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AUGUST 27, 2024

The workforce has undergone significant changes, and today’s jobs require advanced skills and specialized training, particularly in STEM fields. Thus, preparing the next generation of STEM-literate citizens has never been more critical. The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

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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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Skills Failure Writing Culture 162

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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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Math Learning Schools Failure 217

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JULY 14, 2016

Computer Science (CS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are popping up all over. The media tells us there are STEM career opportunities for students in abundance. Industry debates about the STEM jobs pipeline. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial.

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Science STEM Failure Middle School 110

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NOVEMBER 19, 2024

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Activities Learning Art Attention 172

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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. Let's focus on the girls, for a second.

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DECEMBER 15, 2021

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. That leaves just your typing.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This reflective practice enhances self-awareness and encourages a growth mindset, where students view challenges and failures as opportunities for improvement. In STEM courses, e-portfolios can also be aligned with the college learning outcomes (CLOs) and assigned as a project.

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Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

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. .

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Failure Education English STEM 89

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OCTOBER 23, 2019

This month, the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle opened “ Minecraft: The Exhibition.” Three computer stations give MoPOP guests the opportunity to try activities related to chemistry (Element Scavenger Hunt), coding (Code Builder) and culture (Ng? Learning about Maori culture. You can fail so much.”

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Culture Failure STEM Activities 110

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DECEMBER 4, 2020

In English courses, making curricula and instruction more culturally relevant to diverse students is a relatively “straightforward” task, Rodriguez says, whereas in math, “the traditional lecture-based approach where students practice problems and take tests and sit in lectures is the standard.

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Exams English Math Instructors 174

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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. Those names are just a few in the pool of “famous failures”—and in this case, the “failure” part is more important than the “famous” part.

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Science Failure Teachers History 113

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.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

A couple of months ago I keynoted a STEM conference in Syracuse, New York. Our teachers deserve specific, concrete instructional (re)design strategies and techniques; short-cycle feedback loops; ongoing conversation with teaching peers about successes and failures; and long-term, follow-up activities that ensure implementation success.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This reflective practice enhances self-awareness and encourages a growth mindset, where students view challenges and failures as opportunities for improvement. In STEM courses, e-portfolios can also be aligned with the college learning outcomes (CLO’s) and assigned as a project.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 98

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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

To build a classroom culture where risk-taking is encouraged for students, a teacher also needs to be willing to try new things. Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. Many of my students don’t have this mindset. This viewpoint can be debilitating for a learner.

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MARCH 2, 2017

And what BCPS itself learned along the way was that to be truly helpful to other educators, sharing out that both the triumphs and the failures must be continual, authentic and transparent. And that courage to let different parties share their accounts, both the struggles and successes, has been key to BCPS’s sharing culture.

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Communication Coaching Learning Elementary School 125

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

CS teaches the student how to present that failure or success of that operation to the user via a GUI, and how the GUI should look and what the next outcome should be of the interactions between the user, the software and the computing device. Just erecting structures does not solve a problem such as this. Resilience.

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Science Learning Students Critical Thinking 123

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AUGUST 4, 2023

Anxiety stemming from concerns over becoming outdated or replaced , fears over potential misuse of data and a sense of overwhelm at the complexity of new technologies fuel resistance and can create psychological barriers to acceptance. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

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Technology Education Intelligence Communication 148

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DECEMBER 11, 2020

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. That leaves just your typing.

Activities 122

Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 122

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DECEMBER 12, 2018

CS teaches the student how to present that failure or success of that operation to the user via a GUI, and how the GUI should look and what the next outcome should be of the interactions between the user, the software and the computing device. Just erecting structures does not solve a problem such as this. Resilience.

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Science Learning Students Critical Thinking 95

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FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Rivard Report that “placing an emphasis on connecting the surrounding community and supporting the student is the missing piece as the nation increasingly looks to community colleges to compensate for a broken K-12 system, skyrocketing tuition costs, and universities’ failure to meet the diverse needs of students in poverty.”

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English Achievement Counselling Secondary Education 141

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

At some point the stresses on the system will cause it to break but for now they can continue to push on the edges, knowing that our schools’ eventual failure will occur during someone else’s political cycle. 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

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NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. That leaves just your typing.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 76

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Add color by highlighting the letters, numbers, and symbols typed over the parts you’d like colored (such as the stem of a pumpkin or the bow on Christmas bells in the linked samples above). At the end of the Challenge, the team with the most points gets a prize appropriate to your school culture. That leaves just your typing.

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Activities Learning Critical Thinking Attention 76

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DECEMBER 2, 2024

Many are intimidated by their professors, see attending office hours as a failure to figure the material out on their own or simply don’t understand what their purpose is. In Vaughn’s study, students also viewed visiting office hours as a sign of weakness or a form of academic failure.

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Instructors Failure Questions Communication 194

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JUNE 18, 2018

His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Pop culture is full of examples that students will find engaging: point out protagonists in “Star Wars,” “Lord of the Rings” or “Harry Potter.” Discuss how despite repeated failures, all heroes complete their journey.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 142

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MAY 4, 2018

Sometimes teachers unintentionally set kids up for failure by making assumptions about the prior knowledge and experience they bring into the classroom like presuming that all students grow up in a home with conversation about the political climate in our country, or that they’re all born digital natives with an iPhone in hand. I felt awful.

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Technology Teaching Failure Essay 121