Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Learning management systems send alerts to parents about missed assignments and grades. And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.” Computer science is offered in all grades, from kindergarten through high school. “I Coding is one of those areas where it's a skill, but it’s also an art,” Ebert says.

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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., Overcoming the Fear of Failure Ironically, one of the biggest hurdles in utilizing design thinking is something that is integral to the process: accepting failure.

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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

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. It's very much scaffolded, especially when students come into sixth grade.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of the first things I noticed was that all the students had to abide by a strict uniform policy, including shoes, belts and school colors, and middle school-aged children were walking in straight lines through silent hallways. A crushing defeat in many ways that made me feel like a failure.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

The participating counties in the summer trial have reached 825 math students in 6th–8th grades. Jamie Graber, a 6th and 7th grade math teacher at Polk County Middle School, says, “I think Alef Math paired with targeted lessons is helping by ensuring students are truly able to apply the content they learn.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers.

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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. And that opinion doesn’t improve in high school. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. Fee or subscription. – See more at: [link].

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything! Did we have failures?

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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). Students at Normandy Park Elementary in Morris School District.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

But with SMART Boards in almost every classroom, one-to-one iPad programs in grades 4 through 8 and the district’s investment in Google's ecosystem of classroom tools, digital literacy skills were becoming increasingly crucial for Hauppauge teachers. or ‘When you keep me after school to do PD, I’m missing my son’s soccer match.’

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. AJ Bianco is a middle school social studies teacher at Harrington Park School District in Harrington Park, New Jersey.

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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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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.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I firmly believe our failure to teach our children across all the dimensions of wellness has left them unprepared to tackle life's challenges in and out of the classroom. We dont hold our schools accountable to a high standard of excellence beyond standardized testing and uniform learning standards.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. The takeaway?

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

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. Without extra support early on, many students dont know how to play what she calls the game of school, Johnson says.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? From the beginning, I was told that I would be working close to 60 hours a week.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

High achievers can accelerate into above-grade level standards, while those move slower can get extra practice. After gaining board and trustee approval in June 2016, the district decided to run a one-year pilot program for the 2016-2017 school year for sixth graders at the district’s two middle schools, Graham and Crittenden.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2017

It became the way by which BCPS told stories about what had and hadn’t worked, so that other educators, schools and districts could potentially garner tips and insights. A family works together on a digital challenge during Night of Innovation (Baltimore County Public Schools). According to the S.T.A.T.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 30, 2018

That’s exactly the approach that CTO Frankie Jackson took several years ago at Cypress-Fairbanks Independent School District when proposing massive infrastructure upgrades in the suburban Houston district. This year, Marysville’s one-to-one program is fully deployed in grades 5 through 12. “I We sat back like, ‘Are you kidding me?’

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Sometimes they are dance moves with music, other times we just play Simon Says (which, even in 8th grade, is still a favorite of my students). For example, Grade A eggs may cost $6.36 Students with learning differences who work with me end 7th grade saying math “used to be” their worst subject. per 2 dozen. .”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Progress — and success — is dependent on the completion of various tasks rather than seat time as is the metric used in most states (for example, in my state of California, students must attend class 175-180 days a year to pass that grade). Assessments are competency-based and referenced to school learning criteria.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

Consider a pedagogy that transcends rote memorization and the stock drills often found in today’s classrooms, expects critical thinking that teaches how to learn anything — not just school subjects. This clever free online tool provides a template for encouraging students to learn rather than simply track grades.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. When students feel they have control, learning becomes something theyre doing for themselves, not just for a grade. Use Humor and Surprise to Boost Engagement Remember your favorite teacher from school?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

No one to care about your grades, no hugs, no birthday gifts, no glimmer of hope—just the consistency of survival by whatever means necessary. This is a population long neglected by the public school system and often relegated to dark corners in separate buildings, a familiar dismissal in their lives.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

His continuous failure—or iteration, as we’d call it today— taught him to innovate. Discuss how despite repeated failures, all heroes complete their journey. When teaching fictional texts, you can apply lessons in resilience to the hero’s journey ; discuss how heroes aren’t successful all the time. Stay foolish.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The Honeywell Educators at Space Academy (HESA) , a professional (and personal) development program for middle-school science teachers, gave me an unexpected opportunity to experience many of the emotions that students live each day. It’s not about candy, gold stars, first place or a grade that trumps someone else’s.

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