Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they dont.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2022

Focusing on empowering educators and elevating equity, ISTELive features in-person content live and streamed from the conference, along with online content from remote presenters. It’s that time of year again– ISTELive 22 is just around the corner, and this year, the nation’s largest edtech show takes place in New Orleans.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Like most articles that synthesize the results of many studies, it’s long, detailed, and liberally peppered with educational jargon.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

It’s no secret that educators and school leaders endure a lot of stress, from managing classroom and school communities to monitoring staff and student morale. Educators may even shoulder the expectation that they must solve every problem on their own. So, in the face of chronic stress, how can educators practice self-compassion?

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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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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education. It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. The beauty of self-assessment lies in the empowerment it provides learners.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There will be long-term effects if the methods of teaching creativity are not adjusted, but if educators embrace AI mindfully, there will be long-term benefits. In my experience observing educators and students, I started to see a need for more moments of reflection.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

percent in 2016, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Retaining students based solely on their reading achievement is punishing them for a failure in a specific area, but the punishment will not have effects in that area alone, but in the rest of their lives. Who Gets Retained? percent in 2000 to 1.9

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

If I don’t give my students homework in 7th grade, am I setting them up for failure in their future advanced courses? I was the only teacher responsible for the math education of 180 students who were all trying to get into the best high school possible. My homework past. But all of my students go to the same high school.

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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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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

How could it impact education? But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists. The basic concepts are easy to grasp.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How can educators unlock its power and potential to maximize student growth? By incorporating these qualities into the feedback process, educators can create a feedback-rich environment that not only informs students about their progress but also empowers them to take meaningful steps toward improvement.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

The science says kids need to feel free to try things and fail, and that the deepest learning comes when failure happens and the student figures out how to course-correct, Eyler says. So success will require a broader effort to educate parents and students, he argues.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. In many classes (e.g.,

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. In many classes (e.g.,

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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. This award gave me the chance to reflect on the purpose of the arts in education and provided a platform for me to explain to those who will listen why the arts are a core subject based on their own merits.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Calls for innovation in education seem to get louder by the day. Innovation” has become the catchall term for the urge to make up for what our current system lacks; a system that, on balance, is neither delivering an equally high-quality education to all students, nor designed to reliably prepare young people for the modern workforce.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

By Friday, March 6, the conference was cancelled, my meetings were over, and I laid in bed freaking out: “This is going to change the whole trajectory of education. My aim is to help other startup and education leaders make wise decisions through this incredibly tumultuous period. How is Wayfinder going to fit in?” None of us did.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

. • With 2019 here and 2020 in arm’s reach, there’s an ever-growing expectation that next-generation tech tools should do a better job of informing educators on which resources improve learning outcomes. This is a good thing, because it will take motivation from all sides to achieve simpler data connections between systems.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. This is a key consideration as I continue refining my courses for future educators. I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. Professional development around Structured Literacy is something that must be provided to all teachers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Eva Moskowitz, the founder of New York City’s Success Academy, set the tone for this year’s NY Edtech conference by telling the crowd of 1,400 techies, entrepreneurs, researchers and educators that she may have some “unpopular perspectives” on edtech. I think there is a tendency to see edtech as the savior of American education.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

For example, my physics students use the force probes and photogates from Vernier Science Education to collect real-time data during electromagnetic investigations of mechanics. Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.). Gamified learning is another way to increase engagement.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2017

In her early teaching years, Wanny Hersey learned how hands-on projects—which would eventually become known as “making”— could engage and motivate her English students like nothing she’d seen before. She’d witnessed the heartbreak of watching a one-size-fits-all education system fail to engage students who needed it most.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

In the early 2000s something new appeared on the education scene, adapted from the worlds of innovation and business where it was developed. Unlike some education trends, it didn’t catch on overnight. In education, a design thinking curriculum immerses students and teachers (i.e., the designers) in real-world problem solving.

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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. What motivates you, both as a teacher and an entrepreneur? That really motivates me to continue. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. But despite the compelling nature of this "Netflix of Education" vision, it can encourage a misleading view of personalized learning.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As the new school year gets into full swing, educators are likely to shift their focus from worrying about the depth of learning loss for students as a group, and begin zeroing in on where individual students are at. Sweden and England had quite different approaches to education during the pandemic.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

“School is a game,” says Barry Fishman, University of Michigan professor of education and information. But unlike Monopoly or Taboo, Fishman believes the plays and strategies in higher education courses are often poorly designed. GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. They were the most powerful companies in education. Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. Stay tuned for other reflections in the coming weeks.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. Academics demands coupled with the pull of daily life can negatively tip the balance of student outcomes, siphoning away student motivation, according to educational scholar Howard McClusky.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

At the same time, employers struggle to fill open positions for jobs that require more education than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree This paradox is the result of a market failure: Our education and training systems are increasingly both out of touch with employers’ needs and out of reach for young adults.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

The reason our attention spans suffer in a non-stop lecturing environment, or a “continuous exposition environment” as some education writers call it, is that our brains make this quick decision. “Do The educational environment can be a good example of this. I think that’s amazingly important for higher education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

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 we don’t tend to talk about the ugly details–the challenges, the failures, the frustrations. But they lack resources.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

This piece was written for The White House Symposium on the Future of Education R&D and Digital Learning, which took place on Oct. This has profound implications for our education and training systems—we will need to be much more systematic and efficient to help many more learners succeed in the long haul.

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