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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

Here is how educational leaders can champion personalized professional learning for their teachers: Needs Assessment: Start with the Individual One-size-fits-all professional development (PD) is a recipe for disengagement. Conduct individual needs assessments through surveys, goal-setting conversations, or classroom observations.

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3 Months, 3 Micro-credentials, 1 Teacher: Building Performance Assessment Capacity in Georgia

Digital Promise

In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE). In June, she submitted evidence for and earned all the micro-credentials in the full stack , “Leading a Performance Assessment Community.”

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Charting a Student's Journey: A Guide to Crafting Effective Learning Paths

A Principal's Reflections

2009), researchers found that personalized learning, with a focus on allowing students to set their own pace, led to improved academic outcomes. Varying paths often incorporate continuous assessment and feedback mechanisms , which play a pivotal role in the learning process. In a study conducted by Means et al.

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Much ado about NAEP

Dangerously Irrelevant

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Indeed, it’s so aspirational that most states are not trying to reach that level with their annual assessments. Phillips set out to map NAEP benchmarks onto international assessments in science and mathematics. . emphasis added].

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New Posted Resources 12/01/2009

The Web20Classroom

Science and Math Interactive Library tags : interactive , science , math , favorite Presentation Planning Pyramid « CleaveFast tags : presentation , planning , favorite ZaidSwoosh: A Podcasting Mini-Guide (Jeff Cobb) tags : podcasting , favorite Interactive Protractor tags : Geometry , protractor , interactive , favorite Formative and Summative Assessment (..)

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Renaissance Learning Acquires Schoolzilla to Marry Assessment and School Data

Edsurge

based provider of instructional software and formative assessment tools that is on a buying spree. Schoolzilla’s life began in 2009 as a project within Aspire Public Schools, a charter network with schools across California and in Memphis. In the past, it’s focused on pairing assessments with digital instructional materials.

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Self-Regulation in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

In classrooms where students are told what to do and how to do each task, they may not have the opportunity to develop the initiative, resourcefulness, and persistence needed to develop their ability to self-regulate (Zimmerman & Moylan, 2009). Blended Learning Environments Require Self-regulation Skills.