Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

When I work with teachers, it’s clear that many are resistant to the changes happening in education. However, in this time of unprecedented change in education, it is critical that teachers feel supported. Create a school culture where teachers know it’s okay to take risks and fail. Failure is part of learning.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 13, 2017

This week I have the opportunity to spend time learning at IDEO in San Francisco as part of an externship for educators. Learn from failure. She said that one of their most important values is “learn from failure.” I love this contrast between the little fs, or small failures, and the big Fs, high-stakes failures.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Embracing setbacks as vital parts of the process, rather than as failures, enables leaders to cultivate the mindset needed to lead with courage and optimism. Her experience mirrors what we see in many sectors, including education.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

And for six months and counting, the virus has exposed existing inequities in our society and, in many cases, intensified them, especially in education. Department of Education John B. about the ongoing pandemic and the immense challenges it has created for education. This year, the event was held fully online.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although I was doing interviews at that time for a piece on low morale in higher education, I didn’t have a good answer to her question. Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. McClure: How does engagement connect to a concept like workplace culture?

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

What puzzled me even more was the stark difference between K-12 education and higher education in this regard. Unfortunately, this kind of productive struggle is largely absent from K-12 education, leaving students ill-prepared with the mental resilience required to learn and adapt in college and beyond.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Combining PBL with makerspaces (also called maker education) gives educators an infinite number of projects, assignments, and activities that engage students and truly immerse them in learning. Maker education is when a person can demonstrate understanding through the creation of an artifact. Why maker education?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There will be long-term effects if the methods of teaching creativity are not adjusted, but if educators embrace AI mindfully, there will be long-term benefits. In my experience observing educators and students, I started to see a need for more moments of reflection.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

For the past few years, the annual NewSchools Venture Fund Summit has surfaced some of the resonant themes echoing in education reform: A few years ago, it featured the likes of billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and venture capitalist John Doerr. Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

Metal detectors, panic alarms, and active school shooter drills are often what come to mind when the education community first thinks of school safety. When we consider the studies showing the relationship between bullying, personal failure, and anger to school violence, we must pause and reflect on our own schools and classrooms.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

During a session at FETC 2024 , Marlon Shears, CIO of IDEA Public Schools, offered a realistic view of what CIOs across all sectors are prioritizing and how digital transformation is driving changes and investments in education. In pursuit of transformation, CIOs must be comfortable with failure. It’s not an overnight success story.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. Teachers can implement project-based learning or real-world problem-solving scenarios, which not only align with educational standards but also enhance the relevance of the content for students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

While it has undoubtedly become a buzzword in the industry, misused and misunderstood, personalized learning remains a non-negotiable goal for the future of PreK-12 education. But over the past two years, we’ve seen that learning happens in context, and that academic needs are inextricably linked to social, emotional, and cultural needs.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

Last month, I joined Education Secretary Cardona to not only remember, but also to walk in the shoes of those who lost their lives at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School building 1200. To help schools create these cultures, CISA partnered with the U.S. This is simply unacceptable, and it must stop.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

Last July, however, Parida felt an itch to tackle educational needs in her native country, India. My move to India was driven by my desire to see the impact of technology in education in the Indian context,” Parida says. Another factor that also often gets lost amidst the focus on devices is the cultural relevance of the content.

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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. This award gave me the chance to reflect on the purpose of the arts in education and provided a platform for me to explain to those who will listen why the arts are a core subject based on their own merits.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

In this conversation, I shared that I was frustrated about our staff culture and morale. The unfortunate truth is that, in addition to the unique challenges my school was facing, we are also dealing with a teacher shortage across the education sector. Its hard to find good people. My colleague was supportive and understanding.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Amid growing demands and insufficient support, remember your why often feels like a way to shift responsibility for systemic failures onto teachers. Teachers are asked to be more than educators to serve as counselors, advocates and role models all while grappling with the same grief and trauma as their students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

. • With 2019 here and 2020 in arm’s reach, there’s an ever-growing expectation that next-generation tech tools should do a better job of informing educators on which resources improve learning outcomes. Bailey, educator, author, and founder, Conscious Discipline . Dr. Becky A.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

By Friday, March 6, the conference was cancelled, my meetings were over, and I laid in bed freaking out: “This is going to change the whole trajectory of education. My aim is to help other startup and education leaders make wise decisions through this incredibly tumultuous period. How is Wayfinder going to fit in?” None of us did.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2019

Leadership skills require people to look inward and find self-confidence that will not only guide them toward successes but focus them through failures—an inevitable part of all leadership positions. Educational leadership is a career wrought with deep stress, pressure, and expectations. How K-12 leadership contributes to anxiety.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Universities need to set aside time, create processes and, perhaps most importantly, build a culture that allows innovation to flourish. Education and teaching are social technologies! At least, from the Cultural Studies perspective.” Education and teaching are social technologies! Great point.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

These cyberattacks create potentially dangerous effects on the education sector via lost instructional time and the cost to recover from the incident. These cyberattacks create potentially dangerous effects on the education sector via lost instructional time and the cost to recover from the incident.

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

Brian Kelly, director of the cybersecurity program at Educause, a higher education and technology nonprofit, says the trend has followed other business sectors, and that higher ed has seen an uptick in the number of CPOs over the last two years in particular. There was some resistance,” Sutherland remembers.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2024

Engaging Black boys effectively in conversations about emotional wellness requires a deep understanding of their unique experiences and cultural backgrounds. Culturally relevant approaches are essential in supporting their emotional development and fostering a sense of belonging. How did you overcome it?”

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Vernier Software & Technology recently announced science educator Tyson Vrbas of Manhattan Catholic Schools in Manhattan, Kansas as the 2021 Engineering Award winner. Engineering educator Nels Lawrence of Kaukauna High School in Kaukauna, Wisconsin was also recognized with an honorable mention in this year’s award.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I was participating in a DEI Cohort sponsored by The Education Equity Center of St. One of the presenters, Dr. Ian Buchanan , shared this quote by Howard Fuller: “As educators of black, brown, and poor children—especially those of us who believe in justice—we must be able to adeptly negotiate moral contradictions.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Michele Williams-George, an education consultant and researcher, claimed there were 25 words people inaccurately used interchangeably with the term, such as differentiated instruction and flipped classroom. Her goal is to reach the students that struggle the most—their success or failure is her evidence of the school model’s efficacy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I was a green educator catapulted into a leadership role. I quickly realized that holding space where educators can gather and share in a grade level team meeting isn’t the same as building a strategic professional development scope and sequence. A talented teacher is often a natural leader. I know because I’ve lived it.

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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. Education used to be thought of as the 8-2 in a child’s day with maybe an hour or so of homework.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Yet there are eight education technology startups that currently list the firm as an investor. million fund that Danner and a partner (who he declined to name) launched in 2019, with their own money, to make angel investments in education companies. In 2018, he focused on education, backing nine such startups.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

And Chris himself was named one of the National School Boards Association's 2016 20 to Watch educators. Failure also motivates me. In my classroom, I try to build a culture of honesty, respect, and persistence. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. SIIA CODiE awards. So what’s next for Otus?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent. That’s a contradiction, considering that professors stress a culture of sharing in their research, says Derek Bruff, director for the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt University. “We But there’s no standards.” “It

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

So, I’m an ed-tech enthusiast and a classroom teacher, enthralled by how online learning is reshaping education, but also apt to turn down a tablet when a piece of chalk will do. Learn culture, not language ” might seem like advice for the future, especially since wearable tech is increasingly capable of doing our linguistic heavy lifting.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

“School is a game,” says Barry Fishman, University of Michigan professor of education and information. But unlike Monopoly or Taboo, Fishman believes the plays and strategies in higher education courses are often poorly designed. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail. Gameful Design.

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