Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2015

Note: For educators interested in incorporating online discussions into their curriculum, my first book Blended Learning in Grades 4-12 provides resources and strategies to support this shift. Shifting to Students Designed, Facilitated & Assessed Discussions. Interested in technology tips to help you teach the Common Core?

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Neo LMS

APRIL 5, 2018

Today we’ll look at grading and assessment, and how technology can assist teachers to streamline the process, as well as extract more valuable information on how students are tracking on their learning pathways. Teacher tricks: grading & assessment. Grading: a necessary evil? Grade for completion.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 18, 2014

L os Gatos, CA – June 17, 2014 — OpenEd ( www.OpenEd.io ), the largest K-12 educational resource catalog, today announced a free tool designed to enable teachers to easily create assessments with the question types required by Common Core standards. OpenEd Assessment Creation Tool - www.OpenEd.io/#!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted. After an initial drop in pass rates among eighth and ninth graders on a Common Core algebra exam in 2014-15, scores improved. Weekly Update.

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eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Schools using PARCC have the option of taking a mid year assessment as a means of monitoring student growth. Smarter Balanced.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

note: App of the Week picks are now being curated with help from the editors of Graphite.org , a free service from Common Sense Education. Edulastic is a Web-based platform designed to help teachers assess and monitor students as they work toward mastery of the Common Core standards. What’s It Like?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2016

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to so many daily tech-infused education. Category: ASSESSMENTS.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Let’s evaluate the Common Core Reading Standards and their good fit with games: What Common Core Expects. Assessment of point of view and purpose to shape content and style. I’m asking for exemplars of how Minecraft gamers used Common Core writing standards. Allow me to change that.

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eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Schools using PARCC have the option of taking a mid year assessment as a means of monitoring student growth. Smarter Balanced.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

The study, the second in a series of three examining the relationship between NAEP and the Common Core State Standards in math, was conducted by 18 math educators, supervisors and mathematicians convened by the NAEP Validity Studies Panel (NVS), an independent panel charged with examining issues related to the validity of the NAEP assessments.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Renaissance, the global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, has enhanced Star Spanish , its assessment platform for students who speak, or are learning to speak, Spanish, with new reports and the first authentic K–12 learning progression for Spanish available in the country. For more information, visit www.renaissance.com.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 10, 2015

Assessment coach Garnett Hillman helps us understand how our assessments need to change. (We We learn the tools and tips to help us with assessments. What are the most common mistakes teachers make when assessing students? How can you improve your current assessments to better meet standards?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2022

I’d love to hear your suggestions in the comments about how you do this in your classes: Because I teach graduate classes for educators, I talk to lots of teachers all over the country. Despite the claims of tech gurus that technology makes the job of teaching easier, few educators see it that way.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 20, 2015

Responding To Criticisms Of The Common Core. Ed note: Supporting “commonness” or standardization isn’t a part of our mission at TeachThought, but we are interested in giving equal voice to diverse voices across education. by Adam Blum , CEO of OpenEd.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

It’s been over five years since Kentucky adopted the Common Core, guidelines for what students need to know in math and the English language arts in each grade. Introduced as an ambitious educational reform at the end of the last decade to make sure that, across the U.S., Middle and high school students’ scores also dropped. “Of

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Since Kentucky became the first state to adopt the Common Core in 2010, the achievement gap between students with disabilities and their nondisabled peers has widened slightly – despite sweeping expectations the more rigorous standards would help eliminate disparities in academic performance. Reframing expectations. But we do.”.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 16, 2015

About 200 educators will learn more about the common-core standards, which are implemented in American-curriculum private schools in the Middle East.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 15, 2021

Educators participate in this five-week hands-on quasi-writer’s workshop to learn about widely-available digital tools that will help their students develop their inner writer. These can be adapted to any writing program be it 6+1 Traits, Common Core, or the basic who-what-when-where-why. MTI 558: Teach Writing With Tech.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 3, 2012

The students should be stakeholders in their education and have accountability, responsibility, and be actively engaged in and out of the classroom. Progressive teachers cannot get away from testing in the current educational climate, but at least we can make it engaging for the students in the class. What is being assessed?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 15, 2021

IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, has been approved by the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) for use under two statewide initiatives. RIDE’s mission is to provide equitable educational experiences to more than 300 K-12 public schools and 140,000 students across Rhode Island.

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 29, 2016

A new test is positioning itself as a non-common-core alternative to the SAT and ACT. Word about the Vector Assessment of Readiness for College, or Vector A.R.C., Families who home school or send their students to private schools, and those who live in states without the common core, are key audiences for Vector A.R.C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

In last year’s statewide Common Core-related PARCC test, just 24 percent of the students at Esteves’ school met grade-level expectations in reading and writing, a category called English language arts and literacy. In general, I think the common core approach is the right one,” wrote Shanahan in a blog.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In the past few years, the Common Core has significantly altered the landscape in terms of mathematics education. The Common Core has also required more coherence in our curriculum. As an instructional coach, I’m often asked about the role of technology in math education. A push for deeper learning.

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eSchool News

APRIL 26, 2015

Senate action to give states more testing and evaluation flexibility, Common Core resistance continues. Thousands of students are opting out of new standardized tests aligned to the Common Core standards, defying the latest attempt by states to improve academic performance. Despite U.S.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 30, 2023

In the edLeader Panel “ Next Generation Science Standards: Exploring Ten Years of Progress in Science Education ,” four specialists in the field of science education took us through the history and impact of the NGSS, how assessments and educational practices have changed to work with them, and the challenges they pose.

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wwwatanabe

JUNE 2, 2012

Yesterday I had the privilege of facilitating a Common Core and Project Based Learning professional development class for 7th-12th grade teachers. Prior to my training, they had two days of ELA Common Core and one day of deconstructing performance assessments for ELA Common Core. PBL is the "how." "How

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eSpark

APRIL 7, 2022

This means that there are more concepts, terms, and trends in education that teachers need to be aware of - but how do you keep track of them all? Keep reading to discover the meaning of some of the most common trends in Edtech. Edtech is being used in classrooms more than ever before.

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User Generated Education

JULY 5, 2018

As noted in USC Rossier Online, “ In order for your school and students to be fully invested in maker education, it has to be integrated into your curriculum, not squeezed in” ( [link] ). Maker education can be a tool for teaching the curriculum that you already have, At a glance, maker projects may appear disconnected from the curriculum.

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EdTech4Beginners

APRIL 18, 2022

The digital revolution has profoundly impacted all aspects of our lives, including education. Traditional educational methods are no longer adequate in preparing students for the workforce of the 21st century. In particular, it has a profound impact on education. How Has The Digital Revolution Changed Education?

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User Generated Education

APRIL 22, 2022

Education for Sustainability Standards and Performance Indicators. Students will design, implement, and assess actions in the service of their individual and collective visions. ( [link] ). Common Core English Standards. I suggested that it be a sustainable city (Sustainable Development Goal 11). Standards Addressed.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The most effective educational tools and services are ones developed and informed by those with firsthand experience in schools. Having that prior experience has been a huge advantage in building products for educators. One of the sessions is dedicated to examining education standards.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 19, 2014

BoomWriter is an award-winning educational technology resource that is free for teachers and allows their students to create, share, and even publish stories and other original content. BoomWriter can be used by teachers in a variety roles and educational settings, such as whole class, small group, before, during, and after school.

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The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 27, 2014

OpenEd recently released its Free Assessment tool. OpenEd''s assessment tool not only provides the question types required by the Common Core curriculum, but it also has some unique capabilities as well, such as suggesting videos to students who miss specific questions. Check them out!

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MSEDTechie

APRIL 8, 2014

There are many practical ways educators can move their students t hrough the SAMR model (Substitution Augmentation Modification Redefinition) through technology integration, to extend learning, to meet the common core standards and develop lifelong learners. What have we really been preparing our kids for?

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2018

Two national education nonprofits whose school improvement and assessment tools impact millions of students across the country are merging. What AdvancED has so far lacked, according to Elgart, are assessment tools that “provide a link between school quality measures and student outcomes.”

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Educator Innovator

AUGUST 26, 2014

This was originally posted at Common Sense Graphite. As the new school year begins, articles and resources dedicated to helping teachers develop curriculum and assessments aligned to the Common Core literacy standards are popping up everywhere. Tap into digital literacy and civic education skills at the same time!

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. That’s when I heard about John Hattie at an education conference I attended and his concept of Visible Learning. John Hattie is a teacher but more significantly, he’s an education researcher.

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