k12 Digest

JUNE 2, 2025

It was a way to rekindle hope, driven by the belief that we must do better. A Global Youth Culture study found that 60% of young people report experiencing depression, 66% struggle with anxiety, and 35% have had suicidal thoughts. That was my call to action. As I grieved, I co-founded an organization called Safe and Sound Schools.

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Multidisciplinary Students Beliefs Culture 137

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.

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Multidisciplinary Students Beliefs Culture 130

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Teachers use direct, explicit instructionbreaking down complex concepts into manageable stepsso students can grasp new ideas without feeling lost or overwhelmed.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

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.

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Languages Language Participation Writing 52

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

During his 29 years as an educator, Dr. Harris has had a wide range of experiences as a teacher, coach, principal, district administrator, adjunct professor, speaker, writer, and consultant. Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning.

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Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 213

k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

During his 29 years as an educator, Dr. Harris has had a wide range of experiences as a teacher, coach, principal, district administrator, adjunct professor, speaker, writer, and consultant. Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning.

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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 teachers allow students to listen to music while working? It includes two passages, a teacher’s guide, a question breakdown, question sets, and an answer key.

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

For most schools, shifting from traditional teaching models to truly personalized learning means reimagining classroom roles, embracing new instructional strategies, and supporting teachers and students through an ongoing process of innovation. Once we had a shared vision, our teachers and leaders built it from the inside out.

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Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 106

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. Limits of Privacy The types of censorship librarians are experiencing is also true of teachers.

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Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 212

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I always love redesigning instructional activities with teachers and school leaders. Teachers know that they can take risks and will be supported by their administrators. facilitate clarity of organizational purpose and establish instructional coherence in partnership with their teachers and other staff. empower student choice.

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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. Next page: Supporting change and risk-taking).

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Beliefs Schools Culture Knowledge 276

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.

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English Culture Teaching Beliefs 361

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.

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Culture Math Beliefs Achievement 295

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.

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Culture Education History Learning Styles 288

eSchool News

JANUARY 13, 2023

Focus on Collective Teacher Efficacy. Professor John Hattie defines “collective teacher efficacy” as “the collective self-perception that teachers in a given school make an educational difference to their students over and above the educational impact of their homes and communities.”. Understand Learning Beliefs.

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Beliefs Teachers Students Coaching 314

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.,

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Culture Beliefs Languages Language 241

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Nearly three out of four teachers say they experience frequent job-related stress, and 59 percent say they’re burned out. Nearly three out of four teachers say they experience frequent job-related stress, and 59 percent say they’re burned out. Create a school culture that teachers won’t want to leave.

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Teachers Beliefs Culture Coaching 311

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.

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Culture Beliefs Schools History 189

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

Moving from the classroom into the role of a teacher leader and a coach was a transition, to say the least. The use of voice in collaboration, coaching, facilitation and leadership is something I focus on in my consulting work and is a piece of what each leader and teacher does daily. The Use of Voice. Collective Efficacy.

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Culture Teachers Coaching Communication 189

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

While thoughtful assessment design and implementation are necessary for student success, building a strong assessment culture in schools is often overlooked but equally important. ISTE is collaborating with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) to explore the characteristics of a healthy assessment culture.

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Culture Beliefs Testing Evaluation 194

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2023

Feedback is one of the most powerful tools a teacher has to support students in achieving standards-aligned goals. Promotes a growth mindset and a belief in the potential for improvement. Fosters effective communication and dialogue between teachers and students. Feedback also Provides clarity on learning goals and expectations.

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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.

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Culture Math Science Beliefs 206

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. For many students, high school and college are times of tremendous personal growth and experimentation. This is especially apparent during an election cycle.

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Syllabus Teachers Counselling Beliefs 244

eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2021

Three years ago, we implemented an SEL curriculum that’s not only helped students overcome some of life’s natural barriers, but has also given both our teachers and students the mental framework they need in order to achieve high performance both in and out of the classroom. Supports strong culture.

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Curriculum Beliefs Culture Achievement 309

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.” Teachers, parents, and pediatricians are seeing more extreme behaviors and more serious mental health concerns from their kids.

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Culture Beliefs Learning Academic Development 182

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School, thinks back on his own journey as a mathematician, he gives credit to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus. How and when did you decide to become a teacher? Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters.

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Middle School Middle School Math Teachers 266

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

She has served as a teacher, worked with Teach For America and the New Teacher Project, and served as the Chancellor of D.C. It is an online platform that focuses on providing a culturally-affirming identity development classes for African-American young people. Public Schools for six years. I’m not trying to replace school.

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Culture Instructors History Education 208

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. Despite these experiences, I found my love for math as I became an elementary teacher after earning a master’s degree in education.

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Language Languages Math Culture 326

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. Be a reading cheerleader.

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Reading Beliefs Culture Motivation 273

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Teachers can leverage the power of thinking routines developed by Project Zero at Harvard’s Graduate School of Education to help students develop their metacognitive muscles. 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 24, 2019

K-12 teachers, counselors, and other front-line educators all need an effective framework with a set of tools to assess, intervene, and empower our students to see and achieve their own unique potentials, whether in the classroom, guidance counseling sessions, student orientation, or community service opportunities.

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Achievement Counselling Beliefs Students 268

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The review highlights how student motivation is shaped by more than just individual attitudes, behaviors, beliefs, and traits, but it does not comprehensively address the effects of AI on student motivation ( Frausto et al., For example, teachers also demonstrate comparable levels of bias to the world around them.

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Motivation Essay Learning Beliefs 322

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. As I traveled across the nation, teachers shared their stories with me. While 21% of teachers in Hawai’i are Japanese, only 10% have Native Hawaiian ancestry.

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Teachers History Culture Intelligence 205

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. Lessons learned.

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Beliefs Ethics Achievement Culture 279

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Recently, I met with two education leaders to discuss how to improve teacher and student engagement through creativity. Presenting a project without a true, correct answer can jar the more traditionally aligned student or teacher. Teachers are overwhelmed, now more than ever. Why does creativity matter? Time is always a concern.

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Student Engagement Teachers Students Beliefs 205

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

While 89 percent of teachers reported in a recent survey that they believe generative AI will have an impact on teaching, recent reporting in the Wall Street Journal and The74 have rightly identified some of AI’s limitations in education, questioning the technology’s ability to serve as, for example, an effective tutor.

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Teaching Essay Teaching Methods Intelligence 314

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first thing I noticed when we returned to school after remote learning was that my conversations with teachers got real deep real fast. So I listened as teachers reflected on their time teaching online and, in my listening, I heard the common desire for authenticity and an unwillingness to return to the status quo.

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Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218