Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Missed signals: The effect of ACT college-readiness measures on post-secondary decisions. Sioux City CSD – opening a K-5 STEM specialty school in Fall 2015. How do we assess student growth / development? Exploring Iowa Archaeology ).

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Additionally, some families—especially those from marginalized backgrounds—may feel unsure about how to best engage in the school community. and Jung, S.

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Waterford

MARCH 26, 2021

Let’s look at what the two-generation approach to learning is and how to put it to work in your classroom. How to Practice the Two-Generation Approach in Schools. January 2015. How Does Poverty Influence Learning?” National Association of Secondary School Principals. What Is the Two-Generation Approach? Head Start.

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Battelle for Kids

APRIL 8, 2015

April 9, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 5, Number 6. Driving Question: How do we bring mathematics to life for our advanced math students? Everyone, open your books to chapter 7 section 2 as we will be learning how to factor degree 3 polynomials.". And most of us knew it!

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The Principal of Change

JULY 6, 2016

This quote on the importance of curiosity connected a lot to what I wrote about in “ The Innovator’s Mindset “: Curious kids learn how to learn, and how to enjoy it —and that, more than any specific body of knowledge, is what they will need to have in the future. Yet, here is where I was blown away.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2021

But as soon as more people showed up to campuses in 2015, Tennessee higher ed leaders discovered a problem: Students were surprised by the additional costs of going to college. So therefore, institutions must learn how to serve those students better.” It even inspired President Obama to pitch a similar federal program.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

The newly released data includes information on all secondary students who take a course in a career area, as well as those who concentrate in that field by taking at least two classes in the subject. The 2018 reauthorization of the federal law that governs career and technical education mandated racial data be reported as well.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Half of all principals quit during their third year , and districts nationwide are trying to figure out how to better support principals and improve their effectiveness. A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. The post How to help principals do a better job?

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iLearn Technology

OCTOBER 12, 2015

What it is: You guys, the World Education Games is back again, taking place around the world October 13-15, 2015! More than 5 million students from over 200 countries and territories will participate in the games for 2015. This is an exciting online challenge for students around the world.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Whether teachers continue to use these tools or ditch them in favor of new ones, graphing technology will likely always have a place in secondary math education. People with a relational understanding don’t just know how to invert and multiply, they know why such a procedure results in the quotient of two fractions. Understanding Math.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

They were ones created by organizations that the US Congress says have been tied to the Russian government starting in 2015. The new literacies that we need are actually, in some cases, what we should already be teaching: We must be literate on how to conduct civil discourse. These aren’t regular Facebook and Instagram ads.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Research About Keeping Teachers First, let’s dive into some research about how to help teachers thrive (and not quit teaching.) Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. We have to do better. We have to help and encourage each other. 33) Bartell, C.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

But she also routinely dismissed that idea as impossible because, she said, “I wouldn’t know how to make that happen and my family didn’t have the means to do it.”. The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options.

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

24th, they say “how to use technology to differentiate instruction” (51 percent) and “how to use educational games in the classroom” (35 percent) are at the top of their wish list for professional development this year. Today’s findings are about teachers. Among the 17,913 teachers who responded by Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In 2015 and 2016, 3.9 million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. million students dropped out of college with debt in 2015 and 2016. Data from College Scorecard of the U.S. Related: COLUMN: Federal data shows 3.9

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District, felt the same. He adds: “Students don’t know how to approach messy questions! Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District .

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

Learn some thinking routines and how to apply these valuable techniques in your classroom. Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. How to Teach Thinking Routines in the Classroom. She was State Teacher of The Year for 2015. Shownotes: [link].

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

DECEMBER 29, 2015

So, you are continually looking at how to address needs of students, staff, parents, curriculum changes, adjustments to programs, new opportunities… and you often don’t get a chance to look back at what you’ve achieved, where you have traveled from. The Inquiry Hub – BCSSA 2015 Presentation from Dave Truss. __.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin. And the written language includes thousands of special characters.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

How to help kids practice and give recognition for feedback. How to empower kids to be experts. She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015. Setting expectations. Feedback protocols. I hope you enjoy this episode with Starr Sackstein!

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The Tomorrow Bus and its resources are designed to enhance awareness of career pathways, in combination with other educational efforts at the secondary level. They also develop critical thinking and listening skills, and an understanding of how to advocate for themselves as responsible members of a larger community.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

As districts across the United States consider how to get student learning back on track and fortify parent interest in public schools, they’re asking the same question as Steve Joel: What should we keep after the pandemic? During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Virginia Beach City Public Schools is the second-largest school division in Virginia, with 55 elementary schools, 15 middle schools, 12 high schools, and a number of secondary/post-secondary specialty centers. Smarty Ants is not the only Achieve3000 solution currently implemented at Virginia Beach.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Homework will always be secondary to a home. As a society, we’ve learned how to ignore the homeless’ extended hands and handwritten cardboard signs asking for help. Our obsession with closing achievement gaps misses the disparities around basic needs such as housing. Grades may be the furthest thing from a homeless child’s mind.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Think Earth Environmental Education Foundation, a leading non-profit provider of environmental education for primary and secondary schools, is making its award-winning curriculum available free online. Free K-2 Earth Environmental Education Curriculum Now Available. by TeachThought Staff. From a Press Release.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Active learning : Teachers apply new knowledge and receive feedback, with ongoing data to reflect how teaching practices influence student learning over time. Deeper knowledge of content and how to teach it : Training teachers solely in new techniques and behaviors will not work.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

The idea is a holdover from the Soviet era and one that the country intends to keep even as it continues to grapple with how to modernize its schools and further shrink the already small achievement gaps among its students. But for students in the lower tiers, other research suggests tracking isn’t helpful.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 4, 2016

AoCMM’s 2015 Grand Prize Winner Charlin Duff pointed out that balancing the time spent working and sleeping across the three days of the competition was rather crucial to her success. These types of competitions significantly discourage novice students from entering the field of research.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

I plan to show the stakeholders how the lesson plans have been created in a way that we simply have to follow the steps provided. Consequently, we can build effective learning partnerships between schools where we draw on “collaborative expertise” (Hattie, 2015). Step By Step Learning. ’ https://educationcouncil.org.nz/.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

She is a 2015 Milken Unsung Hero Fellow and a 2015 NEA Foundation Global Fellow. She is the author of Weeds & Seeds: How to Stay Positive in the Midst of Life ’ s Storms and Promises and Possibilities: Dismantling the School-to-Prison Pipeline. Kelisa honorably served in the U.S.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 23, 2015

May 8 & 9, 2015. How to run a government. Although many sessions will focus on primary/secondary (K-12) many will be of interest to the Higher Education audience too. Google Education On Air May 8 & 9 & Here’s Your FAQ. by TeachThought Staff. What is it? When is it? Is there any cost to education on air?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. By the 2015-16 school year, the latest data available online , Louisiana retained 4 percent of its students, still roughly twice the 2.2 If that second attempt wasn’t successful, students couldn’t move on to fifth or ninth grade. percent national average.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. So many times I hear the idea of back channel and how it is a relatively new phenomenon. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page. Contribution for all.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. To reach the state’s target, another 131,400 Minnesotans — two-thirds of them people of color—must earn a post-secondary credential. “As

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

He’s trying to figure out how to parcel out his meager paycheck to pay back college loans for a degree he never finished. In doing so, he joined more than 108,000 other students who withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015 with thousands of dollars in federal student debt but no degree.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. All states had to submit ESSA plans this fall showing how they intend to measure students’ progress, and the advocates believed that the flexibility in the new law would inspire states to innovate. “The

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

As more and more jobs require some education beyond high school, Pedro Martinez, who joined the San Antonio Independent School District as its superintendent in 2015 urges all students to consider earning a college or post-secondary credential. Gifts to CAST schools since 2015 have totaled $10 million, including a $3.6

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