Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Gives Urban Students The Confidence They Need To Succeed What are some impacts you've seen from educating kids around STEM in the classroom? I work with a high school robotics team, and once a month, we go to an elementary school and bring a STEM activity. They don't see it as a failure. I'll just rebuild it.

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STEM Teaching Failure High School 189

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Kids got a preschool intervention, and it seemed like it went well initially—in elementary school those kids started to move up. But then the gains wore off as they went further along in elementary school. So what was initially seen as a failure was actually longterm, pretty successful.

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Education Critical Thinking Elementary School Elementary School 167

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

For the educators in our research, making was no one particular type of activity—whether programming robots or folding paper into shapes or inventing a solution to a common problem. Devon Flamm, a K-2 instructional coach at a public school in Hardin, Mont., How does this look in practice?

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Coaching Participation Failure Beliefs 182

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

This sense of inclusion is particularly important for Morris’s growing ELL population, a group which has historically faced racial, economic and linguistic isolation within the American school system. Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure.

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 147

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

With experience teaching in elementary, middle and high schools, I can attest to the trend that students do seem less motivated and engaged as they progress through school. When I taught in elementary schools, I was greeted by excited, engaged students. What Does This Mean for Today’s Students?

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Art Education Multidisciplinary Students 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Designing for Climate Education Architects designed a rainwater collection system for Springdale Park Elementary School in Atlanta, where it is used as a teaching tool for the students. Photo courtesy of Perkins&Will.

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Students Failure Fairness Study 196

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Avoid the roulette of school models by engaging all stakeholders in the beginning: Collaboration and communication between schools within a given district must be factored into the district’s overall vision.

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Failure Learning Elementary School Elementary School 130

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

Because I did well in school, nobody was ever concerned. However, from the time I was in elementary school, it was difficult to complete assessments on time, and it always took me unreasonably long to finish homework in the evening. When I was in grad school, I had a teacher who carried a stack of name cards around the room.

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Discussions Failure Textbooks Lecturing 168

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

The study’s author said games “appear to equip students to apply and sharpen knowledge learned in school by requiring them to solve a series of puzzles before moving to the next game level.”. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning.

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Gamification Learning Culture Students 154

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

History: Learning From Famous Diplomats and Sports Players Did you know that Michael Jordan did not make his high school baseball team, or that Steve Jobs was once fired from Apple? 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

Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

As we wind down another year of chronicling education technology, we wondered: Which stories made the biggest impact? This year, you looked to trendsetting districts, thought leaders, tech giants and one very sage high school student to help make sense of rapid changes in education technology.

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Failure Testing Blended Learning Grades 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. The school has served as the model for poor performance in the area—listed in both Waco Tribune-Herald and on KCEN-TV for falling below state standards for the last six years. Jessica Torres. “In

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Exams Elementary School Elementary School Schools 113

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). A 2022 report published by that task force revealed that about 1,000 aspiring educators were unable to begin a preparation program each year due to their failure to pass the Praxis Core.

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Exams Teachers Testing Math 196

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

It became the way by which BCPS told stories about what had and hadn’t worked, so that other educators, schools and districts could potentially garner tips and insights. A family works together on a digital challenge during Night of Innovation (Baltimore County Public Schools). According to the S.T.A.T.

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Communication Coaching Learning Elementary School 125

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

“At first we thought this was just going to be a hoop we have to jump through in order to get these devices,” admits Daniel Hodge, a personalized learning coach at Barnwell Elementary School in Fulton County, echoing the concerns and confusion shared by other Fulton County educators in an interview with EdSurge.

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Coaching Education Failure Elementary School 120

Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

I do remember being very young and helping one of my aunts, like every year, set up her classroom before school started. My mom didn't finish her education degree until I was in elementary school, but then she became a [high school English teacher]. I felt kind of like a failure. I felt really defeated.

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Teachers English History High School 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

For example, she says littleBits’ color-coded, magnetized electronic building blocks “eliminate some of the failure and struggle that we actually really want to see in maker-based learning experiences.” Ideally, as the makerspace concept advances, Krummeck says the student's capacity for learning more complex and technical ideas will advance.

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Failure Instructors Elementary School Elementary School 107

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

These days, schools are trying to figure out how to bring making into every facet of the school day, with mobile kits, clubs and more. Cicely Day works in Oakland, California at Burckhalter Elementary School as an instructional teacher leader, where she helps support teachers and students in ELA/math and in the computer lab.

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Failure Blended Learning Testing Elementary School 107

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Discuss how despite repeated failures, all heroes complete their journey. When teaching fictional texts, you can apply lessons in resilience to the hero’s journey ; discuss how heroes aren’t successful all the time.

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Failure Motivation History Learning 142