eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

As a classroom teacher, I gamified my classroom because I needed an engaging way to deliver the online lessons I created for students during reading and math workshop. One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. If you ask seventh and eighth graders what their hardest subject is, they’ll hands down tell you it’s math. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

If I don’t give my students homework in 7th grade, am I setting them up for failure in their future advanced courses? At the beginning of my career in Chicago, I taught 7th- and 8th-grade math in a system where students took a test and applied to get into selective high schools. My homework past.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Teachers in three North Carolina counties report their students, who are trying to close math learning gaps caused by COVID-related school disruptions, are making progress thanks to an innovative digital learning platform. The participating counties in the summer trial have reached 825 math students in 6th–8th grades.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. Homework is often designed to be simple, easily completed, and graded primarily for completion rather than mastery. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority. In middle grade math, imagine sophisticated diagnostic assessments generating a personalized learning plan that adapts daily and allows each student to drive their own progress using a variety of learning modalities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

At the time, we did not have a robotics course for middle grades at all, though we did have an after-school STEM club. With robots in general, and especially with virtual robots, students are more likely to try stuff without fear of failure because it’s just a robot—or, in our case, it’s just a collection of click-and-drag images.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts. That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through.

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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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

A few weeks ago, while perusing Twitter for news stories, a few folks on the EdSurge team came across a Tweet by math blogger, former teacher and current Desmos Chief Academic Officer Dan Meyer. For instance, competency-based grading seems really important, where students can demonstrate their competency on a given course.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

While summer school often conjures up images of reluctant students sitting in rows, watching the clock or gazing out the window, the scene inside Santa Fe’s Math Adventure Camp could not be more different. While acceleration strategy encourages exposure to grade-level standards, it also acknowledges that not all standards are created equal.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Its curriculum covers pre-kindergarten through grade 5 for math and reading. In the latter half of 2020, SplashLearn expanded its offering beyond the math program to include reading and also launched a personalized tutoring product, owing to growing demand from parents and teachers. “We About SplashLearn.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

People think there is a hard, fast rule to the process,” says Jennifer DeBenedetti, a fifth grade teacher at the Gregory School in Tucson, Ariz., It gets hard when we attempt to make the shift from rubrics to a more numeric, grade-based system,” says Laura Cole, the director of collaborations and partnerships at Good Shepherd Episcopal.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

This isn’t really about math. Nate and I collaborate regularly to support students as math learners, and together we’ve developed a kind of system of strategies — some that apply to all students, others only needed for a select few. He knew that if he made a mistake with a math problem, I wouldn’t be disappointed.

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eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

Saga, a national nonprofit, provides a research-backed math curriculum with a track record of success for middle and secondary grades. The randomized controlled trials also found that Saga’s tutoring model reduced math course failure rates by 60 percent. About Saga Education.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

. — Edson Barton, CEO, YouScience The Science of Reading continues to gain momentum in changing how educators approach reading instruction, particularly in foundational skills for Grades K-3. We see older readers struggle with foundational literacy skills, which are often only taught up until the third grade.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

Teachers and students have to take time out to do the screening, in addition to other assessments (state and quarterly/trimester reading and math assessments, plus additional testing for special ed students). 22 Thus, the total cost for each special ed student in states like Massachusetts may be over $200k ($20k x 10 years – grades 3-12).

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I left third grade and my third-grade teacher Ms. My fourth-grade teacher, Ms. She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Its enhanced accuracy in math and vast knowledge base make it the ideal option for teachers teaching advanced-level courses in STEM subjects. The ability to create and personalize feedback at an individual level was, to put it mildly, unrealistic; one that had way too many blocking variables, not the least of which was its failure to scale.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Think More Like an Art Teacher Math teachers’ approach to teaching is effective given their subject matter, but when unleashing play in the classroom, teachers—even math teachers—may find it helpful to think of their class more as an art class than a math class.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2025

Summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics), is a week-long, overnight camp at USNA each year for students currently in the 7th-10th grades. If you like math and science, you are off to a great start. Experience real-life application of math and science principles through hands on practical learning.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

The original version of this article appeared in Grading for Growth. I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. In that whole last paragraph, notice that I didn’t say anything about grades. And again—none of this had anything to do with grades. The grades got out of the way and let us learn.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2024

All around my room are reminders of my identity as a 6’2, 280-pound Black and Puerto Rican man, husband, father, math teacher and basketball coach. Before I knew it, I was teaching a seventh grade math class with little support on a tiny salary and barely any teaching experience.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Anderson had cleared the reading and writing portions of the Praxis Core with ease, but he kept failing the math component. He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. His career in social work has offered further proof of that. “He

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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. As for older students, researchers found that the relationship between listening and reading comprehension strengthens after second grade when students begin to master decoding skills.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

It's very much scaffolded, especially when students come into sixth grade. Or, we have a math teacher who uses Minecraft as an assessment. In ninth grade algebra, they create food trucks and pitch them to judges in a Shark Tank-style final project. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration."

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Many educators are wondering about whether grading policies should be relaxed because of how stressed everyone is, and with so many students facing tough life circumstances of tech access. To me, it starts with: What is the purpose of grading? So there should be failure in all of our classes. What is your position on that?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

During my initial moments of reflection, I vividly recalled receiving my COMPASS and ACCUPLACER scores at my local community college years ago, and hearing for the first time that I tested at developmental levels for math. Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president.

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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

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

They learned about neuroscience, shared personal examples and watched videos of famous failures. One student who had been effusive about the growth mindset lessons was struggling with two-step math equations. In his math class, I saw him get several problems wrong, push back his paper, sigh heavily and mutter, “I can’t do this.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2017

NCLB asked districts to invest in supplemental interventions for students who were at-risk of not achieving grade-level proficiency, according to the state’s math and reading exams. Program compliance was relatively straightforward: invest in supplemental math and reading interventions. In contrast, ESSA broadens the work.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Students are grouped by academic need so teachers can review topics with struggling students while the rest of the class works at their own pace, often on a playlist of exercises assigned by Canvas (grades 6-12) or Google Classroom (K-5). Even if students are working at different grade-levels, they don’t feel excluded.”.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

That means new teachers must learn how to teach science, technology, engineering and math on-the-job. When third grade students use the internet to research a topic, do they know how to do that safely and legally? A lot of learning is accomplished by failure. No longer have students submit a final project and get a grade.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Among the tools the district found was Teach to One: Math (TTO), a digital personalized learning program by New Classrooms , a New York-based nonprofit, that adapts to a student’s individual skills and gaps. High achievers can accelerate into above-grade level standards, while those move slower can get extra practice.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

“For some classes, teachers may use a drone for flying as an incentive or for basic coding practice, while others have the students plot out equations, using the drones to study math. We set up a fake orchard in the classroom,” explains Katharine Casleton, who teaches the third grade. We also did one drone lesson for student writing.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

East Asian countries led the pack when it comes to reading, math and science, topped by China’s handpicked, wealthiest regions. students placed in the middle of the pack, scoring slightly above average on reading and science and a little below in math. And the Americans? Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat.

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