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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Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 111

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. More focus on grades than learning When students are preoccupied with grades, they often lose sight of the learning process itself.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 206

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2018

asked a 9th-grade boy on the first day of school. Back then, the Chinese language program at Latin had begun piloting a proficiency-based model, which is structured differently from a traditional grade-based model. The transition raised multiple challenges including course placement, grading, and community communications.

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Grades Essay Language Languages 129

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. How do you mean?

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Failure Assignments Communication Middle School 210

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?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. Related: 4 things you should know about digital portfolios.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Here is how the project unfolded: Day 1: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Writing The project began by gauging student interest in co-authoring an article on student wellness.

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Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 99

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. When John first started in my class, his academic skills were minimal: His reading was well below grade level.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

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. I’d randomly choose five things we learned the day before and ask them to write what they could recall. The purpose?

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

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. This isnt a silver-bullet story, they write. This interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Failure Grades Writing Achievement 131

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Their grades are determined by points accumulated. GradeCraft gives students freedom to fail by encouraging them to take risks and explore with no negative impact on their final grade. She adds that her goal is to “give [students] the space to be able to focus on the joy of actually learning rather than worrying about a grade.”

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 166

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

11 Research evidence lacking: Despite OG/MSL’s popularity and backing, research evidence of its efficacy for students with dyslexia beyond 3 rd grade is lacking, despite almost a century of application. 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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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Language 282

eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. When they broke down the various studies and looked specifically at how growth mindset affected students who got low grades, they found that the interventions did have some beneficial effects.” And that is what leads to better understanding.

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Study Failure Beliefs Achievement 254

Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

I quickly realized that holding space where educators can gather and share in a grade level team meeting isn’t the same as building a strategic professional development scope and sequence. No one told me about the ugly parts of people management, like having to write folks up or design and implement support plans.

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Teachers Failure Schools Coaching 198

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

He teaches 7th grade social studies in Highland Park, Illinois. I kept on looking at how we could take these skills of being able to read, write, and think, and take them to the next level. I kept on looking at how we could take these skills of being able to read, write, and think, and take them to the next level.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 161

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

During the two-week module on positive psychology, I wanted students to experience research and writing as positive and engaging activities. Here is how the project unfolded: Day 1: Setting the Stage for Collaborative Writing The project began by gauging student interest in co-authoring an article on student wellness.

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Collaborative Research Writing Failure Students 83

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. 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.

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Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 88

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

Learning was sorted into disconnected subjects and compartmentalized by grades and age groups, with students sent along the proverbial conveyor belt of learning. On the other hand, industry is not able to slow down and wait for school schedules and grading periods to shoehorn real-world rapid prototyping. So how to span the gap?

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Multidisciplinary Schools Failure Evaluation 142

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

This group, composed of representatives of key patrons including administrators, teachers, and support staff from all grade levels, can research AI’s potential, pilot its use in various educational settings, and develop professional learning opportunities for staff.

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Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 222

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The significance of this cannot be overstated, which is why we once again point to the results of the most recent NAEP Report Card : only 35% of students read proficiently by grade 4, and reading assessment scores are the lowest they’ve been in decades.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

In fact, average fourth and eighth grade math and reading scores fell for most states between 2019 and 2022. Reading scores declined by three points for both grades. For some, the results seem to be proof of the failure to adapt to the pandemic. The results show plummeting scores for math and reading.

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Math Failure Reading Testing 181

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

And while students from low-income backgrounds and students of color were more likely to experience remediation as their primary instructional modality—even when these students had already demonstrated mastery of grade-level standards—a switch to learning acceleration was particularly effective for these same groups.

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Math Learning Schools Failure 217

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

“This summer presents a perfect time for districts to pilot new strategies not usually in their repertoire, and instead try to rebuild something different,” such as enrichment and other targeted programs aimed at smaller groups, the authors write. “I

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Schools Failure Students Blended Learning 177

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

In the first part of my class, I’ll have them engage in activities where we’ll do a shared Google Doc so I can actually see their engagement and the thoughts that they’re having as they write words or add things to diagrams. To me, it starts with: What is the purpose of grading? So there should be failure in all of our classes.

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 149

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A student who struggles with writing may have the chance to show their understanding through a Minecraft tutorial. It's very much scaffolded, especially when students come into sixth grade. In ninth grade algebra, they create food trucks and pitch them to judges in a Shark Tank-style final project.

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Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 189

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

I remembered adjusting my work schedule to attend tutorial sessions almost daily and even on Saturday mornings for an entire summer, only to earn a failing grade. Failure to understand this can lead to the loss of your opportunity to serve in the capacity of president. Together, everyone works to advance the college—not you.

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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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Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 186

Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

The Value of Failure In this kind of classroom, you see a lot of failure, just as you would on the playground. Rethinking Assessment Evaluating play-based learning isn’t as simple as grading a worksheet or even an essay. Young students may not be able to write about their projects yet, but they can use technology.

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Failure Art Essay Math 166

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect.

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Activities Learning Art Failure 172

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

We also did one drone lesson for student writing. We provide each grade with coding and robotics opportunities appropriate for each level throughout our district,” explains Steven Shadel, executive director of K-12 STEM and literacy for district 219. Alex writes for CDW’s Tech magazines and websites. by Alexander Slagg.

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Learning Tools STEM Learning Failure 161

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I felt self-conscious about my failures every day. I write down the anticipated student responses to know when I hear what will allow me to assess student understanding. For that, I am grateful and proud to say that I am writing this as someone who has found the tools and strength necessary to stay in education.

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Teachers Failure Attention Disabilities 182

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

It’s equally appropriate for fiction and nonfiction and does a solid job of reinforcing Common Core standards related to writing, literacy, and language. Comics can be used to tell a story, carry on a discussion, provide a sequenced how-to, or write an essay. The lower the grade level, the less panels you should expect.

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Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. Low-stakes practice: Use frequent formative assessments such as polls, quizzes, games, or writing and discussion prompts to reinforce and retrieve essential concepts. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 118

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

“It is my great hope that our nation will commit to educating our youth about civics, and to helping young people understand their crucial role as informed, active citizens in our nation,” she writes. “I And she figured that games are not only fun and engaging, but they allow for greater agency and more room for failure, according to Dubé.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 24, 2020

They are developed by you, likely in conjunction with grade-level teammates and your school administration. Students write a short two-four minute piece. You record how much they produced in a minute, how many errors, and possible quantification of how they applied their writing knowledge. More on standards-based grading.

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Curriculum Textbooks Evaluation Achievement 154

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. The majority of my students work hard but test poorly, though a small percentage of them are unmotivated.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

My husband, Dave, and I have now been thrust into the role of teachers for our two kids—one in kindergarten and the other in second grade—for the past couple of months. I would take a lawn chair out front and enjoy grading in the shade of one of our trees. Their actual teachers are amazing.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 199