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How To Engage Today’s Students in Civics

eSchool News

In 2022, only 22% of students scored “proficient” or higher on a nationwide civics assessment. He is the author of Images of America: Sutton (2004) and Images of America: Millbury (2013). Unfortunately, stats are even worse in other subjects. And one in three scored below basic understanding of the subject.

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Teachers at Two Rivers Roll Up Their Sleeves to Build Assessments from Scratch

Edsurge

Two Rivers Public Charter School welcomed its first class of students in the fall of 2004, after more than three dozen parents from the Capitol Hill neighborhood came together to write the charter. Over time, they have learned that some of the skills that are most critical for success are difficult to teach and even harder to assess.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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The Lessons Learned Online That Will Shape Education After the Pandemic

Edsurge

It forced school systems to not only rethink their instruction but also figure out how to best use technology to facilitate instruction. Before the pandemic, teachers across the country taught students how to read, how to code and how to determine mathematical concepts like the area of a circle mostly from in front of the classroom.

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How flawed IQ tests prevent kids from getting help in school

The Hechinger Report

Yet the change isn’t happening fast enough for many parents and researchers who say the tests remain deeply ingrained in the work of school psychologists, in particular, and that they are still regularly misused to gauge young children’s potential and assess whether they are “worthy” of extra help or investment.

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Epic Effective Classroom Decoration and Design Resources

The CoolCatTeacher

Learning Space Toolkit by North Carolina State University has a system for needs assessment and space planning. Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration by Scott Doorley and Scott Witthoft. How to Make an Ugly Classroom Beautiful. Terry Heick’s Learnist Board with 50 Bulletin Board Ideas.

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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

Fuster, 2004; Schneider & Chein, 2003), schemas and heuristics (e.g., Dietrich, 2004), to name a few. In a variety of ways, we continuously assess the usability and effectiveness of the ST Math program, and we provide educators, administrators and students with the tools to do so as well. Formative Research.

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