eSchool News

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

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

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In an era consumed with teaching 21st-century soft skills, are games any good at building critical thinking or collaboration skills? I never want to make claims that games writ-large for any kid—under any circumstances—teach these sort of skills.” minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Even as they will be required to program machines, they will still have to collaborate, problem solve, and engage in all the very human soft skills. My suggestions don’t have to work, because now they are back on their robot, examining the code for other things to change up and test out.

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

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This fall, I will return to the classroom for my second year teaching English at Philadelphia’s Excel Academy South , an accelerated high school experience for students seeking a smaller, more personal setting, intensely focused on elevating social skills, emotional wellness, and academic success. .

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eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

In an effort to help ensure that students are prepared for fall classes, McGraw Hill is offering new customers a free two-month trial of its ALEKS MathReady program, allowing current and rising college-age students and others to refresh their math skills efficiently and effectively.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out. And to seek remedies.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. I cant recall a single homework assignment that was easier than a test question. It was assumed that students would struggle.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

Creativity is one of those ineffable skills that’s important—especially for jobs of the future —but hard to pin down. For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. This risk-taking skill looks different depending on the context.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

As schools are adopting and using more digital tools, they are looking for solutions that not only consolidate functions to reduce the risks of privacy or security failure, avoid confusion among teachers and parents, and also better connect and engage school communities. Dr. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Key points: When it comes to K-12 innovation, change isn’t a consideration–it’s an imperative Students know best when it comes to transforming education Schools must embrace these 4 innovative focus areas to avoid failure For more news on K-12 transformation, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Across the U.S.,

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The four-year quest for class credits, verified by standardized tests, which students and parents now know, will morph into a pair of two-year sections with multiple paths to graduation. The push to emphasize job skills in high school, already well underway on the Peninsula and around the state, will accelerate.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

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. When students weren’t passing these tests, their self-confidence was diminished and it affected their willingness and effort during difficult tasks.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

From there, designers brainstorm solutions, design a prototype and test their product. Teachers can become skilled at identifying standards relevant to their student work early on,” says Laura McBain, K-12 lab director of community and implementation at Stanford’s d.school. “It The process rarely takes a linear approach.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? And that’s a skill you don’t quickly forget.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2016

The four-year quest for class credits, verified by standardized tests, which students and parents now know, will morph into a pair of two-year sections with multiple paths to graduation. The push to emphasize job skills in high school, already well underway on the Peninsula and around the state, will accelerate.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

After more than a decade of researching, writing and presenting, one of the many things he's learned is that course failures are major events for students. Research has shown that traditional variables like attendance and in-class behavior play a role in course failures. The answer? Learn about some of the study's key findings.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

In the 100 years since we sterilized our schools with “scientific management” , there has been vast transformations in the skills that power the workforce and a shockingly small number of modifications to the system we use to educate our children and very few updates to the content we choose to teach them.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

More precisely, we need – at scale and with urgency – to profoundly change the tasks and experiences our students are having so that they are authentic, engaging, provide them the opportunity to practice complex and important skills, and to really prepare them for the world they will step into. The soft bigotry of low expectations.”

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. I’ve pointed out the social skills that band, orchestra and choir ensembles build. I watched as the focus on academic subjects tied to standardized tests eliminated elective slots in student schedules.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

She saw how engaged her peers were in the activities, how they worked together and celebrated each individual’s skills and interests. She has brought all of those skills into her work at AmeriCorps VISTA , now in her second year supporting the FIRST program in Florida and throughout the Southeastern United States.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

EdSurge recently caught up with White to talk about how game-based learning (GBL) can help children develop the skills that will be essential in their future jobs, and how Minecraft, specifically, has influenced classroom education and the learning game industry. Even a game like Candy Crush is hitting some of these skills.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

As a bonus, these accelerated learning approaches give a lower priority to repetition or “skill-and-drill” uses of instructional technology. Some standards are so foundational that failure to master them sets a student up for significant struggle later on—hence the term “gatekeeper standards.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

In Napa, California, business leaders were dissatisfied with the workforce skills their employees were bringing with them out of high school. Our schools use PBL in almost every class in order to immerse students in authentic learning and the mastery of workforce skills. I realize that I no longer dread grading. It’s simple, really.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2019

Technology and the connected world put a fork in the old model of teaching–instructor in front of the class, sage on the stage, students madly taking notes, textbooks opened, homework as worksheets, and tests regurgitating facts. Lesson plans must reflect those skills. Collaboration and sharing is treated as a learned skill.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

Recognizing their failure to prepare for a digital future—after a year of so-so emergency remote instruction—higher ed leaders are now trying to make up for lost virtual decades by rushing to partner with online program managers (OPMs), commercial vendors who help colleges deliver and market online programs.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

“We’ve been talking to many leaders at the college and industry level to better understand what skills students will need to succeed. We heard over and over again that in our rapidly evolving economy, skills like problem-solving and collaboration will be much more important for students than purely technical skills.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy). Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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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. Beyond the classroom, literacy is an essential daily life skill.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

The recent national assessment underscored that by revealing that 24 percent of fourth graders are still performing below basic math skills, also shining a spotlight on an ever-growing inequality in math performance across the country. Early math skills are associated with higher literacy and higher earnings. That has consequences.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

The larger goal was to teach our students something about the jobs of today and tomorrow and the skills they might need to get there. We wanted to create a different course—a course that requires students to address problems creatively, develop empathy, persevere through failure and learn from it. shouted one girl memorably.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The workforce has undergone significant changes, and today’s jobs require advanced skills and specialized training, particularly in STEM fields. The importance of identifying and instructing students at any grade who cannot reach fluency and comprehension because of gaps in foundational skills cannot be overstated.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2025

The schedule: Monday: Travel and Check-in Tuesday: Air and Space Museum/DC Tour Wednesday – Friday: Stem modules and presentations (Students will visit all science and technology majors at the US Naval Academy) Saturday: Open House and Demonstrations — Share your new skills with your parents and friends.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Though there are many ways to implement a blended learning program, there are a few commonalities in what works, what doesn’t and what is destined for failure. While this concept sounds simple, applying it is actually quite complicated, because it involves veering away from the accepted model of drill-test-repeat of student skills.

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