The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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Education with Technology

JUNE 25, 2014

In my ISTE Sunday 8-10 am poster session, I demonstrate many diverse mobile activities to help students achieve the English Language Arts Common Core Anchor Statements through mobile devices. The mobile activities focus on free common tool apps that are available on both the Android and the iPad.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

He has two sets of videos specifically on the Common Core, in which he talks about the kindergarten and the third grade standards. Sylvia Majdoch, 9, pictured here during a remote school day at her home in Florida, is the fourth in her family to take on math using the principles of Common Core.

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Common Core Elementary Strategy Video 131

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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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 119

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments.

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Online Assessments Assessment Elementary Common Core 41

MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

For states adopting Common Core, the standards apply to kindergarten, laying out what students should be able to do by the end of the grade.* While Common Core aligned assessments don’t kick in until third grade, many teachers feel pressure to make sure kids are meeting the specified standards before they move on to first grade.

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Common Core Academic Standards Assessment Meeting 28

User Generated Education

JULY 5, 2018

For example, if students are learning about circuits, they could wire cardboard model houses with lights and fans. . Example books that offer engineering or maker education challenges include: The Long Walk to Water – [link]. Example Maker Education Lesson Plan. Assessment : How will learners be assessed?

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Education Common Core STEM Examples 180

EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 9, 2019

The key strategy to get to this level of understanding involves a tried-and-true instructional practice: formative assessments and feedback. So what are some main characteristics of these assessment practices? Students learn to set goals, self-assess, monitor their progress over time. You Need Data to Personalize Learning.

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Strategy EdTech Resources Assessment 110

Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

By highlighting examples of research-based product development, we aim to help all stakeholders use scientific and user research to improve student outcomes and better understand learners. Mindprint Learning provides a cognitive assessment developed for children that can be administered online. How do you use research?

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Common Core Twitter Assessment Outcomes 120

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 23, 2016

These include (rephrased from Common Core Writing Standards): dig deeply into subjects of interest to achieve better understanding and to build knowledge. assess the credibility and accuracy of each source, and integrate the information while avoiding plagiarism. Elementary-High School. Elementary-High School.

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Tools Common Core Twitter Laptops 156

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

a vibrant and accessible teaching guide packed with strategies for implementing Common Core standards using UDL. Assessing an audience and figuring out how to simplify a complex topic requires higher-level thinking and demands a true understanding of a topic, Novak says. Putting Email to Good Use.

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UDL Common Core Guidelines Exercises 120

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Grace’s story is just one example of how the American education system and American policing tactics converge. They are more likely to be assessed on their merits and performance. Teens not turning in their homework is hardly an anomaly. Other teens are scolded, lose marks or, at worst, get detention for this offence. The difference?

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Common Core System Assessment STEM 137

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

Educators often wonder how they are going to meet all the demands of Common Core. ” For example, fifth graders need to “conduct short research projects that use several sources to build knowledge through investigation of different aspects of a topic.” Combine Assessment Prep Into Daily Learning. Integrate subjects.

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Common Core Strategy Elementary Assessment 40

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. We use our co-teaching situation as an example for our students to see how people must work together in a respectful manner.

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How To Differentiated Instruction Common Core Groups 128

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2018

In the past, kids in K-2 would get a reading assessment with their teacher but students in upper grades were just expected to be able to read. It was difficult to ascertain those students’ reading levels unless you were a reading specialist, and even then, assessments were performed individually and were very time-consuming.

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Classroom Common Core Study Case Study 148

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

With Mangahigh ’s Prodigi game, for example, teachers are able to challenge and remediate students’ learning as needed—all in the same class period. Grading student work by hand takes time and there is always a lag between students’ assessment and the resulting feedback. It’s hard to do the same thing in a math class.

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Game-Based Learning Learning Elementary Differentiated Instruction 144

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. BERWYN, Ill. —

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How To Common Core Elementary Report 82

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2017

I am a 6th-grade teacher at Crestmore Elementary school in the Colton Joint Unified School District, in Southern California. And then in addition to that, it just gave me a great assessment tool to be able to assess whether they had actually mastered the type of volcano that they each had researched. Full Bio As Submitted.

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Classroom Assessment Strategy Twitter 175

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. The George Lucas Foundation financed the four studies. Students had to document their learning process as they added their ideas and built a device.

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Study Learning Training Common Core 145

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 17, 2016

“Nevada continues to have an affirmative responsibility to ensure that all students in grades three through eight and once in high school are assessed annually in reading/language arts and mathematics as required in the ESEA,” she wrote. . . ” But Whalen also noted that the waiver only covers the 2014-15 school year. .

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Common Core Secondary Assessment Analysis 40

Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

In addition, teachers can also use Seesaw to create a class blog, communicate with students and families, create and curate activities from a robust and ever-growing library, and assess student work via digital portfolios. This allows teachers to assess student progress over time. How do I set up my class in Seesaw?

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Google Android Video Accessibility 98

wwwatanabe

MARCH 15, 2012

This was our first year with iPads in the elementary classrooms, purchased with Title funding. Here were some of the examples I''ve seen in the classrooms recently: 1. Previewing nonfiction text in Title I using ShowMe app Below was an example of how they were being used in Title I with Shelly Brossman.

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iPad Common Core Differentiated Instruction Examples 93

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. The MCAS has long been considered one of the nation’s best tests at assessing student performance. ARLINGTON, Mass.—As AP Photo/Lisa Poole).

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Common Core Assessment Report Groups 40

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. An example of teaching social development in morning meetings. Vicki: Awesome. Felicia: Sure.

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Meeting Classroom Company Common Core 169

Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP Digital Passport: Digital Safety for Elementary School Kids . ELA AND ELL A+ Tools for K-5 Common Core Reading Comprehension. MATH Awesome Digital Tools for K-8 Common Core Math. Looking for great tools to support K-8 Common Core math instruction?

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Resources Digital Citizenship Common Core Blendspace 40

Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

In his post on his blog [link] , Aaron Ross suggests that their are two polar opposite approaches to the neccessity of a common core, those who want to protect and perhaps even popularize it and those who want to totally abandon it. Is a common core necessary for elementary school? I adore E.D.

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Common Core Assessment Learning Guidelines 49

MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Whether from formative and summative assessments or online instructional programs, data is both a powerful indicator of teaching and a driver for personalizing professional development. While it can be hard to share out the myriad of little things teachers do that are so effective, we do have a tool that can help—data.

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Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base 89

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Example of Tip #1 Use Minecraft to Scaffold Story Writing. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive. But I try not to do that. I think that there’s handwriting without tears.

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Technology eBook Twitter Chromebook 184

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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Exercises Groups Report Meeting 142

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Related: Elementary school teachers struggle with Common Core math standards. For example, a new teacher mentor might observe a new teacher’s lesson and identify a need to better address the needs of a wide range of learners.

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Common Core Professional Learning Meeting Report 75

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Unfortunately, this job can be easier said than done, especially when teachers are required to teach from a basal reading program, which according to Mark Weakland in “ Super Core! elementary schools.”. Even better, assess students’ interest by giving them time to browse the stories. Don’t be afraid to jump around either.

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Libraries Common Core Strategy Meeting 85

MindShift

JULY 22, 2018

Under the Dewey Decimal System that revolutionized and standardized book shelving starting in 1876, nonfiction essentially already gets the genrefication treatment with, for example, Music located in the 780s and Paleontology in the 560s. That’s a move others who genrefy say better aligns libraries with the Common Core curriculum.

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Libraries Common Core Report System 53

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The nonprofit test development group has worked with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary education to make and score MCAS for all but four of the 19 years it has been given. The company also works on large-scale assessments for 16 other states and is one of two companies in the running to design the MCAS 2.0.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Help Students Show What They Know With Media by Wesley Fryer View different examples of student multimedia projects created by students, including narrated art/photo projects, narrated slideshow/screencasts, Quick-edit videos, visual notes, and GeoMap projects. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)?

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Resources iPad Mobility eBook 91

User Generated Education

AUGUST 14, 2022

Examples include: A story or a book that you used to love listening to when you were younger First books you were able to read by yourself Hobbies- any written works you could share that fit with those hobbies (e.g., Directions for doing this using Canva and examples can be found at: [link]. Common Core State Standards – ELA.

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Adobe Common Core Examples Game-Based Learning 389

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2012

Mortenson Creating a 24/7 Professional Development Model by Josh Allen Creating a Library Website to Support Information Literacy Needs by Luann Edwards Creating ePortfolios using Weebly by Valerie R. by Sandra Bassendowski If It''s Not Free, It''s Not For Me!

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ePortfolio Digital Citizenship Social Media Common Core 51