplinary Teaching 109

k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

After the tragic loss of her daughter, Josephine, in the Sandy Hook School shooting, Michele turned her grief into action, dedicating her life’s work to protecting and educating school communities. As a teacher, I connected with the same love of learning that my family – many of whom were educators before me – had cherished for generations.

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Multidisciplinary Students Beliefs Culture 137

k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

After the tragic loss of her daughter, Josephine, in the Sandy Hook School shooting, Michele turned her grief into action, dedicating her lifes work to protecting and educating school communities. As a teacher, I connected with the same love of learning that my family many of whom were educators before me had cherished for generations.

Multidisciplinary 130

Multidisciplinary Students Beliefs Culture 130

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Liberal arts education empowers individuals to become well-rounded to handle complexity, diversity, and change by providing broad knowledge of the world and in-depth study in a specific area. Systems thinking helps students understand the broader purpose of their education and how different disciplines interconnect.

Art 92

Art Curriculum Interdisciplinary Teaching 92

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

It reminded me that the journey to becoming a strong nurse—and an enthusiastic, confident educator—is never a solo effort. Be an Advocate One of my earliest mentors showed me that being an educator is about more than teaching content—it’s about showing up and being a reliable advocate.

Beliefs 105

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 105

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

It reminded me that the journey to becoming a strong nurse—and an enthusiastic, confident educator—is never a solo effort. Be an Advocate One of my earliest mentors showed me that being an educator is about more than teaching content—it’s about showing up and being a reliable advocate.

Beliefs 98

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 98

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. AEF takes a different approach to education, one that meets students where they are and gives them the tools to succeed.

Skills 137

Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. Digital platforms, new instructional models, and creative tech integrations are helping educators connect with MLs in ways that are interactive, inclusive, and highly effective. Diving into a new topic, like the water cycle?

Languages 52

Languages Language Participation Writing 52

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Daman Harris is an award-winning education leader committed to equity, instructional leadership, and educator development. He co-founded and co-directs the BOND Project, a nonprofit supporting the recruitment and retention of male educators of color. Antiracist education isnt a one-time workshop or a trendy initiative.

Confidentiality 215

Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 215

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Daman Harris is an award-winning education leader committed to equity, instructional leadership, and educator development. He co-founded and co-directs the BOND Project, a nonprofit supporting the recruitment and retention of male educators of color. Antiracist education isnt a one-time workshop or a trendy initiative.

Confidentiality 130

Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 130

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2025

A Supreme Court ruling at the end of June handed a major victory to parents who want to opt their children out of lessons that run counter to their religious beliefs, part of a push for parental rights over the finer details of what goes on in classrooms that has gained strength in recent years.

Schools 141

Schools Writing Beliefs Accessibility 141

Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

How To Use The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Model To Grow More Confident Students by Terry Heick Learning is a culture. Even the practices that promote or undermine the learning process itself come are first and foremost human and cultural artifacts. Further, learning is ongoing, perishable, and alive–just like culture.

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Beliefs Culture Students Critical Thinking 93

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Describe your family culture and explain how it shapes who you are. Is social media only for fun, or can it also be educational? How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? Challenge your advanced writers with writing prompts for middle school that go beyond 7th grade expectations.

Writing 52

Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

Mancuso, superintendent of Eastern York School District , leads a community of 2,300 students across five schools and brings 36 years of public education experience. Ryan, president of McGraw Hill School Group , has spent two decades in education technology and previously worked in education policy and as a U.S.

Beliefs 105

Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 105

Cal Matters

JULY 7, 2025

In summary The House Committee on Education and Workforce has included two California universities so far this year on its invite list for hearings on antisemitism. A congressional committee trying to root out antisemitism in higher education across the country is continuing to scrutinize California universities.

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Questions Study Beliefs History 96

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

This is especially true in parts of the country where state legislatures have enacted laws criminalizing what educators can and can’t say about politically, religiously, or morally divisive topics, as well as regions where public services are underfunded and access to books is already scarce.

Accessibility 211

Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 211

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Having worked at the University of Minnesota for six years, it was super fun to connect with old educator friends and new (including a lot of goofiness with Shelly Terrell while at Flipgrid headquarters). reduce, distill, and connect disparate initiatives in order to reduce the number of things on educators’ plates.

Schools 167

Schools Beliefs Motivation Discussions 167

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2017

[ Editor’s note : This post by Alan November, written exclusively for eSchool Media, is part of a series of upcoming articles by this notable education thought leader. The good news was that she was reconsidering her beliefs and was now convinced that she had been underestimating her students.

Beliefs 281

Beliefs Schools Culture Knowledge 281

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

An effective school culture is a positive environment that supports learning for each and every student. 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. Related content: How we turned around our school culture.

Culture 356

Culture Beliefs Schools Writing 356

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In many ways, the history of multicultural education runs parallel with the history of the United States, because we have been an ostensibly multicultural nation from the very beginning. By creating bridges between students’ knowledge and classroom content, educators who employ CRT practices aim to affirm identities and values.

Culture 294

Culture Education History Learning Styles 294

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? Make math relevant.

Culture 301

Culture Math Beliefs Achievement 301

eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2018

When educators think about diversity in the classroom, culture may be one of the characteristics that crosses their mind. But as they select their curriculum and develop their lessons, most teachers are not accounting for how culture will impact a student’s ability to participate and learn, says Almitra Berry-Jones, Ed.D.,

Culture 246

Culture Beliefs Languages Language 246

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

In the post-COVID pandemic educational setting, assessment offers ways to gain crucial insights into student thinking and learning and the areas requiring support for progress toward learning goals. The first step is to consider the idea of school culture and how it underpins the related concept of assessment culture.

Culture 194

Culture Beliefs Testing Evaluation 194

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

When it comes to education experience, few can match the versatility and scope of Kaya Henderson. We caught up with Henderson last month to get the details, and hear her hopes for how this edtech venture can impact the greater education community at large. Public Schools for six years. I’m not trying to replace school.

Culture 208

Culture Instructors History Education 208

eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

When I ask educators if they have heard of the term “growth mindset,” many will raise their hands or nod they have. However, when I ask educators to define what it means to have a growth mindset, I often get blank stares or they struggle with putting it into words. Understand Learning Beliefs. This is an important first step.

Beliefs 319

Beliefs Teachers Students Coaching 319

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance.

Culture 206

Culture Math Science Beliefs 206

eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2021

As a small rural district in Texas where 92 percent of students have families that are economically disadvantaged and where 68 percent of students are at risk, we place a big emphasis on social and emotional learning (SEL) and its value in the educational environment. Supports strong culture.

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Curriculum Beliefs Culture Achievement 315

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Often, these students don’t have access to the same level of resources that are available to general education students. While we have made great strides in how we support students receiving special education services, there are still equity gaps that exist in areas like college and career planning.

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Special Education Education Students Beliefs 310

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.” Every educator needs to be equipped and empowered to support kids in this way, and every student deserves this type of support.

Culture 184

Culture Beliefs Learning Academic Development 184

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Collective efficacy, the “collective self-perception that teachers in a given school make an educational difference to their students over and above the educational impact of their homes and communities,” (Tschannen-Moran & Barr, 2004, p. 190) presupposes that teachers collectively can make an educational difference.

Culture 189

Culture Teachers Coaching Communication 189

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. Math is joyful!

Languages 331

Languages Language Math Culture 331

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

School districts nationwide are scrambling to fill open teaching vacancies, and this crisis has a profound effect on the quality of education that students receive. Create a school culture that teachers won’t want to leave. Improving teacher retention starts with building a positive and supportive school environment.

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Teachers Beliefs Culture Coaching 317

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

But as educators, it’s our job to explain the varying viewpoints that make up our political discourse. 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.

Beliefs 270

Beliefs Instructors Culture Communication 270

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. The program received an influx of inspiring nominations that highlight the innovation and selflessness of educators in schools and districts across the nation.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 319