k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

There was no fanfarejust a vision, a small classroom, and a deep belief in what girls could achieve when given the right environment to grow. They learn that math isnt just numbersits problem-solving. At the heart of this vision is a simple but powerful belief: joyful learning changes lives.

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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. Bonus Move: Use Think-Pair-Share Post a prompt on the whiteboard or in the chat for virtual classes: How would you start solving this math problem? Fortunately, todays classrooms have more tools than ever to support that work.

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Languages Language Participation Writing 52

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 137

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning. Their data show their bets are paying off.

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Coaching Math Achievement Grades 133

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? Are classes like art, gym, and life skills as critical as math and English? What impact do the characters’ choices have on the tone and outcome of the story? In what ways did you personally connect with the novel? What themes or characters are similar?

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Writing Grades Essay Middle School 52

Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

The short answer is that a culture of learning is “a collection of thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Show them Model the “thinking habits, beliefs about self, and collaborative workflows that result in sustained critical learning.” Can you cause this to happen?

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Beliefs Culture Students Critical Thinking 93

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2025

education system from scratch; it evolved through good intentions and shared beliefs. education system from scratch; it evolved through good intentions and shared beliefs. We know much more now about how the brain works in reading and math, and that should inform our practices. No one designed the U.S. No one designed the U.S.

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Beliefs Feedback Culture Math 105

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2022

They are distant during class, uninterested in engaging with the material, and their beliefs confirmed every time they get a question wrong – “I can’t do math.” How can teachers combat this belief? Furthermore, research suggests that having a positive attitude toward math can boost math achievement.

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Culture Math Beliefs Achievement 301

eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

The problem for many struggling math students is that often those “universal” numbers and symbols hide in surrounding contexts of unfamiliar vocabulary, settings, and narratives. In the process, math can actually become a universal thread to connect many types of content and learners. Math is joyful! Math is joyful!

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Language Languages Math Culture 331

eSchool News

MAY 4, 2022

They found that attitudes, beliefs, and emotions are the major influencers. When social and emotional learning and the Kagan method are applied in a classroom, students enjoy math more and constantly aspire to learn. Making math fun…and effective. One of my favorite online resources is SplashLearn.

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Math Education Beliefs Schools 256

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Math is everywhere around us, whether we realize it or not. Every time we conduct an internet search, order something online, or automatically get recommendations for products that we are looking for, there is math at play behind the scenes. Where my love of math began. I have been a math educator since my university days.

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Math Beliefs Learning Lecturing 269

eSchool News

JULY 5, 2024

. — MIND Education , an organization dedicated to ensuring that all students are mathematically equipped to solve the world’s most challenging problems, today released the results of its annual ST Math Teacher Survey, conducted by MIND Research Institute, its social impact organization specializing in education and neuroscience research.

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Math Education Beliefs Motivation 264

eSchool News

JANUARY 23, 2024

When Salvador Quijada, a seventh and eighth grade math teacher at Philip’s Academy Charter School, thinks back on his own journey as a mathematician, he gives credit to one high school math teacher who pushed him to take on AP calculus. Sign up for their newsletters at ckbe.at/newsletters. newsletters.

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Middle School Middle School Math Teachers 271

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Our relationship with math learning is severely damaged in this country. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms. As a Black male educator in northeast Denver, I have seen firsthand the results of poor engagement and learning in math classrooms.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 215

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

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. Math isn’t just the regurgitation of formulas.

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Art Math Curriculum Beliefs 218

eSchool News

APRIL 13, 2016

Stanford University researchers aim to dispel the belief that students should not use their fingers to learn mathematics. Taking a more visual approach to math instruction at the K-12 and higher-ed levels could dramatically change brain development as it relates to future math success, according to a new paper from Stanford researchers.

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Math Beliefs Achievement Study 190

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Sketchnote from Belief #5 about Mission, illustrated by Brad Ovenell-Carter. Blending Leadership: Six Simple Beliefs for Leading Online and Off by Stephen J. Valentine and Dr. Reshan Richards.

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Beliefs Schools Assignments Writing 161

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2021

Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. We want a curriculum to be multidimensional—to have kids experience maths in lots of different ways.

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Math Curriculum Beliefs Achievement 217

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I’m working as fast as possible to answer as many math questions as I can in 60 seconds. In my experience as a middle and high school math specialist, I’ve rarely heard any adults (including math teachers) report many positive memories of their early experiences with math at school. I thought so. Probably not.

Math 217

Math Elementary School Elementary School Beliefs 217

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence. teaching math vocabulary, chunking word-problems, etc.)

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Interdisciplinary English Math Failure 308

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says. There are math requirements for those majors. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

Math 218

Math Instructors Science STEM 218

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Math is a linear subject, with each concept building on the one before. Math teachers are also responsible for covering a large number of standards in a school year. Most math curricula are designed for a whole group teacher-led lesson where the teacher is expected to cover a new concept or process every day.

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Math Attention Beliefs Knowledge 195

eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

Study of grades 3-5 students showed improved math achievement with personalized learning approach. These districts represent culturally and economically diverse demographics, and the research findings solidify DreamBox’s belief that with the right tools and support, all children can succeed and pursue rewarding subjects, including math. “We

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Study Math Beliefs Achievement 187

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The answer, as in many situations, lies in math. Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. And that's how people learn math. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. How do you prepare for that?

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Problem-Based Learning Math Education Learning 195

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

” Math students have been asking educators this very question for decades. And yet, it has long been reported by Brookings (Loveless, 2008) and others like the Algebra Project (Moses, 2001) that Algebra I is the gatekeeper to higher level math classes, higher education success, and careers in the technical fields.

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Learning Outcomes Critical Thinking Beliefs Learning 323

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Culture embodies our deepest collective social norms and beliefs, and provides the reference points for future learning.

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Culture Math Science Beliefs 206

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2023

That call started the years-long process of reworking how the university’s life sciences department teaches math. This ultimately led to a new introductory life sciences math course, Mathematics for Life Sciences (the LS 30 series). But in the end, the results almost beggared belief, according to those at the college.

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Math Science Teaching STEM 207

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. Another may be a natural artist but find abstract math concepts confusing. But we havent gone far enough.

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Failure Math Achievement Beliefs 311

Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

Yet, some math teachers, eager to help a struggling student at the first sight of frustration, deprive the learner of a productive struggle. Teachers with weak math backgrounds are more likely to teach math as a bundle of discrete, disconnected ideas and dwell on less critical features.

Math 167

Math Accessibility Education Knowledge 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

Now reread the same cartoon, substituting “math” for “reading.” As a society ever more reliant on technology and STEM-based careers, we must shatter the myth that math skill is inborn and reinforce that it is the result of intention and practice. This belief is wrong. Suddenly it doesn’t seem so absurd. But it should!

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Math Beliefs STEM Motivation 167

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2018

For my math students, having a growth mindset—the belief that intelligence can be developed through application—removes the idea that some students are good at math and some students never will be. This is crucial in math classrooms, especially as students progress through their academic careers.

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Beliefs Math Intelligence Students 251

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Only 59 percent of girls believe they are good at math and science, down from 73 percent in 2017. While girls are reporting high levels of STEM interest, their perceptions of their abilities in key STEM subjects, such as math and science are declining precipitously.

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STEM Beliefs Math Science 287

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

But is asking generative AI to do math or engage students in a tutoring relationship really the best way to use this incredibly powerful technology? For example, answers provided by generative AI chatbots can sometimes be misleading when it comes to subjects like math, where a student’s solution to a problem is either right or wrong.

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Teaching Essay Teaching Methods Intelligence 319

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. Try asking someone if they were good at math as a child. That is beginning to change. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists.

Failure 276

Failure Beliefs Math Intelligence 276

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the initial “I used to think…” stage, students reflect on their beliefs or opinions about a specific topic, subject, or issue. Math Problem Solving: After introducing a new problem-solving strategy in math class, the teacher could ask students to share how their approach to solving math problems has shifted.

Ethics 331

Ethics Metacognitive Skills Culture Critical Thinking 331

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In fact, students recently told Hawkins about “doing science in math class,” referring to a nuclear decay and radioactivity assignment they’d completed for pre-calculus. For especially math-heavy lessons, Hawkins asks a math interventionist from our resource center to sit in on her class.

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STEM High School High School Schools 273

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2019

We’re also 10th in the state for ACT scores, 12th for high school math, 8th for English II instruction, and we’re 3rd in the state for biology. Without any real data to support these beliefs, decision making was a challenge. We rank considerably well in the state almost entirely across the board.

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Beliefs Testing Math English 279