Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes. The algorithm worked.

Exams 174

Exams English Math Instructors 174

Edsurge

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.

Failure 166

Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 166

Edsurge

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. The picture at the top of this article is a 1997 band photo of my husband who is now a high school English teacher.

Teachers 218

Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218

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. 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.

Education 185

Education Failure Beliefs English 185

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. With a library of more than 80,000 culturally relevant, curriculum-aligned audiobooks, our Audiobook Solution has all the books students need to read as well as the ones they will want to read for fun.

Reading 168

Reading Failure Motivation Study 168

Edsurge

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.

Learning 162

Learning Culture Failure Disabilities 162

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

I think that writing English might seem mundane compared with writing a iPhone app, but it really gives you a leg up on people who have just the technical skills. 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.

Skills 162

Skills Failure Writing Culture 162

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Once I was in my placement school, the families of my Black, Latino, and white Middle Eastern students, a majority of whom spoke a language other than English at home , deferred to me in a way that felt undeserved, almost as if I was perceived to be a savior that could parachute in and fix all their child’s problems.

Teaching 168

Teaching Culture Failure Fairness 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. I asked my English language learners to create films. Did we have failures? And I realized I’m the one who is going to teach them these skills. Absolutely.

Learning 194

Learning Gamification History Learning Outcomes 194

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2017

His teacher noted he had taken 9th grade English three times, failing each of the previous semesters. Three weeks later, Jimmy would demonstrate mastery of all content standards and successfully pass 9th grade English. Now, let’s flashback to the present. If the answer to both is a yes, then go forth and empower your teachers.

Learning 137

Learning Coaching English Failure 137

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

Somehow you have to create a narrative over time that erodes citizens’ support for public schools and counters their incredible historical legacies of college and career preparation, citizenship development, cultural socialization, economic opportunity creation, and facilitation of intergenerational income mobility. .

Failure 89

Failure Education English STEM 89

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

As a Hispanic and former English language learner, my path to success was not easy. Additionally, low-income, first-generation, and English language and adult learners lack the financial resources to attend college and often believe that college is not for them, despite community colleges’ unrestricted open-door policies.

English 141

English Achievement Counselling Secondary Education 141

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While growth is happening across the district, certain groups of students, including English Language Learners and low-income students, are experiencing less success than others. Even for students with the most basic English skills, she feels “i-Ready is effective.

Blended Learning 147

Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 147

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

One of the major challenges international students faces is adapting to a new educational system and culture while striving to integrate seamlessly into their new environment. While platforms like the internet and American media provide some understanding of American culture, nuances are often missed. The United States (U.S.)

Feedback 92

Feedback Culture Learning Students 92

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Faculty Focus

APRIL 13, 2025

One of the major challenges international students faces is adapting to a new educational system and culture while striving to integrate seamlessly into their new environment. While platforms like the internet and American media provide some understanding of American culture, nuances are often missed. The United States (U.S.)

Feedback 83

Feedback Culture Learning Students 83

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Nate combats this by consciously working to build — and maintain — a culture of respect in his classroom. I was a pretty good student but was not prepared for the test and had an immense fear of failure. Students who regularly do poorly on tests do not want to feel that failure.

Math 112

Math Testing Learning Failure 112

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Use Cultural References: Explain scientific concepts using elements from popular shows, books, or celebrities that students relate to. Real School Example At K12 Schools , a Grade 6 English teacher introduced a Book Trailer project.

Schools 52

Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

A culminating experience in AP English asked us to write a paper about any author. I'm sure the reasons for that decision are many, but we have a cultural and systemic problem around a failure of listening in a way that would get us to truth, that would get us to facts that would lead to an engagement with science and more informed decisions.

Art 207

Art Science Reading Failure 207

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2017

And while Google vastly improved its scanning technology as the project went along, it wasn’t ultimately able to resolve a persistent cultural challenge: how to balance copyright and fair use and keep everybody—authors, publishers, scholars, librarians—satisfied. That work still lies ahead.

Fairness 167

Fairness History English Internet 167

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

In fact, whatever you’re already reading in English, science or history may showcase incredible acts of resilience. His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Discuss how despite repeated failures, all heroes complete their journey. or Bessie Coleman.

Failure 142

Failure Motivation History Learning 142

EAB

MAY 9, 2023

Marcus points to deficiencies in the culture and processes at many two-year schools that make it harder than it has to be for students to earn their associate degree or transfer to a four-year institution. So it's become almost a pop culture punchline how long it takes to finish these presumably short term credentials. music] 0:00:51.0

Culture 84

Culture Questions High School High School 84

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2023

For one teacher of AP Chinese Language and Culture, that morning changed from confusing to horrifying when a group of white supremacists infiltrated the virtual class, inundating the students and teachers with racist slurs, mocking noises and violent screen images. This stoked existing anti-Asian sentiment throughout the U.S.,

Education 162

Education Culture History English 162