Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. As educators, we can show our students that failure isnt the opposite of success–its a step toward it. Kids who feel brilliant at something–anything–carry that belief into their struggles.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How can educators unlock its power and potential to maximize student growth? By incorporating these qualities into the feedback process, educators can create a feedback-rich environment that not only informs students about their progress but also empowers them to take meaningful steps toward improvement.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

How could it impact education? But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists. The basic concepts are easy to grasp.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators. I also plan on adding an app called Kaymbu that helps educators take observations, videos, and pictures, which connects students to developmental assessment information, and facilitates communication between home and school.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Amid growing demands and insufficient support, remember your why often feels like a way to shift responsibility for systemic failures onto teachers. Teachers are asked to be more than educators to serve as counselors, advocates and role models all while grappling with the same grief and trauma as their students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

Last month, I joined Education Secretary Cardona to not only remember, but also to walk in the shoes of those who lost their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building 1200. This is simply unacceptable, and it must stop. And while there have been notable improvements since the Parkland tragedy, the work continues.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms. This is unacceptable, to say the least, and it is the fault of schools and educators that math learning in the Black community is not prioritized.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

All too often, education research falls short of giving educators on-the-ground actionable advice. Over the last couple of decades, education research has, thankfully, moved to embracing randomized control trial (RCT) when possible. Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. So how do we do that?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. But despite the compelling nature of this "Netflix of Education" vision, it can encourage a misleading view of personalized learning.

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Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

The conversations I’ve had this year with educators got real deep, real fast. Teachers have broken down in my office sharing that this year, they felt like failures, they felt like first year teachers all over again and that this year, they contemplated leaving the profession. That’s what education needs right now.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Most educational organizations want to improve teaching and learning by leveraging technology. The terms blended learning and its subset, flipped learning, are touted extensively as useful educational goals. Belief that education needs to change. Want your tech rollout to be successful? First, you need the right mindset.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

The earlier indifference to virtual education was largely the result of having moved up academic ranks as part of the pre-digital generation, following the resistance of many faculty who expressed widespread hostility to online teaching as being a poor alternative to classroom instruction. million from 2012 to 2019.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Over the summer, academics debated the impact of growth mindset, the belief that one’s intelligence can be developed with hard work and effort, and whether it can move the needle on academic performance. They learned about neuroscience, shared personal examples and watched videos of famous failures. Gupta, I get it.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I felt like a failure. I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education. In her book “Other People’s Children,” the author Lisa Delpit writes that, “We do not really see through our eyes or hear through our ears, but through our beliefs.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Yet there are eight education technology startups that currently list the firm as an investor. million fund that Danner and a partner (who he declined to name) launched in 2019, with their own money, to make angel investments in education companies. In 2018, he focused on education, backing nine such startups.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I was participating in a DEI Cohort sponsored by The Education Equity Center of St. One of the presenters, Dr. Ian Buchanan , shared this quote by Howard Fuller: “As educators of black, brown, and poor children—especially those of us who believe in justice—we must be able to adeptly negotiate moral contradictions.” What Standard?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

This belief is a myth. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. The sandwich approach is a strategy often used in education and business, as outlined below: Begin by telling the person at least one thing you liked about the work.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

We have all experienced the same phenomena of being dehumanized in our work as educators. We have all experienced the same phenomena of being dehumanized in our work as educators. But we are not just educators, of course. In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Educational innovators can come from any background and be any age. in Educational Innovation, Technology & Entrepreneurship (MEITE). As I considered the curricular experience for educational innovators, my challenge was to a create career pathways experience where our graduate students literally invent the future of learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Making Isn’t Just One Thing We heard from dozens of educators who echoed Kwan’s view over the course of a five month research project to illuminate the experiences and challenges of K-12 educators who incorporate making into their lessons. Feelings of Isolation for a Different Type of Educator The only problem?

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s an approach guided by innovative teaching, and supported by tools that pace learning to student needs, tailor instruction to student preferences, and align education to student interests. A natural inclination for many educators is to equate growth mindset with encouraging effort. Personalized Pathways: Resources on Edmentum.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

But these implicit biases have real implications, and educators are no less immune than students. Academics and educators like Robin DiAngelo, author of “White Fragility,” challenge us with their findings to grow the self-awareness necessary to promote cross-racial dialogue and foster socially just schools and communities.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Girls Who Code in 2012, has strong beliefs about how the political landscape will and should affect computer science education, as well as the biggest hurdles facing those hoping to adequately educate girls on coding. Do you think that politics will play a role in computer science education? Reshma Saujani. Why is that?

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Here well explore how educators like you can cultivate optimism in students through mindset shifts, practical techniques, and the pivotal role educators play in fostering positivity. Instead of seeing a bad grade as a failure, frame it as an opportunity to learn and improve. Teach students to view setbacks through a new lens.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Estonia and Finland, whose education systems are often held in high esteem, also placed high. Stagnant scores breed plenty of hand-wringing and questions over the value of efforts like Common Core and investments in education reform and technology. And the Americans? Let’s just copy and paste it.’” coming in 10th.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95 (4), 667-686. Subsequent research continues to confirm the generalizations reported in it.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2015

Plickers is an innovative tool created by an educator. Dane: Innovation requires an innovative mindset, the removal of restrictions, the right people, and failure as an option. What does it say about us as educators that we tenaciously hang on to what we know doesn’t work? Failure is an event not a destination.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Seek Out Educated Conversations The people you surround yourself with can have a significant impact on your personal and career growth. We discussed the future of education and the importance of making digital interactions between students and teachers more “human,” a concept of utmost importance right now.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. Journal of Educational Psychology, 95 (4), 667-686. Subsequent research continues to confirm the generalizations reported in it.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 103

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trusting students does not mean ignoring accountability; it means designing courses, policies, and practices that build their confidence and skills while treating them as equal partners in their education. Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

Rose, age 42, is a developmental psychologist who studies development, intelligence and learning and teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also directs the Mind, Brain and Education program and helps run a nonprofit. Thought Leader Interview series on the future of education. Here's the good news.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Here are some back-to-school tips, advice, and valuable insights from educators, stakeholders, and industry experts: As I reflect on two decades of work in the clean energy education space, I become increasingly convinced that the key to impacting students is people.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed. This week, Bergman’s efforts have found a new home in AllHere , an education technology startup that is acquiring the technology assets of EdNudge.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

I am of the belief that writing can't be taught, but it can be a learned school of thought. People argue essay grading software can make things more efficient, and help bring down the high cost of education. Learning to write is a process that requires failure, that requires trying things over again.

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