eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Grades from individual classes then get averaged together, semester by semester, into GPAs that permanently carry the marks of any prior failures and shortcomings in a students’ learning. They create a stifling atmosphere where failure is a brand to be avoided rather than an experience to learn from. The outcome?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. Theyre encouraged to embrace mistakes, stay motivated, and deepen their understanding of the material.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students. Research by Dorland (2023) shows that design thinking training may enable students to embrace, rather than struggle with failure in their work. Design thinking also has a positive impact on the overall motivation and engagement of students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2021

The site operates on a culture of inquiry, curiosity, and remaining open to failure. Allows for failure 8. In all, 8 principles guide the learning offered on Brilliant. Effective learning: 1. Cultivates curiosity 3. Is active 4. Is applicable 5. Is community driven 6. Doesn’t discriminate 7. Sparks questions.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America , this anxiety can stem from a fear of failure, negative testing experiences, or feeling unprepared. In fact, studies have shown that test anxiety is actually the worst in the middle grades.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. Imagine you are a struggling reader. You dread reading…in any class. One day, your science teacher brings in a Microsoft HoloLens headset. You put on the mixed reality glasses and pick up the science article that the teacher wants you to read. You begrudgingly begin reading.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As the movement to improve education grows stronger, so has talk of positive failure, failing forward, and encouraging teachers and students to see the benefits of their own failures. Enter CoSN’s Failfest by submitting a video describing your great failure! Learn more here !

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2021

Much of our experience has been molded by trial and error, failure and success, frustration and elation. Summer is on the horizon, and the only thing standing in the way is a couple more months of school. Teachers and students alike wrestled with the steep learning curve of remote teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Living through a pandemic, by its very nature, has been traumatic for everyone and it is important to debrief and reflect on the failures and successes of our educational practices during this time. Though prevalent, it can also be silent in that it is not always a visible or known quantity.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Encourage students to embrace failure as a part of the learning process. Show them the positive power of failure by sharing inspiring stories of individuals who learned and persevered from their disappointments (Walt Disney, Thomas Edison, and Oprah Winfrey are just a few!).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The educators began stretching their existing abilities, thriving on challenges and seeing failures as a heartening springboard for growth and getting back to find solutions. An open platform was established wherein teachers could share their triumphs and also failures.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Doing so will help them see failure as both an opportunity to learn (“Well, that didn’t work!”) Becoming effective communicators by sharing messages and ideas using global chat and voice chat tools like Discord can increase confidence and self-esteem. Sharing their mistakes and persistence with others.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

But more than a dozen national surveys of teachers, parents, students, and school administrators conducted over the past few months offer the clearest initial tally of successes and failures. The surveys offer more evidence that educators were right to worry that remote learning would exacerbate inequities.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure. In the past, a poor grade usually resulted in the negative feelings associated with failure. Within our game environment, however, students see mistakes as an opportunity to try again and do better.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2022

The tools developed for this study draw on principles of behavioral economics, motivation theory and learning cognition theory to help students want to improve and connect with teachers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Failure is recognized, encouraged, and embraced as essential to learning as we all strive for personal improvement, academic tenacity, and success. Our no-judgment zone encourages risk taking and failure becomes a catalyst for revision and improved design. Social-emotional learning is a huge part of our learning process.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

Failure is part of learning. Here are some ideas for how schools and administrative teams can support their teachers and encourage them to experiment with technology in their classrooms: 1. Create a school culture where teachers know it’s okay to take risks and fail. First and foremost, remind your teachers it is okay to fail.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. As educators, we can show our students that failure isnt the opposite of success–its a step toward it. And if theyre willing to try, we must create situations where they believe they can succeed.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” “Do your students feel safe to build? Do your students feel safe to screw up? I don’t want a kid to not try an idea because they won’t get the A.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2024

Jump ahead 19 years, and we were experiencing inconsistent startups (30-40 second blackouts before the generator would start and provide power) when power failure events happened. Through collaboration with facilities, we captured multiple data points about what was happening from the point of failure until the generated power was active.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

Give yourself grace: Showing self-compassion is the act of being kind to yourself and realizing that suffering, imperfections, and failures are part of being human. Here are just a few strategies you can employ to help reignite your passion for teaching : 1.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2019

These findings, coupled with the fact that almost half of the students in the U.S. have experienced at least one or more traumatic experiences presents a significant barrier to academic success for a large population of students.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Failure to capture where students are this fall and how they are performing relative to grade-level expectations at year’s end may result in an inability to direct resources to students who need it most, further exacerbating deep and long-standing inequities within our communities and school systems.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 11, 2023

While that resolution was a complete failure (I still have unread books on my shelf), it reignited my love of reading. Each year, I document my #BritReads reading journey on my social media channels. This year, I decided to bring #BritReads to life with my close family and friends.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

This perspective transforms data analysis into an empowering process; data is a tool for improvement amongst our students rather than a measure of failure. A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence. This mindset shapes how we view data.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

Living through a pandemic, by its very nature, has been traumatic for everyone and it is important to debrief and reflect on the failures and successes of our educational practices during this time. Though prevalent, it can also be silent in that it is not always a visible or known quantity.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One of the most challenging parts of creativity is resisting the impulse to give up when you meet failure or criticism of your ideas, which students commonly face at school when working on group projects or receiving grades.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

No, this is about how challenging it is to deal with the shame of experiencing resignations and how I am learning to cope with moments of failure in leadership. The reason failure feels so hard for me to accept in this work is because of how important and personal it is. My colleague was supportive and understanding.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Early STEM exposure–and successes or failures in STEM learning–can often make or break a child’s willingness to participate in STEM learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

But to drive this transformation, CIOs must challenge the status quo and must be comfortable with failure, Shears said. In pursuit of transformation, CIOs must be comfortable with failure. You must challenge, ‘We don’t do that here,’” he said. You have to become the leader who challenges that. It’s not an overnight success story.”

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Failure to identify and name the mental models driving our actions and decisions will undermine any effort to make long-term change in a system. Instead, we must ask, “How can we take the best aspects of teaching and learning from the last year and incorporate them into our future work with students?”

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

California’s students with disabilities often have faced significant disparities in the quality of their education–a problem exacerbated by a focus on compliance over results, lack of autonomy, and a failure to truly individualize student supports.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

We can’t test students on their innovation, but we can encourage them to explore new concepts, look at challenges from all sides, and embrace failures as opportunities to try again with more knowledge. Innovation is more than a buzzword today—it’s something educators strive for in their classrooms, schools, and districts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Through early exposure to STEM, students come to understand that failure is an integral part of the learning process. By introducing students to the engineering design process and encouraging hands-on projects, we nurture a generation of innovators who are well-equipped to develop solutions to pressing global issues.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2020

There are a number of factors—10, to be specific—that have a sizable impact on the success (or failure) of and edtech implementation.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2019

Triggers may include social interactions, academic pressures, or fears of failure. It’s the inability to face school triggers that makes anxious students unable to go to class or complete work. Regardless, it can be overwhelming for some students to face any one, or all of these things, that avoidance becomes a coping strategy.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. When students assess their work, they develop a deeper understanding of their strengths and weaknesses, fostering an innate drive to improve, and helping them to develop as expert learners.

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