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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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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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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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

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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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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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

JUNE 18, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. 7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population. Popularity: OG/MSL is the most popular dyslexia/reading intervention in the U.S.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

According to an article from Screencastify , “a Columbia University study showed a 12 percent increase in attendance and a 27 percent decrease in course failures when parents received weekly texts about student progress.” Something as simple as text messages has the power to be highly effective in reaching those busy parents.

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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

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

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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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Create a culture of agency where both students and teachers are empowered to take risks, be creative, and learn from failures. Read blogs by other district leaders, join networking groups online or in-person, and build relationships with leaders. Develop secure, anonymous lines of communication for feedback.

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Edsurge

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. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below. How would you describe it?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2017

This applies to the books that they read, objects they make, and tasks they are given. I would much prefer students to try something and risk failure than always play it safe. If I don’t give them the opportunity to make those decisions for themselves, I risk squashing their ideas, talents, and confidence.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

More than a year ago I read an article about McDonald’s using robot arms to make french fries, so even a job as straightforward as fry cook will be performed by a human-robot team–even if the human’s part is only maintaining the robot.

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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

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nationwide, the pandemic has exacerbated preexisting educational inequalities and led to steep academic declines in both math and reading that have not yet stabilized. As they collaboratively engage in real engineering practices and persist through failure, students strengthen their STEM and language proficiency, simultaneously. “We

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Or read a portion of the interview below, lightly edited for clarity. It has by far been read more than any other blog post that we’ve written. One of the things that is apparent as you start to read about the lecture-versus-active learning debates is that everyone is defining those terms in very different ways.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability. Parents also have a role to play here.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

After assigning a “standard” written essay based on materials that we were reading in class, I would have students read their essays at the front of the class while I recorded them. Students were correcting their work as they read out loud, which translated to better writing the next assignment.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

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. Read an excerpt from Jonathan A. Even with lots of care, edtech failures will happen.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Or, learning about today’s international space race, rather than just reading published—and potentially outdated—journal articles. Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.). Students want to learn about what they are hearing on the news and what is impacting their current lives.

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