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OCTOBER 1, 2021

BOSTON (October 1, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, has released its “Educator Perceptions of Teaching and Learning in Fall 2021,” a research brief exploring educators’ expectations for the 2021-2022 academic year. And the best way to do that is to continue supporting educators.

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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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AUGUST 2, 2020

At Open Circle, the evidence-based SEL program for school-age children that I direct, we work to develop children’s skills for recognizing and managing emotions, empathy, positive relationships, and problem solving. One of the core competencies we focus on, as a necessary foundation for the others, is self-awareness.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Mashing the arts and math is core to Desmo’s belief that education is interdisciplinary by nature, and subjects should be taught as such. It challenges prevailing assumptions that some people pick up “hard” skills in math and science more naturally. Others encourage students to explore their physical surroundings.

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MAY 26, 2020

Our approach is rooted in the belief that all families, regardless of circumstance, can benefit from coaching. We are—thankfully—not alone in this belief. All the while, coaches worked with parents to develop skills for stress management and other coping mechanisms to help mitigate the impact of the current environment.

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MAY 28, 2025

Mancuso, superintendent of Eastern York School District , leads a community of 2,300 students across five schools and brings 36 years of public education experience. Ryan, president of McGraw Hill School Group , has spent two decades in education technology and previously worked in education policy and as a U.S.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr.,

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MAY 21, 2020

Letting Go of Grades There is a long standing belief that grades are important because they motivate students to do the work. Schools must provide students the opportunity to learn new skills. A good place to start would be to help students identify the skills , they are motivated to learn and master.

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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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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. Students see evidence that their hard work is paying off and buy into the growth-oriented belief system.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation , organizer of the world’s largest robotics competition and leader in STEM education, is doing a careful examination of gender diversity. As education, technology and nonprofit leaders, we must adopt successful strategies, prioritize and move forward.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

As a society ever more reliant on technology and STEM-based careers, we must shatter the myth that math skill is inborn and reinforce that it is the result of intention and practice. It’s common to hear well educated adults declare themselves “not a math person,” sometimes proudly. This belief is wrong. But it should!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The workforce has undergone significant changes, and today’s jobs require advanced skills and specialized training, particularly in STEM fields. To realize our common goal to help all students become engaged, proficient readers and learners, educators are asking for evidence-based practices across all grades.

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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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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. A central belief of Lakota people, and many other Indigenous communities, is the idea that we are all related. I also recognize that is not the case for the majority of educators in classrooms.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2020

“Zeal Capital stood out to PayPal because of our shared belief that access to financial services creates opportunity,” said Mario Ruiz, who led PayPal’s investment in Zeal’s new fund, in a statement. PayPal made a commitment to fight racial economic inequality, and venture capital funding is a key component of that.”

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OCTOBER 27, 2016

The incredible research by Carol Dweck and her colleagues on the power of mindset in learning has become pervasive in education. The concept of growth mindset shows that contrary to popular belief, people aren’t born smart. While these strategies are a good starting point, they don’t attack the gap in skills.

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APRIL 12, 2021

Education is a complicated system, and there are many things that contribute to the achievement gap. There is also a very strong belief in our society that you can do maths or you can’t—that you're kind of hardwired to be good at maths or not. We’ve got to take away those limits inside schools that stop kids being able to move forward.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Educators and the educational system often harbor implicit biases that result in lower expectations for Black students, particularly in mathematics. This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly.

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OCTOBER 29, 2017

CoSN is the only national professional association dedicated exclusively to education technology leaders, providing them with management, community building and tools to transform their schools and districts. Its core beliefs are: Technology is a critical tool to personalize learning.

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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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OCTOBER 25, 2016

"[We] break down data by ELLs versus non-ELLs, special education students versus non-SPED students, and students receiving particular interventions.". 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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DECEMBER 4, 2024

By creating more flexible, student-centered classrooms, personalized learning empowers students to take ownership of their education, developing the skills they need to thrive both academically and personally. We've branded our district with the belief that there’s no average student; every student has a jagged learning profile.

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MARCH 9, 2023

Universal school-based social and emotional learning (USB SEL) programs teach a range of skills and strategies that underscore how students develop self-awareness, form healthy relationships, set goals, make decisions and consider different perspectives. We recently published a review of our findings.

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JUNE 28, 2021

Because Rogelberg has centered learning science in her coursework, future teachers at her institution are able to begin building the skills to prompt effortful thinking years sooner. As these improvements continue, we’re measuring the resultant shifts in teacher-candidates’ beliefs and skills.

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FEBRUARY 22, 2021

When considering students as individuals and trying to identify the root causes of their perceived disengagement I find it useful to consider the variables of performance success—knowledge, skills, an environment conducive to learning and the motivation to learn. Missing just one of these variables can have a profound impact on engagement.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. Paying for the program would require ingenuity–a skill Robert had honed.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Culture embodies our deepest collective social norms and beliefs, and provides the reference points for future learning. As the math educator in residence at Just Equations, a nonprofit focused on the intersection of math and equity, I research math education and I think a lot about my years in the classroom.

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OCTOBER 18, 2022

For example, features like Reading Progress and Reading Coach, built directly into Microsoft Teams, allow teachers to assign students self-directed exercises to boost reading fluency, whatever the skill level. Hattie noted that this has the greatest influence on student achievement.

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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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AUGUST 20, 2017

Research shows that educators play a profound role in promoting students’ social-emotional skills and beliefs. Even teachers who encourage students to try harder may end up being reinforced in their beliefs that intelligence is fixed. But what if students have greater confidence that they can improve than their teachers?

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JULY 21, 2020

These feelings are both natural and toxic, because they represent our limiting beliefs that cause paralysis and fear instead of agency and action. Pay attention to the stories we take in as beliefs , who and what we listen to, and what we’re telling ourselves. Address this as an active practice.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on the greatest challenge of all: Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. You don't become a skilled mountain climber by just reading or watching others climb.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes.

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AUGUST 27, 2018

How do my background and beliefs potentially bias my work as an educator? Many educators have an image of equity in their minds that only relates to race. While both of these groups of students are the same race, they likely receive very different educational experiences.

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OCTOBER 11, 2023

Good history education empowers students to actively engage with the past they study, rather than being passive receivers of historical narratives. When students learn to ask deep questions, analyze texts and construct evidence-based arguments, they are equipped with skills that reach far beyond a history classroom.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

With thoughtfully developed tools, we can make great teaching more effective and empower teachers to create educational experiences that inspire students. 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.

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