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 116

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2018

With 10 million students in grades K-12 struggling to read, taking those struggling readers from disengaged to enthused may seem like a huge feat. Motivation in class and the hallways, through notes, and over announcements will give students the boost they need to start believing in themselves. Be a reading cheerleader.

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Reading Beliefs Culture Motivation 274

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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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2019

The foundational belief that intelligence is malleable and that each child’s “true potential is unknown and unknowable.” The curriculum is now part of our preschool, kindergarten and first grade classrooms. Our mantra through this work has been “the relentless belief that every child has an unlimited capacity to learn.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Unfortunately, says Guthrie, students’ reading motivation is often "shockingly low." After spending 45 years studying how to motivate and engage students, Guthrie has learned that the secret to developing successful readers lies in understanding the right—and wrong—ways to motivate them. Not the books and the content.

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Motivation Reading Beliefs Grades 129

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

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

It’s a great choice for teacher teams or PLCs who want to brainstorm ideas and work toward a consensus in areas like grading and assessment or professional development. Tricider is a free online tool that simplifies the decision-making process and makes it more equitable by allowing users to leave plenty of feedback.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

I’ve learned leadership is about using the privilege of our position to build collaborative teams of talented and motivated individuals who can help us stay ahead of any problems and drive innovation that brings impactful change. We viewed it as a success, allowing for greater efficiency and significant cost savings. Until it wasn’t.

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STEM Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 295

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Therefore, teachers can help students meet the physical activity recommendations by incorporating movement breaks in the classroom” ( Get The Facts: Movement Breaks in the Classroom Grades K-5 , 2023). References: Get the Facts: Movement Breaks in the Classroom Grades K-5. 2023, March 21). link] Helean, T. & 2023, March 21).

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Beliefs Classroom Management Reading Elementary School 239

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Our beliefs about what is “real learning” are clouded by our own personal experiences. The larger problem is that grading overemphasizes students’ final product of learning instead of their process of learning. AI won’t motivate a student to learn. We have to strike a balance when it comes to using AI for learning. If so, why?

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 311

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2025

Stations and centers are often used during reading or ELA blocks in kindergarten through second grade classrooms. We know from research that choice increases students interest and ownership of learning, leading to more motivation to complete work (Flowerday and Schraw, 2000). Resources Blended Learning Models. link] Flowerday, T. &

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Blended Learning Learning Assignments Beliefs 253

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Some folks commented: “I have dyscalculia…When I was in the 3rd grade, my teacher yelled at me and said, 'How do you not understand this yet?!' Her journey is a testament to the power of support, resilience and belief in one’s potential.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

“This survey shows how out-of-touch politically motivated book banning and censorship groups are,” said John Chrastka, EveryLibrary Institute Executive Director. Pro-censorship groups do not represent the vast majority of parents or guardians in their beliefs about librarians, reading, education, and civil society.”

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Essay Exams Testing Reading 274

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. Furthermore, getting good grades reinforces student mindset. But what happens when a student doesn’t experience academic success?

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Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

When I taught first grade, we started every day with a community circle, where each student was given the opportunity to respond to a daily question or prompt. A central belief of Lakota people, and many other Indigenous communities, is the idea that we are all related.

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Beliefs Motivation Classroom Management Culture 194

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

GORTON: Part of Vision One91 was to change grade configurations. We also moved to a one-to-one environment in fourth through 12th grade; our younger students are in a 2-to-1 ratio with technology in their classrooms. We deployed primarily Chromebooks , and went with the newer Chrome Tablets for kindergarten, first and second grade.

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Education Schools STEM Beliefs 166

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

This belief is a myth. When John first started in my class, his academic skills were minimal: His reading was well below grade level. These issues made it extremely difficult for me to decipher his thoughts and grade his assignments. One teacher learns that the secret to good online teaching is all in the approach.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

Joseph Catholic School isnt just about grades; its about building confident, capable students who take ownership of their learning. As a 1:1 campus from kindergarten through eighth grade, every student has access to digital tools that enhance their education. Technology is another key part of the schools learning experience.

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Knowledge Beliefs Schools Art 144

Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Then, in seventh grade, he found his hero, a gamer with millions of followers named Markiplier who enjoyed immense financial success. Hearing this context profoundly changed how I viewed Marcus’ motivations and aspirations. The shift was profound; Marcus finished his senior year with the best grades of his life.

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Motivation Schools Students Middle School 167

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

This is no easy task considering the reading gap continues to widen between lower and higher income students and the majority of our children do not read past a fourth grade reading level. Yet Reading Rainbow quickly proved to be more than a summer program and instantly captured young audiences’ attention and motivated children to read.

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Reading Elementary School Elementary School Beliefs 190

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. At the time, I go over any written assignment, I provide students with clear and detailed instructions, as well as the rubric I will use for grading their work.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 132

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. Researcher Doris Santoro, author of “Demoralized,” explains that demoralization occurs when teachers “encounter consistent and pervasive challenges to enacting the values that motivate their work.” It will be OK.”

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Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2019

The data disproved his belief: He’d only heard from female students around one-third of the time, even though they made up nearly half his class. “It Even if participation is not a grade, it’s a huge value to get more people to contribute to the conversation.”

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

. — Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Edsurge

JANUARY 24, 2019

D’Angelo, a seventh-grade science teacher in the South Bronx, gives her students a homework assignment about food chains that is due in one week. D’Angelo scans her grade book and notices that these students are the same the ones who completed the homework assignment. is equivalent to a one grade leap, and an effect size of 1.0

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Teaching Learning Students Assignments 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

For example, coming in with a specific problem statement like “we are trying to disaggregate the impacts of an intervention in kindergarten as opposed to 3rd grade” tasks the company with thinking through how to tackle the issue. Consider the Company’s Beliefs Companies rarely like to say no to their customers.

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Feedback Beliefs Schools Motivation 142

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2022

They can’t read Shakespeare —a teacher told me when they found out I was starting a unit on William Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet with my ninth-grade students— do you even know them? The moment a teacher decides their students can’t do something, then the battle has already been lost to the monster of educational inequity in our country.

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Teachers Culture Education Beliefs 168

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

“It felt like a safe haven sometimes,” says Richard, a recent graduate of the program and a new fifth grade teacher. The tuition support was a big motivator, he says. We do it with the belief that it can be done, and we do it with the belief in the young men that we serve,” Jones says.

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Teachers Beliefs Elementary School Elementary School 194

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

satisfaction, engagement, grades, mindsets, attitudes, persistence, views, logins, clicks, etc. Keeping learners motivated and confident when faced with these cognitive challenges means connecting with learners on a personal level. Self-regulated learning: beliefs, techniques, and illusions. a, Dunlosky, J., &

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Education Evaluation Failure Essay 159

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Ninth graders who took an online growth mindset course reported higher grades that those who didn’t. But on a country-level analysis, doing well at reading, math and science doesn’t necessarily correlate with a belief in growth mindset. “I coming in 10th. I don’t really have a good explanation for that,” says Schleicher.

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Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 137

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

Looking back on my educational journey, I recently reflected on my classroom experiences from kindergarten to fourth grade. The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program.

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Education Middle School Middle School Culture 154

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2024

Developing the whole student Maslow’s hierarchy of needs (1943) has long been instrumental in shaping educators’ beliefs about human behavior, motivation, and learning. At the time, I go over any written assignment, I provide students with clear and detailed instructions, as well as the rubric I will use for grading their work.

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Syllabus Exams Students Motivation 96

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2016

Each student compares their results to classmates and to other grade levels. Did most students by a certain grade level type faster than they write? Did most students by a certain grade level type faster than they write? Communicate results: Share results with other classes and other grade levels. What was different?

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Beliefs Writing Essay Testing 102

Faculty Focus

APRIL 6, 2023

Yes, ChatGPT could write it and it might look a little like this: My philosophy of teaching is centered on the belief that all students have the potential to learn and succeed. Notice this does not mean that everything has to be for a grade. The more opportunities students have to apply their knowledge the more motivation will exist.

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Teaching Philosophy Teaching Beliefs Universal Design 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

There is no such requirement for tests and quizzes though—so overall grades can certainly be lower than a B.) Beyond that, Futures draws a wide cross section of students, including those who have struggled in traditional schools and need remediation to improve their grades. Now she talks about transferring full time.

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Teachers Schools Students Study 161

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I’m handing back graded papers to my students and as I make my way to the back of the room, I can’t help but notice a dejected student, Ben*, who has just received a failing grade on his latest assignment. One of my most significant concerns with extra credit is the potential for introducing grade inflation into my courses.

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Assignments Exams Motivation Grades 92

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In a fifth-grade class at Redlands Unified School District in California, students sit in pairs, building LEGO® Education robots that hop. Of course, Redlands Unified isn't alone in their belief in the power of play. They're laughing, chatting and (sometimes) getting a bit frustrated. They're also coding, measuring and problem-solving.

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Learning STEM Skills Beliefs 152