Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Learn to ride the wave. I found myself dialing down my teacher self, showing up in ways that neither reflected nor respected my commitment to teaching and learning. Another way educators have sought to foster and connect identity to curricular engagement is through social-emotional learning practices and strategies.

Education 117

Education Essay Culture Math 117

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

The first Gen Z students I taught had been shaped by the 2008 recession, parents who struggled to bounce back, and a high-achievement culture that still promised something at the end of the tunnel. But I don’t see a divide: I see a continuum, stretched across different cultural moments. I see them. I’ve seen values under stress.

Beliefs 144

Beliefs Communication Lecturing Culture 144

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Today’s modern liberal education typically encompasses a general education curriculum that offers extensive learning across various multiple disciplines and perspectives, paired with focused study in a chosen major. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

Art 114

Art Curriculum Interdisciplinary Teaching 114

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Institutions should: Foster a Culture of Experimentation : Encourage pilot projects that allow for controlled experimentation.

Ethics 118

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 118

k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

It was a way to rekindle hope, driven by the belief that we must do better. While technology can be a powerful tool for learning and connection, it has also created vast spaces where students’ anxieties are amplified. As a mother, I hoped that when I sent my daughters to school, they would feel that same sense of safety and love.

Multidisciplinary 137

Multidisciplinary Students Beliefs Culture 137

Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

Today’s modern liberal education typically encompasses a general education curriculum that offers extensive learning across various multiple disciplines and perspectives, paired with focused study in a chosen major. Systems thinking complements interdisciplinary learning.

Art 97

Art Curriculum Interdisciplinary Teaching 97

k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

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. It was a way to rekindle hope, driven by the belief that we must do better. As a mother, I hoped that when I sent my daughters to school, they would feel that same sense of safety and love.

Multidisciplinary 130

Multidisciplinary Students Beliefs Culture 130

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Institutions should: Foster a Culture of Experimentation : Encourage pilot projects that allow for controlled experimentation.

Ethics 75

Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 75

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. Whether you’re new to working with MLs or just looking for a few fresh ideas, these five teacher-approved strategies are here to help boost participation, build language, and make learning meaningful for all.

Languages 52

Languages Language Participation Writing 52

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Through her, I learned that advocacy means listening, guiding, and supporting with consistency and compassion. Be a Cheerleader One of the most joyful lessons I learned from a mentor was to bring genuine enthusiasm into the classroom. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning.

Beliefs 106

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 106

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Through her, I learned that advocacy means listening, guiding, and supporting with consistency and compassion. Be a Cheerleader One of the most joyful lessons I learned from a mentor was to bring genuine enthusiasm into the classroom. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning.

Beliefs 98

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 98

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

His work continues to foster inclusive learning environments, strengthen school-university partnerships, and empower educators to drive meaningful change in schools and communities. Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning.

Confidentiality 213

Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 213

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

His work continues to foster inclusive learning environments, strengthen school-university partnerships, and empower educators to drive meaningful change in schools and communities. Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning.

Confidentiality 130

Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 130

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Describe your family culture and explain how it shapes who you are. Informational Writing Choice Board (Distance Learning) By Swain in the Middle Grades: 5th-8th Standards: CCSS W5.2, How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? Imagine you are a plant seed learning how to grow.

Writing 52

Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

If youve ever watched a student light up after cracking a tough problem or finally connecting the dots, you know learning is personal. Personalized learning is about meeting kids where they are helping each one move forward at their own pace, in their own way. This led to our Portrait of a Graduate and a focus on modern classrooms.

Beliefs 107

Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 107

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

.’ are able to change existing schedule, transportation, staffing, budgeting, and other structures in concrete, tangible, productive, and strategic ways to support new forms of learning. understand that every person brings their own beliefs, ideas, assumptions, and values to the table. empower student choice.

Schools 167

Schools Beliefs Motivation Discussions 167

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2017

At one of my recent workshops, I was approached by a teacher who had never redesigned her lessons to take advantage of edtech’s potential to transform learning. The good news was that she was reconsidering her beliefs and was now convinced that she had been underestimating her students. Learn from the best innovations in education!

Beliefs 278

Beliefs Schools Culture Knowledge 278

eSchool News

MAY 28, 2020

Culturally responsive teaching before COVID-19 and after should focus on keeping students’ cultural norms and beliefs in mind and putting time into relating to students who have different life experiences, languages, and values than your own. Tackling the overwhelm. Related content: How we turned around our ELL program.

English 361

English Culture Teaching Beliefs 361

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

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. Make math relevant.

Culture 298

Culture Math Beliefs Achievement 298

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 243

Culture Beliefs Languages Language 243

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Within the educational landscape, the concept of Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) has emerged as a multifaceted approach that aims to promote equitable excellence and validate the diverse experiences of students. Effective teaching is deemed as inherently and inevitably culturally responsive.

Culture 291

Culture Education History Learning Styles 291

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.

Culture 189

Culture Beliefs Schools History 189

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 195

Culture Beliefs Testing Evaluation 195

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A group of Virginia parents demanded to review their school’s online social-emotional learning curriculum, convinced the school was hiding something. In the south, a state department told employees to refrain from even using the phrase social-emotional learning. This is a small sample of the stories I’ve heard in recent weeks.

Culture 186

Culture Beliefs Learning Academic Development 186

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2023

Feedback also Provides clarity on learning goals and expectations. Encourages engagement and active participation in the learning process. Promotes a growth mindset and a belief in the potential for improvement. Promotes a growth mindset and a belief in the potential for improvement.

Feedback 423

Feedback Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Beliefs 423

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Key points: It is critical to monitor AI systems for bias and impact on student groups AI use guide helps students navigate AI in learning AI’s transformative role in accessibility For more news on AI and bias, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub In the quickly evolving landscape of AI, education stands at the forefront.

Motivation 324

Motivation Essay Learning Beliefs 324

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.

Culture 206

Culture Math Science Beliefs 206

eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

He shares how educators need to start taking credit for the learning happening in their classrooms by believing they are the ones causing that learning. Understanding learning does not just happen by chance is foundational for success. Understand Learning Beliefs. What are the steps you take to learn something new?

Beliefs 316

Beliefs Teachers Students Coaching 316

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.

Curriculum 312

Curriculum Beliefs Culture Achievement 312

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. As part of that mission, we knew we needed innovative furnishings for the learning environments, which would go hand-in-hand with that work.

Learning Spaces 272

Learning Spaces Learning Elementary School Elementary School 272

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

I took workshops and courses on facilitation and coaching, but the idea of being a professional in a learning community who was an effective group member as well as a leader continues to be something I am growing into everyday. The Use of Voice. That’s understandable, since classroom practice and student growth are our primary foci.

Culture 189

Culture Teachers Coaching Communication 189

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.

Culture 209

Culture Instructors History Education 209

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. We should teach—and students should learn—them simultaneously.

Languages 329

Languages Language Math Culture 329

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.

Teachers 314

Teachers Beliefs Culture Coaching 314

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. When you grow up white in America, you learn that you are simply American. “I’m jealous,” she said. I’m just plain old American.” What did that make me?

Teaching 218

Teaching Beliefs Culture Learning 218

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.

Beliefs 269

Beliefs Instructors Culture Communication 269