Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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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. When students weren’t passing these tests, their self-confidence was diminished and it affected their willingness and effort during difficult tasks.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The only wrinkle I see in the land of interoperability is that the conversation is still too complicated, and school leaders still don’t have a go-to resource that helps them translate the techno-babble of open data standards into plain English. And now, I believe we are entering a new stage of “one-stop shop” solutions.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. You have to provide physical space, emotional space and time for kids to try things and experience either success or failure. We would never ask in a P.E. Part of that is justifying a grade.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

But there's a lot of variation in how schools decide who’s ready for algebra, leading to fewer low-income students, rural students or English learners taking this course in middle school. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says.

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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

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Similar concerns have prompted community colleges to reconsider their own versions of entrance assessments: the placement tests they’ve traditionally used to determine whether students are “ready” for college-level learning or should instead start their pursuit of higher education in remedial math or English classes.

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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. They also show improved assessment and high-stakes test scores. Literacy is the foundation of overall educational success. Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject.

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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. Even for students with the most basic English skills, she feels “i-Ready is effective. Subsequently, students have struggled to take PARCC seriously.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

I think we were hoping to see, or were curious to see, if districts would say, ‘This is where we can test out a blended model,’” says Gill, referring to the mix of online and in-person instruction that might become necessary as COVID-19 infections continue. Obviously the small groups are certainly helpful given social distancing guidelines.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

So what was initially seen as a failure was actually longterm, pretty successful. It’s all about how to teach math in a conceptual way versus a linguistic way, and that has helped a lot of our kids who are learning English. He was never going to be advanced or even proficient on an academics test.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Panel at NY Edtech Week At Success’ 46 schools in the New York area, students perform at the top 5 percent on math, English and science state exams, and Moskowitz’s words carry weight in the city. Yet what failure looks like, and how that can be accepted in schools where the collateral is students, led to debate.

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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. Yet even though the school is zoned for a wealthy area of Manhattan, where achievement is highly prized, standardized test scores were nothing special.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

It just means that many of us struggle to operate simultaneously inside and outside of a system that was only built to test content-knowledge in a very standardized way. While this performance demonstrates that our model works on many levels, these test scores alone are not good enough measures for our students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2017

His teacher noted he had taken 9th grade English three times, failing each of the previous semesters. Three weeks later, Jimmy would demonstrate mastery of all content standards and successfully pass 9th grade English. Gone are the days of a course-pacing guide that locks a team of teachers to a prescribed lesson plan or “unit test.”

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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. They need to feel empowered and entrusted to define problems, design pilots and test possible solutions. Imagine yourself back in a classroom.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

For Southern New Hampshire University, the answer was to create a sandbox—a space where professors and administrators can brainstorm and test new approaches, and where tech startups can pitch their latest tools to college leaders. But in terms of R&D, what requires a lot of socialization is the idea that failure is part of this process.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019. 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.

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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. You're testing a lot of limits.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Fifth, increased consolidation Various business models will be rising, From district sales to freemium conversion, A few larger companies will be emerging, Maybe a few failures and consolidation. 2017 will see more rapid prototyping Faster, cheaper impact testing. More English Language Learning students Will need to become fluent.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

In my work with kids, if I’m going to get a 12-year-old to talk about something they feel vulnerable about — not reading fluently, failing the test, not understanding the homework — then I need to be both vulnerable and honest with them. He could use a calculator during tests, but he had to learn a strategy for tracking those negative signs.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Schoolzilla claims its tools help address issues like absenteeism, course failures and disproportionality in suspensions. In 2017, an independent researcher discovered a flaw in how Schoolzilla stored personal information including test scores and social security numbers.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Assessment (including state tests) is another $1.2 Launched in 2000, it developed Study Island, a computer-based test-prep software tied to state standardized tests. It was a technology company, delivering test prep on a computer screen instead of in a paper workbook. billion or so. Consider Archipelago Learning.

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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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, school leaders Sarah Pedrotti and Jessica Torres are on a mission to flip the failure narrative and rebrand their school by motivating their teachers through personalized professional development. If students can’t focus, if they are hungry, academics are not going to go anywhere.”.

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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. Before the upgrade, a group of about 100 students gathered in a large space to take an online test.

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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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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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

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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 awarded but never connote failure. Mastery-Based Learning is an excellent choice in these situations: If your traditional system of learn the material, take a test, move on isn’t working.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning. Why not make the classroom about learning and not testing?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 1, 2023

However, these old-fashioned assessment techniques often create new barriers to learning, especially for disabled students, English language learners, neurodiverse students, and any other students that rely on technology to aid their thinking, communication, and learning. Why not make the classroom about learning and not testing?

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 23, 2018

For example, the math department at a large school might back up their files to a ReadyNAS in the English department, and vice versa. However, higher RAID configurations that provide some backup, or even fully redundant drives that halve the capacity but offer total drive failure protection, are available. Protection 3: Anti-Virus.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

Gardner Campbell is an associate professor of English at Virginia Commonwealth University. But I would say that the failure of ideals doesn't mean that the ideal is bad or unworkable. We need major changes at the policy level that, hopefully, point to some of the innovations that are being tested.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. Real School Example At K12 Schools , a Grade 6 English teacher introduced a Book Trailer project. This creates a natural sense of progression. The result?

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

In fact, whatever you’re already reading in English, science or history may showcase incredible acts of resilience. 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. or Bessie Coleman.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The failure rate among Hispanic, Black and Native students was higher by more than 10 percentage points. About a quarter of the kindergarten through second grade students she tutors in dual language programs in English and Spanish. Among all eighth graders, 33 percent failed to reach basic reading proficiency.

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