Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Grading student work can be the most labor intensive part of the job for most of us. We often feel pulled in multiple directions – with service commitments and research projects on top of teaching responsibilities – so finding time to grade student papers, exams, projects, and in-class work can feel challenging.

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eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2015

In Florida, all schools that include grades 6, 7 or 8 are now required to implement an early warning system to identify students who need additional support to improve academic performance and stay engaged in school.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. psychology, English/communication, etc) it may even be possible to embed these practices into assignments so that students have these skills before encountering a setback.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. psychology, English/communication, etc) it may even be possible to embed these practices into assignments so that students have these skills before encountering a setback.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. The answer? How can schools use your findings going forward?

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts. That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Their grades are determined by points accumulated. GradeCraft gives students freedom to fail by encouraging them to take risks and explore with no negative impact on their final grade. She adds that her goal is to “give [students] the space to be able to focus on the joy of actually learning rather than worrying about a grade.”

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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

MARCH 20, 2023

The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. As for older students, researchers found that the relationship between listening and reading comprehension strengthens after second grade when students begin to master decoding skills.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

It may also give schools a chance to pilot working with small groups and with special populations, such as English learners and special education students, she adds. Half continued to grade student work, either through letter grades or a pass/fail system that may include incompletes. “If

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure. The picture at the top of this article is a 1997 band photo of my husband who is now a high school English teacher. It was his way of communicating to his students, “I was in ninth grade once too. It will be OK.”

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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. In the rapid prototyping step, students quickly try things out in order to find out what works and learn from failures.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

While growth is happening across the district, certain groups of students, including English Language Learners and low-income students, are experiencing less success than others. Teddie Salas, a 4th grade teacher for the district, believes computer-based blended learning is the key to keeping her classroom “as inclusive as possible.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We have divided mathematics, Chinese, English and physics learning into a large number of abilities, and we hope to help students not only to improve grades but also cultivate their inquiry, critical thinking and other skills through our innovative Modes of Thinking, Capacity, and Methods (MCM) model.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything! I asked my English language learners to create films. Did we have failures? I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I asked them to create websites. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2017

His transcript showed he failed more classes than he passed during his three years at our school, thereby causing him to repeat the 9th grade three times. His teacher noted he had taken 9th grade English three times, failing each of the previous semesters. Now, let’s flashback to the present. See their face.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Yet, after seeing data from the California School Dashboard and learning that close to one-fifth of McClymonds’ students were not graduating, he mentally shifted some accountability to the school, seeing a systemic failure to meet the needs of all students. 126 on the waiting list. This situation still makes Bey anxious.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

But with SMART Boards in almost every classroom, one-to-one iPad programs in grades 4 through 8 and the district’s investment in Google's ecosystem of classroom tools, digital literacy skills were becoming increasingly crucial for Hauppauge teachers. We heard comments like…‘It would be incredible if I could do it from home.’

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 5, 2015

give as little policy attention as possible to the known educational needs of students who live in poverty or don’t speak English as their primary language (and thus struggle academically), even as those student and family populations increase markedly within the state.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

You’re not taking English or history or pre-calculus; the sign on the door says “Obstacles.” They don’t blame students for failure, and they don’t blame themselves or the system either. Imagine yourself back in a classroom. You do, and then as you step back, the teacher steps forward and smashes your creation. It comes from everybody.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Socratic Seminars, a group discussion technique popular in English classes, were turned into Socratic Smackdowns, where students earned points based on how well they structured arguments. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. But make no mistake: game design is very important for learning. The takeaway?

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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. These students were in early middle school or ninth grade when the pandemic started, and had to take classes like pre-algebra online.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2023

My mom didn't finish her education degree until I was in elementary school, but then she became a [high school English teacher]. And at that time, my sister — she's four years older than me — was in her third or fourth year of school to become an English teacher. I felt kind of like a failure. There was a specific moment.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Once I was in my placement school, the families of my Black, Latino, and white Middle Eastern students, a majority of whom spoke a language other than English at home , deferred to me in a way that felt undeserved, almost as if I was perceived to be a savior that could parachute in and fix all their child’s problems.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? This does not suggest handholding, developing a psychic sense, or grade inflation.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

Outperforming the citywide average for percent of students in grades three through eight proficient on the PARCC assessments, 16 percent more of our students scored in proficient range on the English Language Arts assessment and 10 percent more of our students scored proficient on the math assessment.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

You have to provide physical space, emotional space and time for kids to try things and experience either success or failure. I’ve taught every grade, K-12. But in some subject areas—science and math and English-language arts—the older kids get, the greater the emphasis on written documentation of understanding.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 19, 2017

Orton was a neuropsychiatrist and a pioneer in focusing attention on reading failure and related language processing difficulties. learning the sounds of the English language and their correspondence to letters that represent those sounds. Orton and Anna Gillingham. As early as 1925 he identified dyslexia as an educational problem.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S. I asked them.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Today, Schoolzilla’s data-driven dashboards use multiple sources of student data, including attendance, suspensions and grades, to monitor progress toward school and district goals. Schoolzilla claims its tools help address issues like absenteeism, course failures and disproportionality in suspensions.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? This does not suggest handholding, developing a psychic sense, or grade inflation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Last year, only 61 percent of students who took the ACT high school English achievement test were deemed college-ready. Grades are to facilitate and improve learning, not judge students. To facilitate this, students are met where they are in their learning, not where the grade level says they should be. Keep working.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

We just didn’t have the room to have a really nice, neat rack where we could say, ‘Here’s the server for math, here’s the server for English,’ ” says Thad Phipps, assistant superintendent for operations. This year, Marysville’s one-to-one program is fully deployed in grades 5 through 12. “I We sat back like, ‘Are you kidding me?’

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

It's another thing to mandate the use of specific tech (beyond logistical tools like attendance and grading systems, of course) and build resentment and frustration when there isn't enough PD to support the effort. It's not hard to get people to celebrate small successes; it's simply a matter of taking time to do so.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Sometimes they are dance moves with music, other times we just play Simon Says (which, even in 8th grade, is still a favorite of my students). For example, Grade A eggs may cost $6.36 Students with learning differences who work with me end 7th grade saying math “used to be” their worst subject. per 2 dozen. .”

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Working as an entrepreneur, executive, philanthropist and investor over the past few decades, at some of the very organizations Watters bemoans, I’ve had a unique vantage point for observing numerous successes, failures and—most importantly—long-term trends that make me optimistic about the next wave of education innovation.

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