The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

TeamMakers: Positively Impacting the Lives of Children through District-Wide Dreaming, Collaborating, and Change , published by Dave Burgess Publishing was published in 2019. Schools Full of Readers: Tools for Teachers, Coaches and leaders to Support Students , is also from 2019.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Welcome to the second of two articles as I relate the importance of making sure STEM is considered a verb. Facilitate and assess (intentionally) not just content, but also the STEM (21st century and beyond) skills. Understand that each of these C;s includes indicators and subsets that can be assessed. Check out my Booking Page.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 22, 2019

I am convinced that the key to student engagement is the ownership of inquiry. The Question Focus: The students are provided an artifact using the ideas above. After introduction, students quietly reflect on the artifact as they think about questions they might have about it. My 2019 calendar is filling fast.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

MARCH 16, 2019

Students design a device that can shoot a basketball free-throw shot accurately every time. Engineer Hoopsters – A great article from eGFI that lets students know you can excel in the STEM fields while also playing basketball… and winning. A wonderful article that promotes both sports and academics.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

At the time, our state test was based upon performance assessment, and learning the thinking skills framework. Then six is evaluation, and lots of research around feedback and even student’s’ knowledge of when they're getting feedback and how that affects performance. Not assessing of knowledge but assessing for knowledge.

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edWeb.net

JULY 23, 2021

In a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , the presenters discussed the findings of the AASA Learning 2025 National Commission and the need to get more students engaged in their own educational experience. In addition, Dr. Domenech has served on the U.S.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

Students are already comfortable with technology, and they are more curious to make friends with anything more advanced that might come up. The Ed-Tech space is so vast that it can encapsulate almost every aspect of education, including curriculum development , lesson delivery, and assessments.

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Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Background: The 2018-2019 school year is Inquiry Hub Secondary’s 7th year since it was founded. We felt that students were learning about the outcomes in DL10, but we needed a better model for assessment. The influence of that trip can be seen in this article, shared on their school blog on November 30, 2015.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 26, 2019

Vodicka along with Erik Burmeister, Superintendent, and Theresa Fox, Coordinator of Technology and Innovation, both from Menlo Park City School District, CA, agreed that if 80% of students are graduating, then 20% of students are not graduating and that educational professionals can’t be satisfied with these statistics.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments. Assessments look far different than 10-15 years ago, but it’s not just the switch to computerized testing. Successful schools look at assessments as a jumping off point to evaluate curriculum, teaching methods, student engagement, etc. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 13, 2020

The study looked at data for over five million students in grades 3 through 8 who had taken NWEA’s MAP Growth assessments in 2017-2018. Leveraging data about summer learning loss, the researchers projected how COVID-19-related school closures could impact students across the country. CoSN 2018-2019 infrastructure survey.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Hammond is a national education consultant and author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students. She has published articles in Educational Leadership, The Learning Professional, and Phi Delta Kappan.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

At a time when 9 out of 10 new jobs are going to those with a college degree, a teaching method that would help underprepared students whiz back on track academically could boost the prospects of millions and raise global productivity. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

State assessments and report cards, for example, arrive too late to be actionable. Summative and formative assessments are better but still require a trade-off: time spent assessing instead of teaching. Schools need leading indicators of learning progression that flag at-risk students before they fall behind.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The program runs from May 2018-June 2019. This program adds full home access for students, custom curriculum alignment, performance reporting, professional development, and more. This remarkable functionality makes an array of assessment types possible – including spelling tests, short answers, fill-in-the-blank, and more.

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Gradelink

JUNE 21, 2022

Students often judge their learning by short-term assessments, which may lead to a misguided interpretation of their actual understanding. They found that those who studied under teachers that focused on short-term success did not do as well in the long term as those students with teachers who took a deeper approach.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As of this fall, it had 198,645 students, compared with 205,778 in the 2019-2020 school year, and was still trying to track down students who’d gone missing. Sometimes I read different articles from random websites that pop up on Instagram, you know how it is. We’re happy to be back in person and see our students.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

Student engagement suffered. Over time, the need to quickly adapt led to heightened online student engagement, according to a CatchOn survey of 47 school districts from January 2020 to January 2021. Following this assessment is the design of an implementation plan centered on anticipated program outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

As personalized learning advocates push forward with plans to roll out their approach to many more of the nation’s schoolchildren, it’s worth considering how lessons from 45 years of educating students with disabilities might help shape this latest educational experiment. They teach students as a class and one-on-one or in small groups.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 23, 2021

That prompted a move to implement delayed school start times, a project that was set to launch in 2022-2023, but the data indicated students were ready for the change sooner. In addition to lesson plans and other teacher resources, Michele’s portfolio includes published articles covering a range of educational and business topics.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

As personalized learning advocates push forward with plans to roll out their approach to many more of the nation’s schoolchildren, it’s worth considering how lessons from 45 years of educating students with disabilities might help shape this latest educational experiment. They teach students as a class and one-on-one or in small groups.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 27, 2020

In a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by Beable, educators and entrepreneurs—committed to developing students’ academic and lifelong skills—shared strategies and tools designed to propel student engagement, strengthen academic proficiency, and build young people’s capacity for gainful employment and financial well-being.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” I wrote about Whittle and his investment pal Michael Moe in an article in The Baffler in January of this year.

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