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3 steps to rethink failure

eSchool News

Failure can be a painful experience for anyone, but it is especially tough for teens who are still forming a sense of self. When people experience failure, they often report feelings of embarrassment, shame and depression. But, as many educators know, failure is an essential part of the learning process. Define failure.

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Edtech tactics for both success and failure

eSchool News

In this episode of Getting There: Innovation in Education, with Kevin Hogan: How a more equitable school-home communication system helped one district 3 ways to better engage remote students Exclusive interview with Carl Hooker on his new book Ready, Set, Fail!

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How to Create a Classroom That’s a Safe Space for Failure

Edsurge

Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

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4 focus areas to embrace innovation and avoid school system failure

eSchool News

Key points: Challenges from decades of educational inequity are now the impetus for school system transformation Researchers have identified four key areas to help schools innovate and avoid stagnation See related article: 5 education innovation trends worth watching in 2023 For more news on school system innovation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership (..)

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Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure

eSchool News

Following years of challenges brought on by COVID-19 and the inequities in education highlighted by the pandemic, decades- and centuries-old educational systems are finally being challenged.

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The U.S. had the blueprint for a high-class education–but abandoned it

eSchool News

Schools in low-income communities were labeled as failures rather than supported. Standardized testing became ubiquitous and often crowded out the arts, physical education, and even recess in under-resourced schools. The reforms were ineffective, as well as damaging. Teaching to the test narrowed curricula.

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Big F vs. Little f

Catlin Tucker

Learn from failure. She said that one of their most important values is “learn from failure.” ” She said that the “little fs” are the small failures that happen along the way as you create, iterate, and innovate. These are not failures to be feared but failures to be embraced.

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