Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Students also needed support when it came to the end of year state assessments. “We The following year, Ruiz did the same.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. In 2010, the Commonwealth ditched English and math standards that were a model for other states in favor of weaker national standards known as the Common Core.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 29, 2015

Welcome to post number five in a series devoted to formative learning (assessment). The 2016 calendar is beginning to fill including the summer months, so please get with me as soon as possible to ensure a date. Part 5: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. Formative Learning.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Microsoft’s Tay was taken down after only a day on Twitter as other Twitter users taught it to be racist and xenophobic in March of 2016. Dr Matthew Glanville, Head of Assessment Principles and Practice at IB, explains that IB would not be banning AI because “that is the wrong way to deal with innovation.” ChatGPT) well.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In 2011, 78% of 4th graders scored below proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In addition to this legislation reform, the Common Core State Standards had been adopted as the Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards in 2010. Go big or go home. One thing was certain.

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Common Core Assessment Elementary Policies 62

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Digital portfolios—via wikis.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I don’t like to be alarmist, or give too much weight to any one test result, but last week’s release of 2016 reading test scores around the world is now the third major proof point that something is awry. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Is the U.S. educational system beginning to decay? See adjacent table.).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP’s writing rubric is aligned with the Common Core and the writing approach is aligned to the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards dimensions of inquiry. Yet, the goal across BHP’s activities and assessment is consistency. The Big History Project’s writing rubric. Source: BHP.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

“When we dug into the data, we noticed that a sizable percentage of kids were just missing the benchmark—they were one, two, three points below,” says Hope Langston, Northfield’s Director of Assessment Services. Because Minnesota state assessments are untimed, many Northfield kids had never taken a timed test prior to the ACT.

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Survey Common Core Study Assessment 118

The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 25 percent of students nationwide are writing on grade level, and 3 percent are considered advanced. The Common Core, in part a response to the poor quality of writing nationwide, pushes length and text complexity.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

This was,” Elizalde explains, “the initial assessment for a framework called the Learning Record. In her July 2016 account , former librarian Mary Moen witnessed a computer science training for school librarians where Klimczak encouraged teachers to think about how the five-stage story structure is right there in computer science instruction.

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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

This will be the first school year in which most elementary and middle-school students take state-required tests online.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. But we have also seen other benefits.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2016

Even assessment changes with competency-based learning. Recent #nhedchat Twitter Chat on Competency Based Learning [January 26, 2016 Twitter Chat]. But, wow, are there some challenges ! Competencies by nature remove the class rank and the coveted valedictorian’s spot. Learners are working at a different pace.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

We started Torah Academy in September 2016 with a strong vision for how and what we want our students to learn. Educators at Torah Academy teach courses that cover everything from Common Core mathematics to Judaic studies, as well as provide services including speech therapy and vocational training. Hardly the case!

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

They’re words that show up on assessments and standardized tests, most notably the Common Core, with which much of the game aligns. According to its Q1 2016 earnings sheet , bookings—customer commitments—totaled $182 million, up eight percent from the previous year. You can find a trailer for the app here.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Contact Steve Hargadon (steve@hargadon.com) about opportunities to get involved with our community. See our other sponsors, supporters, and partners on the conference website. Barrios, Ed.D.;

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

It was about this time last year, in January 2016, when Rudolph was working on a strategic plan that he hoped could address the needs of all MVWSD students. TTO is also aligned with Common Core standards and runs on the Chromebooks that the district had invested in. There were also issues with the program itself.

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Personalized Learning Learning Khan Academy Assessment 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. In our fourth year-end personal statement roundup, we’ve again asked thought leaders to share their outlooks on education, but with a twist.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

By 2016, the high-poverty school district had turned around. The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. From 2006 to 2016, St. Some had remained there for nearly 10 years.

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Learning Dropout Blackboard Common Core 61

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

She uses i-Ready , which provides both diagnostic assessments and level-appropriate practice. The 2015-2016 math scores were similarly impressive, with growth across the board. In 2016, over 300 students enrolled in an AP course, the highest rate in 10 years. Hispanic/Latino 42.1% African American 50.1% 58.1% +8% White 78.2%

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2015

Ten classrooms will receive a tech package of about $3,600 each, which includes response clickers, a tablet for annotating on a whiteboard, an assessment program, ExamView, along with cloud-based software that links ExamView to various other pieces of classroom technology. 2016 PASCO NSTA STEM Educator Awards. Funding amount : $3,600.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Its K-8 adaptive learning and diagnostic product i-Ready is used by over 4 million students, and a 2016 study found that it was an exceptionally accurate predictor of student performance on Common Core Assessments in New York State.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Released in conjunction with the 2016 National Title I Conference, the complimentary 15-day lesson plan covers all five stages of the SRA FLEX Project Experience in an easy-to-follow sequence, aiming to boost literacy skills through reading, writing-centered activities and group collaboration.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s, student achievement, particularly in math, steadily improved until the late 2000s, then flatlined. . Every state has its own annual assessments, but they vary in difficulty and how they are scored.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2017

Bitmoji — an app that lets users create their own personalized emoji — is the second most popular free app on the Apple store, and was bought by Snap in 2016. CommonLit, which recently launched a big update, is a literacy tool that teachers, especially ELA teachers tackling Common Core, need to check out. DragonBox Big Numbers.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 29, 2016

billion for the first half of 2016. The drop in underlying sales —which are sales that omit adjustments that could distort a company’s trading performance, such as exchange rate movements or acquisition costs—was due mostly to expected declines in assessment revenues in the U.S. Source: Google Finance. and the U.K.,

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Pearson Common Core Company Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Averaged across 15 schools during the 2016-17 school year, the nonprofit reports an approximately 11 percent boost in the number of students reading at grade level — from 33 percent reading at grade level in the fall, to 44 percent by the beginning of summer. Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair?

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edWeb.net

JUNE 20, 2016

All educators need PD and learning that is relevant to their practice to keep up with the rapid pace of change in technology and education initiatives such as ESSA, Common Core, Next Gen Science Standards, Future Ready, and more. Assess how edWeb compares with other teacher professional learning options.

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Survey Common Core Future Ready Report 40

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

All of our lessons tie to Common Core, AASL, and ISTE standards. Give Assessment: Follow up with the interactive unit-level assessment. Students can take the assessment and then share their table of results with you -- an easy way to document your efforts in regards to E-rate funding. Many also incorporate videos!

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Digital Citizenship E-rate Common Core Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

Source: Slide 15 of a PowerPoint presentation, accompanying a June 2016 OECD report, “Equations and Inequalities.” The research was based on how students answered survey questions that accompanied an international test, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The group points to slumping test scores as a reason why change is needed: Eighth grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have been flat for a decade, with just 34 percent of students testing proficient in 2019, as the gap between the highest and lowest performers grows. Still, the research is not unequivocal.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 18, 2016

All educators need PD and learning that is relevant to their practice to keep up with the rapid pace of change in technology and education initiatives such as ESSA, Common Core, Next Gen Science Standards, Future Ready, and more. Assess how edWeb compares with other teacher professional learning options.

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Survey Common Core Future Ready Professional Learning 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

A few years ago, she could see that some of her fifth graders struggled with second grade math skills, while others were capable of eighth grade content on the NWEA Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessment. For example, KIPP students are assessed three times a year on the NWEA MAP test. The resulting 1.0

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Yet the common threads between critical literacy and new literacies are hard to ignore. 2016, May 14). Retrieved 14:00, October 25, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Critical_literacy&oldid=720298766. Teaching Digital Literacies for the Common Core: What Results From New Assessments Tell Us.

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eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

Herbert Ginsburg , who teaches a course at Teachers College for early childhood education students called The Development of Mathematical Thinking, says, “preschools (are) caught between a “false dichotomy” of structure, assessment-oriented lesson plans and free play.”

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