eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This approach fosters a culture where students equate success with immediate correctness rather than with the process of learning. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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Failure Assignments Education Secondary Education 176

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

In this conversation, I shared that I was frustrated about our staff culture and morale. Some of the curriculum materials we purchased had not yet been delivered. No, this is about how challenging it is to deal with the shame of experiencing resignations and how I am learning to cope with moments of failure in leadership.

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Failure Teachers Schools Learning 93

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. But failure is the whole point of the exercise. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Her goal is to reach the students that struggle the most—their success or failure is her evidence of the school model’s efficacy. Getting teachers to make the curriculum changes based on their student’s demands for more inclusion has been an uphill battle for Berube. “I Don’t tell me the kids are not engaged. I don’t want to hear it.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Otus , which he describes as a student performance platform—a learning management system that also spans classroom management, curriculum, and assessment. She was this person who had brought a curriculum to the entire state of Illinois. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

Learn culture, not language ” might seem like advice for the future, especially since wearable tech is increasingly capable of doing our linguistic heavy lifting. You own your successes and your failures. It requires bravery in the face of repeated embarrassment and failure. Language learning gives you power.

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Languages Language Failure English 158

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

In schools, many teachers saw making as an antidote to the test-driven culture fostered by No Child Left Behind, the federal education policy at the time. Making does not have a prescribed curriculum. It’s not on youth, education or even culture. Failure only happens when you quit. That should be disturbing.”

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Fairness Failure Testing Culture 163

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Two and a half million laptops later, some critics point out the project’s failures with its Western-centric approach and “technologically utopian” vision that hailed technology as the answer to difficult social problems. Another factor that also often gets lost amidst the focus on devices is the cultural relevance of the content.

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Educational Technologies Technology Mobile Devices Education 166

Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

However, this is not a failure to communicate properly as shown by the experiment. Communication styles can stereotypically differ between culture groups, genders, and generationally. These failures to communicate often lead to intergroup misunderstanding, strife, and even mistreatment in severe cases.

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Communication Failure Culture Participation 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

I went to Texas to attend SXSW EDU and talk with potential partner schools about Project Wayfinder , the social-emotional learning curriculum company I run. We all understood the consequences of failure and how each of us could contribute to our organization’s success. Our employees are adults. Remember those days?)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more. Teams score one point per correct answer.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For many teachers, the last four years have been a relentless cycle of adapting to new learning models, navigating new curriculum mandates, supporting students mental health and adjusting to heightened accountability measures.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. What Does This Mean for Today’s Students?

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Art Education Multidisciplinary Students 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more. Teams score one point per correct answer.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

The summertime “call to adventure” in Santa Fe Public Schools began when Peter McWain, director of curriculum and instruction, roamed the halls this spring in a pirate costume, challenging eighth graders to embark on a new summer math quest.

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Math Learning Schools Failure 217

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

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. How do you bounce back from a failure and don't get less confident or you don't feel that you can't move on from that? Sports is a huge thing.

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Skills Failure Writing Culture 162

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

She thinks that the disconnect exists because in the past, there were ways to “slowly move an institution forward, or a curriculum, a program, a course.” You cultivate a culture of folks that are really hesitant to fail, and to some extent failure is therefore a scary thing.”

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Failure Culture Online Learning Curriculum 109

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Ninth grade students in an interdisciplinary Global Science Perspectives class were asked to explore the themes of the course and find correlations between culture and science. A particular group of students had rampant cluelessness, underachievement, and a toxic group culture.

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Grades Failure Ethics Interdisciplinary 163

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Dr. Don Murphy, Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum, Instruction and Technology at Hauppauge Public Schools, which serves almost 4,000 students, says his district faced the same struggles as many others. Connect with Teq to make online PD part of your school’s culture.

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Learning Culture Failure Disabilities 162

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Rather, it’s a problem of culture and consistency. “A A big one is culture. We teach our girls to be perfect, and this actually generates a mindset where there’s a lot of fear around failure. That failure and rejection are powerful tools to obtaining success, greatness, and joy. Let's focus on the girls, for a second.

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Edsurge

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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Failure Blended Learning Critical Thinking Middle School 148

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This reflective practice enhances self-awareness and encourages a growth mindset, where students view challenges and failures as opportunities for improvement. Integrate e-portfolios with Curriculum: E-portfolios should be seamlessly integrated into the curriculum, aligning with learning goals and outcomes.

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Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

An amalgam of service-learning, project-based, inquiry-driven, problem-based, place-based, and culture-based learning, the program aims to boost the independence of the individual learner. With each student following a self-designed curriculum plan, there’s a palpable sense of ownership in the learning that takes place.

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Gamification Learning Learning Disabilities Students 133

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

Some of your colleagues think having students read in this tablet format means they’re integrating technology into their curriculum. Technology tools populate like bacteria in a culture. Your school passed iPads out to all classes. Truth, that will never happen. Which of these nine mistakes do you make?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

The students rose to the challenge and quite rapidly went well beyond my knowledge level, the requirements of the rubric and even the course curriculum. The classroom culture I had built prior to this unit provided the stepping stones they (and I) needed to embrace personalized learning and soar in this curriculum.

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Motivation Failure Students Knowledge 120

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

His knowledge of and interest in both the EdTech world and the importance of a STEM education highlight the importance of inquiry-based education, DIY cultures and technology for enhanced learning as crucial 21st century activities. He graduated from Suffolk University with a Bachelor’s degree in Print Journalism.

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Education STEM Failure Participation 153

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2017

Once we break free from the constraints of the traditional school clock, we can then turn our attention to the second variable necessary for a culture of personalized learning: the teacher. For that student and so many others, our ability to leverage finite resources may be the difference between success and failure. See their face.

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Learning Coaching English Failure 137

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Create a Culture That Normalizes Mistakes “When you create a classroom that’s focused on the rewards, the gold stars, the grades, kids are just trying to look good and get the good grade,” David-Lang says. You want to create the kind of culture where formative assessments are not intimidating. It’s on the spot, right there.

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 125

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

The district’s proximity to big technology companies at the heart of Silicon Valley also seemed like a cultural fit for this kind of futuristic learning. Students work through the TTO curriculum at their own speed via 90 minute digital math lessons. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure?

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 147

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This reflective practice enhances self-awareness and encourages a growth mindset, where students view challenges and failures as opportunities for improvement. Integrate e-portfolios with Curriculum: E-portfolios should be seamlessly integrated into the curriculum, aligning with learning goals and outcomes.

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Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 98

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

He shared with me that he taught earth science, that there was a mandatory segment of the curriculum on rock identification that was a significant component of the state exam, and that every year students were less than enthused about the unit (to be charitable).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

CS teaches the student how to present that failure or success of that operation to the user via a GUI, and how the GUI should look and what the next outcome should be of the interactions between the user, the software and the computing device. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Informing students about industry trends and showing how current practices are incorporated into the curriculum gets them excited and eager to learn. However, those that have focused on supporting new and novice teachers through high-quality curriculum and content-based professional learning are positioned to thrive.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Tie-ins: Besides obvious connections to language and literacy, this is great to generate a conversation about symbols, idiomatic expressions, geography, science, culture, and more. Teams score one point per correct answer.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

And what BCPS itself learned along the way was that to be truly helpful to other educators, sharing out that both the triumphs and the failures must be continual, authentic and transparent. And that courage to let different parties share their accounts, both the struggles and successes, has been key to BCPS’s sharing culture.

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Communication Coaching Learning Elementary School 125

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Or, in an Italian Studies class, students could create an open access eBook that teaches younger students about the Italian language and culture (see “ Empowering College Students to be OER Creators and Curators ”). Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). link] Canales, A.

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