Beliefs Failure Participation 
Teachers Pay Teachers
JULY 16, 2025
Give second (and third) chances For many reluctant learners, one school failure is enough to reinforce their belief that they’re poor students. Encourage reluctant students to focus on participation and completion goals, such as “I will turn in 90% of my homework” or “I will miss class fewer than 5 times.”
Faculty Focus
JUNE 12, 2025
They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself. Her belief in me helped me overcome self-imposed limits.
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Faculty Focus
JUNE 12, 2025
They encouraged me to embrace active learning, to create space where students become participants rather than passive listeners. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself. Her belief in me helped me overcome self-imposed limits.
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 other words, the question is not “How do we get teachers to participate in professional development?” In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure.
Edsurge
MARCH 3, 2020
The consensus among the educators who participated in our focus groups was that making is a way for students to make order out of chaos and that this path is expectedly going to be messy. How does this look in practice? Devon Flamm, a K-2 instructional coach at a public school in Hardin, Mont.,
eSchool News
JANUARY 28, 2016
This belief is a myth. When both teachers and students participate the same way they would in a face-to-face setting, amazing things happen in the online world—just as often as they do in the traditional classroom. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class.
Edsurge
MARCH 17, 2022
I was participating in a DEI Cohort sponsored by The Education Equity Center of St. 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. What was I negotiating?
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