Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Boise’s One Stone doesn’t resemble your typical high school—here you won’t find classrooms, teachers or even letter grades. Vulnerability leads to inclusive groups, deeper friendships, a high level of creative collaboration and a willingness to fail forward. Receiving feedback helps us grow by leaps and bounds.

Failure 299

Failure Feedback Culture Students 299

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

When we feel like students’ every movement is a reflection of our professional competency or personal failure, it is easy to focus more on enforcing student compliance than cultivating student joy. Schools should provide responsive training to teachers, as well. My growth wasn’t gauged by a rubric on a clipboard.

Coaching 218

Coaching Teachers Evaluation Feedback 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Teachers spend a lot of time teaching students to work in groups, identifying different roles and practicing how to give feedback on a game or a project in a way that's constructive. Rachelle Vallon Can you give us a sense of what the school day looks like at Quest to Learn? And, of course, it has to be mathematically accurate.

Game-Based Learning 189

Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 189

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

Charles Lentz, Superintendent of the New Hope-Solebury School District since 2018, has transformed the district through visionary leadership. Under his guidance, the district introduced innovative programs such as College and Career Pathways, a K-12 STEAM curriculum, and a high school block schedule.

Intelligence 222

Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 222

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. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

Lecturing 213

Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

I teach a course called Architecture & Design in the new upper school for boys at Annie Wright Schools in Tacoma, Wash. Traditionally, Annie Wright’s high school had been all girls. After we opened a parallel all-boys high school, we launched the class to help galvanize our new learning community.

Feedback 167

Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

For example, if you want students to support claims with relevant details, that expectation should be stated on a rubric that is given to students well in advance of when the assignment is due, and should be the focus of lessons, formative feedback, and student reflection. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

Success in middle-years math, in particular Algebra 1, is fundamental to passing higher level math courses and graduating high school and Saga is the gold standard for high-dosage math tutoring,” said Justin Serrano, CEO and co-founder of Littera. “Tutoring, when done well, can do more than help students catch up.

Achievement 143

Achievement Education Math Failure 143

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In New Tech Network schools, grades are weighted according to five categories. At my New Tech high school in Columbus, Indiana , content accounts for 60% of a grade and the other categories (written and oral communication, collaboration, and agency) each garner 10%.

Grades 163

Grades Failure Ethics Interdisciplinary 163

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. They learn why high school geometry, a topic most of them intend to teach in the future, is the way it is and why its results are true. Because this was an ungraded class, the focus was on feedback. Inspired by Susan D. But What About Grades?

Feedback 186

Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 186

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

A project of the Institute of Play, Quest, as the school is known, is an Innovation Zone (or iZone) school, itself a project of the city’s public school system. Additionally, Arum has said that the school is adept at building soft skills, such as design thinking, along with collaboration and critical thinking.

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2018

Understand your students’ needs: One hardworking educator (and Fusion speaker), Farhat Ahmad , knew that compliance-based data collection, which often shows little regard for student feedback, risks further alienating an already disenfranchised student population.

Failure 130

Failure Learning Elementary School Elementary School 130

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

It has helped to simplify project guidelines, use conferences to provide more targeted support and to embed feedback and checkpoints within the course, but I realize that it will never be perfect. I am engaging in deeper conversations, learning new strategies and getting feedback on my ideas, and I need that.

Teaching 163

Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

With a primary to high school student base of nearly two million, the company has generated huge data sets that allow it to find deep patterns on concepts—be they algebraic equations or noun-verb agreement—that are difficult for certain types of students at certain levels. More information about Squirrel AI.

Teachers 167

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

I teach at the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur, an all-girls Catholic high school in Villanova, Pa. We wanted to create a different course—a course that requires students to address problems creatively, develop empathy, persevere through failure and learn from it. A change in group strategy puts them back on track.

Failure 156

Failure Students Critical Thinking Participation 156

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2018

They didn’t understand why we were doing it and they weren’t getting any feedback.”. If high school grads are declining [in college enrollment], then we need to keep everybody we have here,” said Rowland. Moore-Davis admits one of the biggest failures in the process was leaving out their bottom-line: students.

Counselling 122

Counselling Failure Instructors Coaching 122

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2017

As graduation approaches, “senioritis” is running rampant through the halls of American high schools. ChiTech students share their internship experiences with the school Taking the model city-wide Of course, despite careful planning, when working with high schoolers, things don’t always go as planned.

Failure 151

Failure Communication High School High School 151

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 165

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

Schools 338

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The station rotation model is utilized across the district, at the elementary, middle and high school level, in both bilingual and mainstream classes. Lora Clark, principal at Morris’s Normandy Park Elementary School, explains that due to the range of students’ language levels, bilingual classes remain necessary.

Blended Learning 147

Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 147

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Many of them would enjoy the creative problem-solving of engineering—and they won’t know unless they choose, enjoy, and stay involved in engineering coursework during middle and high school. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. That’s the teacher’s job.

Science 110

Science STEM Failure Middle School 110

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

They play for a sense of challenge (competency), social interaction, consistent feedback and more. These are all valuable components of rethinking the school experience and making it more effective. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning. Games fulfill different core psychological needs.

Gamification 154

Gamification Learning Culture Students 154

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Collaborate with local high schools in dual-enrollment programs. They must also redesign matriculated students' gateway courses that have unacceptable failure rates. Technology makes possible much more frequent and rapid feedback to students. Address local workforce needs. Continue to serve the needs of remedial students.

Failure 154

Failure Instructors Evaluation Feedback 154

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In addition, learning environments have typically assumed that failure is the learner’s fault. more personalized feedback, faster markup of performance practice, media and text working together, not at cross-purposes), we can look to technology to make that activity more available, reliable, affordable, data-rich, and personalized.

Education 167

Education Learning Science Feedback 167

Edsurge

JULY 5, 2022

I sent this meme out to the faculty at my high school in May with an invitation to meet with me and reflect on this past year of teaching. Drew Brannon, high school English teacher and my husband. Content Warning: pregnancy loss/stillbirth. Is that a thing? It should be a thing.

Education 191

Education Coaching Special Education English 191

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. Instead, I provide rich feedback.

Grades 98

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

“I want my 5th grader to be well-educated… Tapping away at multiple choice questions is not high level math,” another parent said. These bright guessers are going to be in big trouble in high school if we don’t push them beyond that.” Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure?

Learning 147

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 147

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

Charles Lentz, Superintendent of the New Hope-Solebury School District since 2018, has transformed the district through visionary leadership. Under his guidance, the district introduced innovative programs such as College and Career Pathways, a K-12 STEAM curriculum, and a high school block schedule.

Intelligence 130

Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 130

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Another way to bring social knowledge construction in is to encourage students to get feedback on their assignment from, or to share what they learned from the assignment with, individuals outside the class (see Figure 3). Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). link] Nolan, B.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

Another way to bring social knowledge construction in is to encourage students to get feedback on their assignment from, or to share what they learned from the assignment with, individuals outside the class (see Figure 3). Students can often learn more from productive failure than from success (Sinha & Kapur, 2021). link] Nolan, B.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

This year, you looked to trendsetting districts, thought leaders, tech giants and one very sage high school student to help make sense of rapid changes in education technology. The projects helped bring students closer to their school, families and the community at large.

Failure 105

Failure Testing Blended Learning Grades 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2018

That was an important part of what kept a little middle school girl coming back to those competitions. I was also very fortunate at that young, impressionable age to have two female mentors coaching my team; one was in high school and one was a recent college graduate. I used the Socratic Method.

STEM 120

STEM Coaching Failure Ethics 120

Edsurge

JULY 25, 2018

Additionally, they got to listen to keynote speakers who shared their successes and failures in the world of technology. The Mouse Design League is a group of high school students that share a common goal: use technology to make a positive impact on the lives of others. The audience listens as a group of students speaks.

Failure 88

Failure Fairness Students STEM 88

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

Things are bit trickier given our school’s culture. In a competitive school like Latin, not being able to climb up the proficiency ladder after a year’s worth of language study is interpreted as failure. We want the students to spend their energy on the feedback instead of the end result.

Grades 129

Grades Essay Language Languages 129

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2017

These are the words that edtech startups live by, but schools and districts generally operate at a different pace. When it comes to our children’s education, there’s no room for failure—fast or slow—and layers of bureaucracy and tight budgets often make big changes impossible. But it doesn’t have to be this way.

Evaluation 93

Evaluation English History Failure 93

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

Study 100

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

I have worked in the Vermont education system for over twenty years, and there is one lesson that I have learned loud and clear: top-down management decisions are destined for failure. The next phase of the process was to involve more stakeholders, run pilots of all of our final four and get feedback. We wanted everyone’s opinion.

Failure 76

Failure Feedback Assignments Instructors 76