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.” Employers need workers with social and emotional skills. Educators are not alone in the belief that this work is important.

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Culture Beliefs Learning Academic Development 186

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

We should be aiding our children and future generations in their journey of lifelong learning and equipping them with the skills they can transfer in any job or business they find themselves in. We all have different skills and talents. Education shouldn’t be narrow. Rolling out a globalized curriculum will achieve just that—and more.

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Curriculum Students Culture Intelligence 305

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. To be successful, teachers not only need the right skills. Empower teachers with tools for success.

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Teachers Beliefs Culture Coaching 316

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

However, if we don’t spend enough time learning the skills, dispositions and mindsets of becoming and being a professional learner in a community, it can hurt us and our students. If we are lucky to be in schools and offices where we have time to learn in community, we spend that time learning more about our content and pedagogy.

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Culture Teachers Coaching Communication 189

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

This lack of belief in Black students potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Now I realize it is not only about being there for them, but about passing on the skills I have gained to live with my neurodivergence. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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Education Essay Culture Math 120

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Part III: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part three of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. In the initial “I used to think…” stage, students reflect on their beliefs or opinions about a specific topic, subject, or issue.

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Ethics Metacognitive Skills Culture Critical Thinking 331

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Roylco’s determination and commitment to bringing high quality and performing toys is a testament to its core beliefs of promoting cognitive and motor skill development through the course of play. “We About Roylco, Inc.

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STEM Beliefs Art Culture 257

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

When and how should students learn social and emotional skills—between first-period biology and third-period English literature? There seems to be a climate and culture that is enhancing anxiety. The survey asked students whether they felt they’d been taught the SEL skills they would need to be successful after high school.

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Skills Essay Beliefs Students 168

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Coursework can offer valuable insights, as well as reviewing what goals students have established for themselves in high school, to help in developing a clear and complete inventory of their skills. Creative opportunities for skill building and workforce training can be found within many schools.

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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

MARCH 28, 2019

These misconceptions are having a detrimental impact on struggling readers, and school leaders need to set the tone and build a school culture where best practices and evidence-based research are shared to create a system of support for all readers. “School leaders are just following along and are starting to believe them.”

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Disabilities Teaching Beliefs Schools 262

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

It can teach them important skills for the future, like working well with others and using new technologies effectively. Using AI playfully in the classrooms helps students construct an understanding of the technology while they build soft skills. So what might playful learning with AI tools look like in practice?

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Teaching Essay Teaching Methods Intelligence 325

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. These competencies promote intrapersonal, interpersonal, and cognitive knowledge, skills, and attitudes that support lifelong success.

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Teaching Beliefs Culture Learning 218

eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2023

Academic acceleration is one strategy designed to focus on teaching students grade level-appropriate lessons, while efficiently and effectively reteaching only the skills and lessons from earlier grades that are necessary to understand new content. Building a culture focused on the success of all students is non-negotiable.

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Achievement Beliefs History Blended Learning 284

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives. One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: “You just do it secretly,” she says. Some parents pay the equivalent of tens of thousands of U.S. dollars a year for this instruction.

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Culture English Exams Cognitive Development 162

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. That should scare me, but it doesn’t. I could worry about losing my job, but I also see an upside.

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Teaching Beliefs Education Culture 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.

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Culture Beliefs Learning Interdisciplinary 110

eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Over time, this dynamic instruction cultivates critical thinking skills that empower students to view problems from multiple angles, discern between reality and fallacy, and evaluate the credibility of information from a variety of sources. This leads to a culture of experimentation, creation, and inquiry.

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Teaching Methods Lecturing Schools Beliefs 312

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

The engineering students’ performance task for that unit is designing a toy that will help pediatric patients perform a particular movement or learn a skill. Their measured scientific skills began with an average baseline score of 1.92 This work is about commitment to beliefs and values rather than compliance with a mandate.

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STEM High School High School Schools 278

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

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Art Culture Science Exams 112

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

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Furthermore, using interactive whiteboards can help students work together and practice social skills. These activities help students develop their language skills, build vocabulary, enhance listening comprehension, and foster a love for stories. To support these skills, we need engaging tools that make learning to read enjoyable.

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Beliefs Classroom Management Reading Elementary School 241

eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Successful school leaders are skilled at balancing tech integration so that it supports our educators’ preferred teaching models rather than stealing the spotlight away from them. Leaders develop teams.

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STEM Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 293

eSchool News

MAY 21, 2019

According to Jeff Goelitz, Director of Education at HeartMath Institute, during a recent edWebinar , SEL affects everything from systems and structure to climate, culture, and academics. SEL can be the underpinning of every action a principal or classroom teacher makes about their campus, classroom or environment for students.

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Beliefs Schools Culture Language 195

eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2025

As we start breaking down barriers for girls in STEM, we cannot ignore the similar plight of boys in reading–a fundamental skill that builds upon itself in every subject. What research tells us about stereotypes in the classroom We know students have internalized opinions about performance in school subjects.

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STEM Reading Beliefs Middle School 243

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

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

We considered what jobs might exist in the future and what skills our students would need, looking at trends in York County and Pennsylvania to determine how our schools could align. Now, six years later, the challenge is sustaining it, bringing new teachers into a culture where student-centered learning is the norm.

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Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 92

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Before the pandemic hit, a growing movement in corporate America was focused on increasing economic mobility by removing bias in hiring, through the embrace of skills-based hiring practices that eliminate a blind reliance on degrees as gateways to jobs. In a 2018 national survey , we found that half of U.S.

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Education Learning Culture STEM 209

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. Leaders like Du Bois and Love have shaped my belief that I can lead a school where students love themselves and succeed academically.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 191

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Cultural norms and pervasive beliefs remain a hindrance to improving diversity in the STEM workforce. This may be due to stereotypes regarding ability, which have been proven untrue, and assumptions about cultural fit—the inaccurate idea that females just aren’t right for certain careers.

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STEM Beliefs Participation Culture 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. How We Teach SEL Skills Makes a Difference Our review found that the order in which skills are taught matters significantly.

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Disabilities Schools Study Ethics 218

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 156

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Let Data Inform (Not Drive) Many educators urge their fellow professionals to move away from the concept of “data-driven,” and instead towards a culture of “data-informed.” But Firman expresses a firm belief that the scores from these types of testing are far from the only types of data schools and/or teachers should be collecting.

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Multiple Choice Questions Beliefs Education Culture 164

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In order to get to that point, I had to do a lot more than simply teach students the skills to engage in a conflict resolution dialogue. Within my own culture, circles are often used symbolically and literally for their ability to promote equity, interconnection and holism.

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Beliefs Motivation Classroom Management Culture 194

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

When Dr. Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. As far as the school system was concerned, this was the group destined for low-level achievement.

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Math Curriculum Beliefs Achievement 217

Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

Suguey Carmona, a 14-year-old Latina student, published her first “Alexa Skill” in the Amazon Appstore this year. If you want to ask Alexa to do specific things, such as power on your Xbox or order a pizza, your Alexa has to have that “skill.” A portion of Suguey's Alexa skill coded in Python.

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Beliefs Exams Science STEM 167

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. Her journey is a testament to the power of support, resilience and belief in one’s potential.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214