Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Since One Stone is so different from the typical high school experience, our culture is a crucial part of how we define ourselves. Our culture is what allows us to work together, grow friendships and feel safe sharing our individuality and ideas. That’s where the culture club’s focus on vulnerability comes into play.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2021

You might feel that way about Brilliant –a site that helps users learn not through lecture videos, but through hands-on, interactive learning. Struggle is part of Brilliant’s instructional strategy, because the path to learning STEM isn’t necessarily 100 percent easy. Effective learning: 1. Is active 4.

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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.” These little fs are learning moments. They included… Collaborate.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

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. How can we develop a better school culture and make education a positive experience for all of our students? But what if… What if they loved learning?

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

I believe this resistance has more to do with fear than a reluctance to continue learning and evolving in their practice. Most teachers enter this profession because they genuinely love to learn; however, many of us get into the classroom and feel isolated in our work. Failure is part of learning. That’s okay.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this week, LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based nonprofit that promotes personalized learning, culturally relevant teaching and innovation, convened hundreds of Chicago teachers for its sixth annual summit. So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

If playing games is part of our culture, even part of our identities, then it stands to reason that students can be highly motivated by game-based learning opportunities. I was able to turn my online lessons into an adventure with a storyline, obstacles, and learning challenges. So what if we make classrooms the game?

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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. Makerspace PBL is all about culture,” he said. “Do Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” The best part?

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

While that resolution was a complete failure (I still have unread books on my shelf), it reignited my love of reading. Students love to learn about various species of animals like sharks, reptiles, and birds and select which species survives. Each year, I document my #BritReads reading journey on my social media channels.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This use of AI at school will impact how students learn and use their creativity as innovation, which will be increasingly necessary in the future as even higher-order thinking skills become standard. Failure and criticism can lead to students abandoning their own ideas and relying too heavily on AI to be their brains, so to speak.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2019

Schools need to acknowledge that there are a variety of old mental models of learning and traditional schooling that parents bring to the table. Some parents remember their success, but others remember the negative adults and failure from their school career. Acknowledge that old mental models exist.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

But to drive this transformation, CIOs must challenge the status quo and must be comfortable with failure, Shears said. You may not always be liked, but you have to build a culture where you can lean in and trust one another to take on that digital transformation. In pursuit of transformation, CIOs must be comfortable with failure.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Consider how these changes can impact your daily work and influence outcomes for the teachers and learners you serve: Reframe your understanding of personalized learning. Consider: What does your district qualify as successful personalized learning now? Develop secure, anonymous lines of communication for feedback.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development. When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments?

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

In this conversation, I shared that I was frustrated about our staff culture and morale. I also had teachers who built relationships with us as students, held us to high expectations, and built a joy for learning. I am learning from this experience that its important to have balance. As school leaders, we go through this.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

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. The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. We create better learners.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

My visit reinforced my belief that every student and educator has the right to learn and teach in an environment that is safe, supportive, and free from any threat of violence. To help schools create these cultures, CISA partnered with the U.S. School safety is not just the job of school administrators or school resource officers.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

Of all the classroom subjects technology is poised to change, perhaps none stoke the imagination quite like language learning. I also teach remotely and write content for an app-based English language-learning product. Language learning is good for your brain. Language learning gives you power. This is language learning!

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

For a conference named after “blended learning,” many attendees were surprised to learn that they did not agree on what the term meant. I was talking to a colleague who was using blended and personalized learning the same way,” says Dance. “I The sessions are long because you’re supposed to go deep.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It can facilitate immersive learning environments , allowing educators to craft virtual classrooms or historical settings so that students engage in interactive and captivating lessons. Experiential learning is enhanced , offering a safe platform for hands-on activities like science experiments. I learned early to be open to change.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Learning from adversity: Resilience through setbacks “Each setback has to be a learning lesson,” McNay told me. 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.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2019

To prepare for this reality, there are a growing number of learn-to-code organizations exposing students as young as Kindergarten to computer science education. The real skill that guarantees you a job in the technological world is knowing how to learn these skills. Make no mistake, I am still all about learning to code.

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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. Improving existing processes and creating new ones with validated learning to guide you.” Improving existing processes and creating new ones with validated learning to guide you. Great point.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In addition to the usual suspects—more augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps—a lot of people believe this will be the year that social emotional learning (SEL) and interoperability become part of the mainstream. Dr. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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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

AUGUST 10, 2021

Courtesy of Santa Fe Public Schools Everywhere you look, it seems, people are talking about “learning loss,” or how much students haven’t learned during the tumult of the past two years. It’s not about memorizing everything you should have learned, it’s about moving you forward so you pick things up along the way.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. Both struggle to pay attention regardless of how innovative and engaging are the lesson plans.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As a result, I’ve come up with fun ways to support learning while students power through the last few days of school. At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Working in tech and media for the past 20 years, I’ve seen some of these changes firsthand, and one thing has proven consistently true: Engagement is critical when learning new information and mastering new skills. If we’re going to make school relevant to today’s students, we must learn to leverage play in new ways.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

Through their work, Murphy and his team discovered that online learning solved many of their PD challenges, and allowed them to quickly build capacity for remote learning. We learned about teacher pain points and what PD would look like if they could be the architects of their own learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. My goal was to change the climate and culture in my classroom to help students feel more comfortable with trying, failing, and, most importantly, improving.

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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

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Promoting a culture of security awareness can transform the way districts handle these cyberthreats. Students and educators alike can learn how to quickly spot and report threats, how to maintain strong password management, as well as how to better protect themselves in an online digital environment.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

My proactive nature, my work as a peer observer and my facilitation of a professional learning community at our school is part of what opened up the opportunity to move into an administrator role. 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.

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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. My cofounder Pete Helfers and I would frequently meet in our classrooms talking about how we could improve learning for our students, and what our ideal classroom would be.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Perhaps the most important consideration to be factored into a personalized learning plan is the amplification of student voice. Put your students in the driver’s seat: When students drive learning, they can do much more than we may realize. Trusting her students to direct their own learning proved a valuable lesson for her and them.

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