eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

But when we asked educators where they learned the biggest lessons related to education and technology came, they largely told us it came from the classroom, through everyday interaction, failure, and perseverance among the students they see every day. Eve Heaton, Instructional Technology Coach, Beaufort County School District (SC).

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Failure Coaching Education Learning 198

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Create a culture of agency where both students and teachers are empowered to take risks, be creative, and learn from failures. Make room for educators to share the innovative practices they’ve tried in the classroom and create outlets for peer coaching and collaborative learning among staff.

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Schools Failure Feedback Culture 297

Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2018

These leaders react to failure with coaching and reflective data analysis rather than negative consequences. Many of these leaders choose to pilot tools with small groups of teachers, distill learnings, and then use exemplar artifacts from within the school community to bring new strategies to life for the whole school community.

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Achievement Blended Learning Failure Coaching 155

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Thus, we are more like coaches than teachers. I learned quickly that just because we are expected to assess something doesn’t automatically mean that we know how to facilitate it. Perhaps the most raw (and effective) lesson I learned came at the end of our first project in my first year as a PBL facilitator.

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Grades Failure Ethics Interdisciplinary 163

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

But they would also receive regular, personalized attention from a coach. To us, exactly what teachers decided to focus on was less important than the collaboration and skills they would pick up along the way. Instead, we relied on activities that were more tailored to participants and helped them collaborate with each other.

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Teachers Coaching Schools Failure 158