Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Failure to identify and name the mental models driving our actions and decisions will undermine any effort to make long-term change in a system. However, these beliefs about learning may stand in stark contrast to the mental models people have constructed based on their expeirences in school 10, 20, or 30 years ago.

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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

Enhances Self-Efficacy Process feedback can bolster students’ self-belief and confidence. When they receive feedback that acknowledges their effective strategies and effort, it reinforces the belief that they can succeed. This increased self-efficacy can lead to improved performance and a willingness to tackle more complex tasks.

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Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s fairly standard belief that professional development (PD) must go deeper than the one-and-done workshop; it must be more sustained, more relevant, and offer tangible takeaways. If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. That’s why we conduct monthly PD meetings. The 5-Minute MicroPD.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

These children shared a trait which Professor Carol Dweck has termed “growth mindset:” a belief that their abilities are more like a muscle that can grow and flex, even if failure was met along the way.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

When my class, who didn’t see themselves as STEAM teachers, had the freedom to tinker without a fear of failure, they became far more eager (and better equipped) to teach those concepts in their own future classrooms. If you free your pre-service teachers to play, they’re apt to do the same with their students.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

My visit reinforced my belief that every student and educator has the right to learn and teach in an environment that is safe, supportive, and free from any threat of violence. And while there have been notable improvements since the Parkland tragedy, the work continues.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow. Now, she is thriving and on a promising career pathway in behavioral health.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

Belief that education needs to change. As an example, many people believe they need to become fitter, yet are not prepared to act on this belief by actually taking part in a fitness program. This may not be easy, but all that is needed is a “gut feel.” When you read the points, plot your results on the following graph.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. Growth mindset is the belief that one can improve one’s abilities through effort, learning, and persistence. But anomalies are actually good news because they allow researchers to say, “There’s something else going on here.” And that is what leads to better understanding.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

There was also a common belief among higher ed leaders—as there still is—that building online infrastructure is far too costly. Not until the health crisis forced campuses to close physical classrooms did so many colleges see the cost of their failure to act sooner.

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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

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. Her work was not just a job but a mission, and she was relentless in her belief that education should be equitable for all.

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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. One teacher learns that the secret to good online teaching is all in the approach. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. We cannot in one breath condemn the prison-to-school pipeline and then create systems and structures that funnel to failure. As I sat with the quote, I began to wonder: What contradictions did I embody? What was I negotiating?

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

A growth mindset involves two important pieces: 1) a deliberate focus on attaining growth vs. proficiency, no matter what students are working on, and 2) students’ beliefs that they have the ability to meet goals by changing how they approach new learning experiences. In following this process, one can achieve a true growth mindset.

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Failure Learning Achievement Essay 141

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.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Instead, educators described making as an approach to teaching and learning that puts students at the center; that encourages what educators variously termed “supported failure,” “controlled struggle,” and “failing forward”; and that teaches resilience, perseverance, empathy and problem-solving. How does this look in practice?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The students were starting to see that language impacts meaning, and that their choice of words indicated subtle and even unconscious beliefs As students began to find differences in the words they were using, they started trying to convince each other why their word was better. And then it got harder. What do these words imply? I asked them.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

Failure to appreciate these points will result in personalized learning products more likely to hinder than help students. Self-regulated learning: beliefs, techniques, and illusions. But despite the compelling nature of this "Netflix of Education" vision, it can encourage a misleading view of personalized learning. a, Dunlosky, J., &

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2015

Dane: Innovation requires an innovative mindset, the removal of restrictions, the right people, and failure as an option. Two core beliefs in schools: just tell me what to do, and there is a right answer (I just have to figure out what it is) – for both student and adult learners. Failure is an event not a destination.

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Students need to learn that when they encounter a negative belief, they must think back to their past for something that will help them believe it will turn out okay. Instead of seeing a bad grade as a failure, frame it as an opportunity to learn and improve. Help them understand that failure is part of learning.

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Failure Beliefs Students Math 81

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

There is a strong belief among many professors that all students need to succeed in intermediate algebra in order to progress, agrees Olga Rodriguez, a research fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California Higher Education Center. These largely positive changes for students have presented professors with new challenges, however.

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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. We teach our girls to be perfect, and this actually generates a mindset where there’s a lot of fear around failure.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

But on a country-level analysis, doing well at reading, math and science doesn’t necessarily correlate with a belief in growth mindset. In addition, he says there’s a “strong relationship growth mindset and resilience” and the data suggests it can boost motivation and reduce fear of failure. coming in 10th.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students. The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. It needs to be challenging but something that can be accomplished.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 108

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. For example, during group problem-solving, ask students to identify and reflect on common mistakes, transforming failure into an opportunity for growth (Dweck, 2006). Penalizing mistakes undermines trust and discourages effort.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 121

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

If there is a personal project or business opportunity you’ve been interested in trying out, there’s no better time than the present to dive into something new and challenging, acquaint yourself with failure, pick yourself back up again, and build the muscle needed for high-growth, lifelong learning.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Although they don’t often call it self-efficacy, most teachers regularly see how beliefs about ability affect behavior. If there’s good news about mindsets, it’s that they are based on beliefs and beliefs can be changed. “We strive to be good at things, to develop bonds with other people, and to make our own choices” (p.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The connecting thesis across Dunce Capital’s portfolio is Danner’s belief that the internet has made knowledge abundant, and so “the future of learning will be organized around the student, making learning convenient and equally available” to everyone, he states.

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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. Course failures dipped by 28 percent. Around that time, Bergman decided to build his own messaging technology to support his research.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 112

Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

The short answer is that a culture of learning is “a collection of thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Show them Model the “thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Can you cause this to happen?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Here are some favorite Labor Day quotes about the joy of working hard: “You always pass failure on your way to success.” — Mickey Rooney “Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.” — Helena Rubinstein “Dedication, hard work all the time, and belief.” — Cristiano Ronaldo A keyboard, three screens, four tasks, and a twelve-pack of Red (..)

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Here are some strategies to foster a growth mindset: Embrace failure as a learning opportunity: Encourage students to see failure as a steppingstone towards improvement. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience. Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process and can teach valuable lessons.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

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. I realized that to change practices at our school, we needed to change our beliefs and mindsets.

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