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. In middle school, books about middle grade students navigating the world dominate the world of fiction, such as the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series and Jerry Craft’s New Kid.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. The truth is when you teach middle schoolers, you feel like you don’t make a difference. As a first-year middle school teacher, you can be successful and impact adolescents’ lives.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. Think of this like an infusion to help teachers through the hard parts. The 5-Minute MicroPD.

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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. Here’s how it has worked since we introduced virtual robotics at our middle 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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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.” Elementary school girls make up nearly half of computer science students, but that percentage falls to 44 percent in middle school and 32 percent in high school.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

As they collaboratively engage in real engineering practices and persist through failure, students strengthen their STEM and language proficiency, simultaneously. “We Drawing on scientific knowledge, learners brainstorm designs, and then build, test, and analyze them iteratively to generate original solutions.

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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. Even strong students will often struggle.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Overcoming the Fear of Failure Ironically, one of the biggest hurdles in utilizing design thinking is something that is integral to the process: accepting failure. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. Instead, failure should be celebrated and integral to learning.”

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MAY 28, 2024

But there's a lot of variation in how schools decide who’s ready for algebra, leading to fewer low-income students, rural students or English learners taking this course in middle school. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

One of the first things I noticed was that all the students had to abide by a strict uniform policy, including shoes, belts and school colors, and middle school-aged children were walking in straight lines through silent hallways. A crushing defeat in many ways that made me feel like a failure.

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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. After a split second, she enthusiastically replied, “Mesopotamia!”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The drop affected both struggling and proficient readers, and was most pronounced among middle school students. If struggling students are asked to read and practice at a level that is too challenging, they’re simply being set up for failure. In England, however, the drop was more pronounced among struggling readers.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Vernier Software & Technology recently announced science educator Tyson Vrbas of Manhattan Catholic Schools in Manhattan, Kansas as the 2021 Engineering Award winner. Engineering educator Nels Lawrence of Kaukauna High School in Kaukauna, Wisconsin was also recognized with an honorable mention in this year’s award.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Remember that heavy feeling you sometimes got as a kid heading into yet another school day? Middle school Guidance Counselor Rachelle Vallon remembers the feeling, too. But she doesn't want that to be how kids experience school going forward. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration."

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2021

Jamie Graber, a 6th and 7th grade math teacher at Polk County Middle School, says, “I think Alef Math paired with targeted lessons is helping by ensuring students are truly able to apply the content they learn. Alef Math allows students to review the content just taught and then practice without fear of failure.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2017

Girls are outperforming boys in math and science from middle school on up. We teach our girls to be perfect, and this actually generates a mindset where there’s a lot of fear around failure. That failure and rejection are powerful tools to obtaining success, greatness, and joy. Reshma Saujani. Don’t give up.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Arcadia took care not only to define values— collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, empathy and learning from failure—that would cut across those historical restraints, but also to implement new processes that would signal to its people that it was serious about those values.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

Most elementary age kids I know love math, but that changes when they matriculate to middle school. And that opinion doesn’t improve in high school. US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. Con–which became a Pro.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2023

I had very good training as a substitute teacher in my first year at TASIS Hellenic International School in Greece. I went to school every morning, and whoever was absent, I replaced that person. So I taught Greek, Arabic, PE, first grade, 12th grade, IB, middle school — anything! Did we have failures? Absolutely.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

I know we teach that failure should be embraced, because that way, you uncover more successes… Sometimes in those failures, you reveal your biggest triumphs, too. How do you bounce back from a failure and don't get less confident or you don't feel that you can't move on from that?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

For the past 13 years, I have been a social studies teacher at the middle school level. Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. AJ Bianco is a middle school social studies teacher at Harrington Park School District in Harrington Park, New Jersey.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

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. That’s the teacher’s job.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

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. Fear of failure can lead to a lack of creative thought and progress within communities. What Does This Mean for Today’s Students?

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

I firmly believe our failure to teach our children across all the dimensions of wellness has left them unprepared to tackle life's challenges in and out of the classroom. We dont hold our schools accountable to a high standard of excellence beyond standardized testing and uniform learning standards.

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AUGUST 22, 2018

Avoid the roulette of school models by engaging all stakeholders in the beginning: Collaboration and communication between schools within a given district must be factored into the district’s overall vision.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

On a Quest A decade ago, Salen helped design and open a Manhattan middle school with a unique proposition. Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

or ‘When you keep me after school to do PD, I’m missing my son’s soccer match.’ Murphy: Over my career, I've learned that taking a top-down approach to implementation without acknowledging other perspectives and inviting key stakeholders leads to failure—no matter how fantastic your initiative is. John Hattie, Visible Learning.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Research shows that for low-income students, this can be the difference between success and failure. Mark Manning, the principal at Morristown High School , emphasizes this point. Meanwhile, In High School and Middle School. Our low-income students often go home to empty houses because both parents need to work.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

She says that many students, especially if theyre the first in their family to attend college, dont know what a writing center is and even if they do, they believe getting help is a sign of failure. 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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AUGUST 29, 2018

In committing to the use of games for instruction, he’s not only found a unique way to capture his students’ attention but also to alter their incentives for learning while simultaneously redefining the concept of failure. There may be no better example of meeting students where they are than Arnold’s gamification of the learning process.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? From the beginning, I was told that I would be working close to 60 hours a week.

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MARCH 2, 2017

It became the way by which BCPS told stories about what had and hadn’t worked, so that other educators, schools and districts could potentially garner tips and insights. A family works together on a digital challenge during Night of Innovation (Baltimore County Public Schools). According to the S.T.A.T.

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AUGUST 13, 2019

How many middle school and high school students actually say that they're inventors? Learn from failure. And there was an opportunity, about 13 years ago, to go to work for the Lemelson-MIT Program to run the InvenTeams grants initiative, and my background fit really well for that. Which are most useful? Resourcefulness.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

This abrupt change in instructional tactics led to a dip in academic achievement, as observed through the district’s low scores on the College and Career Readiness Performance Index , in which elementary and middle schools dropped 5.1 8 points, respectively, between 2015 and 2016.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2017

After having mastered the elementary and middle school educational system, freshmen often feel confident that they know what to do reach whatever level they—and others—have set as academically acceptable. Personalized learning can muddy the waters as students (and their teachers) navigate through uncharted territory.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

After gaining board and trustee approval in June 2016, the district decided to run a one-year pilot program for the 2016-2017 school year for sixth graders at the district’s two middle schools, Graham and Crittenden. Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure?

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