Catlin Tucker

JULY 13, 2017

Learn from failure. 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. These are not failures to be feared but failures to be embraced.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Overnight, all schools and universities closed the school buildings for their learners. The educators began stretching their existing abilities, thriving on challenges and seeing failures as a heartening springboard for growth and getting back to find solutions.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2019

Families may need to give gentle reminders about the importance of completing work, but when does procrastination go from a simple academic growing pain, to school avoidance? A school-avoidant student will continue to miss classes indefinitely and assignments will remain incomplete until term’s end.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2019

The current toolbox for growing the school/family partnership is broken. This leaves the support and synergy between home and school less than optimal in most situations. Schools need to acknowledge that there are a variety of old mental models of learning and traditional schooling that parents bring to the table.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

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

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

The answer is complex — but here’s what the media and some schools get wrong. 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. This is a far cry from saying that schools are wasting money on technology.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

In a time when there is confusion around what school board directors do and don’t do, this analogy can help clarify the role of the school board. School board directors are akin to the navigators. School boards lay out big, long-term priorities such as strategic planning, budgetary goals, and financial stability.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

If your school or district is anything like many others across the country, it has undergone transformational changes at a rapid (perhaps even dizzying) pace over the past two years. Create a culture of agency where both students and teachers are empowered to take risks, be creative, and learn from failures.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Here’s how schools and districts can help students begin learning to read on track and stay there to avoid retention. Retaining students based solely on their reading achievement is punishing them for a failure in a specific area, but the punishment will not have effects in that area alone, but in the rest of their lives.

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eSchool News

JULY 31, 2024

In recent years, cyberattacks on K-12 schools have increased mainly due to these institutions being easy targets for bad actors. By preemptively recognizing and remediating issues, educational institutions can detect faults before they spiral into failures, minimizing downtime and operating costs through operational continuity.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It can range from refusing to do work, crying, hiding in the bathroom, and verbal aggression to physical behavior like flipping tables and desks or hitting school staff. Some students avoid school on test days, and many suffer from symptoms such as stomachaches or headaches. However, testing anxiety affects students of all ages.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Authors’ Note: We’re often asked by educators, “what impact do you see with Google technology in schools?” But when technology was combined with four key factors, it could help the school flourish. Next page: 7 schools weigh in on their measurable successes using Google tools for education). What are these key factors?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. Theyre encouraged to embrace mistakes, stay motivated, and deepen their understanding of the material.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Yet, few have sought innovative solutions to change the fundamental underlying reality: today’s schools were not built to maximize each and every student’s learning. The solutions generally offered in the media to the challenges students face have revolved around things like tutoring, summer school, longer school hours, and more days.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. Imagine you are a struggling reader. You dread reading…in any class. One day, your science teacher brings in a Microsoft HoloLens headset. You put on the mixed reality glasses and pick up the science article that the teacher wants you to read. You begrudgingly begin reading.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2021

Summer is on the horizon, and the only thing standing in the way is a couple more months of school. Much of our experience has been molded by trial and error, failure and success, frustration and elation. Yet, schools can leverage digital teaching and learning now more than ever. The same is true for technology in the classroom.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Since the second semester of his senior year of high school, he has responded to field calls as an employee of the largest underground utility locating company in North America — the Indianapolis-based U.S. They spend part of the day at the center for career training, but also take traditional academic courses at their home high schools.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Living through a pandemic, by its very nature, has been traumatic for everyone and it is important to debrief and reflect on the failures and successes of our educational practices during this time. Though prevalent, it can also be silent in that it is not always a visible or known quantity.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2025

Yes No Teachers should set their own classroom policies Δ Google and Vivacity , which provides turnkey Chromebook devices and support to K-12 schools, recently invited edtech leaders to a series of roundtable discussions at Googles Chrome Experience Center in San Jose, California. Many districts are prohibiting cell phones in classrooms.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

As the movement to improve education grows stronger, so has talk of positive failure, failing forward, and encouraging teachers and students to see the benefits of their own failures. Enter CoSN’s Failfest by submitting a video describing your great failure! Learn more here !

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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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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

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. Failure is part of learning. Leverage your students as tech support. .

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eSchool News

JULY 22, 2020

This spring, America’s schools underwent an unprecedented experiment: tens of millions of students stopped going into school , and instead began receiving instruction remotely. So — now that the school year is over almost everywhere — how much remote learning actually happened? Sign up for their newsletters here: ckbe.at/newsletters.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It’s possible to combine PBL and maker education across the curriculum–and during a must-see ISTELive 24 session , Nicholas Provenzano , a teacher, technology coordinator, and makerspace director at University Liggett School in Michigan, demonstrated just how to do it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.”

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

When the pandemic prompted schools to quickly shift to distance learning last spring, educators became responsible for using online technologies to teach students. Doing so will help them see failure as both an opportunity to learn (“Well, that didn’t work!”) This included a crash course in learning and behaving online.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

” I hope educators and educational institutions use this year and the lessons learned to reimagine “school” and how we design and facilitate learning. Since the pandemic began, I’ve worked with thousands of school leaders and educators. We do not have to return to school exactly as it was before the pandemic.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

We’ve noted that many of those jobs—such as “make me feel successful” and “let me have fun with friends”—figure only marginally into traditional school design. At the Institute, we believe that jobs-to-be-done theory will prove a crucial tool to getting innovation right on behalf of students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Key points: What priorities will be a focal point in the new school year? Vrain Valley School District, we will continue to provide our teachers with ample opportunities to collaborate, discuss, and share resources and strategies to enhance their understanding of AI and the potential benefits of AI tools. . This year at St.

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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. Failure and criticism can lead to students abandoning their own ideas and relying too heavily on AI to be their brains, so to speak.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2024

Traditionally, the spotlight on STEM education appears to occur in high school and late middle school grade-levels. Elementary school years mark a critical phase in a child’s cognitive development. Through early exposure to STEM, students come to understand that failure is an integral part of the learning process.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

IT teams became more GRC-aware as they realized that failure of IT could mean failure of the business. Ultimately, the 2008 crash came down to a lack of understanding of risk and how to appropriately manage that risk. The fast and easy style commonly used in day-to-day IT management…

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2025

A couple of months ago, I had a conversation with another leader who was listening to some of my frustrations about how the school year was going. Amid consolidation and changes to our school structure, we experienced multiple staff leaving. I grew up in a failing public school district. As school leaders, we go through this.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Failure is recognized, encouraged, and embraced as essential to learning as we all strive for personal improvement, academic tenacity, and success. The increase in student absenteeism, bullying behaviors, disinterest in school, and violence has sparked the need for social-emotional learning in the classroom.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2024

Jump ahead 19 years, and we were experiencing inconsistent startups (30-40 second blackouts before the generator would start and provide power) when power failure events happened. Through collaboration with facilities, we captured multiple data points about what was happening from the point of failure until the generated power was active.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Many of our students entered the school year below grade level, and while achieving grade-level mastery is challenging, a growth mindset allows us to see their potential, celebrate progress, and plan for further successes amongst our students. A growth mindset is the belief that abilities grow through effort and persistence.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

With school districts completely caught off-guard by the speed and severity of the outbreak, the U.S. Department of Education announced flexibility for states to cancel their annual summative assessments and accountability ratings for the 2019-2020 school year. The spread of the coronavirus transformed our education system overnight.

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