Catlin Tucker

JULY 13, 2017

This week I have the opportunity to spend time learning at IDEO in San Francisco as part of an externship for educators. Learn from failure. She said that one of their most important values is “learn from failure.” These little fs are learning moments. They included… Collaborate.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

There is a fair amount of research into the impact of classroom design on student learning. Spaces flooded with natural light that allow for a variety of learning methods and activities, and spaces that let students feel a sense of ownership over the classroom, demonstrably affect how well students learn.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sustaining that interest is important, too, particularly because girls and underrepresented minority groups quickly lose interest in STEM learning–and never regain motivation to pursue it. Ultimately, through STEM learning, students should have the opportunity authentically apply their learning to solve real-world problems.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this week, LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based nonprofit that promotes personalized learning, culturally relevant teaching and innovation, convened hundreds of Chicago teachers for its sixth annual summit. So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2021

Katie Novak and I wrote UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes to support teachers in developing a mindset, skill set, and toolset nimble enough to traverse any teaching and learning landscape with confidence. It will take time and a willingness to pursue our own learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

But younger children can learn and benefit from modified lessons. While older students may pause and analyze success and failure in between solutions, younger children tend to move more quickly from one solution to the next. Engineering design process : For early education, this is three steps: explore, create, improve.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

But despite these challenges, there are bright spots in teaching and learning. Inspiring district leaders, classroom teachers, and school staff have found unique and innovative ways to engage students in learning, motivating students to see beyond classroom walls and truly immerse themselves in learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2019

When we consider the studies showing the relationship between bullying, personal failure, and anger to school violence, we must pause and reflect on our own schools and classrooms. But what if… What if they loved learning? How many of our students feel excited to learn in our schools today? Probably not.

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

“America’s great remote-learning experiment: What surveys of teachers and parents tell us about how it went” was originally published by Chalkbeat, a nonprofit news organization covering public education. So — now that the school year is over almost everywhere — how much remote learning actually happened? newsletters.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Ninth-grade English was a paradox for me—both the best and worst year for helping me learn to write. Ninth-grade English was a paradox for me—both the best and worst year for helping me learn to write. They create a stifling atmosphere where failure is a brand to be avoided rather than an experience to learn from.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

Key points: Deeper learning helps immerse students in a more engaging education model Redesigning the educational model after COVID Educational leaders must leverage collaboration for success For more news on district leadership, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Today’s students need to develop a broad and well-rounded body of knowledge.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students. Research by Dorland (2023) shows that design thinking training may enable students to embrace, rather than struggle with failure in their work. Collected Essays on Learning and Teaching, 14(1). link] Dorland, A. 2016, May 25).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

According to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America , this anxiety can stem from a fear of failure, negative testing experiences, or feeling unprepared. In fact, studies have shown that test anxiety is actually the worst in the middle grades.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2021

Teachers and students alike wrestled with the steep learning curve of remote teaching and learning. Much of our experience has been molded by trial and error, failure and success, frustration and elation. Yet, schools can leverage digital teaching and learning now more than ever.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

2017 was a year filled with makerspaces, student engagement, personalized learning, and more. Here, two seasoned librarians shed light on their biggest lessons learned in 2017 and look forward to the up-and-coming trends for the new year. The biggest lesson I learned in 2017 is to never underestimate what students are capable of.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Living through a pandemic, by its very nature, has been traumatic for everyone and it is important to debrief and reflect on the failures and successes of our educational practices during this time. It may be surprising to learn that as of 2020, according to the CDC-Kaiser Ace Study , up to two-thirds of U.S.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

In fact, many district technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. Imperative 2: Raise the bar with rigorous, transformative, and innovative learning and skills. Schools need to throw out that.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As the movement to improve education grows stronger, so has talk of positive failure, failing forward, and encouraging teachers and students to see the benefits of their own failures. Enter CoSN’s Failfest by submitting a video describing your great failure! Learn more here !

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

When the pandemic prompted schools to quickly shift to distance learning last spring, educators became responsible for using online technologies to teach students. This included a crash course in learning and behaving online. Learning to protect their private information online. Is it H elpful? Is it I nspiring? Is it K ind?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

The educators began stretching their existing abilities, thriving on challenges and seeing failures as a heartening springboard for growth and getting back to find solutions. The school community created an environment for passion of learning rather than a hunger for approval.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

This isn’t a bad thing–it’s “the sound of learning,” as a coworker of mine once put it! This creates a clear picture of where and how their learning takes place. When listening, they should avoid interruptions, withhold judgment, and learn to take verbal cues. Things are bound to be extra noisy and energetic.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

I believe this resistance has more to do with fear than a reluctance to continue learning and evolving in their practice. Most teachers enter this profession because they genuinely love to learn; however, many of us get into the classroom and feel isolated in our work. Failure is part of learning. That’s okay.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. Imagine you are a struggling reader. You dread reading…in any class. One day, your science teacher brings in a Microsoft HoloLens headset. You put on the mixed reality glasses and pick up the science article that the teacher wants you to read. You begrudgingly begin reading.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

I also had teachers who built relationships with us as students, held us to high expectations, and built a joy for learning. No, this is about how challenging it is to deal with the shame of experiencing resignations and how I am learning to cope with moments of failure in leadership. As school leaders, we go through this.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

” I hope educators and educational institutions use this year and the lessons learned to reimagine “school” and how we design and facilitate learning. Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments. Learning happens in classrooms. The teacher is the expert.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

If playing games is part of our culture, even part of our identities, then it stands to reason that students can be highly motivated by game-based learning opportunities. In the classroom, it can be as straightforward as transforming learning activities into games or a more subtle application of game-design principles to learning tasks.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2022

Sessions include focuses on blended learning, curating classroom resources, using augmented reality, project-based learning, building student media literacy, time-saving tech tricks from librarians, using digital tools with students who have special needs, digital problem-solving, and more.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Combining PBL with makerspaces (also called maker education) gives educators an infinite number of projects, assignments, and activities that engage students and truly immerse them in learning. If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. The best part?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they dont.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Keep reading to discover how this district keeps learning going in the middle of a global pandemic. Nominated by : Lexia Learning. We were using Core5 in just six of our elementary schools prior to the pandemic,” said Dr. Mary Ann Reilly, assistant superintendent for Teaching and Learning. Nominee : Newark Public Schools.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Prioritizing the creation of a healthy environment where students can continue to learn should be paramount. Now more than ever, states must find a way to assess student learning. Department of Education can expand learning opportunities and better serve the education community. As such, here are 10 ways states and the U.S.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Self-assessment is a powerful strategy that encourages students to become more invested in their learning journeys. Self-assessment shifts the focus from a grade-centric perspective to a learning-centric one. It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This use of AI at school will impact how students learn and use their creativity as innovation, which will be increasingly necessary in the future as even higher-order thinking skills become standard. Failure and criticism can lead to students abandoning their own ideas and relying too heavily on AI to be their brains, so to speak.

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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. Students love to learn about various species of animals like sharks, reptiles, and birds and select which species survives. Each year, I document my #BritReads reading journey on my social media channels.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. This perspective transforms data analysis into an empowering process; data is a tool for improvement amongst our students rather than a measure of failure.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

Give yourself grace: Showing self-compassion is the act of being kind to yourself and realizing that suffering, imperfections, and failures are part of being human. Here are just a few strategies you can employ to help reignite your passion for teaching : 1.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 15, 2021

Learning Styles inventories –several. VARK Questionnaire –how do you best learn? You can find her resources at Structured Learning. Spicy Nodes. SpiderScribe– add text, pictures, files, more; free sign-up, fee for more than 3. The Crossing –attempts to cross a gorge; some fail; all result in success. Logical Thinking.

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