Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Choose high-interest books and materials for reading activities, and encourage students to choose how they’d like to finish final projects. Give second (and third) chances For many reluctant learners, one school failure is enough to reinforce their belief that they’re poor students.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Morrow was surprised to read that Ruiz had finished in 11th place in the New York Marathon. Integrity is often talked about as a coin that reads cheated on one side and didnt cheat on the other. Affirm personal interests by letting students know you cared enough to read their inventories.

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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." Illich pulls no punches and it can be painful to read him, even for someone like me who has spent is career outside the currents of modern education.

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Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

A math problem, maker project, formal debate, reading test–whatever you’ve modeled for them and then helped them do. Failure is a critical part of learning; just go back to the previous step and ‘help’ them again. What you’re actually ‘letting’ them do depends, of course.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

They all worked for a while and then, maybe when the novelty wore off, I was back to the same Bell curve of successes, failures, and those in between. The success or failure of my students’ learning is about what I do or don’t do. Read Jacqui’s tech thriller series, To Hunt a Sub and Twenty-four Days. Or not occurring.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Research shows that children who are chronically absent from preschool through second grade are more likely to be reading below grade level by third grade. Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable? It has lasting effects through the upper grades, too.

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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. While that resolution was a complete failure (I still have unread books on my shelf), it reignited my love of reading. Each year, I document my #BritReads reading journey on my social media channels.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Join eSchool News for the 12 Days of Edtech with 2024s most-read and most-loved stories. On the 5th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on post-COVID reading instruction. Im in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

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. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2024

I’m in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading. Luckily, training offered by my school, Springfield Prep in Massachusetts, has provided me with tools to help get students reading proficiently again.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 13, 2017

Learn from failure. As I read these words, I knew I was in the right place. She said that one of their most important values is “learn from failure.” ” She said that the “little fs” are the small failures that happen along the way as you create, iterate, and innovate. Take ownership.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. At the same time, the percentage of students who say they read for pleasure is declining : Fewer than half of all children ages 8-18 (43 percent) say they enjoy reading in their spare time, down from 58 percent in 2016.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

It isn’t foolproof though, and in a new book Talbert gives a frank look into his classroom experiences, and his tips on how to avoid flipped failure. I read their paper, I tried to set up the class designed around their principles. What are some tips based on your experiences, some ways to avoid flipped failure?

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You dread reading…in any class. You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. You put on the mixed reality glasses and pick up the science article that the teacher wants you to read. You begrudgingly begin reading. Some students struggle with reading, and it’s a complicated situation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. Kids should see characters in the texts that they read that are diverse. We know how important it is for kids academically and socio-emotionally. But we have to be safe. But they should have both. That shouldn’t be.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. In case you must ‘sell’ this idea to your administration, here are three great reasons why students should use Minecraft in school: Reading, Writing, and Problem Solving. Game playing develops reading skills.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

As a classroom teacher, I gamified my classroom because I needed an engaging way to deliver the online lessons I created for students during reading and math workshop. I had read research about the benefits of gamification, but I was still surprised to see such a remarkable transformation in my classroom. Social-emotional growth.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

Failure is part of learning. Just in time for summer reading! Here are some ideas for how schools and administrative teams can support their teachers and encourage them to experiment with technology in their classrooms: 1. Create a school culture where teachers know it’s okay to take risks and fail.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

In many classrooms, success still depends on how well a student fits onto a single, familiar bell curve–the one measuring traditional academic achievement in subjects like math, reading, and writing. The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

For instance, some people still like to read physical books (I’m one of them). Sometimes, you don’t want to hold the book while reading it. 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. Want to really promote science to kids so they keep that interest?

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

Reading skills are the gateway to success in every classroom subject. The need to read is not limited to English Language Arts classes; literacy skills are essential in math, history and all other content areas. Not being able to read has a profound effect on our self-esteem, social-emotional skills and imagination.

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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. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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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. fourth graders are not reading at a proficient level, and reading difficulties are often identified too late for students to catch up with their peers, even with intervention.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

What if you’re a new first grade teacher, and you realize the classroom methods you’re using to teach your students to read just aren’t working. The 80-minute documentary is called “ The Right to Read ,” and it is making the festival circuit of screenings, including a showing at the recent SXSW EDU Festival.

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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. During these projects, I taught nonfiction-reading comprehension skills like summarizing, synthesizing across texts, and drawing conclusions. Probably not.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

After taking a close read of the report, I soon realized that these news articles missed the real message. Next page: What makes the difference between tech success and failure. However, I was discouraged when I saw recent news articles coming out of the OECD’s latest report on the use of computers in school.

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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. Encourage them to participate in online writing contests in their target language: The idea of strangers reading your text is a powerful motivator to write it in the best way possible.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports. I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

If it didn’t work, we would bury it in the worst failures of the Mike Gaskell Graveyard. Read a team-building quote and have teachers reflect on it for 30 seconds to 1 minute. The 5-Minute MicroPD. Here’s how it works.

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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. Time and resources are often a barrier to providing educators with critical learning opportunities that help them reduce students’ reading failure rate. Nominee : Newark Public Schools. Nominated by : Lexia Learning.

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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. That is beginning to change. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

They will have some amazing successes–and some failures–as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. Read more about Ross-Kleinmann’s thoughts on AI in schools. PBL isn’t used enough–let’s change that.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority. Although there’s nothing wrong—and some things right—with those solutions, what none of them do is upend the fact that today’s schools were not designed to optimize learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Read on to see what’s in store for 2019… Berj Akian, CEO, ClassLink. Districts will start to focus on speaking and listening protocols before, during, and after reading to accelerate vocabulary acquisition for fluency. There are also a lot of predictions about improving safety and security.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Its curriculum covers pre-kindergarten through grade 5 for math and reading. In the latter half of 2020, SplashLearn expanded its offering beyond the math program to include reading and also launched a personalized tutoring product, owing to growing demand from parents and teachers. “We

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They will have some amazing successes—and some failures—as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. Ask if it really seems like an efficient way to get information, given that you have to read it, vet it, and revise anyway.

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