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. We still do not have a coherent national approach to rapid-results testing. This year, the event was held fully online.

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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. However, as policy makers determine what that flexibility looks like, they should consider the consequences of pausing testing for another year. Now more than ever, states must find a way to assess student learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 16, 2016

The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores above some politically-determined line of ‘proficiency.’ Rethinking learning time in Clear Lake. Here are a couple of key charts that I made from the data: . download a larger version of this image ]. . Redefining rigor. Related Posts.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Have them create their inventions and test them out. Here’s the kicker: if they aren’t able to create a working prototype in the allotted time, don’t see that as a failure. The learning after each iteration is as important as the final product. They will also learn to manage their emotions, as success doesn’t come right away.

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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

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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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

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. Innovation is more than a buzzword today—it’s something educators strive for in their classrooms, schools, and districts.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Keep reading to discover how this district keeps learning going in the middle of a global pandemic. Nominated by : Lexia Learning.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

note : In partnership with Lesson Planet , we asked their professional development resource arm, PD Learning Network , for the most popular videos on their site. When Todd Nesloney was tapped to become lead learner at Webb Elementary, in Navasota, Texas, it could legitimately be called a true learning experience. ”

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes. Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days.

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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. Students go from “I’m not smart” to “I just haven’t learned that.yet.” Enter research.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When I saw her speak, I found it easy to get swept up in her vision to democratize blood testing and save lives. Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. We have much to learn from failures, especially in fields where the stakes are high, the regulation heavy and specialized expertise is at a premium.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

I like to keep parents in the loop at all times, so each day I send out updates about upcoming tests, attach study guides, or include a monthly calendar with upcoming events. A successful relationship between educators and parents requires this sort of constant communication, whether via phone call, email, or even an in-person conversation.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

It Helps Schools Identify Children at Risk for Dyslexia and Reading Difficulties — Even Before They Learn to Read. It helps educators identify and support children at risk for dyslexia and other reading difficulties — even before they learn to read. BOSTON — June 14, 2021 — Two-thirds of U.S. For information, visit [link].

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Unfortunately, this kind of productive struggle is largely absent from K-12 education, leaving students ill-prepared with the mental resilience required to learn and adapt in college and beyond. The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

If I don’t give my students homework in 7th grade, am I setting them up for failure in their future advanced courses? At the beginning of my career in Chicago, I taught 7th- and 8th-grade math in a system where students took a test and applied to get into selective high schools. My homework past.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

They begin to fulfill their learning potential. . Growing up, an unsteady family life meant that I frequently moved from school to school, and such an upbringing left me with no desire to focus on schoolwork, feeling like a failure because I lacked the foundation a consistent education would have given me.

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EdTech Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

So, a student who missed all of second and part of third grade, for example, will still be tested at the third-grade level. Without the proper preparation, this sets up students for failure and reflects poorly on school districts when low test scores come back.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development. The material feels irrelevant or unvaluable to students One of the primary reasons students cheat is that they dont perceive the material being tested as valuable or relevant to their lives.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. It’s a time when kids are asking questions and invited into learning experiences that create curiosity. People most often think of the final summative event where we verify learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

Courtesy of Santa Fe Public Schools Everywhere you look, it seems, people are talking about “learning loss,” or how much students haven’t learned during the tumult of the past two years. It’s not about memorizing everything you should have learned, it’s about moving you forward so you pick things up along the way.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

This perception of intellectual “haves” and “have nots” is one that Lang Chen, a postdoctoral fellow in cognitive psychology and neuroscience at Stanford University, recently tested. And we’re already seeing it. In a recent report, 96% of teachers in the U.S. said technology makes a significant impact in their classrooms.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In addition to the usual suspects—more augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps—a lot of people believe this will be the year that social emotional learning (SEL) and interoperability become part of the mainstream. Dr. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

YES draws on more than three decades of research and development by the Museum’s PreK-12 education division, under the leadership of founding director Dr. Christine Cunningham, senior vice president of STEM Learning at the Museum of Science. Each unit challenges students to address a significant real-world problem.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

For students with anxiety, the fear of the unknown, of potential judgement, and/or of failure is so intense that the solution is often to pull the pendulum as far back in the opposite direction as possible. If perfection is not a possibility, then a student with anxiety doesn’t see the risk as worth taking. How to help children with anxiety.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Just how do humans learn? And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” I think there’s a real art to that.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

That’s why at Jacksonville Independent School District we like to combine social-emotional learning with coding education. With robots in general, and especially with virtual robots, students are more likely to try stuff without fear of failure because it’s just a robot—or, in our case, it’s just a collection of click-and-drag images.

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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 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

These days many schools tout blended learning programs when marketing their school to potential students. Blended learning can combine the flexibility of online instruction with the benefits of in-person teaching. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads. And in a way, this does make sense.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2022

During my initial moments of reflection, I vividly recalled receiving my COMPASS and ACCUPLACER scores at my local community college years ago, and hearing for the first time that I tested at developmental levels for math. Create an infrastructure and system for your colleagues to succeed, learn and grow. identify who is being served.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The four-year quest for class credits, verified by standardized tests, which students and parents now know, will morph into a pair of two-year sections with multiple paths to graduation. Next page: Room to learn through failure and experience). Many core classes will be taught in those first two years. .”

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