Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Teacher leadership is also critical for school improvement efforts to succeed.

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization. New Hampshire is piloting its new assessment system alongside traditional testing.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 71

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 70

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’m always in search of simple, time-saving rubrics that make it easier for kids to understand how they’re being assessed. For example, all students are told that at least 3 score in all grading categories on a 5 point rubric is acceptable. Thank you, Dennis! Quality has to be non-negotiable. Brookhart (ASCD, 2013).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Prior to joining ESR, Wolk served as a program associate with The Education Alliance at Brown University where she served on the core work group with the National Association of Secondary School Principals to write Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform (NASSP 2004), and Breaking Ranks in the Middle (NASSP 2007).

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Secondary Personalized Learning Strategy Assessment 34

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 25, 2015

Ed note 2: Hase and Kenyon make distinctions between self-determined and self-directed learning that may be in conflict with our use of the terms (see, for example, our self-directed learning model ). Assessment becomes the key for opening doors and teaching is geared to providing the key. Don’t most good ideas happen this way?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). Schools can also be evaluated by softer qualitative measures, such as campus climate, for example.

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