Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.” Elementary school girls make up nearly half of computer science students, but that percentage falls to 44 percent in middle school and 32 percent in high school.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

We were using Core5 in just six of our elementary schools prior to the pandemic,” said Dr. Mary Ann Reilly, assistant superintendent for Teaching and Learning. When COVID-19 hit and our schools transitioned to remote learning, we were able to quickly expand Core5 to all our elementary schools.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit. That did not work for me at all. I finally asked myself what does work.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. And GPS systems in smartphones and watches let families pinpoint their locations at all times.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Today, during parent-teacher conferences, a parent approached me and asked, “Did you used to teach at Meramec Elementary School?” I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. I remember being so frustrated and ready to quit. That did not work for me at all. I finally asked myself what does work.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Early in my teaching career, when I was 26 years old, I was offered and accepted a position as a dean at an elementary school in East Oakland, California. The following school year, I was promoted to assistant principal, and a year into that role, I had to cover our principal while she was on maternity leave.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

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 think that's why STEM is so awesome to have in the classroom because it encourages failure and how to deal with it and how to grow from it. I'll just rebuild it.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

But because they are easily customizable, teachers and parents of elementary school children can utilize them by creating a project-based learning process to help the kids better understand school books and relate to the events described there.

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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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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Engineering educator Nels Lawrence of Kaukauna High School in Kaukauna, Wisconsin was also recognized with an honorable mention in this year’s award. With worldwide distribution to over 150 countries, Vernier data loggers are used by educators and students from elementary school to university.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

Instead, educators described making as an approach to teaching and learning that puts students at the center; that encourages what educators variously termed “supported failure,” “controlled struggle,” and “failing forward”; and that teaches resilience, perseverance, empathy and problem-solving. How does this look in practice?

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Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

However, this is not a failure to communicate properly as shown by the experiment. These failures to communicate often lead to intergroup misunderstanding, strife, and even mistreatment in severe cases. They often have trouble understanding unspoken rules and the point of a lot of less direct ways of speaking such as euphemisms.

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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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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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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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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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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

For example, third-grade students at the district’s Hynes Elementary School recently used drones to learn about agriculture and the weather in a lesson called “Farmer Grady.” . “We As a STEM leader, I’m open to experiencing failure in my teaching , reflecting on that failure and sharing with my teammates what we’re doing.” .

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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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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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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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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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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

23 Ohio state’s 4-year Dyslexia Pilot Project on grades 1-3 did not reduce the risk of reading failure in 3 rd graders ($960,000). 25 This expansion is likely to affect more states post-pandemic as a result of learning loss due to school shutdowns. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP).

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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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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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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Seven elementary schools in New Hampshire found out when they switched to a competency-meets-project-based approach that frees students up to work on mastering specific standards, instead of a standard curriculum.

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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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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

That’s exactly the approach that CTO Frankie Jackson took several years ago at Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District when proposing massive infrastructure upgrades in the suburban Houston district. For example, one district that bought tablets had no cellular connection or Wi-Fi on-premises.

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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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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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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I was a pretty good student but was not prepared for the test and had an immense fear of failure. Students who regularly do poorly on tests do not want to feel that failure. At what point should our perspective adjust to worry more about the child as opposed to the grade? Math is a symbol system just like the English language.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

23 Ohio state’s 4-year Dyslexia Pilot Project on grades 1-3 did not reduce the risk of reading failure in 3 rd graders ($960,000). 25 This expansion is likely to affect more states post-pandemic as a result of learning loss due to school shutdowns. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP).

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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.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Though I think my successes last semester outnumbered my failures, there were still times I could have done more. Lisa Lawmaster Hess is a retired elementary school counselor enjoying an encore career as an adjunct professor at York College of Pennsylvania. The only way we’ll find out which of these is the case is to reach out.

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Assignments Failure Elementary School Elementary School 111

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Though I think my successes last semester outnumbered my failures, there were still times I could have done more. Lisa Lawmaster Hess is a retired elementary school counselor enjoying an encore career as an adjunct professor at York College of Pennsylvania. The only way we’ll find out which of these is the case is to reach out.

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