eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Jobs to be done hinges on the fact that consumers “hire” products and services to do a specific job in their lives, and that they are motivated to do so by particular circumstances. And over the years, we’ve also made our best guesses at some of K–12 students’ key jobs, particularly drawing on research on what motivates younger students.

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Schools Students Motivation Failure 247

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. 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.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 269

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. From creating daily to-do lists, scheduling blocks of uninterrupted work time, and taking regular breaks, these strategies will keep you motivated and on track.

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Skills Failure Motivation Communication 186

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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STEM Science Failure History 276

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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Essay Failure Students Writing 183

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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Education Internet Interdisciplinary Testing 294

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The far-reaching meta-analysis considered flipped learning experiments done in elementary schools, high schools and colleges, with the bulk of the studies in the higher ed setting. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

At the same time, employers struggle to fill open positions for jobs that require more education than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree This paradox is the result of a market failure: Our education and training systems are increasingly both out of touch with employers’ needs and out of reach for young adults.

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Failure Motivation Evaluation Intelligence 139

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. The study included more than 1,500 students at the middle and high school levels. The purpose?

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The Learning Ally Audiobook Solution As children age and learning shifts from learning to read to reading to learn, support can mean the difference between learning from reading or suffering sustained academic failure.

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Reading Failure Motivation Study 164

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. Since traditional brick-and-mortar classes clearly weren’t working for him, John attempted online courses through his local high school. Classes were arduous for him, and he often didn’t pass them.

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Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

As a music teacher and the coordinator for the Academy for the Fine Arts at Governor Thomas Johnson High School, I consider myself fortunate. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours. By high school, with only one semester of arts education required in our state, average yearly instructional time drops to 33 hours a year.

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Art Education Multidisciplinary Students 218

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

In recent years, Johnson, along with many other professors, has noticed that students struggle more than ever with the jump from high school to college. 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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Students Math Writing Skills 174

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recognizing her potential as a math scholar, I encouraged her to ask questions, embrace mistakes and find motivation in difficult tasks. She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow. This shift in mindset allowed her to tackle challenging problems with confidence and curiosity.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Ralphie’s case resulted in long-term suspension and assignment to Marietta Alternative Program and Services (MAPs), an alternative program within his local high school in Marietta, Ga., He was 14 years old. The juvenile court judge ordered him to attend the program five days a week from 8 a.m.

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Counselling Students Failure Motivation 185

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Researcher Doris Santoro, author of “Demoralized,” explains that demoralization occurs when teachers “encounter consistent and pervasive challenges to enacting the values that motivate their work.” In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure.

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Teachers Coaching Schools Counselling 218

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

However, many high school classrooms still use outdated college and career preparation models, which can leave high school graduates feeling unprepared for their future. This highlights the increasing need for high schools to incorporate career-connected learning.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 329

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Good video games are incredibly effective at capturing our attention, converting extrinsic rewards into intrinsic motivation, and creating meaningful experiences. If we’re going to make school relevant to today’s students, we must learn to leverage play in new ways. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning.

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Gamification Learning Culture Students 153

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2017

In her early teaching years, Wanny Hersey learned how hands-on projects—which would eventually become known as “making”— could engage and motivate her English students like nothing she’d seen before. In the rapid prototyping step, students quickly try things out in order to find out what works and learn from failures.

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Education Failure Art Grades 167

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

I teach a course called Architecture & Design in the new upper school for boys at Annie Wright Schools in Tacoma, Wash. Traditionally, Annie Wright’s high school had been all girls. After we opened a parallel all-boys high school, we launched the class to help galvanize our new learning community.

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Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

What followed was an amazing example of student motivation, creativity, resourcefulness and personalized learning at its best. Specifically, how could I motivate students to push their learning beyond set rubric requirements or specific targets? As I began considering the challenges, I realized there were quite a few of them.

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Motivation Failure Students Knowledge 116

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

A project of the Institute of Play, Quest, as the school is known, is an Innovation Zone (or iZone) school, itself a project of the city’s public school system. Additionally, Arum has said that the school is adept at building soft skills, such as design thinking, along with collaboration and critical thinking.

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

Specifically, in my classroom, we use the texts to analyze character traits and character motivation, and to discuss how characters’ actions affect outcomes. History: Learning From Famous Diplomats and Sports Players Did you know that Michael Jordan did not make his high school baseball team, or that Steve Jobs was once fired from Apple?

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Science Failure Teachers History 113

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

They are driven, motivated and informed. 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.

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Science STEM Failure Middle School 109

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

Experts say that classes that are self-paced, asynchronous or technically possible to tune into from a shared space full of distractions often require students to exhibit more self-control, more intrinsic motivation and better time management. The playbook for such nudges is changing.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 199

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

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Academic Integrity Failure Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

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Academic Integrity Failure Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

Here’s a look at some of edtech’s notable successes and failures that might shed light on the decade to come. Accelerated Reader , a product that started more than 30 years ago, still motivates kids to read. Clearly, a lot has changed over the last decade. EdSurge: What technology has actually delivered on its promise?

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Education Textbooks Blended Learning Failure 141

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

They also tend to report greater collaboration skills, greater feelings of belongingness, higher levels of academic engagement, greater motivation to learn, and higher levels of self-efficacy. A high school senior’s view of textbooks and worksheet packets [guest post]. Related Posts.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

The idea was to see whether such personalized notifications could spur parents to play a more active role in their child’s schooling. What he found was that the right messages, delivered at the right time, can boost attendance and reduce course failure, as results published in The Journal of Human Resources in 2019 showed.

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Failure Students Assignments Beliefs 109

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

In this world, would there be such a thing as failure? Imagining taking little kids who have a passion for something into school for the first time and giving them decent environments.It’s hard to imagine that those kids would not care or that you’d have a lot of failures. But in my case, I was kicked out of high school.

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Intelligence Failure Science Beliefs 144

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In addition, learning environments have typically assumed that failure is the learner’s fault. We should be connecting, with evidence, what top performers are deciding and doing both now and in the past, from down-payments in college back to high-school and before. slide rules for me, when calculators were becoming available.).

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Education Learning Science Feedback 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

These bright guessers are going to be in big trouble in high school if we don’t push them beyond that.” Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure? “We are committed to personalized learning, but can't continue a program that does not meet the needs of all of our students.”

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Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 145

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Knowing that their work could potentially be seen by others beyond our school community raised the bar for my students in motivation and execution. Job titles in this category might include Chief Executive Officer of an edtech startup or Entrepreneur-in-residence at a high school. It's not a one-way street.

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Art Education 134

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades.

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Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. In the face of mounting evidence, education experts accepted a prescriptive fact: student success is not measured by milestones like ‘took a foreign language in fifth grade’ or ‘passed Algebra in high school’ but by how s/he thinks.

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Critical Thinking Knowledge Failure Communication 135

EAB

AUGUST 28, 2023

Here are the three most common failure paths for strategic plans: They set obviously unrealistic goals They propose a list of activities to be completed rather than outcomes to be achieved They set goals that cannot be measured Each of these “mistakes” has understandable root causes.

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Interdisciplinary Achievement Failure Activities 98