Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

She was the first to model what it means to truly be there for students, during both their triumphs and their hardest moments. Set the Bar High “Set the bar high, and students will strive to reach it.” When we show students that we believe in their capabilities, they rise—not just to meet the challenge, but often to surpass it.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. The Motive It is unknown whether Ruiz intended to cheat in New York or if the opportunity merely presented itself and she took it.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. I had begun to worry it widened the gap between me and my students by highlighting differences rather than commonalities. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

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Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. I had begun to worry it widened the gap between me and my students by highlighting differences rather than commonalities. But a few years ago, I removed the slide.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is very costly, very complex, always arcane, and frequently impossible task." Learning, in my experience, is primarily a process of self-motivated individuals interacting with their environment and the people they find there. Many students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Failure can be a painful experience for anyone, but it is especially tough for teens who are still forming a sense of self. When people experience failure, they often report feelings of embarrassment, shame and depression. But, as many educators know, failure is an essential part of the learning process. Define failure.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

my students informed me, running over after their latest test. “Is Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

These students are often reluctant readers because they find the process complicated, and they lack confidence in their abilities. Educators need creative and authentic ways to engage students in reading without it seeming forced or gimmicky. On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading.

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Failure Motivation Gamification Cognitive Development 318

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Key points: Focus on what students can do, instead of what they cant Design thinking in the 21st century is an imperative Empathy, adaptability, and real-world readiness: Supporting students in 2025 For more on a growth mindset, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In the words of Carol Dweck, Becoming is better than being.

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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. I’ve spent that last few years implementing different vocabulary and integrating specific read-alouds to help my students develop a growth mindset.

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Failure Students 280

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. Some students struggle with reading, and it’s a complicated situation. Second, low-proficiency readers struggle with motivation. Essentially, struggling readers have a low reading self-concept, which is linked to lower motivation. Mixed reality science reading.

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Failure Motivation Science Reading 300

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. In my experience observing educators and students, I started to see a need for more moments of reflection. What is meta-creativity?

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Failure Students Skills Critical Thinking 303

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. ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer.

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Writing Skills Essay Languages 276

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. It needs to be accurate.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. It needs to be accurate.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 108

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.

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Failure Math Achievement Beliefs 305

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Instead, technology has allowed students to have almost instant access to different types of information, tools, and more in today’s day and age. At its core, design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem-solving that encourages empathy, innovation, and creativity within students for the purpose of solving real-world problems.

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 294

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. If only there were a list of surefire strategies, those tricks that always get students and teachers fired up and moving forward. But motivation doesn’t lend itself to easy answers or surefire solutions. What to do then?

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Highlighting engineering also encourages students to pursue engineering classes and, potentially, engineering career paths. When students become interested in STEM at a young age, their critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills have a chance to thrive.

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STEM Learning Tools Critical Thinking Failure 300

eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

“Innovation” has become the catchall term for the urge to make up for what our current system lacks; a system that, on balance, is neither delivering an equally high-quality education to all students, nor designed to reliably prepare young people for the modern workforce.

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Schools Students Motivation Failure 251

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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Gamification Failure Blended Learning Motivation 254

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. While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development.

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Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 196

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Why do we sideline students when it comes to assessment? Self-assessment is a powerful strategy that encourages students to become more invested in their learning journeys. It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. If only there were a list of surefire strategies, those tricks that always get students and teachers fired up and moving forward. But motivation doesn’t lend itself to easy answers or surefire solutions. What to do then?

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

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. Data can empower districts to align teaching with student needs.

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Teaching STEM Education Learning 314

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. 2020; Waltenbury et al., 2018; Walton & Brady, 2020).

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. 2020; Waltenbury et al., 2018; Walton & Brady, 2020).

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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

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. Rethinking homework.

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Assignments Failure Math Motivation 267

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

mandate it (and at least 12 more states allow it) for students who are not reading proficiently by grade 3. The best way to stop grade retention, whether you live in a state with laws mandating it or not, is to provide students with explicit, phonics-based literacy instruction rooted in the science of reading, beginning in kindergarten.

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Failure Schools Motivation Reading 269

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

It is a rural district that serves over 2,000 students on five campuses; 77 percent of the student body qualifies for free/reduced lunch. 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 187

eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. After then giving them a set of problems to solve, they found that students who had a positive view outperformed the children who didn’t.

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Failure Beliefs Math Intelligence 275

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Feedback is a powerful tool that can profoundly impact student learning and success. However, not all feedback is created equal; some approaches to feedback can propel students toward growth, while others may hinder their progress. How can educators unlock its power and potential to maximize student growth?

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Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. So success will require a broader effort to educate parents and students, he argues.

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Grades Failure Motivation Science 215

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sometimes the details former students recall from class is nothing short of amazing. A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students.

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. The lack of access to high-quality math instruction can impact students’ confidence and ability to learn math concepts and perpetuate deficit mindset thinking , especially within the Black community.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers.

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Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 269

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

It’s no secret that educators and school leaders endure a lot of stress, from managing classroom and school communities to monitoring staff and student morale. In schools, there’s a clear link between educator well-being and the way students experience school. When that stress mounts, negative feelings can shift inward.

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Education Motivation Failure Attention 206