Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration."

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JUNE 4, 2025

A 2007 study led by Robert Balfanz at Johns Hopkins found that chronic absence in middle school and high school is often a leading predictor of dropping out. Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable? It has lasting effects through the upper grades, too.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Avoid the roulette of school models by engaging all stakeholders in the beginning: Collaboration and communication between schools within a given district must be factored into the district’s overall vision.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Jobs have fundamentally changed and we're not communicating that to our children or to parents or even to educators. Girls are outperforming boys in math and science from middle school on up. We teach our girls to be perfect, and this actually generates a mindset where there’s a lot of fear around failure. Don’t give up.

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OCTOBER 16, 2023

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. Did we have failures? Absolutely.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Arcadia took care not only to define values— collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, empathy and learning from failure—that would cut across those historical restraints, but also to implement new processes that would signal to its people that it was serious about those values.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. AJ Bianco is a middle school social studies teacher at Harrington Park School District in Harrington Park, New Jersey.

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JUNE 21, 2017

We've talked about soft skills, and we've also talked about more traditional liberal arts skills like writing and communication, which are really important. I know we teach that failure should be embraced, because that way, you uncover more successes… Sometimes in those failures, you reveal your biggest triumphs, too.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

To help schools and educators navigate these challenges along with parents, these tips can help: When a child is resisting going to school: Try to understand why a child doesn’t want to go to school, collaborate with parents and other school resources and problem-solve with the child.

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JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

My TFA training didn’t set me up to communicate effectively with families. I grew up attending Title I schools in north central West Virginia that were mainly comprised of white students from middle- and low-income families. In my experience, when kids weren’t doing well, blame often fell on the teacher.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

After gaining board and trustee approval in June 2016, the district decided to run a one-year pilot program for the 2016-2017 school year for sixth graders at the district’s two middle schools, Graham and Crittenden. Communication is Key Still many questions and lessons remain. 17 study session. “At

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AUGUST 11, 2017

It should have been communicated better. It should have been communicated better that personalized learning is a pedagogy, a way of instructing children—and not a way to use technology better.” 8 points, respectively, between 2015 and 2016. I think a lot of people are scared of letting people know that it didn’t work for them.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

These were groundbreaking inventions that fundamentally changed the way we live and communicate and travel—so much so that 100 years later, their creators are still household names: Thomas Edison, Alexander Graham Bell, the Wright brothers. How many middle school and high school students actually say that they're inventors?

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OCTOBER 30, 2017

Central Valley School District (NY): “We are all learners working to reach our full potential through individual goals and pace, with flexible time and space.”. Rochester Middle School (NH): “Rochester Middle School is a place where we inspire creative and collaborative learning to challenge and celebrate the unique genius in all of us.”.

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OCTOBER 28, 2017

Central Valley School District (NY): “We are all learners working to reach our full potential through individual goals and pace, with flexible time and space.”. Rochester Middle School (NH): “Rochester Middle School is a place where we inspire creative and collaborative learning to challenge and celebrate the unique genius in all of us.”.

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Feedback Middle School Middle School Failure 93

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AUGUST 13, 2018

That was an important part of what kept a little middle school girl coming back to those competitions. I was also very fortunate at that young, impressionable age to have two female mentors coaching my team; one was in high school and one was a recent college graduate. And with FIRST I could compete but also have fun.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. This improves communication and accountability. It reframed failure as part of progress and made every learner feel seen. This creates a natural sense of progression.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

And I think that adults too often communicate that they don't value that. I especially worry as I watch my oldest son, who is in middle school now. And that probably reflects some educational failures, though not just educational failures. There are potentially lots of benefits to it. It's a struggle.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Another is creating a chatbot that somewhat ironically helps members of Gen Z like herself practice their communication skills, such as by coming up with conversation starters. Pretty early on we thought it was going to be a massive failure, says Kennelly of last semesters project. But it became a huge hit. Students loved it.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) , a professional (and personal) development program for middle-school science teachers, gave me an unexpected opportunity to experience many of the emotions that students live each day. In the HESA program I was teamed up with teachers from around the world.

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