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. It may be surprising to learn that as of 2020, according to the CDC-Kaiser Ace Study , up to two-thirds of U.S.

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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

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

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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Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2019

Because these educational programs aim to train design students to enter the workforce, the education they provide is pragmatic, practical and applicable. Students need the space to develop problem solving strategies. And I don’t mean the quality of the student work that emerges from these programs. It’s to teach students.

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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

JUNE 4, 2019

Whether it’s studying for an exam, completing a college essay, or finishing a social studies project, all students will inevitably find themselves procrastinating at some point in their academic careers. 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

DECEMBER 1, 2016

These case studies demonstrate the success with Google for Education through the lens of teachers, students and administrators. At Evergreen Education Group we’ve studied K-12 digital education for sixteen years. During Education on Air on Sunday December 3rd, we will share the findings in Impact Portraits.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

Related: 4 evidence-based ways parents improve student achievement. Within the first week of school, I try to contact every single parent or caregiver of my 75 students and make a positive point of contact with them. For example, to the parents of a student who enrolled after the school year had started, I wrote: “Good evening!

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. “My The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. But the phones aren’t the problem.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Meeting the Needs of Every Student Through Inclusion ,” from the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), details the special education program philosophy behind 10 California charter public schools, how they implement best practices on their campuses, and what policy arrangements have allowed them to succeed.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

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. It may be surprising to learn that as of 2020, according to the CDC-Kaiser Ace Study , up to two-thirds of U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

And yet the conversations were uplifted by some powerful stories of students succeeding in ways that left the adults starstruck. Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. When it comes to our work in education, many of us are reflecting on the last 10 or 20 years.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

“Innovation” has become the catchall term for the urge to make up for what our current system lacks; a system that, on balance, is neither delivering an equally high-quality education to all students, nor designed to reliably prepare young people for the modern workforce.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. 2020; Waltenbury et al., 2018; Walton & Brady, 2020).

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. 2020; Waltenbury et al., 2018; Walton & Brady, 2020).

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? To build a strong, meaningful grading policy, instructors must choose the approach that best fits the course design and student learning outcomes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sometimes the details former students recall from class is nothing short of amazing. A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

During the past few years, I have closely followed the education studies published by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). For example, they note that, “technology is of little help in bridging the skills divide between advantaged and disadvantaged students.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2024

When college students think about quitting, it’s most likely because of mental health strain or stress. That’s according to the recent data from the “ State of Higher Education Study ,” conducted by the analytics company Gallup and the private foundation Lumina. But the reasons students are leaving have shifted.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Nearly every student shares this sentiment with me at some point during the school year, and when they do, I simply smile. Because I know that by the end of my class, those same students will find their inner mathematician. Over the years, I’ve helped dozens of students overcome their math anxiety. Commit to inspired teaching.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

As members of the media have bemoaned the tragic results of students on the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP)—also known as the nation’s report card—many have been all too willing to jump into the game of who is responsible. Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. Previous studies have noted that schools serving well-off communities are more likely to offer computer science than less-resourced schools. Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

Meeting the Needs of Every Student Through Inclusion ,” from the California Charter Schools Association (CCSA), details the special education program philosophy behind 10 California charter public schools, how they implement best practices on their campuses, and what policy arrangements have allowed them to succeed.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. Instead of isolated lessons, students learn how to connect their studies with real-world problems.

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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. As an instrumental music teacher, I am used to advocating that the arts are essential to all students even though they may not be classified as a core subject. How Did We Get Here?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

However, a recent controversy around Carol Dweck’s well-known growth mindset gives me hope that we can move forward with research that can better inform and support practitioners and students. Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. To do this, they lumped students together regardless of circumstance.

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eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

First off, I would argue that educators need to work on improving the digital literacy of their students’ parents. 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.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2019

To Sam Moulton, Director of Research for Panorama Education , a student failing a course is a wailing siren, signaling deep academic and personal challenges. 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. The answer?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. To build up the students’ confidence and skills, I started by having them program and design the KIBO robots on their own.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

So are most of the students taking the cultural competency quiz Professor John Branch gives out near the beginning of his MBA-level International Marketing class at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. But failure is the whole point of the exercise.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about dropping the class, they will meet with her first. While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Considering what the 24-year-old shares in the video about her experience as a climate activist and former environmental studies student in college, the need for a heads-up becomes apparent. “As And ironically my therapist said, ‘I get a lot of you environmental studies majors in here,’ and she was very happy that I came to see her.”

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2019

Leadership skills require people to look inward and find self-confidence that will not only guide them toward successes but focus them through failures—an inevitable part of all leadership positions. Educational leadership is a career wrought with deep stress, pressure, and expectations.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2023

Student disengagement in writing at the secondary level is a pervasive challenge school districts face nationwide. Many students perceive writing as formulaic, disconnected from their life experiences and lacking opportunities for personal agency and expression. The result was a life-changing experience for the students and the adults.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. Meanwhile, these students are paying for courses that rarely provide them with college credit.

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