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

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. Seeing setbacks as opportunities for growth and improvement embodies the essential spirit of a world-class competitor–it lies at the heart of every Olympian.

Education 305

Education Coaching Failure Fairness 305

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. The best way to solicit feedback and opinions is being willing to ask questions. Effective educational leaders have a lot to accomplish.

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Failure Feedback Culture Skills 259

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Universities need to set aside time, create processes and, perhaps most importantly, build a culture that allows innovation to flourish. At least, from the Cultural Studies perspective.” At least, from the Cultural Studies perspective. Asking them to take risks and explore the possibilities of (perceived) failure.”

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Culture Failure Feedback Study 120

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. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. But failure is the whole point of the exercise.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

These questions swirled around my head like leaves blowing in the wind. One example of “best” practice is the widespread popularity of SLANT—Sit Up, Listen, Ask Questions, Nod, and Track the Speaker. Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. What was I negotiating?

Culture 189

Culture Failure Beliefs Students 189

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

One of the obligatory questions in the interview process is What will you do if you disagree with the Governor? I think that there are some big questions that we have to ask as a state after the Governor’s school funding veto. Midwest educators are doubly nice, both because of the culture of where we live and because of our profession.

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Questions Schools Fairness Failure 111

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. And then it becomes a question of, ‘Is that what a good parent does?’ ‘Do

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Failure Assignments Communication Middle School 210

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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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Sometimes we had an agenda and sometimes it was a virtual open office for teachers to show up and ask questions. In other words, the question is not “How do we get teachers to participate in professional development?” Go beyond “checking-in” to building a culture of relational trust. I listened to what teachers said they wanted.

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Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Pass out the questions (organized by categories) that will be part of the Team Challenge. Ask a question within that category. Team Challenge Time required: 1.5

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

Edsurge

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. Last year, Mini was able to respond within 45 seconds to 96 percent of questions that families texted her.

Failure 174

Failure Communication Study Change Management 174

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Take half of one class to let students organize their team, review questions, strategize, and prepare for the Challenge, which will take all of the next class. Pass out the questions (organized by categories) that will be part of the Team Challenge. Ask a question within that category. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

As teachers, we see it every day: Some students are less likely to raise their hand when they have a question or an answer to provide. Some students process more quickly than others, and those who answer questions more slowly may not always have the time needed to form a response. Technology has helped me answer those questions.

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Discussions Failure Textbooks Lecturing 168

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

It Starts in the Community I grew up in northeast Denver — a place rich in Black history and culture where the Denver Public Schools (DPS) Board of Education enacted the Black Excellence Resolution. Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Edsurge

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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Failure Art Essay Math 166

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

With more and more students learning remotely, the #DLNchat community set out last week to answer the question: How can universities create meaningful community for online students? Q2: For our new-trad students who are often first gen, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust.

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Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 135

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2017

At the event, questions about how schools approach innovation can be heard on every stage and in every hallway: How do institutions think about innovation? Anyone who attends this event likely knows that these sorts of questions don’t stop when conference hours wind down, and often make their way into local bars and eateries.

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Culture Failure Change Management Art 153

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. That's a great question.

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Failure Science Math Culture 127

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. Many years back, I heard Alfie Kohn, an.

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Grades Failure Ethics Interdisciplinary 163

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

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. Experts question whether improving preparation programs is just a partial solution, since some teachers might not be going through them at all.

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Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 200

Edsurge

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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Failure Culture Online Learning Curriculum 109

Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2019

But things have changed dramatically over the last decade, as questions and concerns over privacy have emerged front and center in the public consciousness. 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.”

Education 165

Education Failure Culture Internet 165

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Choose a System that Checks All Students Asking your class if they have any questions, or even doing a “thumbs up, thumbs down” check on understanding is highly unlikely to help you determine which students need help. Which leads us to the next condition: The question itself has to be a good one.

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 125

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

I had just transitioned back into the classroom at Latin School of Chicago from a job in publishing and this was not the kind of question that I had prepared myself to answer. Yet there were still so many questions to answer. This is not a new idea, but logistically and culturally it still raised challenges and stirred reactions.

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Grades Essay Language Languages 129

Edsurge

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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Teaching Culture Failure Fairness 168

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. . Here in Iowa?

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Failure Education English STEM 89

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Collaborative learning thrives in the metaverse , fostering teamwork and cross-cultural communication as students from different locations collaborate on projects. Did we have failures? I placed an image with a question on the board, and all the students responded either with sticky notes or text. Absolutely.

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Learning Gamification History Learning Outcomes 194

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

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. Skidmore explains, “For some people, it’s a question of how much time they want to put in their teaching. Failure to do this perpetuates the structural, social, and economic barriers that higher education is (supposedly) called to eradicate.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 131

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

I did my best to quash my initial reaction of dismay that students lacked more opportunities for autonomy in his classroom and instead asked some follow-up questions. Numerous questions and concerns flashed through my mind as we interacted, few of which could be addressed in that venue at that time.

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Failure Exams Students Culture 0

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In Mitchell’s keynote at OpenEd, she asked the audience of educators, librarians and other open education enthusiasts to think about their “tolerance for failure” in education. Then what has followed for me, because I’ve been always interested in the ethical questions, is: where do we stop and why do we stop there?

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Textbooks Ethics Failure Attention 142

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

For example, when MIT changed its freshman physics class from a model of hundreds of students listening passively to lectures in an auditorium to a model of smaller, interactive classes that emphasized hands-on, collaborative learning, it found that attendance increased and that the failure rate dropped more than 50 percent. Related Posts.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2018

As a culture, we worry a lot about student learning. As Kim worked with school leaders, he realized that what typically drives success or failure of efforts to improve school is not the educational approach but instead “the culture of our schools, organizational structures and methods of communication and decision making.”

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Failure Writing Culture Communication 141

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

To foster a culture of growth mindset, I combined both explicit and implicit teaching through literature, science and history—and list technologies that I’ve used to push growth mindset even further. A question to kick-off "Mindset Monday." Wondering why Jennifer chose Aurasma?

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Science Failure Teachers History 113

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