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. Remote learning tools create an inclusive environment as they can participate no matter where they are from.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 29, 2017

Participants freely brainstormed and spitballed ideas for professional learning, campus initiatives, curriculum focus, data points, student progress—you know, the foundational elements of school. While many of us agree that’s a step in the right direction, “whats” typically compartmentalize efforts and building tasks instead of culture.

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Questions Beliefs STEM Culture 275

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. My most successful class discussions occur organically when I throw out a topic and let the students participate without my intervention.

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Syllabus Teachers Counselling Beliefs 252

eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes. In elementary school, there’s frequent outreach. Communication should never be a one-way street.

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High School High School Counselling Communication 294

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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Learning Spaces Learning Elementary School Elementary School 280

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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Skills Schools Learning Students 138

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

This leads to a culture of experimentation, creation, and inquiry. By fostering an atmosphere where trial and error are celebrated as crucial steps on the path to growth, we empower students to become active participants in their own learning journeys.

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Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 312

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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Teaching Beliefs Culture Learning 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The Rise of Private Tutoring In China, millions of families participate in “ shadow education ,” or private tutoring that supplements the teaching students receive in schools. One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Some parents pay the equivalent of tens of thousands of U.S.

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Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 156

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2021

However, as books like “ Brotopia ” by Emily Chang and “ Race after Technology ” by Ruha Benjamin indicate, the culture of tech companies can be misogynistic and racist and therefore unwelcoming to many people. I am actively learning about people across the globe who have different religious and cultural ways of life than I do.

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Science Ethics Culture Teaching 217

eSchool News

APRIL 10, 2025

What began under his leadership during his time as Chair has grown into an annual fall cohort that meets weekly through the end of the year, guiding participants through the CETL framework. One of his most impactful contributions has been the creation and leadership of a highly successful CETL study group.

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Beliefs STEM Feedback High School 242

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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Participants in VEX Robotics World Championship 2019 (Source: REC Foundation) Girls in STEM: the Landscape The strategy seems simple: Include more female students in STEM subject areas like engineering and computer science, and positive changes will happen naturally over time, right? We’re already seeing the impact of our program.

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STEM Beliefs Participation Culture 167

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

Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

We should learn from experiences, particularly if those experiences show our previous beliefs to be untrue. So why are people so easy to fool when it comes to beliefs about learning? But those beliefs persist. Beliefs about science can become entangled with our self-identities, even if they didn’t start out that way.”.

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Learning Styles Beliefs Learning Evaluation 158

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

I take grades on module completion, but I exempt students who choose not to participate. Encourage confidence through preparation I set high expectations in my classroom, creating a culture where students rise to the challenge. Passion and belief in their potential go a long way.

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High School High School Exams Schools 232

Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

or Europe and transferred almost uni-directionally to enormously diverse global participants who are treated as mere recipients of content. Such a model assumes a deficit of knowledge in other parts of the world and a belief that non-Western parts of the world have less or even nothing to contribute to online learning.

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Lecturing Languages Language Knowledge 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Espoused Values and Beliefs The first source of information ought to come from your espoused values and beliefs. When you go back and revisit your writing on the subject, how well does it align with your beliefs now? Ultimately, we want to determine how effectively we articulate our beliefs and in what contexts.

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Syllabus Teaching Beliefs Instructors 152

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

There has also been an outlash of criticism on curriculum , coursework and materials, with efforts to restrict what educators teach, that has put racial, cultural and historical identities under attack. This suggests that students are better able to engage socially when they have a foundation in their own emotions, attitudes and beliefs.

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Schools Disabilities Study Ethics 218

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. In other words, the question is not “How do we get teachers to participate in professional development?” Go beyond “checking-in” to building a culture of relational trust. Avoid toxic positivity.

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Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 217

eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

Moderated by Victor Rivero, Editor-in-Chief of EdTech Digest, and Sean Salai, a cultural reporter at The Washington Times, the roundtable also featured Brainly’s Bill Salak; history teacher Cody Ashley from Cristovall Middle School and High School in Cristovall, Texas; science teacher Heather Haas from John Glenn High School in Walkerton, Ind.;

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Education Schools English High School 246

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Sometimes these conversations are with administrators concerned about the increasing numbers of students on the schools D-F list or with teachers disconsolate about students who won’t turn on their cameras, turn in work or participate in discussions and whose attendance (virtual or in-person) is sporadic at best.

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Student Engagement Learning Students Middle School 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

At GoGuardian , our philosophical belief is that students are inherently curious, and it’s a matter of supporting teachers and schools to enable the right set of educational experiences. Research has shown that tools like Pear Deck that support active learning can improve equity, reduce achievement gaps and help improve school culture.

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Learning Outcomes Beliefs Student Engagement Feedback 216

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I was participating in a DEI Cohort sponsored by The Education Equity Center of St. I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. Louis when I first heard the term moral contradictions. What was I negotiating?

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Culture Failure Beliefs Students 178

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. When paired with strong instructional practices, these tools open up more ways for students to participate, process, and thrive. Thats why its critical to give students a variety of options for how to participate.

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Languages Language Participation Writing 52

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2022

Two current efforts designed by academics for use in teaching draw on extended reality tools that invite users to actively participate in scenes from works like “Romeo and Juliet.” The creators of both systems also share the belief that acting out a scene from a play is a natural form of active learning.

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Teaching Art Beliefs English 187

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The online program offers a solution to families seeking alternative ways to have students educated, while maintaining the core belief that traditional schooling is valuable and not easily replaced. His dedication to excellence and steady support have created a culture of achievement and growth at Clover High School. Mexico border.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Interactive PD on Clubhouse Clubhouse provides a few different ways for educators to participate in professional development. For a room I recently hosted, I created a thread on Twitter and participants added resources in replies to the initial tweet. Unlike Twitter, this platform feels more ‘human’ because you hear others speak.

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Education Beliefs Participation Attention 215

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Being able to practice their skills in a supportive environment while engaging in reflection gives them the opportunity to increase their belief that they can accomplish professional and career related tasks and mindsets. High quality experiential learning requires a cultural commitment and strategy, structure and resources.

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Education Learning Culture STEM 205

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

There seems to be a climate and culture that is enhancing anxiety. Similarly, low-income students feel less safe in school than their more privileged peers; they are also less likely to feel comfortable participating in school or excited about learning. Our politics seem to be pulling us further and further apart.”

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Skills Essay Beliefs Students 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

There was hardly any funding that first year, so the 40 students who participated learned to use a free instrument—their voice. It’s the belief that learning how to play music together is a powerful force for bringing together children across different backgrounds. And it’s not just creativity that’s lost.

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Art Education Learning History 211

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2024

Intrinsic Motivation Intrinsic motivation represents a desire to participate in an activity for its very essence, which is ignited by internal rewards such as curiosity, interest, and satisfaction resulting from the achieved mastery. Educators should create a caring and healthy atmosphere.

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Motivation Students Feedback Achievement 174

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2024

Unfortunately, the culture is quite polarized at present, so many formerly ripe areas for humor, such as politics, are now off limits. Students aren’t all the same age; come from different backgrounds and cultures; and have different majors, interests, and beliefs. Wanzer et al. They warn against targeting “groups of students.

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Beliefs History Culture Attention 115

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Constructivism is a student-centered philosophy that emphasizes hands-on learning and active participation in lessons. That, in turn, is dependent upon their society, culture, past knowledge, personal experiences, and more. It is continuously tested as new ideas are added, either causing long-held beliefs to evolve or be replaced.

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Beliefs Local Government Knowledge Lecturing 170

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2023

Their studies take a look at how simple assignments that ask participants to read about how other older students have felt out-of-place at school — the first year of middle school and first year of college, to be precise — can build resistance to that sneaky inner voice that says, “I don’t belong here.” I would stop to start saying how I am.

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Middle School Middle School Schools Students 166

k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

They also stay deeply connected to their community, regularly participating in service projects and local events. That belief creates a school culture built on respect, kindness, and forgiveness. They work together, reinforcing the belief that faith is a foundation, not a limitation. Joseph is the Mass Buddies program.

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Knowledge Beliefs Schools Art 138

Faculty Focus

MAY 30, 2024

Unfortunately, the culture is quite polarized at present, so many formerly ripe areas for humor, such as politics, are now off limits. Students aren’t all the same age; come from different backgrounds and cultures; and have different majors, interests, and beliefs. Wanzer et al. They warn against targeting “groups of students.

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Beliefs History Culture Attention 111