Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself. Her belief in me helped me overcome self-imposed limits. I am who I am today because of their mentorship, encouragement, and belief in me.

Beliefs 106

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 106

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself. Her belief in me helped me overcome self-imposed limits. I am who I am today because of their mentorship, encouragement, and belief in me.

Beliefs 98

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 98

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning. Here are five research-informed strategies school leaders can use to develop antiracist, inclusive cultures through professional learning.

Confidentiality 213

Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 213

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning. Here are five research-informed strategies school leaders can use to develop antiracist, inclusive cultures through 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. How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? Should lifting your backpack and books count as gym participation? 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

JULY 3, 2025

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to allow parents to pull their children out of classroom discussions around books covering LGBTQ+ and other themes that may conflict with their religious beliefs could embolden efforts to restrict more titles. And it also doesn’t necessarily go away if our culture changes in three to four years.”

Accessibility 212

Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 212

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 288

Culture Education History Learning Styles 288

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 241

Culture Beliefs Language Languages 241

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2023

Encourages engagement and active participation in the learning process. 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. Supports skill development and mastery of concepts.

Feedback 423

Feedback Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Beliefs 423

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

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. Create an inclusive environment.

Reading 273

Reading Beliefs Culture Motivation 273

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.

Languages 326

Languages Language Math Culture 326

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.

Curriculum 294

Curriculum Students Culture Intelligence 294

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.

Questions 274

Questions Beliefs STEM Culture 274

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.

Syllabus 244

Syllabus Teachers Counselling Beliefs 244

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.

Learning Spaces 268

Learning Spaces Learning Elementary School Elementary School 268

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.

Culture 161

Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 161

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.

Teaching 218

Teaching Beliefs Culture Learning 218

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.

High School 282

High School High School Counselling Communication 282

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.

Teaching Methods 300

Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 300

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.

Science 217

Science Ethics Culture Teaching 217

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.

Culture 111

Culture Beliefs Learning Interdisciplinary 111

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.

Beliefs 222

Beliefs STEM Feedback High School 222

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.

STEM 167

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.

Culture 105

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.”.

Learning Styles 161

Learning Styles Beliefs Learning Evaluation 161

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.

High School 214

High School High School Exams Schools 214

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.

Syllabus 155

Syllabus Teaching Beliefs Instructors 155

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.

Lecturing 167

Lecturing Language Languages Knowledge 167

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.

Disabilities 218

Disabilities Schools Study Beliefs 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.

Teachers 218

Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218

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?

Culture 187

Culture Failure Students Beliefs 187

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.;

Education 246

Education Schools English High School 246

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.

Teaching 195

Teaching Art Beliefs English 195

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.

Student Engagement 218

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.

Learning Outcomes 217

Learning Outcomes Beliefs Student Engagement Feedback 217

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.

Education 209

Education Learning Culture STEM 209