eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

It’s possible to combine PBL and maker education across the curriculum–and during a must-see ISTELive 24 session , Nicholas Provenzano , a teacher, technology coordinator, and makerspace director at University Liggett School in Michigan, demonstrated just how to do it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Too often, teachers are rapidly elevated from the classroom to school leadership positions, whether to fill an unexpected vacancy, act as an interim administrator or to take on a permanent leadership role. It is essential to recognize that the premature placement of teachers into leadership roles comes at a cost.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Writing is more important than ever, but many of today’s students are lousy at it. Warner has been teaching writing at colleges for more than 20 years. And he’s written two books on the topic, including his most recent, called “ Why They Can’t Write. John Warner has some ideas about why that is, and how to fix it.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

How can teachers pull feedback into the classroom to ensure it is timely and actionable? Reduces Fear of Failure When students receive feedback that focuses on the process rather than just the end result, they are less likely to fear failure. Typically, there is a teacher-led station, an online station, and an offline station.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Key points: AI tools have great potential–as long as students use them correctly The best way for teachers to get started with AI is just to play around with it See related article: Is generative AI a beacon for more accessible education?

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspiring district leaders, classroom teachers, and school staff have found unique and innovative ways to engage students in learning, motivating students to see beyond classroom walls and truly immerse themselves in learning. But despite these challenges, there are bright spots in teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I first realized I wanted to be a teacher around the same time I received my first mental health diagnosis. Instead of seeking help, I would isolate myself and create self-destructive narratives about how awful of a teacher I was. I felt self-conscious about my failures every day.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2018

Video Games Score Points with Teachers on Academic Benefits. As schools continue to legitimize video games, K–12 teachers are realizing it is better to ride this wave rather than fight it , and reframe games as educational tools. eli.zimmerman_9856. Tue, 08/14/2018 - 11:49. Skills aren’t the only rewards for virtual athletes.

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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. As a teacher, I facilitate learning and provide just-in-time instruction for my students.

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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

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. Solution for teachers : To combat this, its important to make learning experiences relevant.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Guidance for using AI in education AI is already impacting education in several areas: plagiarism detection, learning management platforms, analyzing student success/failure metrics, and curriculum development. Related : Texting is negatively impacting students’ writing Data privacy is very important in education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The nation must act with urgency and purpose to ensure all students have access to high quality online learning opportunities,” they write. Approximately 9 million low-income students lack both the hardware and the internet connectivity to enable virtual learning, which “represents a national emergency,” the authors of the report write.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

A study released last year by the National Council on Teacher Quality found that nearly half of the nation’s teacher training programs failed to insure that their candidates were STEM-capable. That means new teachers must learn how to teach science, technology, engineering and math on-the-job. Problem Solving.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

One teacher learns that the secret to good online teaching is all in the approach. I have heard a lot of people say that they don’t think that online schooling works well because there isn’t in-person interaction between a student and their teacher. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class.

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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

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Hull and fellow teacher, Pete Helfers, started to develop Otus with cofounder Andy Bluhm after establishing a 1:1 computing program and noticing how much time teachers had to spend on technology, instead of teaching. The first year I was replacing a teacher who had been here for over 30 years. Teachers … we share and we steal.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2018

Pilots drag on for years, technology changes and teachers start to lose enthusiasm. Her goal was to find educators who had mastered teaching, but who also understood that it’s not a rubric—that risk-taking and failure were just important as creativity or good technology integration. And the students are the ones most impacted. “We

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. How do you email the teacher? Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below.

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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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Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 22, 2025

Since I'd already demonstrated my own technique, I moved on to other things, leaving the art station in the capable hands of a parent-teacher. Later, while outdoors, I chatted with the parent-teacher, saying something like, "That art project was pretty popular today. Not once had I seen a sign of frustration or failure.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Ryan Greenberg: When I was thinking about this, I quickly found that the skill people should master is clear writing—the ability to write well. I think that writing English might seem mundane compared with writing a iPhone app, but it really gives you a leg up on people who have just the technical skills.

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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. It's harsh.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

This group, composed of representatives of key patrons including administrators, teachers, and support staff from all grade levels, can research AI’s potential, pilot its use in various educational settings, and develop professional learning opportunities for staff.

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Researchers often bemoan finding a failure in their theory. Moyer writes about this as well: “Some researchers, including Luke Wood at San Diego State University, have argued that focusing solely on effort could be detrimental for children of color, who may benefit from being praised both for ability and intelligence.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

The growth mindset isn’t anything new—people have been writing about it more frequently for the last few years. From there, the work can be shared with their teachers and parents. Those names are just a few in the pool of “famous failures”—and in this case, the “failure” part is more important than the “famous” part.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2023

Below are five of the most critical skills that graduates should possess to make their mark on the job market: Communication Being able to communicate effectively, both in writing and verbally, is invaluable when it comes to interacting with colleagues and customers.

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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. How do you hope students benefit from the writing tools you developed?

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Edsurge

JULY 17, 2017

Changing the structure of school: Teachers as project managers, students as professionals When schools participate in the World Bridge Program, they commit to fundamentally changing the way students—and teachers—learn. Often teachers faced with a World Bridge pedagogy ask, “What’s the curriculum? What’s the first lesson?”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2019

Teachers may, for example, hesitate to let go of control and allow students to follow their own learning paths; they may worry that the learning that takes place during play will be difficult to assess. Art teachers hand out appropriate materials and provide students with the freedom to explore their own passion. That’s what you want.

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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 3, 2018

I also teach remotely and write content for an app-based English language-learning product. So, I’m an ed-tech enthusiast and a classroom teacher, enthralled by how online learning is reshaping education, but also apt to turn down a tablet when a piece of chalk will do. You own your successes and your failures. But there’s hope!

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eSchool News

MAY 1, 2020

Also, realize this is not a failure or misstep on your part. Likewise, you can use platforms like Medium (writing), Etsy (creating), Anchor (podcasting), YouTube (YouTube), Tik Tok (videos), WordPress (blogging), etc. Check-in with friends, families, colleagues, teachers, etc. Our first advice?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2022

Good idea: Next year, collect a list of the problems students, parents, and other teachers struggle with and teach students how to solve them. There’s a lot to be learned from failure. Here’s more detail on how students learn fro m failure. If you need help, add a comment at the bottom. I’ll give you ideas.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Appalling and unacceptable’ School closures took students and teachers out of the classroom, and the switch to remote learning exposed various inequalities in education— including issues like broadband access. For some, the results seem to be proof of the failure to adapt to the pandemic. This was already well known.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

The official corrected the mistake by writing down the time Ruiz had told him. 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.

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