Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

We often discuss the negative impact of high teacher turnover on students, but when people leave a school community, everyone feels it. No, this is about how challenging it is to deal with the shame of experiencing resignations and how I am learning to cope with moments of failure in leadership. As school leaders, we go through this.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

David Schuler, Superintendent of (IL) Township High School District 214, and Dr. Chris Gaines, superintendent of Mehlville (MO) School District, along with host Ann McMullan, project director of the CoSN Empowered Superintendents Program, discussed the goals of the program.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

They will have some amazing successes–and some failures–as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. In the coming year, early adopters will continue to play with new AI tools to see how they can be used in education.

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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 wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. If I couldnt figure something out on my own, I had resources at my disposal: office hours, teaching assistants, or discussions with peers.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. Consider equitable systems for calling on students to participate in discussions. In my own classroom, I use fishbowl strategies to encourage discussions and debates. That did not work for me at all. I finally asked myself what does work.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Reduces Fear of Failure When students receive feedback that focuses on the process rather than just the end result, they are less likely to fear failure. This one-on-one time can be used to review formative assessment data, discuss student progress, or provide feedback on works in progress (e.g.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority. Science and social studies classes could integrate combinations of text, virtual reality, group discussion, and interdisciplinary projects that extend beyond what an individual teacher could sustainably plan for each day.”.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They will have some amazing successes—and some failures—as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. In the coming year, early adopters will continue to play with new AI tools to see how they can be used in education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

And if we’re discussing transformations in geometry, I urge them to consider the movements of their favorite football players across the field. As each of us eventually learns, life isn’t as simple as right or wrong, failure or success. These are all examples of ways I help all students get a practical grasp of what math truly is.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

What the industry needs is a place where interoperability can be discussed and advocated without complicated jargon and a standards bias—maybe a “Church of Interoperability” that’s open to all. They see the bigger picture and nicely bridge the tech and curriculum sides of the discussion. Chakrapani Appalabattula, CEO, Bloomz. •

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. Think of this like an infusion to help teachers through the hard parts. The 5-Minute MicroPD.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

We talked about what happened and tied what they already knew about celestial occurrences into the discussion. Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.). Making these connections show students that science—and particularly space science—truly impacts their daily lives.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. Consider equitable systems for calling on students to participate in discussions. In my own classroom, I use fishbowl strategies to encourage discussions and debates. That did not work for me at all. I finally asked myself what does work.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Additionally, teachers can integrate discussions on the value of learning and integrity into the curriculum, using tools like student reflections and peer feedback to reinforce these values. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Not to mention their further education when the time comes to write dissertations and other research papers: Afraid of poor grades and stipend loss, ESL students get tempted to plagiarize from others or use writing services from third parties to prevent failures and get the desired diploma.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Overcoming the Fear of Failure Ironically, one of the biggest hurdles in utilizing design thinking is something that is integral to the process: accepting failure. doing things instead of simply discussing them—are key facets of the process. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2024

However, these worksheets merely listed definitions and coping mechanisms without providing engaging content or opportunities for meaningful discussion. This program aimed to blend their passion for basketball with meaningful discussions on emotional expression and self-worth. How did you overcome it?”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Listen to the discussion on this week’s EdSurge On Air podcast. I know from my discussions with faculty that there’s this very real phenomenon of initiative fatigue and fatigue over these fads that I think can distract from the more productive conversations that we could have about, “Okay, what do we know works?

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Yes No Teachers should set their own classroom policies Δ Google and Vivacity , which provides turnkey Chromebook devices and support to K-12 schools, recently invited edtech leaders to a series of roundtable discussions at Googles Chrome Experience Center in San Jose, California.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we’re revising an episode from the summer that looks at a teaching fad from the 1960s and ’70s that has almost vanished from the discussion. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” At some point, gamification was going to be the answer.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

A lot of our discussion while visiting Parkland was around building cultures of safety within our schools and local communities—a key focus of the resources available on the website. School safety is not just the job of school administrators or school resource officers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? We’d discuss and students would get immediate feedback.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. We have much to learn from failures, especially in fields where the stakes are high, the regulation heavy and specialized expertise is at a premium. And yet we know some failure is inevitable when we innovate, be it in medicine or education.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Basically they argue that students should be challenged with a problem even if they can’t properly solve it because they haven’t learned the material yet, and then the failure to solve it will motivate them to watch the lecture looking for the necessary information.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

Strategic thinking, teamwork, collaboration, goal setting, preparation and managing success and failure are a few of the skills associated with traditional sports that esport athletes can pick up, according to ViewSonic. . Please join the discussion on Twitter by using the #ConnectIT hashtag. . . by Joe McAllister.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2025

It will come via discussions and many short trials and errors. Others are seeking to embrace the uncertainty, discussing vulnerability, displaying openness, acknowledging the ambiguity of these transformative times, and thriving in the uncertain messiness. As we saw during Covid, there was not one answer.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When Failure Is an Option “I have seen students really focus on the material and engage with one another and not worry as much about a grade because if they fail something they can always make up the points from somewhere else,” Queen explains. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

Learning is often a social process, taking place through dialogue, discussion and other forms of interpersonal interaction. Q2: For our new-trad students who are often first gen, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. Design online discussions around experiences (games, virtual trips, etc.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Model them, discuss them with students and reflect on what they add to your innovation toolkit: Flex your empathy muscle: Schools are full of hustle and flow, constant fires and a variety of other tensions. ReclaimFailure: In the efficiency model of schooling, failure is an unnecessary and pesky delay.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. If you’re honest, respectful, and you're persistent—if you risk failure—you’re really able to motivate each other to do amazing things. And not steal in a bad way. With Otus I have better knowledge of who my students are.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences. Failure is the point of the exercise,” he says. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

For example, Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) President Paul LeBlanc features heavily into the book’s discussion of a leader willing to rethink higher education admissions and learning experiences beyond the “average” 18-year-old customer that his university had traditionally targeted.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president. For one week straight, everything we talked about and discussed was the strategic direction of our institution—the mission, vision, objectives, goals, day-to-day operations, key performance indicators, environmental scans, finances, etc.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

As long as the digital divide remains, it stands as a failure of national will that translates into greater educational inequities,” the former Education Secretaries write in the foreword. Synchronous learning is best for class discussion, small group work and social-emotional learning exercises.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

In my latest book, “ Coding as a Playground ,” I discuss how playpens keep children safe, but they also keep them isolated. The Value of Failure In this kind of classroom, you see a lot of failure, just as you would on the playground. At the social level, you see conflicts between kids who both want the same toy.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

While discussing literature, Dr. Rudine Sims Bishops once stated: Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. In the book, she discusses the best way to teach Black children. In 1994, Dr. Gloria Ladson Billings published a book titled “ The Dreamkeepers.”

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