Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2025

In those environments, creativity was often seen as defiance, and culturally relevant teaching was just as perilous. That quiet defiance — teaching banned literature — changed me. Because contrary to popular belief, not every Black child is navigating poverty, violence or a broken home. That’s the heartbeat of my work.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

There was no fanfarejust a vision, a small classroom, and a deep belief in what girls could achieve when given the right environment to grow. Teachers regularly use technology, not just to teach, but to help students think deeper, ask better questions, and tell their own stories. Critical thinking isnt something we teach once, says Ms.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Over the last nine months, weve worked with eight fellows whose pathways in education are as diverse as they have ever been, including a trauma psychotherapist turned early childhood counselor, a physics teacher with a penchant for storytelling and a Jordan-born immigrant who moved to the United States to pursue her passion for teaching.

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Education Essay Culture Math 116

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Institutions should: Foster a Culture of Experimentation : Encourage pilot projects that allow for controlled experimentation. Department of Commerce’s District Export Council for Maine.

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Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 118

Faculty Focus

JUNE 17, 2025

The integration of AI technologies presents unparalleled opportunities for enhancing teaching, learning, and administrative processes. Institutions should: Foster a Culture of Experimentation : Encourage pilot projects that allow for controlled experimentation. Department of Commerce’s District Export Council for Maine.

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Ethics Education Evaluation Fairness 75

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

Instead of relying on rigid teaching methods, AEF Schools tailor their curriculum to each student, ensuring academic progress while strengthening executive functioning, social skills, and real-world problem-solving abilities. At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible.

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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. Try This: Imagine youre teaching a new ecology unit to your 8 th grade science class. Language spotlight: Ask students to teach the class a word or short phrase from their home language.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Be an Advocate One of my earliest mentors showed me that being an educator is about more than teaching content—it’s about showing up and being a reliable advocate. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

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Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 106

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Be an Advocate One of my earliest mentors showed me that being an educator is about more than teaching content—it’s about showing up and being a reliable advocate. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

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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.

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Confidentiality Culture Discussions Beliefs 130

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. education system from scratch; it evolved through good intentions and shared beliefs.

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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. And it also doesn’t necessarily go away if our culture changes in three to four years.”

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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.

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English Culture Teaching Beliefs 361

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2017

The good news was that she was reconsidering her beliefs and was now convinced that she had been underestimating her students. I asked Rob: How can K-12 leaders build a culture that supports risk-taking among their staff? The bad news is, she was afraid of appearing vulnerable in front of her students if something went wrong.

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Beliefs Schools Culture Knowledge 278

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 298

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 291

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 317

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.

Culture 194

Culture Beliefs Testing Evaluation 194

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 259

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

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

JANUARY 13, 2023

Understand Learning Beliefs. To develop collective teacher efficacy, it’s important for educators to take time to dig into their own learning beliefs by answering questions such as: What are your beliefs about learning? What are the steps you take to learn something new? How do you learn best? Develop a Plan for Success.

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Beliefs Teachers Students Coaching 316

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

School districts nationwide are scrambling to fill open teaching vacancies, and this crisis has a profound effect on the quality of education that students receive. Create a school culture that teachers won’t want to leave. teaching profession over the last half century.

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Teachers Beliefs Culture Coaching 314

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

In her column on ‘Personal Development’, eSchool News Columnist Jennifer Abrams focuses on tangible takeaways, tools and teachings that all those working in schools can use to develop their leadership. Read more about the column and browse future content here.]. How do we create this climate of trust? Because a lot is at stake.

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Culture Teachers Coaching Communication 189

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A politician in the Midwest recently told a state committee that schools shouldn’t be allowed to teach kids about feelings or emotions. From halted curriculums to debates at school board meetings, social-emotional learning, or SEL, has quickly become the newest target of America’s ongoing education culture wars.

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Culture Beliefs Learning Academic Development 184

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

And although I live in California, a left-leaning state, I teach students from across the state whose core beliefs fall all along the political spectrum. Here are three ways I build a culture of respect in my classroom. Set guidelines.

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Beliefs Instructors Culture Communication 269

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I’d already read many stories about ChatGPT in the news, and initially, I wasn’t concerned that the emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) would impact my teaching. The reality is, as much as I love teaching my content, I don’t have the capacity to do the individualized planning to support every child’s learning.

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Teaching Beliefs Education Culture 217

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. We should teach—and students should learn—them simultaneously. This mindset and belief system could not be further from the truth.

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Languages Language Math Culture 329

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. However, how do I know how inclusive I am in my teaching? The first step in making this goal of reaching diverse learners is to reflect on what it means to be inclusive in teaching, and letting that guide our teaching.

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Syllabus Teaching Beliefs Instructors 155

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 195

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

JUNE 18, 2019

Our teaching staff was struggling with knowing how to meet both of these needs simultaneously, focusing on both SEL and academics. We needed to foster a growth culture that fostered high expectations and support for the whole child. Growth mindset is now woven tightly into our school culture.

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Beliefs Ethics Achievement Culture 279

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. Build students’ self-esteem.

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Reading Beliefs Culture Motivation 273

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Key points: In preparing students for the modern workforce, think globally A globalized curriculum helps children learn without barriers See related article: 10 things schools need to do to build students’ networks For more news on global learning, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Learning should be lifelong.

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Curriculum Students Culture Intelligence 297

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 Roylco is a manufacturer of educational toys, arts & crafts products, and classroom teaching aids.

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