eSchool News

JUNE 26, 2025

What are you using AI for in your school/classroom? Math anxiety can stem from a variety of factors, such as fear of failure, gaps in prior knowledge, negative feedback, or societal stereotypes. This metacognitive awareness is an advantageous skill in and out of school. Hints can also help students who have a fear of math.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Many school districts are turning to comedy as a way of supporting student mental health. “If you were an object, what object would you be?”

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Use ice breakers for high school students to learn more about them as individuals. Table of Contents 1. Begin with a fresh start 2. Create personal relationships 3.

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k12 Prospects

JUNE 13, 2025

Selling to schools isn’t just about offering a great product or service—it’s about establishing credibility and building trust with decision-makers. Schools prioritize vendors who demonstrate reliability, quality, and long-term value. Failure to meet these requirements can result in rejection, regardless of a product’s quality.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

I grew up in a historically underserved neighborhood in Houston, Texas, zoned to one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in the city. But due to a granted academic transfer, I ended up attending a top-performing public school just three miles away. Here’s the thing: public school funding in the U.S. Different ZIP code.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 10, 2025

I grew up in a historically underserved neighborhood in Houston, Texas, zoned to one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in the city. But due to a granted academic transfer, I ended up attending a top-performing public school just three miles away. Here’s the thing: public school funding in the U.S. Different ZIP code.

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Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

The Grade Point Average might be the most visible example of gamification in school. The rest are sent to vocational school. One program focuses on goal content and the multiple goals that students can pursue in school settings, whereas the other has focused on the nature of achievement goals or goal orientations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 30, 2025

” typically starts with… It depends… To try to understand this topic in a five-minute blog post or thirty-minute webinar is a prescription for failure. Here’s a video I use in my Grad School classes to discuss copyrights and image use. It is too big.

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Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

As a Vice Principal, I have a deep knowledge and understanding of what works and what does not work in my school. I would dearly love to have the opportunity of meeting up with other like-minded school leaders to talk curriculum. However, the loudest voice still seems to be those who are the Principal of schools.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Consider these definitions that I share in my book, AI with Intention: Principles and Action Steps for Teachers and School Leaders : Cheating is using a tool or resource to misrepresent ones knowledge and skills to receive undue credit for a task. Or a policy might say failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism. Frontier, T.

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Lab to Class

MAY 26, 2025

However, this is not a failure to communicate properly as shown by the experiment. These failures to communicate often lead to intergroup misunderstanding, strife, and even mistreatment in severe cases. Because it is such a vital basic skill, schools need to teach these communication skills directly. Want more like this?

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Beyond the Worksheet

JULY 19, 2025

After school, there’s planning, grading, family life … and by the time we even think about doing something for ourselves, we’re too tired to function. More importantly: – I come home from school and my ankles aren’t swollen. You are not a failure. Teaching is physically and emotionally draining. I have energy again. –

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

His best known work, Deschooling Society , published in 1971 is a no holds barred critique of institutionalized, compulsory schooling, arguing that the overall effect is to alienate most children from their own learning. major illusion on which the school system rests is that most learning is the result of teaching. for their own good."

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Boise’s One Stone doesn’t resemble your typical high school—here you won’t find classrooms, teachers or even letter grades. Since One Stone is so different from the typical high school experience, our culture is a crucial part of how we define ourselves. Instead, we have a single open space, coaches and portfolios.

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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. charter schools. Or not occurring. I am a change agent. Assessment is about my impact.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2025

Chronic absence, defined as missing 10 percent or more of school or about 18 school days in a year, is a national crisis. million kids were chronically absent during the 2021-22 school year, according to data from the U.S. The effect of missing that much school is severe, especially for the youngest learners.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Instead, they will have to think differently about what innovation means in their schools and how they can reimagine processes to support such progress. But because some of NCLB’s structures remain intact under ESSA, states could attempt to innovate but remain stuck in the same cycle.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In this episode of Getting There: Innovation in Education, with Kevin Hogan: How a more equitable school-home communication system helped one district 3 ways to better engage remote students Exclusive interview with Carl Hooker on his new book Ready, Set, Fail!

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The school systems and dynamic leaders that embrace change will succeed and create an educational environment that is more equitable and prepares students for their futures. .” Those districts and systems have successfully implemented changes and innovations since the pandemic started. “Innovation should spark success.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2023

The school systems and dynamic leaders that embrace change will succeed and create an educational environment that is more equitable and prepares students for their futures. Those districts and systems have successfully implemented changes and innovations since the pandemic started.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

As another school year begins, the COVID-19 pandemic continues to shape Americans’ daily lives—from where they can travel to who they can see and how schools will operate this fall. So the societal issue is now being made a school issue. We all wish we could be in school under normal conditions. But we have to be safe.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Fortunately, schools and society seem to be entering an era in which AI could completely upend the dysfunctional part of my 9th-grade English experience. With all the volumes of content to be covered, there just isn’t time in either the class period or the school year for cycles of feedback. The outcome?

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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 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

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

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

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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