Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. What’s happened with COVID is low-income students and students of color had less internet access, so with the closures, there were kids who literally could not participate in school. But we have to be safe.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Grades from individual classes then get averaged together, semester by semester, into GPAs that permanently carry the marks of any prior failures and shortcomings in a students’ learning. They create a stifling atmosphere where failure is a brand to be avoided rather than an experience to learn from. The outcome?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Two years ago, my oldest son graduated from high school. I thought he was well-prepared for the transition to life after high school, but soon realized I was wrong. I thought he was well-prepared for the transition to life after high school, but soon realized I was wrong. I stood back and watched.

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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. Through early exposure to STEM, students come to understand that failure is an integral part of the learning process. STEM subjects often involve trial and error, demanding persistence and a growth mindset.

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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. And it matched up pretty well for how we worked then,” said Stacey Childress, CEO of New Schools Venture Fund, in the summit’s opening remarks. Some of it led to progress, and some of it did not,” said Childress.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Innovation is more than a buzzword today—it’s something educators strive for in their classrooms, schools, and districts. We can’t test students on their innovation, but we can encourage them to explore new concepts, look at challenges from all sides, and embrace failures as opportunities to try again with more knowledge.

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2015

Ohio’s EOS focuses on school skills and moves 60 percent more at-risk students toward graduation. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This fall, I will return to the classroom for my second year teaching English at Philadelphia’s Excel Academy South , an accelerated high school experience for students seeking a smaller, more personal setting, intensely focused on elevating social skills, emotional wellness, and academic success. .

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

Besides, high school and college classes give lots of homework. If I don’t give my students homework in 7th grade, am I setting them up for failure in their future advanced courses? I was the only teacher responsible for the math education of 180 students who were all trying to get into the best high school possible.

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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. As for high school and adult-level titles, many of the books that students are reading are required as part of the curriculum including classics like The Catcher in the Rye , Of Mice and Men , and A Raisin in the Sun.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 16, 2016

The latest results are available from the annual Gallup poll of middle and high school students. The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores above some politically-determined line of ‘proficiency.’ Over 920,000 students participated last fall.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

Over the past two decades, I have attempted dozens of different types of icebreakers in my classes; some were successful and others were a total failure. When I started teaching in smaller towns, I noticed that many high school and middle school teachers skipped icebreakers because they assumed the students already knew each other.

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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. In contrast, the ungraded, complex assignments I encountered in college allowed me to struggle through difficult concepts, ask questions, and refine my understanding in a way that simply wasnt possible in high school.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

While more than half of high schools nationwide—53 percent, to be precise—offer computer science, disparities in access and participation reveal themselves among traditionally underrepresented groups. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

Written by Jen Easterly, Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Last month marks six years since 17 students and faculty senselessly lost their lives and 17 others were injured when a mass murderer entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida and started shooting.

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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. This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Over the course of 16 months we spoke with more than 100 district and school leaders in six countries representing more than 880,000 students, analyzed each school’s documents and data, conducted surveys of administrators, teachers and students, and reviewed surveys that the schools conducted. What Does Real Success Look Like?

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

They will have some amazing successes–and some failures–as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. Read more about Ross-Kleinmann’s thoughts on AI in schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

The first imperative isn’t just about telling the school community about the district’s tech plan, but, more important, ensuring they understand the learning goals are attached to the plan. The instructional team can only be effective when everyone agrees on the non-negotiable goals.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. And no one ever said starting high school was easy. How do you mean?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Existing STEM programs A few years ago, we were looking for a robotics solution for our middle school students to use primarily to get them engaged with engineering before high school. At the time, we did not have a robotics course for middle grades at all, though we did have an after-school STEM club.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

According to an article from Screencastify , “a Columbia University study showed a 12 percent increase in attendance and a 27 percent decrease in course failures when parents received weekly texts about student progress.” Something as simple as text messages has the power to be highly effective in reaching those busy parents.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Fortunately, a year prior, one of my 4th-year senior capstone students had prior experience with high school robotics and was interested in finding a screen-free way to introduce robotics to Dean College’s Children’s Center. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2016

Idaho officials troubled by news that the state’s high school graduation rate is much lower than previously thought have identified where the problem is occurring: At the state’s “virtual” charter schools and alternative schools.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

While many of my physics and astrophysics students at Chaparral High School here in Scottsdale Unified School District are already science enthusiasts, I understand how important it is to continue to find new ways to keep them inspired and engaged. Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.).

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

Not every kindergartner can boast that she helped build a robot with high school students. For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) program at the high school in their small Kansas town. Not every kindergartner can boast that she helped build a robot with high school students.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. I follow on YouTube a middle school teacher, Joy Bazzle , who uses spin bikes for desks. My high school students have shared with me unfortunate memories of their names being on the board or the color being red on a classroom behavior chart at the end of the day.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2021

It’s especially scary when we consider that our failures can equate to student failures. This semester, I had a great conversation with a French teacher at a high school in my district. It’s not because we don’t want to engage in creative work. Change is scary. That’s a lot of pressure on teachers to not mess this up.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2023

The skills required to succeed in your post-High School life, be it college, a vocational training program, the military, or a job, are surprisingly similar. Conclusion Having the right skills and qualities can distinguish between success and failure when securing a job.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Demographics: Hillsboro High School is part of the Hillsboro Independent School District in Hillsboro, Texas. 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.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

The role of leadership is important as well, and over time we began to think about the conditions that allow for excitement, experimentation, failure, and revision to occur. Those conditions and the disposition behind them are the same for high school students as they are for adult learners.

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eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2016

This was the focus of a CoSN 2016 spotlight session by Eric Sheninger, a senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education and a former high school principal. “If you don’t get instructional design right, technology is just going to speed up the rate of failure.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. I follow on YouTube a middle school teacher, Joy Bazzle , who uses spin bikes for desks. My high school students have shared with me unfortunate memories of their names being on the board or the color being red on a classroom behavior chart at the end of the day.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

My father attended classes for 11 years (there was no fourth year of high school then and no kindergarten), but even so, his classes were separated by grade levels and students were assessed by letter grades. Passing time in school no longer matters. Okay, you made it through high school. What did you learn?

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Tim McNeese, director of information technology for the 48,000-student Williamson County Schools in Tennessee, described how his district had just begun piloting a one-to-one computing initiative with Chromebooks in one elementary, middle, and high school before the pandemic hit. Then COVID happened, and we all went remote.

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