eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. 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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key points: What priorities will be a focal point in the new school year? Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. . This year at St.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Fortunately, a year prior, one of my 4th-year senior capstone students had prior experience with high school robotics and was interested in finding a screen-free way to introduce robotics to Dean College’s Children’s Center. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts.

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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

MARCH 14, 2024

Written by Jen Easterly, Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Last month marks six years since 17 students and faculty senselessly lost their lives and 17 others were injured when a mass murderer entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and started shooting.

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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. Another teacher, Maria, confessed she was angry and bitter by the end of last school year. We must make schools human again. But we are not just educators, of course. We are human too.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This is unacceptable, to say the least, and it is the fault of schools and educators that math learning in the Black community is not prioritized. 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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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. Yet almost always in these large datasets or RCTs there are anomalies—a particular student or class or school for which a given intervention didn’t produce the desired outcome—lurking. And that is what leads to better understanding. captures the point.

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Study Failure Beliefs Achievement 251

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. OPMs are merely a stopgap therapy.

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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. At my last school in San Jose, Calif., we barraged our students with growth mindset lessons during the first two weeks of school.

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Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Like many who are now teachers, I succeeded as a student in school, and I approached teaching with the same research-based mindset, implementing all the strategies I could find. 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.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

I have heard a lot of people say that they don’t think that online schooling works well because there isn’t in-person interaction between a student and their teacher. This belief is a myth. At 19, John was behind in school and still trying to graduate. Classes were arduous for him, and he often didn’t pass them.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. Best Practices Sometimes, best practices are seen as the golden standard—that thing that will “save” the urban school from low performance, perpetuating the notion that best can only look and sound one way.we

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Culture Failure Beliefs Students 189

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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Education Failure Beliefs English 185

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., Devon Flamm, a K-2 instructional coach at a public school in Hardin, Mont., offers when asked to describe the making-focused lessons and activities that she uses with her students. How does this look in practice? One of our tips?

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Coaching Participation Failure Beliefs 182

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. When completing the statement: “Equitably funded schools run by educators,” some students chose the adjective “qualified” and others chose “passionate” and still others chose “caring.”

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Essay Beliefs Language Languages 168

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. Girls are outperforming boys in math and science from middle school on up. I think schools play a great role.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

It considered placement exam scores but also took into account information from each individual’s high school records, including GPA and the type of diploma earned. Attitude matters, too: Panelists cited research showing that faculty beliefs about intelligence predict how well racial minority students do in STEM classes.

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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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Questions Failure Beliefs Grades 96

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Build Something You Care About School is just the beginning. I realized that accepting you don’t know something is the first step toward growth, which subsequently allows you to ask tough questions, evolve your existing beliefs and discover new ideas.

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Students Failure Beliefs Skills 159

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

that included 4,800 students from 215 schools. But on a country-level analysis, doing well at reading, math and science doesn’t necessarily correlate with a belief in growth mindset. There is just cause for concern: According to the National Center for Education Statistics , which administered the PISA test in the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 137

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Alongside that ethos of supporting misfits, the small fund has backed education startups offering ambitious alternatives to traditional schooling. There’s Prenda, which is building a national network of neighborhood-based “micro-schools,” each serving no more than 10 students. See: Softbank).

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Education Failure Beliefs Internet 140

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

The idea was to see whether such personalized notifications could spur parents to play a more active role in their child’s schooling. 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.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 112

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

I sent this meme out to the faculty at my high school in May with an invitation to meet with me and reflect on this past year of teaching. 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.

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Education Coaching Special Education English 191

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

The problem, he says, is what kids are asked to write in schools, like those five-paragraph essays, which emphasize following arbitrary rules instead of finding the most effective ways to communicate their ideas. But unlike when we went to school, don't kids today today actually write a lot? Check out details and RSVP here.

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Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

Rose, age 42, is a developmental psychologist who studies development, intelligence and learning and teaches at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. We still do this today in the way we conduct research, the way we think about kids in schools, and the way we hire employees. Why has that been so hard for schools?

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Intelligence Failure Science Beliefs 147

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

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 addition, this helped participants learn about best practices and begin to think about how to teach and communicate differently.

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Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 116

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

Born and raised in Alaska, Cardoza enrolled in college right after high school to pursue a career in dentistry. She enrolled in an online undergraduate program to pursue her bachelor’s degree, with plans to become a high school social studies teacher. History] class my senior year of high school, and my teacher was fantastic.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

We should all have our personal mission and belief system, I know what I want to do and I’m not going to be sheepish about that. Knowing that their work could potentially be seen by others beyond our school community raised the bar for my students in motivation and execution. We should be ok with it. It's not a one-way street.

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Art Education 137

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

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 addition, this helped participants learn about best practices and begin to think about how to teach and communicate differently.

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Teaching Beliefs Instructors Participation 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks.

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Critical Thinking Knowledge Failure Communication 140

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

For example, entrepreneurship is a field of study that is growing in business schools. Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020). This is where a growth mindset intervention has its place.

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Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 59

Faculty Focus

APRIL 3, 2025

For example, entrepreneurship is a field of study that is growing in business schools. Early failures and failed first trials are not interpreted as a diagnosis of what could be done , and are instead seen as proof of what cant (Yeager & Dweck, 2020). This is where a growth mindset intervention has its place.

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Teaching Failure Feedback Knowledge 52

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

He previously started Pencils of Promise, a nonprofit that has opened hundreds of schools in developing countries. Increasingly, students are going to college with the belief that it's a pathway to a better job. But I would say that the failure of ideals doesn't mean that the ideal is bad or unworkable.

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Gamification Art Beliefs Achievement 116