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

OCTOBER 11, 2023

While that resolution was a complete failure (I still have unread books on my shelf), it reignited my love of reading. So, let’s take a look at what students are reading in school libraries and classrooms across the country. Each year, I document my #BritReads reading journey on my social media channels.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Key points: Focus on what students can do, instead of what they cant Design thinking in the 21st century is an imperative Empathy, adaptability, and real-world readiness: Supporting students in 2025 For more on a growth mindset, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In the words of Carol Dweck, Becoming is better than being.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

If playing games is part of our culture, even part of our identities, then it stands to reason that students can be highly motivated by game-based learning opportunities. 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.

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eSchool News

JUNE 12, 2025

Failure is a good thing, so long as you learn from it. When you pilot an innovation, state clearly the desired outcomes at the outset. Not all change produces progress. It’s important to be able to sunset those things that aren’t working. To learn from it, you need to have clear outcome measures up front.

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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. In my experience observing educators and students, I started to see a need for more moments of reflection. What is meta-creativity?

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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. The sad reality is we give the least to the students who need the most. We give low-income students and students of color less access to early childhood education, less access to resources in K-12.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Key points: Esports is more than gaming–it helps students develop critical skills How esports can help students in the classroom (no, seriously!) A big factor in getting scholastic esports into approximately 300 schools across New Jersey was a growing acceptance of video games among students’ families. Here’s how it works.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

These students are often reluctant readers because they find the process complicated, and they lack confidence in their abilities. Educators need creative and authentic ways to engage students in reading without it seeming forced or gimmicky. On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In most classrooms, students don’t iterate on their work. Instead, teachers give assignments, students complete those assignments, teachers grade students’ work, and each assignment grade leaves an indelible impact on a students’ final grade for that class. The outcome?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I am always looking for new ways to get to know my students. Over the past two decades, I have attempted dozens of different types of icebreakers in my classes; some were successful and others were a total failure. I would argue that it’s always a good time to do an icebreaker with your students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Instead, technology has allowed students to have almost instant access to different types of information, tools, and more in today’s day and age. At its core, design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem-solving that encourages empathy, innovation, and creativity within students for the purpose of solving real-world problems.

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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. How can we develop a better school culture and make education a positive experience for all of our students? But what if… What if they loved learning?

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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. When I was a kid, I convinced myself that I hated avocados,” Gethard remembered the student saying. He remembered one who identified as a fruit.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

And while the students with ASD face a variety of challenges depending on where they fall on the spectrum, even those considered high functioning have difficulties with pragmatic social language and understanding social interactions. Students have IEPs for a reason, Finkler reminded the attendees.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

As educators struggle to understand anxiety and its implications for student success in schools, so too do the parents of these students. Whether it’s failing to complete work at home, not turning in assignments, or avoiding school altogether, students with anxiety display an affect often confused with disinterest and complacency.

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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. ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer.

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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. . It was about the outside world.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

However, it does mean that STEM classrooms require skilled management to keep students focused on their tasks. So, how do we as educators foster an environment of engagement and creativity without stifling our students’ curiosity? This means teaching students not just how to speak, but how to listen as well.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2021

Teachers and students alike wrestled with the steep learning curve of remote teaching and learning. Much of our experience has been molded by trial and error, failure and success, frustration and elation. Summer is on the horizon, and the only thing standing in the way is a couple more months of school.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development.

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. Some students struggle with reading, and it’s a complicated situation. At East Carolina University, we wanted to create something uncommon, so we created a science reading experience for 5 th grade students using the Microsoft HoloLens. You dread reading…in any class.

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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

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.

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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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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2015

Failure is part of learning. Leverage your students as tech support. . Students are the most underutilized tech support on a school campus. Our students are being raised with technology, so why not use their expertise to support teachers? Each year that goes by our students are more immersed in technology.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

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. An open platform was established wherein teachers could share their triumphs and also failures.

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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. Students need to be taught things like: Behaving appropriately when online, i.e., encouraging students to use THINK: Is it T ruthful? Is it H elpful? Is it K ind?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

There is a fair amount of research into the impact of classroom design on student learning. Spaces flooded with natural light that allow for a variety of learning methods and activities, and spaces that let students feel a sense of ownership over the classroom, demonstrably affect how well students learn.

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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. Definitive answers are hard to come by, and national data on student learning is virtually nonexistent.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2022

Sessions include focuses on blended learning, curating classroom resources, using augmented reality, project-based learning, building student media literacy, time-saving tech tricks from librarians, using digital tools with students who have special needs, digital problem-solving, and more.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Most educators, myself included, entered this profession guided by mental models about the educational system formed by our experiences as students. Students move from class to class on a set schedule. Classes are composed of students who are the same age. All students in a class should complete the same assignments.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

Combining PBL with makerspaces (also called maker education) gives educators an infinite number of projects, assignments, and activities that engage students and truly immerse them in learning. Now, projects are nothing new–students have made dioramas, tri-fold poster board displays, and egg drop challenge designs for decades.

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eSchool News

JULY 8, 2019

When trauma goes unacknowledged by caring adults, students can feel suffocated by the burden of their experience. These findings, coupled with the fact that almost half of the students in the U.S. The goal of trauma-informed teaching is to help all students feel known and supported.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Why do we sideline students when it comes to assessment? Self-assessment is a powerful strategy that encourages students to become more invested in their learning journeys. It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Prioritizing the creation of a healthy environment where students can continue to learn should be paramount. Now more than ever, states must find a way to assess student learning. As the start of a new school year rapidly approaches, it is still not clear what form schools will take.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Highlighting engineering also encourages students to pursue engineering classes and, potentially, engineering career paths. When students become interested in STEM at a young age, their critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills have a chance to thrive.

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