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.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they dont.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Feedback is a powerful tool that can profoundly impact student learning and success. Let’s Review the Characteristics of Effective Feedback In an article for ASCD, Grant Wiggins identifies key elements that make feedback particularly effective in enhancing student learning. What is the secret to effective feedback?

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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. And we’re already seeing it. In a recent report, 96% of teachers in the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Embracing change with a hands-on approach to STEAM learning With my usual 20-page final project firmly in the rearview mirror, I instead instructed my pre-service teacher students to play and explore. We will learn a lot from this!” My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts.

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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

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

At Edmentum , we believe that growth mindset goes hand in hand with personalized learning, an increasingly popular approach that aims to put students in control of their own learning. We’ve put a lot of thought into how best to define personalized learning. So, how exactly does personalized learning fit into the equation?

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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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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.” captures the point.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

In the last couple of decades, as online learning was steadily being recognized by millions of students as a convenient way to earn a highly prized academic degree, most senior officers at the nation’s colleges and universities paid little attention, dithered or dabbled.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I felt like a failure. Instead of researching strategies, I committed to researching the students in front of me, the community in which I teach and the ways in which individual students learn best. I also turned to a different kind of professional reading that shaped my beliefs about students, learning and the purpose of education.

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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

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For many teachers, the last four years have been a relentless cycle of adapting to new learning models, navigating new curriculum mandates, supporting students mental health and adjusting to heightened accountability measures. Purpose, Ive learned, is to honor the complexities of our experiences and create space for healing and growth.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

One teacher learns that the secret to good online teaching is all in the approach. 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. Sparking a love of learning.

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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

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first thing I noticed when we returned to school after remote learning was that my conversations with teachers got real deep real fast. Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how bad a situation is, we should all have a positive mindset about it. As an instructional coach, the most important role I have is as a listener.

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Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

How To Use The Gradual Release Of Responsibility Model To Grow More Confident Students by Terry Heick Learning is a culture. Even the practices that promote or undermine the learning process itself come are first and foremost human and cultural artifacts. Further, learning is ongoing, perishable, and alive–just like culture.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

By “messy,” Kwan means two things: both the appearance of the classroom and the style of inquiry and learning that students must adopt in order to thrive during making lessons. “If When they’re engaged in making activities, students are learning, but “learning just looks different” than the typical classroom, according to Kwan.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2016

Comments from both established learning companies like McGraw-Hill , as well as more recent entrants like D2L and Udemy , reveal a strong push among edtech companies seeking to position themselves as "education's answer to Netflix." Unlike movie enjoyment, which is an inherently subjective evaluation, learning is an objective outcome.

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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. Do students see the relevance, the importance of what they’re being asked to learn and do?

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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. Do students see the relevance, the importance of what they’re being asked to learn and do?

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

However, Reshma Saujani doesn’t think the issues merely lie in offering girls more opportunities to learn. 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.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Instead, we foster an environment of learning, growth, and empowerment. Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. Active learning strategies help students take risks and engage deeply with material in a low-pressure environment.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2015

Tony Vincent , Learning In Hand , @tonyvincent. 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.

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

However, being an optimistic person is not a personality trait, its a skill or mindset that can be learned. 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. Teach students to view setbacks through a new lens.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

To reinforce the importance of seeing the bigger picture, he adds: “Often we understand our own language better by learning a foreign language.” But on a country-level analysis, doing well at reading, math and science doesn’t necessarily correlate with a belief in growth mindset. coming in 10th.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

That’s because I spent the last year learning how to navigate uncertainty. It started last summer, when I participated in Adjacent Academies , a new experiential learning program for college students that combines technical skills training with liberal arts. But this summer, I'm not worried.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

There is much to be learned about motivation. The problem is that learning about motivation isn’t all that easy. It is one of those subjects where it’s almost impossible to know where or how to start the learning process. If there’s good news about mindsets, it’s that they are based on beliefs and beliefs can be changed.

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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. I invested millions, way too much,” he laments. “I

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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. Big T trauma and little t trauma—it affects us all, students and educators, and it impacts learning. You know what is not rare?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. “My My son has learning issues, and when I walked into his classroom, I began to see it through his eyes,” he says. But his current venture is something of a personal mission.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

A lot of it is based on my reflection of my experience learning to write as a young person sort of before the era of standardized assessments and accountability. I am of the belief that writing can't be taught, but it can be a learned school of thought. So what's not to like about this idea of automated grading?

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Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). In 1993, Kolb brought reflection to the forefront in his description of its role in experiential learning (Kolb, 1993).

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