eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With college application season in full swing and the competition for acceptance into top schools more competitive than ever, students are turning to AI-powered tools for application support, reveals a new survey from Brainly. Students are looking for ways to save time and assure them that they are on the right path.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. She discovered the KIBO robot, and for her capstone project wrote a grant application for the Dean College Innovation Grant.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Try high school students. Looking at these projects, it’s clear that some kids have been so motivated to make beautiful graphs that they’re going out to learn math that most kids don’t learn until college,” says von Oy. “We These aren’t concepts found in most high-school math textbooks.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 18, 2025

High school is a time for students to grow and explore, and one of the best ways for them to navigate this journey of self-discovery is through goal setting. By setting clear, actionable goals, high schoolers can take concrete steps toward figuring out what they want to do or achieve and developing the skills theyll need to get there.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This lack of belief in Black students’ potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy, where students internalize these low expectations and perform accordingly. Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

More recently, in 2020, Bettina Love published a framework and guiding questions for creating classrooms that affirm Black, Latino and Indigenous children, which I’ve used to broaden my own understanding of how to create the conditions where love and acceptance flourish within our school’s culture.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

This positively impacts their motivation to engage with tasks. Such personalized decision-making opportunities foster intrinsic motivation and active engagement and allow students to discover their strengths and understand their preferences, further bolstering their confidence and belief in their abilities.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We were in an older junior high model. We added 36 classrooms to our high school and brought our ninth-graders up. At the high school we put in a fabrication lab that has 3D printers , laser etchers and a CNC router. . We can then build on that motivation to see success in other classes and situations. .

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

But in the end, the results almost beggared belief, according to those at the college. Ultimately, argues Van Valkenburgh, the new program seems to have instilled confidence in students about their quantitative skills, as well as motivated them to pick those skills up by grounding lessons in problems they cared about solving.

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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. Since traditional brick-and-mortar classes clearly weren’t working for him, John attempted online courses through his local high school.

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

I started my first college advising session with Marcus with the same question I always asked: “If you could do anything after high school knowing that you would be successful, financially secure, and your friends and family would support you, what would you do?” His speed of response surprised me.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

The teachers and counselors in my school have been working harder than ever it seems, but despite our best efforts, the effects of the past two years are palpable. In some of the schools in our district, we have seen regression in academic test scores, significant learning loss and an increase in students dropping out of high school.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

This isn’t surprising, given that many public school students in the U.S. don’t have an opportunity to learn a new language in school until middle or high school. My high school offered an introductory French course and I was not excited about it. Census Bureau, 78 percent of the U.S. Here’s some good news.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 26, 2025

School expectations and rules are centered in the inherent dignity of all students as children of God, Saucedo explains. That belief creates a school culture built on respect, kindness, and forgiveness. Joseph Catholic Schools goal is to grow, evolve, and innovate while staying true to its mission.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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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.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Third, these new models, which are predicated on the belief that students should not carry significant debt, must consider the many forms of financing now available. Employers foot the bill for the training in exchange for landing a high quality intern. Underserved recent high school grads. Rwanda-based. >

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2017

For years, school leaders in Loudoun County, Virginia “had been talking about a one-to-one technology initiative,” says Josh Ajima, instructional facilitator for technology at Dominion High School and Loudoun Academy of Science. But it kept getting pushed back and back. Josh Ajima's 3D print of the Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2021

I didn’t know what type of community or school environment I was going to be in.” The tuition support was a big motivator, he says. An additional 12 percent were school administrators. 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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Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2025

Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery. In high school, I settled into who I was as a student and learned who I was as a Black and Puerto Rican man from Montbello. Still, I pushed on, determined to prove I belonged academically.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

If it sounds like a typical chemistry lesson at any school in the country, in some ways it is. Olivia is currently enrolled part-time in one of the most unique high school models in the country. The challenging thing is the social aspect,” Olivia says of her school, before describing herself as a little shy.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

High-stakes entrance exams determine which students are admitted to the top high schools, then the top colleges, then the top jobs in cities that citizens view as “ first-tier.” Parents push for intense studying out of the belief that even a single point on these exams can make a difference in their child’s fortures, Hu says.

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Tesoriero has developed this belief over the past 10 years in the classroom—and she attributes much of it to her involvement with the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI). “We This may not fit the traditional instructional model but NYSCI isn’t building a game to fit into schools, they’re building a game to develop motivation through engagement.

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Science Learning Schools Gamification 145

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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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

In the aforementioned 2019 study, Bergman and his co-author found that sending parents weekly text messages about students’ absences and missing assignments, and a monthly warning about failing grades, improved high school students’ grade-point averages by 0.17, and attendance by 12 percent. Course failures dipped by 28 percent.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Move This World (New York) uses multimedia content to develop social skills and strengthen emotional intelligence in Pre-K through high school. Substantial (501(c)3/Oakland, California) creates training, resources and information customized for each school to help substitute teachers be successful. Words Liive (Washington, D.C.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

What is bad, though, is when competition becomes the defining characteristic of education—because people are motivated by different things. But in my case, I was kicked out of high school. For most of my life, school really didn't work. I'm certainly not a fan of the idea that competition is uniformly bad.

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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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EAB

MAY 8, 2023

Chronically absent students are more likely than their peers with good attendance to face reading difficulties by third grade and less likely to earn a high school diploma. Connected to peers and adults: 41% of high school students say the events of the past two years have made them feel less connected to peers and teachers.

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k12

APRIL 14, 2025

When we think about STEMscience, technology, engineering, and mathwe usually think of high school or college. When elementary school children solve problems, complete projects, and see their ideas come to life, it reinforces the belief that they can tackle big challenges and do hard things.

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k12 Online Schools

APRIL 27, 2025

Despite its growing popularity, misconceptions and outdated beliefs continue to cloud public perception with respect to K12 online education. This belief is not only wrong, but it underestimates the skills and resilience that online students develop. Is an online high school diploma accepted by colleges?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

A troubling incident occurred a few years ago in my Literature and Writing Foundations class at the local high school, highlighting the need for a focus on diversity. Wearing a turban is an important belief in his religion. This student, a devout Sikh, was humiliated when his hair was uncovered.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Nick Migliorino , Ed Kemnitzer , Emily Herring , FlexPoint Education Cloud , Florida Virtual Schools , Cory Hocker , Green Bay Area Public Schools , Hardee County School District , Heather Magill , Hemet Unified School District , Jefferson County Public Schools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

However, both of these events are both extremely emotionally powerful moments where money plays second, if not third fiddle, to other motivators that we feel reflect how much we love or loved someone. However, we know that each year there will be millions of high school graduates attending college.

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Beliefs High School High School Achievement 165

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Sports Reading Club - resilience, motivation. Technology Reading Club - impulse control, self motivation. Art Reading Club - self motivation. This belief makes it difficult to instill the idea that SEL concepts can be taught. Space Reading Club - teamwork, identifying problems and analyzing solutions. Stay foolish.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 21, 2017

” This ancient form of give-and-take discourse is reportedly founded on Socrates’ belief that lecture was not an effective way to teach all students. Students must dig into their background to determine the motivations and assumptions behind their beliefs and then use that evidence to defend their thoughts.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Graduation is a momentous occasion for any student, but for those who come through the NET Charter High School , it carries extra meaning. Most either dropped out, failed out or were expelled from previous programs before finding their way to this alternative school, which was founded by Ostberg eight years ago. Joy Nickerson.

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