Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of the first things I noticed was that all the students had to abide by a strict uniform policy, including shoes, belts and school colors, and middle school-aged children were walking in straight lines through silent hallways. A crushing defeat in many ways that made me feel like a failure.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The drop affected both struggling and proficient readers, and was most pronounced among middle school students. If struggling students are asked to read and practice at a level that is too challenging, they’re simply being set up for failure. In England, however, the drop was more pronounced among struggling readers.

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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. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. After a split second, she enthusiastically replied, “Mesopotamia!”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration."

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

A 2007 study led by Robert Balfanz at Johns Hopkins found that chronic absence in middle school and high school is often a leading predictor of dropping out. Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable? It has lasting effects through the upper grades, too.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Girls are outperforming boys in math and science from middle school on up. 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. Reshma Saujani. Don’t give up.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Arcadia took care not only to define values— collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, empathy and learning from failure—that would cut across those historical restraints, but also to implement new processes that would signal to its people that it was serious about those values.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything! Did we have failures? Absolutely.

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Edsurge

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?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. AJ Bianco is a middle school social studies teacher at Harrington Park School District in Harrington Park, New Jersey.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours. By high school, with only one semester of arts education required in our state, average yearly instructional time drops to 33 hours a year. Fear of failure can lead to a lack of creative thought and progress within communities.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I firmly believe our failure to teach our children across all the dimensions of wellness has left them unprepared to tackle life's challenges in and out of the classroom. We dont hold our schools accountable to a high standard of excellence beyond standardized testing and uniform learning standards.

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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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

or ‘When you keep me after school to do PD, I’m missing my son’s soccer match.’ Murphy: Over my career, I've learned that taking a top-down approach to implementation without acknowledging other perspectives and inviting key stakeholders leads to failure—no matter how fantastic your initiative is. John Hattie, Visible Learning.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

She says that many students, especially if theyre the first in their family to attend college, dont know what a writing center is and even if they do, they believe getting help is a sign of failure. Without extra support early on, many students dont know how to play what she calls the game of school, Johnson says.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure. Mark Manning, the principal at Morristown High School , emphasizes this point. Meanwhile, In High School and Middle School. Our low-income students often go home to empty houses because both parents need to work.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

In committing to the use of games for instruction, he’s not only found a unique way to capture his students’ attention but also to alter their incentives for learning while simultaneously redefining the concept of failure. There may be no better example of meeting students where they are than Arnold’s gamification of the learning process.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

After having mastered the elementary and middle school educational system, freshmen often feel confident that they know what to do reach whatever level they—and others—have set as academically acceptable. She is a regular presenter at state and national educational technology conferences.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? From the beginning, I was told that I would be working close to 60 hours a week.

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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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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Jessica Campos, Instructional Technology Coach, Mesquite Independent School District In the 2024 to 2025 school year, districts will be asking more questions about evidence of impact when they’re evaluating and selecting education technology solutions. Schenker, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2019

How many middle school and high school students actually say that they're inventors? Learn from failure. And there was an opportunity, about 13 years ago, to go to work for the Lemelson-MIT Program to run the InvenTeams grants initiative, and my background fit really well for that. Which are most useful? Resourcefulness.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

This abrupt change in instructional tactics led to a dip in academic achievement, as observed through the district’s low scores on the College and Career Readiness Performance Index , in which elementary and middle schools dropped 5.1 8 points, respectively, between 2015 and 2016.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

After gaining board and trustee approval in June 2016, the district decided to run a one-year pilot program for the 2016-2017 school year for sixth graders at the district’s two middle schools, Graham and Crittenden. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

That was an important part of what kept a little middle school girl coming back to those competitions. I was also very fortunate at that young, impressionable age to have two female mentors coaching my team; one was in high school and one was a recent college graduate. And with FIRST I could compete but also have fun.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Central Valley School District (NY): “We are all learners working to reach our full potential through individual goals and pace, with flexible time and space.”. Rochester Middle School (NH): “Rochester Middle School is a place where we inspire creative and collaborative learning to challenge and celebrate the unique genius in all of us.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Central Valley School District (NY): “We are all learners working to reach our full potential through individual goals and pace, with flexible time and space.”. Rochester Middle School (NH): “Rochester Middle School is a place where we inspire creative and collaborative learning to challenge and celebrate the unique genius in all of us.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Be responsible for failures. Mary Jo Madda ( @MJMadda ) is Senior Editor at EdSurge, as well as a former STEM middle school teacher and administrator. In 2016, Mary Jo was named to the Forbes "30 Under 30" list in education. But compromising is a wise and good lesson; very little is black and white, most is grey.

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Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2023

I especially worry as I watch my oldest son, who is in middle school now. And that probably reflects some educational failures, though not just educational failures. It's a struggle. Teachers give a lot of bite-size assignments, or assignments that are done on the devices.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Pretty early on we thought it was going to be a massive failure, says Kennelly of last semesters project. The class project was then and is again now part of an effort to help students understand and apply AI in practical ways in school and in their lives. But it became a huge hit. Students loved it.

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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. Stay foolish.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

At Marietta City Schools, located north of Atlanta, we’re making every effort to end these types of destructive practices and give those like Ignacio, not another dead end but a true beginning. IGNACIO'S SECOND CHANCE nearly came crashing down with one senseless act when he and a friend were arrested.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) , a professional (and personal) development program for middle-school science teachers, gave me an unexpected opportunity to experience many of the emotions that students live each day. My students will construct landers and rovers too.

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