Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Start the year off with foundational lessons based on CCSS from the previous grade (or even the grade below that) to ensure students have the tools they need to succeed. Once reluctant learners know that success is in their control, you’ll find their grades starting to rise.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The pressure students feel to get high grades and the pressure for teachers to give them are both real. In classrooms where teachers emphasize performance goals (errorless performance on tasks, points, and grades), students are more likely to cheat. Or a policy might say failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. In the classroom, this might mean that the more we try to avoid “failure” or enforce rigid learning outcomes and preferred behaviors, the more we may create resistance or disengagement.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. In the classroom, this might mean that the more we try to avoid “failure” or enforce rigid learning outcomes and preferred behaviors, the more we may create resistance or disengagement.

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Beyond the Worksheet

JULY 19, 2025

After school, there’s planning, grading, family life … and by the time we even think about doing something for ourselves, we’re too tired to function. You are not a failure. But because, like a lot of educators, I’ve been stuck in a cycle of giving everything to everyone else and putting myself last. I just needed to try harder.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is very costly, very complex, always arcane, and frequently impossible task." The pupil is thereby “schooled” to confuse teaching with learning, grade advancement with education, a diploma with competence, and fluency with the ability to say something new.

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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” (or to learn from failure).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They all worked for a while and then, maybe when the novelty wore off, I was back to the same Bell curve of successes, failures, and those in between. The success or failure of my students’ learning is about what I do or don’t do. The same could be said of Standards and curricula adopted in my varied teaching gigs. Or not occurring.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Research shows that children who are chronically absent from preschool through second grade are more likely to be reading below grade level by third grade. It has lasting effects through the upper grades, too. Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. Because what I have noticed is that most of this conversation happens in distinct corners,” he says. “And

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. 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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ninth-grade English was a paradox for me—both the best and worst year for helping me learn to write. However, that same 9th-grade English class also planted the seeds of debilitating habits and mindsets in my writing process. Mr. Johnson was willing to provide feedback on drafts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. The white seventh grader was significantly more likely to be in eighth grade algebra than the Black seventh grader. We know how important it is for kids academically and socio-emotionally. But we have to be safe.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

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

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Who decided that grading and assessment should be the exclusive responsibility of teachers? Self-assessment shifts the focus from a grade-centric perspective to a learning-centric one. It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. This perspective transforms data analysis into an empowering process; data is a tool for improvement amongst our students rather than a measure of failure.

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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

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. At East Carolina University, we wanted to create something uncommon, so we created a science reading experience for 5 th grade students using the Microsoft HoloLens. Imagine you are a struggling reader. You dread reading…in any class. You begrudgingly begin reading.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

The renovated classroom and colorful mobile chairs and desks provided by the grant have literally transformed my practice, my seventh-grade language arts students, and their families. Test scores, homework completion, and grades have soared and parents who had never visited their student’s classroom now volunteer regularly.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Earlier in my career, my daily grading process amounted to little more than trading beans. In New Tech Network schools, grades are weighted according to five categories. With the revelation that we would have weighted categories of grades, my first reaction was, “Why wouldn’t we have weighted grades? It’s simple, really.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Weve made progress by moving away from grading on a curve, recognizing that learning isnt a competition. 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.

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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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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

JANUARY 15, 2024

Traditionally, the spotlight on STEM education appears to occur in high school and late middle school grade-levels. These foundational years offer a unique opportunity to spark curiosity and creativity, thereby providing the basis for more advanced learning in later grades and beyond.

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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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

While that resolution was a complete failure (I still have unread books on my shelf), it reignited my love of reading. In middle school, books about middle grade students navigating the world dominate the world of fiction, such as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and Jerry Craft’s New Kid.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

We have a grade-level Facebook page where we post updates and pictures from our classroom. A successful relationship between educators and parents requires this sort of constant communication, whether via phone call, email, or even an in-person conversation. Use social media to share students’ work.

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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

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

STEM is often introduced in middle and high schools, but by that time, many students have already avoided it, said Jason McKenna, director of Global Educational Strategy at VEX Robotics and author of What STEM Can Do for Your Classroom: Improving Student Problem Solving, Collaboration, and Engagement, Grades K–6.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2019

Triggers may include social interactions, academic pressures, or fears of failure. But with school avoidance comes lost instruction, poor grades, and exacerbated symptoms. 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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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

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Grade retention is ineffective and expensive, but 17 states and Washington, D.C. mandate it (and at least 12 more states allow it) for students who are not reading proficiently by grade 3. Retention takes away their social group and identifies them for all their peers as not being good enough to advance.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2015

A decade ago, approximately 10 percent of high school students at my district—450 kids—did not earn enough credits to advance to the next grade level. Six-hundred were at risk of school failure and/or dropping out. Ohio’s EOS focuses on school skills and moves 60 percent more at-risk students toward graduation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It was clear that a new approach to literacy instruction was needed–one that leveraged every teacher in our building and gave us ways to catch our older students up on second grade skills without infantilizing the content. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure.

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