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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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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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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. When we were signing up people we realized we didn’t have a lot of people signing up for the cultural awareness session,” explained Karla Vigil, the Educational Strategies Specialist for the Highlander Institute.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2018

“Educational researchers very often do not have a strong motivation, having made a discovery, to take the next step and put it in a form that will diffuse.” If that happens with the Empirical Educator Project, we will consider it a failure and will not have another convening of the same type.”.

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DECEMBER 26, 2017

In 2017, reality took a massive swipe at the wobbly optimism of technology progressives. Echoing wider soul searching over technology’s polarizing role in politics and society, the education technology scene has been doing its own reckoning. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

It also helped that I was from the community I was serving, which enabled me to navigate many of the cultural nuances of working in our school. I had immense guilt as a parent and partner and overwhelming feelings of failure — and I felt isolated. Even with these strengths, my learning curve was steep.

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MARCH 17, 2022

Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. In this sense, culture transcends race and includes age, religion, and class, to name a few. We cannot in one breath condemn the prison-to-school pipeline and then create systems and structures that funnel to failure.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

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. If you’re honest, respectful, and you're persistent—if you risk failure—you’re really able to motivate each other to do amazing things.

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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. And GPS systems in smartphones and watches let families pinpoint their locations at all times.

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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. Recently, I’ve seen real-time, in-ear technology used to suggest that language learning, beyond a certain age, is somehow a waste of time.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

The Gameful Learning Lab is one of three, large-scale labs supported under a new enterprise at the university called Academic Innovation , currently made up of 66 initiatives “charged with developing a culture of innovation in learning” that can bring about “personalized, engaged and lifelong” learning experiences. Gameful Design.

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APRIL 2, 2018

But we don’t tend to talk about the ugly details–the challenges, the failures, the frustrations. Students pay the price for our failure to talk about failure. We need to shift the higher ed innovation culture to embrace vulnerability and to reward the courage to talk about why plans go awry.

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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. It’s not on youth, education or even culture. Failure” only happens when makers stop trying; otherwise, making is about iteration, experimentation and perseverance.

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MARCH 25, 2019

The trend has also followed increasing amounts of technologies in the higher-ed space—and the privacy concerns these new tools bring. But I think a lot of the success or failure of whether there is a CPO or not, will depend on institutional culture and the bent of the senior administration.”

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APRIL 18, 2018

You cultivate a culture of folks that are really hesitant to fail, and to some extent failure is therefore a scary thing.” A culture where risk isn’t necessarily rewarded, and failure is viewed negatively, makes it more challenging for the organization to try new things to adapt to “changing times,” she adds.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Go beyond “checking-in” to building a culture of relational trust. In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure. And research indicates that building trust among staff makes them more successful when it comes to implementing best practices over time.

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JANUARY 8, 2019

If they’re programming their robot to dance, they may all choose dances from around the world, but each students’ might be from a different culture. The Value of Failure In this kind of classroom, you see a lot of failure, just as you would on the playground. Take KIBO , a robot kit I developed, for example.

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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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AUGUST 10, 2021

Some standards are so foundational that failure to master them sets a student up for significant struggle later on—hence the term “gatekeeper standards.” While acceleration strategy encourages exposure to grade-level standards, it also acknowledges that not all standards are created equal.

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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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MARCH 18, 2019

“Validation is critical in using relationships to build academic success, especially for diverse students,” Costa also said, adding: “For our new traditional students who are often first generation, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. Many of our students have backgrounds with academic trauma.

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DECEMBER 31, 2017

Culture eats strategy. Building a truly innovative institution requires careful cultivation and nurturing of that type of culture. We need university-wide cultures that embrace experimentation and failure the same way we embrace experimentation in the lab.

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JUNE 18, 2018

We can’t walk away from technology use—not when it’s a mainstay of students’ daily lives and futures. But we can use the cultural relevance of games to blend their physical and virtual learning opportunities in ways that will empower students. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning. We can’t afford not to.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Providing our children, especially our most marginalized, with a strong math education can be empowering, and I’ve made it my mission to change students' mindsets from a deficit to an asset that can change their future. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow.

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JULY 18, 2017

Rather, it’s a problem of culture and consistency. “A What do you think are the biggest hurdles facing us in educating female students on how to code? 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. Why is that? Reshma Saujani.

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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. As an English language learner in southern New England, she navigated linguistic and cultural barriers to build a life that nurtured her family and sustained her Portuguese heritage.

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APRIL 8, 2025

The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. Other assessments such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam have also indicated declining math abilities.

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JULY 30, 2020

Murphy: Over my career, I've learned that taking a top-down approach to implementation without acknowledging other perspectives and inviting key stakeholders leads to failure—no matter how fantastic your initiative is. Connect with Teq to make online PD part of your school’s culture.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Yet there are eight education technology startups that currently list the firm as an investor. That sentiment about education is common—and by now even cliché—among typical Silicon Valley techie-types with a predisposition toward “disrupting” the establishment. That’s the kind of culture Danner hails from.

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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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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Mini arrived at the Office of School Culture in Michigan’s Lansing School District in December 2020. The alerts reduced course failures by 27 percent, increased class attendance by 12 percent and increased student retention. She came on board to help us assess our attendance goals and strategies several months into a global pandemic.

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JULY 13, 2019

How do we shift from a culture of calling on the student who raises her hand first? How can we shift from a “first is best” culture to one that sends the message that everyone’s voice matters—and that everyone has the potential to excel in the classroom? Some of our unsung superstars may need time to think before speaking up.

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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 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? I was in Nashville because I’d been told that I was needed by TFA and others in my echo chamber who congratulated me for making this “sacrifice.”

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MAY 16, 2018

The whole idea of student-centered, personalized learning may seem like a long and daunting task—and perhaps it is—but there is one small step that can lay the groundwork for a culture of generativity. This reframes failure as an opportunity to learn and builds a culture of being willing to try and fail.

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AUGUST 19, 2020

We all understood the consequences of failure and how each of us could contribute to our organization’s success. These long-term cultural investments went a long way towards sticking by each other when things got rough in COVID. This transparency rallied the staff; everyone felt like we were on the same team. Our employees are adults.

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