eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Key points: Focus on what students can do, instead of what they cant Design thinking in the 21st century is an imperative Empathy, adaptability, and real-world readiness: Supporting students in 2025 For more on a growth mindset, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In the words of Carol Dweck, Becoming is better than being.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Most educators, myself included, entered this profession guided by mental models about the educational system formed by our experiences as students. Students move from class to class on a set schedule. Classes are composed of students who are the same age. All students in a class should complete the same assignments.

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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.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Feedback is a powerful tool that can profoundly impact student learning and success. However, not all feedback is created equal; some approaches to feedback can propel students toward growth, while others may hinder their progress. How can educators unlock its power and potential to maximize student growth?

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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. The middle of the year is cold, the holidays are over, and we are looking at the high-pressure demands of preparing students for standardized testing. The 5-Minute MicroPD. Here’s how it works.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

After then giving them a set of problems to solve, they found that students who had a positive view outperformed the children who didn’t. 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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. The lack of access to high-quality math instruction can impact students’ confidence and ability to learn math concepts and perpetuate deficit mindset thinking , especially within the Black community.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 215

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. To build up the students’ confidence and skills, I started by having them program and design the KIBO robots on their own.

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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

MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. Ultimately, I realized I was complicit in supporting educational mandates that were not beneficial to all students. Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. What Standard? Whose Standard?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

However, a recent controversy around Carol Dweck’s well-known growth mindset gives me hope that we can move forward with research that can better inform and support practitioners and students. Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. To do this, they lumped students together regardless of circumstance.

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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. Many students start the research process by proclaiming: “I know what I’m going to say!” If we only react after the fact, students often meet us with defensiveness. my colleague asked.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. Meanwhile, these students are paying for courses that rarely provide them with college credit.

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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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

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. One of my students, who I previously thought wasn’t paying attention, pipes up, “That’s firme !” I felt like a failure. I didn’t mean it.”

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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. I have found that these one-time lessons are necessary, but not sufficient, to shift student mindset in a meaningful way.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 106

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Students should feel safe to experiment without fear of punishment or penalty.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 119

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

After a whirlwind semester of virtual classes, college students are now facing a new challenge: Companies around the country are canceling their internships. 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.

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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. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class. Classes were arduous for him, and he often didn’t pass them.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Writing is more important than ever, but many of today’s students are lousy at it. And he thinks that the writing students do for their Instagram accounts and social media is actually great. EdSurge: I’ve certainly heard professors grumble that their students are bad at writing. Part of the problem, he says, is technology.

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Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Optimism isnt just about looking on the bright sideits a powerful mindset that can help students navigate challenges, embrace growth, and feel more confident in their abilities. When it comes to children and being optimistic, many students think that its something that you are born with.

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Failure Beliefs Students Math 82

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. In the post-pandemic era, shaped by ongoing social and political crises, this pressure feels even heavier.

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Education Failure Beliefs English 182

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

The following list of ingredients will hopefully provide valuable insights and practical tips to help students thrive in the college classroom and unlock the umami flavor of success. Clear goals and objectives Success in the college classroom requires that students understand the goals and objectives of the course.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Her students stopped turning on their cameras and stopped responding despite her best efforts to keep them engaged. She knew that there were probably many reasons (that had nothing to do with her) for why her students weren’t showing up to class. She said she felt like a machine just pushing out work for students to do.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

The following list of ingredients will hopefully provide valuable insights and practical tips to help students thrive in the college classroom and unlock the umami flavor of success. Clear goals and objectives Success in the college classroom requires that students understand the goals and objectives of the course.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 96

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

As a teacher in Harlem, Peter Bergman, like some of his peers, wondered what he could do to help students show up to class or do their homework on time. That led him to his current career in academia, where much of his research focuses on how sending “nudges,” or periodic reminders, to parents and students can improve academic outcomes.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 108

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Students should feel safe to experiment without fear of punishment or penalty.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

Students may not know something yet, but that shouldn’t stop them from figuring out the answer, improving their skills, or meeting their academic goals. 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.

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Failure Learning Achievement Essay 136

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

offers when asked to describe the making-focused lessons and activities that she uses with her students. 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 How does this look in practice?

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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. And unfortunately, evidence reveals students are often poor judges of what instructional techniques are most likely to promote optimal learning. Do Learners Really Know Best? And I'm being generous here.

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 158

Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 15, 2015

Using Amazon book reviews with 5th grade students. Inklewriter allows students to make ‘choose your own adventure’ stories. Dane: Innovation requires an innovative mindset, the removal of restrictions, the right people, and failure as an option. Failure is an event not a destination. Dane: Dreamers and grounders.

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Questions Failure Beliefs Grades 96

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. What do you think are the biggest hurdles facing us in educating female students on how to code? Reshma Saujani.

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Failure Science Math Culture 125

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

students placed in the middle of the pack, scoring slightly above average on reading and science and a little below in math. the bottom 10th percentile of students fell further behind, and the gap between them and top performers widened. that included 4,800 students from 215 schools. And the Americans? In the U.S.,

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