eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Growing up, an unsteady family life meant that I frequently moved from school to school, and such an upbringing left me with no desire to focus on schoolwork, feeling like a failure because I lacked the foundation a consistent education would have given me. In that moment, I began forging my own educational path.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Who decided that grading and assessment should be the exclusive responsibility of teachers? It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. Why should the responsibility of checking accuracy and thinking about student progress fall solely on the teacher?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Active learning applies a similar principle, including minimizing institutional barriers like teacher lecterns, fixed and stagnant furniture, and limited student exposure to real-world experiences. Through active learning, the teacher gradually releases control to the students, encouraging them to become independent learners.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2025

Failure to comply with these laws can lead to serious legal consequences. This shows that it is important to position AI as a tool, not a teacher. Teachers should train students to verify AI information with real sources. How can schools test the accessibility of AI tools?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

The reality of jagged learning paths Students arent afraid of hard work–theyre afraid of failure without purpose. Creativity, leadership, innovation, and collaboration matter as much as standardized test scores and have a much greater impact on their future careers. Yet, our current system often makes kids feel exactly that way.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2024

Our Executive Director was unhappy when we had to send hundreds of teachers and administrators home during a power outage. 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.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Even with the Next Generation Science Standard’s emphasis on engineering, there’s still a feeling that in preschool and kindergarten, teachers shouldn’t place as much emphasis on the E in STEM. Rather than critiquing, the teacher’s role is to ask questions and have the students convey their own conclusions.

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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

APRIL 3, 2025

This article explores the major reasons students resort to cheating and using AI, and offers strategies to help teachers design assessments that minimize these tendencies, informed by the latest research on assessment practices. Solution for teachers : To combat this, its important to make learning experiences relevant.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

At Webb, where about 75 percent of students are on free or reduced lunch, sinking test scores and references to a “failing school” led to low morale among parents and staff. “I want to team teach, I want to fill in for teachers, I want to be with those kids. I don’t want to be stuck in an office.”

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

Homework is one of those topics that consistently baffles teachers. Generally, I think that any teacher could make the case for or against assigning homework, depending on the circumstance. Jo Boaler and other teachers have convinced me that homework can do more damage than good. But what’s so bad about homework?

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2019

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. The middle of the year is cold, the holidays are over, and we are looking at the high-pressure demands of preparing students for standardized testing. Therefore, teachers generally enjoy them.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Everett Anderson was determined to become a teacher. It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program designed to attract and retain Black male teachers. This story also appeared in USA Today. There was just one problem.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

Reading difficulties such as dyslexia are generally diagnosed in second or third grade, after repeated failure to learn to read and after the most effective intervention window,” said Carla Small, co-founder and CEO of EarlyBird Education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

According to National Assessment of Educational Progress test results, roughly two decades of academic progress has been lost during the pandemic. Drawing on scientific knowledge, learners brainstorm designs, and then build, test, and analyze them iteratively to generate original solutions.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. But certainly, it seems like teachers arent being set up for success. That has consequences.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

Great teachers have long known what research is beginning to prove: an individual’s mindset — as much, or even more so than ability — can have a profound impact on their success in school and beyond. In a recent report, 96% of teachers in the U.S. Growth mindset holds that every learner has the potential to excel.

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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.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. That means teachers can both tease it out and measure it—provided they know what to look for. She argues that creativity actually has a very visible side that can be nurtured. “A

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

All around my room are reminders of my identity as a 6’2, 280-pound Black and Puerto Rican man, husband, father, math teacher and basketball coach. Ellison’s “Invisible Man” resonates deeply with my experiences and those of many teachers of color face in education. Needless to say, I was not prepared for the unrealized stress.

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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. Becky A.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With robots in general, and especially with virtual robots, students are more likely to try stuff without fear of failure because it’s just a robot—or, in our case, it’s just a collection of click-and-drag images. They don’t need a solution from me, and I don’t have to be a robotics or programming expert.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Never before have educators been challenged and tested as they were, beginning in March 2020 and up until today, and never before has their resilience been more apparent. Professional development around Structured Literacy is something that must be provided to all teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

With technology moving out of the lab and into the classroom, it’s becoming a challenge for some teachers to infuse their teaching with tech tools such as websites, educational games, simulations, iPads, Chromebooks, GAFE, and other geeky devices that used to be the purview of a select group of nerdy teachers. Test the tool.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

We all have a memory of our favorite teacher, almost always, the one who made us think we could do the impossible. I left third grade and my third-grade teacher Ms. My fourth-grade teacher, Ms. She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. In my case, it was Ms.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Not to mention their further education when the time comes to write dissertations and other research papers: Afraid of poor grades and stipend loss, ESL students get tempted to plagiarize from others or use writing services from third parties to prevent failures and get the desired diploma.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

While at the training, I had a chance to speak with teachers who have been using design thinking in their work for quite some time. However, it was the challenges these teachers continue to face—and their ability to recognize them and adapt their design thinking practice—that were even more interesting. the end users).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Her teacher wanted her in my class for socialization purposes, and she did well. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. And how can we teach that poor grades don't indicate failure, but rather that we haven’t found the correct learning strategy?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

Every time you turn around, there’s another favorite tool some teacher swears has turned her students into geniuses and her class into a model of efficiency. What there is is a teacher not afraid to try new ways, test them out in a classroom environment, toss what doesn’t work and share the rest. See what they say.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

When I saw her speak, I found it easy to get swept up in her vision to democratize blood testing and save lives. Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. We have much to learn from failures, especially in fields where the stakes are high, the regulation heavy and specialized expertise is at a premium.

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Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is very costly, very complex, always arcane, and frequently impossible task." As a preschool teacher who has spent his entire career in play-based settings, I've always felt that my colleagues in other types of settings tended to complicate things. Many students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

Other interventions the researchers tested in the experiment also failed to deliver the results found in smaller trials. His message is that learning scientists need to pay more attention to context when they test various teaching methods. The problem has been that learning science has not embraced as much the science of context.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

The approach involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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