Beliefs English Failure 
eSchool News
FEBRUARY 17, 2025
As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. This perspective transforms data analysis into an empowering process; data is a tool for improvement amongst our students rather than a measure of failure.
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. The algorithm worked.
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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. As an English language learner in southern New England, she navigated linguistic and cultural barriers to build a life that nurtured her family and sustained her Portuguese heritage.
Edsurge
MARCH 17, 2022
I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. Research The Oxford English Dictionary defines research as the systematic investigation of materials and sources to establish facts and reach new conclusions. As I sat with the quote, I began to wonder: What contradictions did I embody? What was I negotiating?
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 30, 2021
Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how bad a situation is, we should all have a positive mindset about it. In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure. In my role as listener and coach I’ve heard what teachers need. Avoid toxic positivity.
Edsurge
SEPTEMBER 4, 2019
Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The students observed that these words insinuated difficulty, obstacles and likely failure. Again, they cruised through the first few, easily agreeing about what the missing words could be.
Edsurge
JULY 5, 2022
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. When I left the classroom to become an instructional coach, I was explicitly tasked with helping teachers support their English learners.
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