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

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Students can see and experience the relevance of what they are learning, which can have a profound impact on their motivation and comprehension. This leads to a culture of experimentation, creation, and inquiry. There’s an entire school of thought on this.

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Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 312

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. Other observers read between the lines and discern another motivation.

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Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 156

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’ve learned leadership is about using the privilege of our position to build collaborative teams of talented and motivated individuals who can help us stay ahead of any problems and drive innovation that brings impactful change. Leaders develop teams.

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STEM Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 294

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. Student created sticker and pendant.

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Culture Beliefs History Students 126

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

“When students listen to audiobooks or watch audio media, they are able to become experienced with different cultures, dialects, and beliefs (Parmeter, p.24). As a preschool teacher with five years of experience at Emerson Elementary School, I understand the challenges new educators face.

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Beliefs Classroom Management Reading Elementary School 245

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The question is: How do I empower our white teachers to be their most authentic selves while creating culturally responsive experiences for our students of color? What beliefs or values do you hold that may show up in unproductive ways during instruction? What came up for you as you read about the character’s experience or feelings?

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Beliefs Culture Education Students 187

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Berry and Heick both offer continua of student investment in learning from outright rebellion to the compliant student “doing school” to the fully invested student with agency over their learning and intrinsic motivation to pursue growth. Missing just one of these variables can have a profound impact on engagement.

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Student Engagement Learning Students Middle School 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution. Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 213

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

More recently, in 2020, Bettina Love published a framework and guiding questions for creating classrooms that affirm Black, Latino and Indigenous children, which I’ve used to broaden my own understanding of how to create the conditions where love and acceptance flourish within our school’s culture.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 189

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Within my own culture, circles are often used symbolically and literally for their ability to promote equity, interconnection and holism. A central belief of Lakota people, and many other Indigenous communities, is the idea that we are all related. I also recognize that is not the case for the majority of educators in classrooms.

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Beliefs Motivation Classroom Management Culture 184

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The limited but growing body of research on experiential learning suggests it can deliver superior educational outcomes by facilitating practice and feedback, increasing student motivation and helping students achieve higher rates of employment and wages.

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Education Learning Culture STEM 205

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2022

A teacher that does not have a firm belief in every student’s ability to achieve success cultivates a classroom culture that actively prevents learning—whether that is their conscious intention or not. It means taking the standards-aligned curriculum and shaping it to be culturally relevant for each of your students.

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Teachers Culture Education Beliefs 160

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We have spent time focused on creating a culturally proficient school system , which is a framework that we use to make sure that we are putting students first, and we’re thinking and talking about our values, beliefs, and assumptions. . We can then build on that motivation to see success in other classes and situations. .

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Education Schools Beliefs STEM 166

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how bad a situation is, we should all have a positive mindset about it. Researcher Doris Santoro, author of “Demoralized,” explains that demoralization occurs when teachers “encounter consistent and pervasive challenges to enacting the values that motivate their work.”

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Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 217

k12 Digest

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

What drives your passion for education and leadership, and how do you stay motivated? My passion stems from a deep belief in the power of education to transform lives. Leadership, to me, is about service, and when I focus on supporting others, I find endless motivation. What do you love the most about your current role?

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Students Motivation Ethics Beliefs 130

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

The Perks of Multilingualism Motivation is a highly influential factor contributing to how successful a learner will be with language acquisition — if you don’t see the relevance, you probably won’t learn the language. There are persistent myths which impede student motivation to learn an additional language. Here’s some good news.

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Language Languages Education English 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

As more colleges face the reality of a declining traditional student population, there’s a common belief that adult students are where the growth is. But the reality is more complicated. But one particularly promising solution to engaging adult learners and increasing degree attainment is to more intentionally integrate learning and work.

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Learning Beliefs Feedback Study 213

k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

That belief creates a school culture built on respect, kindness, and forgiveness. With Christ as our guiding light and the humanity of our students at the forefront, we ask ourselves what motivates them and how we can utilize the intersection of those things to innovate our instruction and offerings, says Saucedo.

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Knowledge Beliefs Schools Art 138

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Beyond race and gender, they’re young people, and so their beliefs, their values and their communities should be centered in the design process. Our learning objectives focus on the social, political, economical and cultural aspects of AI. That’s a huge motivation. Everyone’s going online.

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Intelligence STEM Culture Curriculum 194

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

I was self-motivated, regardless of the deficit mindsets that students and teachers had about what I was capable of and who I was supposed to be. This positive ripple effect strengthens families and communities, fostering a culture of achievement and aspiration. Still, I pushed on, determined to prove I belonged academically.

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Education Middle School Middle School Culture 150

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2023

While some of these staff are newer to teaching, most are experienced educators who have come from other schools, bringing their own backgrounds, beliefs and ideas to the table. We’ve seen a cycle of new initiatives and ideas created by new leadership that disrupted our school structure and culture.

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Teachers Culture Knowledge History 148

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

The segregated schools where Black educators worked were starved of funding—yet researchers say those institutions also honored their expertise and valued African American culture, history and identity. The tuition support was a big motivator, he says. Starting in 1954, all that changed. By mandating school desegregation, Brown v.

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Teachers Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 184

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

And to understand why we’re doing work in education, you have to understand the culture of IDEO. Of course, in education, you also get to students, and parents, and administrators—and so, we had to learn how to take all of that diverse input in order to understand the core needs and motivations that underlie what people are wishing for.

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Multidisciplinary Schools Questions Beliefs 168

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2017

But, as colleges fight for funding and attempt to show policymakers their value in training the next-generation workforce, they are motivated to change. Attitudinal: Changes in underlying attitudes, values and beliefs. And that requires changing not only processes and procedures, but culture and behavior.

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Technology Beliefs Disabilities Motivation 90

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Zoobean (Arlington, Virginia) provides a web application, mobile app, and prospective hardware device through which families can track their independent reading and stay motivated to read. Although few at the time shared LaHayne’s belief SEL was crucial for student success, that did not deter her. Words Liive (Washington, D.C.)

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Counselling Quizzes Essay Beliefs 117

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation. Schools can reduce their risk of data breaches by fostering a culture of cybersecurity best practices among students, parents, educators, and staff.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 337

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Certain emotional states invited motivational sustained effort, while others led to relinquishment of effort. You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks. Feedback can be modulated to create encouragement and motivation, or conversely, to discourage effort.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

Certain emotional states invited motivational sustained effort, while others led to relinquishment of effort. You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks. Feedback can be modulated to create encouragement and motivation, or conversely, to discourage effort.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Edsurge

JULY 4, 2017

But we started with the belief that every single person on Earth possess an X factor that in the right form will shine—basically that we all have this skill set and characteristics that, in the right form, can get full use of. Are HR practices and cultures changing yet? It's something that’s come lately.

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Quizzes Beliefs Skills Motivation 99

Teacher Mood

MARCH 6, 2025

A Fixed Mindset is the belief that our abilities, intelligence, and talents are set in stone you’re either born with ’em or you’re not. Contrastingly, a Growth Mindset is the belief that personal skills and abilities can be developed and improved through effort, dedication, and practice. Challenge Those Beliefs!

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Beliefs Failure Feedback Students 52

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Each response represents an individual’s subjective experience, belief, or feeling, which can provide qualitative insights. Responses to Likert-type items are ordinal, meaning they represent an order but the intervals between categories are not necessarily equal (South et al.,

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Counselling Science Beliefs Discussions 91

EAB

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Learning professionals would be well-served to consider the kinds of decisions that data analyses will be likely to serve and not put their faith in the misguided belief that big data will serve up ready-to-go solutions from the mist" (1). In this post, I’ll detail the structure and staff needed for a modern analytics function.

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Intelligence Knowledge Beliefs Skills 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Each response represents an individual’s subjective experience, belief, or feeling, which can provide qualitative insights. Responses to Likert-type items are ordinal, meaning they represent an order but the intervals between categories are not necessarily equal (South et al.,

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Counselling Science Beliefs Discussions 64

k12 Online Schools

MAY 12, 2025

Popular Example: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichies TED Talk The Danger of a Single Story is used in classrooms worldwide to teach students about bias and cultural narratives. Watch one TED Talk about motivation? Echo Chambers: Seeing only content that confirms existing beliefs can stunt critical thinking. Bottom line?

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Online Learning Lecturing Learning Textbooks 52

EAB

MAY 8, 2023

Students aren't motivated to come to school (and more have the option to skip) When students feel capable of success, connected to others, supported through their challenges, and engaged in activities outside of class, they’re more likely to come to school daily.

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Counselling Discussions Motivation Beliefs 52

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 27, 2025

Despite its growing popularity, misconceptions and outdated beliefs continue to cloud public perception with respect to K12 online education. This belief is not only wrong, but it underestimates the skills and resilience that online students develop. What qualities help a student succeed in online school?

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Education Communication Participation Beliefs 52