Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

Create a school culture where teachers know it’s okay to take risks and fail. Failure is part of learning. Leverage your students as tech support. . Students are the most underutilized tech support on a school campus. Our students are being raised with technology, so why not use their expertise to support teachers?

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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. While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 205

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. Now, projects are nothing new–students have made dioramas, tri-fold poster board displays, and egg drop challenge designs for decades.

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 294

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

I started during my time at Florida International University, as a doctoral student—and I just remained really curious about what makes work tick for so many employees, at all levels. Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. And these facets of culture all live in a similar space.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

And yet the conversations were uplifted by some powerful stories of students succeeding in ways that left the adults starstruck. Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. When it comes to our work in education, many of us are reflecting on the last 10 or 20 years.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2019

The old open house, parent conference, and PTO model leaves all parties disappointed around an essential partnership needed to support students through the growing complexities of school and life. Some parents remember their success, but others remember the negative adults and failure from their school career.

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Mental Models Failure Schools Communication 279

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

It is a rural district that serves over 2,000 students on five campuses; 77 percent of the student body qualifies for free/reduced lunch. 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.

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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. 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

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Dylan Arena, VP of Learning Science on my team, recently wrote an op-ed on the evolution of the term where he asserts that a modern understanding of personalized learning requires us to know more about our students and use carefully designed technology to accommodate a wide range of student needs from a holistic lens.

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Schools Feedback Failure Culture 288

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.

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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 17, 2022

Ultimately, I realized I was complicit in supporting educational mandates that were not beneficial to all students. Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. In this sense, culture transcends race and includes age, religion, and class, to name a few. What Standard?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

It’s a place where students are more or less in control: One Stone was designed as a student led and directed non-profit that offers an independent and tuition-free education with a mission to make students better leaders and the world a better place. That’s where the culture club’s focus on vulnerability comes into play.

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Failure Feedback Culture Students 291

Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

This school year is unique as we just opened a new building with over 450 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, consolidating three different elementary and middle campuses from different neighborhoods across New York. In this conversation, I shared that I was frustrated about our staff culture and morale.

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Failure Teachers Schools Learning 91

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. The lack of access to high-quality math instruction can impact students’ confidence and ability to learn math concepts and perpetuate deficit mindset thinking , especially within the Black community.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Student information systems and automated messages are what I consider to be the first stage in the evolution of parental engagement, or version 1.0. As we gain further insight into teacher, parent, and student communication needs, interaction between school and home will become more commonplace and more frequent. Dr. Becky A.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. As an instrumental music teacher, I am used to advocating that the arts are essential to all students even though they may not be classified as a core subject. How Did We Get Here?

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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

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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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

She was the first to model what it means to truly be there for students, during both their triumphs and their hardest moments. Set the Bar High “Set the bar high, and students will strive to reach it.” When we show students that we believe in their capabilities, they rise—not just to meet the challenge, but often to surpass it.

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Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 101

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Half of the students who walk through the doors of a college or university leave without a degree. Most of those students are bright and energetic, highly capable students—they may even be extra motivated to succeed because of the hurdles they’ve had to overcome just to get into college. But they lack resources.

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Failure Students Motivation Communication 146

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. This ensures smooth operations, uninterrupted services, and safer student data.

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Failure STEM Attention Culture 280

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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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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Gamification Learning Culture Students 153

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

She was the first to model what it means to truly be there for students, during both their triumphs and their hardest moments. Set the Bar High “Set the bar high, and students will strive to reach it.” When we show students that we believe in their capabilities, they rise—not just to meet the challenge, but often to surpass it.

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Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 95

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

If we’re going to elevate young teachers, the system owes it to them — and to their colleagues and the students they serve — to wrap them with empathy, support and comprehensive training. But there’s a difference between commanding presence with students and leading staff. I know because I’ve lived it.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the evolving landscape of online education, post pandemic, it has become increasingly essential to use technology to foster student engagement. Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes.

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Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 125

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

What “blended learning” means has certainly evolved since the Innosight Institute (now called the Clayton Christensen Institute ) introduced its definition in 2012, as “formal education program in which a student learns: at least in part through online learning, with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace.”

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Blended Learning Culture Technology Learning 93

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. One of the activities that this former teacher would do was have the students write a blog and reflect every day. I want my students to write every day. He also helps run.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 158

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Creating a trust-based classroom begins with an essential mindset: students are doing their best. When we approach teaching from this perspective, we move away from punitive measures, fear-based management, and skepticism about students honesty. Students should feel safe to experiment without fear of punishment or penalty.

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 107

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. Meanwhile, these students are paying for courses that rarely provide them with college credit.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Students these days can feel like they’re constantly trailed by a kind of digital-era paparazzi. 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.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 20, 2020

Jimmy Casas said: a system which assured [students] of success only to find out [that] meant success for those who were willing to play the game of school and who were compliant. students attended school in body but were absent in mind and in spirit. Culturize , p. Their failures are ours. Related Posts.

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Failure Students Testing Culture 93

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 166

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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Communication Failure Culture Participation 52

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. Students without opportunities to use their target languages in their own communities can use Verbling to chat with native speakers.

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Languages Language Failure English 157

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

Perhaps the most important consideration to be factored into a personalized learning plan is the amplification of student voice. Handing over the reins presents a number of challenges for both teachers and their students, but an encouraging pattern emerges as more trust and responsibility are placed upon the shoulders of young learners.

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