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

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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

While that resolution was a complete failure (I still have unread books on my shelf), it reignited my love of reading. So, let’s take a look at what students are reading in school libraries and classrooms across the country. My #BritReads favorite for upper elementary school is a throwback to my childhood.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. But now a faculty member may have to prioritize their time, effort, and energy back with their family a little bit because they're home with them, or they were concerned about child care or virtual schooling with kids.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments? This approach reduces the fear of failure and minimizes the need for cheating.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

Written by Jen Easterly, Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Last month marks six years since 17 students and faculty senselessly lost their lives and 17 others were injured when a mass murderer entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and started shooting.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with another leader who was listening to some of my frustrations about how the school year was going. In this conversation, I shared that I was frustrated about our staff culture and morale. Amid consolidation and changes to our school structure, we experienced multiple staff leaving.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Too often, teachers are rapidly elevated from the classroom to school leadership positions, whether to fill an unexpected vacancy, act as an interim administrator or to take on a permanent leadership role. At the time, I was pregnant with my first child and my husband was in law school. Eating balanced meals at work felt impossible.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key points: What priorities will be a focal point in the new school year? Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. . This year at St.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This approach fosters a culture where students equate success with immediate correctness rather than with the process of learning. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The first thing I noticed when we returned to school after remote learning was that my conversations with teachers got real deep real fast. Another teacher, Maria, confessed she was angry and bitter by the end of last school year. We must make schools human again. But we are not just educators, of course. We are human too.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2024

"It would be amazing if the boys were able to find their voices and develop confidence before they go into high school," my supervisor remarked during a meaningful conversation about Black boys in our school. Culturally relevant approaches are essential in supporting their emotional development and fostering a sense of belonging.

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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.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The only wrinkle I see in the land of interoperability is that the conversation is still too complicated, and school leaders still don’t have a go-to resource that helps them translate the techno-babble of open data standards into plain English. School-to-home communications has evolved through three phases. Dr. Becky A.

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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. 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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

With public and private schools providing a broad attack surface area for exploitation, they often find themselves repeatedly targeted by malicious hackers looking for financial gain or to steal the sensitive information of students and teachers. It’s no surprise that ransomware has hit the education sector hard.

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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. Effective educational leaders have a lot to accomplish.

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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

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. Now, a new report suggests that teacher preparation programs underemphasize math instruction at the elementary school level. That has consequences.

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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. But for all the conversations in the news and on social media, one place we’re not seeing it as much is in schools themselves.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

For better or worse, another school year is winding down. For school leaders who have been hoping to kick off a new, student-centered approach to teaching, that means you have to act fast. High School Principal Joan Mosley in Brooklyn recently accepted this challenge. Publicly commit to doing something you don’t know how to do.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Dr. Dallas Dance, Superintendent of Baltimore County Public Schools, was among the first to raise this during a session at the 6th Annual Blended Learning Conference , held last weekend in Rhode Island. “I For me, the mission and vision of the school is where I always start,” explains Winkfield. “We

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

As I searched for the “why” behind my contradictions, I thought about research and best practices and found a disconnect between the standards expected of “urban” schools—code for schools that serve predominantly Black and Brown students—and schools that are considered “elite” and exemplar. What Standard? Whose Standard?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Demographics: Hillsboro High School is part of the Hillsboro Independent School District in Hillsboro, Texas. 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. Lessons learned: Confidence affects effort.

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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. And no one ever said starting high school was easy. How do you mean?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Boise’s One Stone doesn’t resemble your typical high school—here you won’t find classrooms, teachers or even letter grades. Since One Stone is so different from the typical high school experience, our culture is a crucial part of how we define ourselves. That’s where the culture club’s focus on vulnerability comes into play.

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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. Our vision was to create a platform giving students, teachers, school leaders, and families centralized tools and actionable insights into the learning of students. Failure also motivates me. SIIA CODiE awards.

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Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

However, this is not a failure to communicate properly as shown by the experiment. Communication styles can stereotypically differ between culture groups, genders, and generationally. These failures to communicate often lead to intergroup misunderstanding, strife, and even mistreatment in severe cases.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

As Director of Growth at Zaya, Parida is learning how developing edtech for low-income India slums is quite different than working with American schools. Never mind the shortage of internet bandwidth and devices; some schools lack even basic school supplies and reliable electricity. In India, the rate is 40 percent.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In New Tech Network schools, grades are weighted according to five categories. At my New Tech high school in Columbus, Indiana , content accounts for 60% of a grade and the other categories (written and oral communication, collaboration, and agency) each garner 10%. Even with them, the tests were still really hard.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

“School is a game,” says Barry Fishman, University of Michigan professor of education and information. GradeCraft is currently in a pilot phase that started during the 2011-2012 school year. More than 40 faculty members from eight higher education institutions and four K-12 schools are using the LMS. Gameful Design.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

As an anthropologist and learning scientist who has studied many edtech movements over the years, I recognize a familiar pattern of technology-fueled optimism being squashed by entrenched social and cultural structures. He found that only the school serving elite students embraced the more creative and personally empowering use of technology.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2018

Learn culture, not language ” might seem like advice for the future, especially since wearable tech is increasingly capable of doing our linguistic heavy lifting. You own your successes and your failures. It requires bravery in the face of repeated embarrassment and failure. Language learning gives you power.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

And one way to do this at the scale that our students and our country need is to drive change across multiple schools, leveraging the power of a network. What gets squeezed out is time, especially, the planning time and capacity to think through how the university can help students better engage in—and succeed at—school.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2017

In addition to revamping teaching practice, schools today are feeling increased pressure to transform their programs to keep pace with a changing society. For educators, the opportunity to contribute to both the larger school community and hone their practice in a personal way made the Keala`ula experience meaningful and empowering.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

We know that dips in student engagement have dramatic effects on the metrics we care about: academic performance, social emotional learning (SEL), school climate, and attendance. If we’re going to make school relevant to today’s students, we must learn to leverage play in new ways. This carries over into daily life in other ways, too.

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