Edsurge

JULY 28, 2020

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Hapara

AUGUST 18, 2023

A recent UNESCO report showed that across the nation, elementary and secondary students with disabilities experience higher rates of violence by teachers and are up to 1.5 For example, teachers tend to assess learners who are Black differently than white learners. percent more likely to be suspended multiple times and 2.2

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

With PLCs, we decide as a team that ‘this’ is really what every student at Benton High School leaving Algebra 1 should know how to do,” says Brandy Beckman, Secondary Math Instructional Facilitator. Often, PLC groups take the lead in creating curriculum, resources, or assessments. They have particular goals for students in each grade.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

Rob Reynolds, “One of the biggest challenges in today’s education environments is that, for many students, learning has become a ‘black box’ of sorts. The purposes and processes of learning, the “why” and “what for,” are largely invisible and inaccessible to students.”. Giving Students Ownership.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

For example, according to a separate report by NCES the median annual earnings for full-time workers ages 25 through 34 who had not completed high school were $26,000, compared to $32,000 a year for those whose highest education level was high school completion. .”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Called the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , it asks elementary and secondary schools and districts throughout the U.S. to report confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 among their students and staff who are learning and teaching in person this fall. that launched this fall.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

Using the Instructional Model Design , the Ed Elements team brings deep expertise, examples from other districts, and design-thinking processes to help schools create their unique designs. Download and examine Ed Elements’ three models for elementary schools and its three models for secondary schools. There’s more from Ed Elements.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Another advantage of AI is the time it can save teachers in the creation of personalized learning experiences. By leveraging AI technologies, educators can overcome the limitations of time and resources, offering a level of personalization that enhances the learning experience for each individual student.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Abolishing the routine of announced observations, having teachers provide artifacts of evidence to show the bigger picture since you can never see all that is done in a single observation, and prioritizing the collection assessments over lesson plans can also be effective. We then share collective insight while processing the feedback.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 5, 2021

Showcase portfolios work especially well as summative assessments at the end of a grading cycle or semester. Student Learning Portfolio (Growth over Time). As outlined by the Institute for Personalized Learning , a learner profile contains demographic and academic information. Mike’s Student Portfolio Examples.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 24, 2020

According to Brooke in a recent edWebinar , during this time of remote and distance learning, “There have been various levels of implementation, fidelity, and various levels of learning happening.” Learning Gaps. Understanding why it is taught focuses on data derived from assessments that maximize the data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Vicki: So we need to personalize learning. Vicki: Give us some examples. Doug: Well, the Science Learning Academy in Philadelphia is one where I visited. There’s a great deal of self-paced learning. And we do have the capability to personalize learning so much more. Doug: Yeah. Doug: Yeah.

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2015

Tests are just one form of assessment, he points out, and limited in what they can accurately measure. He faults them for suppressing creativity and innovation, and creating narrowed educational experiences, because everything that is not measured becomes secondary or is dismissed entirely.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

Instead, I decided to enhance my approach to problem solving by incorporating peer review—letting students participate in the feedback and assessment process. colleges are falling short when it comes to teaching students critical-thinking skills such as making cohesive arguments, assessing evidence and interpreting data.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

AmeriCorps member Justin Roias, who spent a year working full-time in a Providence middle school through the federally-funded City Year program, is a clear example of why national service matters.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The once novel technology behind chess- and gameshow-playing computers is all but commonplace today; it’s in everything from medical diagnostic applications to Gmail spam filters—and as some high school and college students are finding out, a new generation of online tools for foreign language learning.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In a recent edWebinar , Casey O’Brien, Executive Director, National CyberWatch Center, and Jim Kowatch, CEO, Infosec Learning, underscored that to fill the demand for cybersecurity experts, secondary and higher education should focus their attention on developing cybersecurity courses that are rooted in IT operations and applications.

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EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Nurturing the Neglected C (Communication) Lisa Johnson Eanes ISD Check out Lisa's book Cultivating Communication in the Classroom: Future-Ready Skills for Secondary Students. By forcing kids to balance their self-assessment s between two opposite qualities, it forces them to confront their weaknesses. Why is email important?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Another advantage of AI is the time it can save teachers in the creation of personalized learning experiences. By leveraging AI technologies, educators can overcome the limitations of time and resources, offering a level of personalization that enhances the learning experience for each individual student.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Implementation in the primary grades may look different from the examples in this post, but don’t assume that this is just for secondary students. Mike shares how he and his students use Google Sites for their online portfolios, and he shares examples of student work. Can you implement in the primary grades?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. Photo: James Leynse/Corbis via Getty Images. CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

While it’s hard to say precisely how much stress educators face, experts say the sources of stress have multiplied in recent years, including a constant stream of new reform efforts, ranging from technology platforms to personalized learning initiatives. Studies also suggest that lower teacher stress improves student learning.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

Blended learning seamlessly weaves together online and in-person learning experiences to boost student engagement and meet the unique needs of a diverse class by providing flexible pathways through learning experiences. Some might opt for the rainforest, while others may be captivated by the desert or ocean ecosystems.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report. The ESSR funds expire in 2024.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Prior to joining ESR, Wolk served as a program associate with The Education Alliance at Brown University where she served on the core work group with the National Association of Secondary School Principals to write Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform (NASSP 2004), and Breaking Ranks in the Middle (NASSP 2007).

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Future Ready has developed a common set of information, tools, and assessment, that are all available for free. Personalized learning and how technology can make the learning more personalized, is the focus for Future Ready initiatives that include collaborative leadership and also extend outside the classroom to community partnerships.

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 12, 2021

We are currently back to in-person learning, but I’m still using BombBomb to send my weekly newsletter. Or, you could record a conferring session between you and their child so they can gain insight into your assessment process and student growth. Tips: To help teachers through the pandemic, BombBomb is FREE for educators.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? Each student had a little bar chart on their desk that tracked their progress toward mastery in each standard. “I I was fascinated by it,” he said. “I

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 11, 2021

We are currently back to in-person learning, but I’m still using BombBomb to send my weekly newsletter. Or, you could record a conferring session between you and their child so they can gain insight into your assessment process and student growth. Tips: To help teachers through the pandemic, BombBomb is FREE for educators.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Many districts invested in edtech platforms and tools to facilitate online learning and to build a hybrid infrastructure that would support the return to in-person learning, all with the goal of creating equitable learning experiences for students.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).

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iLearn Technology

JANUARY 9, 2017

Equally disheartening, I rarely had the examples of schools doing really transformative things to share back with my own school. What if we redesigned assessment and ditched tests? In this session we will interrogate the notion of 1:1 and explore alternative ways of supporting Blended and Personalized Learning in our schools.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Think back to an assessment you took in your elementary years. The assessments you took were not that memorable; you probably didn’t have a lasting connection and there was absolutely no impact on you as a learner whatsoever. So why can’t we do that in a class that [only] allows for traditional assessments? Let’s embrace that!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

With textbooks open, they watched a lecture about Newton’s Laws on a giant screen, while their classroom teacher simultaneously offered examples of those laws in action. When the lecture ended, they had yet another to chance to learn: A physics video chat with their tutor, a sophomore physics major at Yale.

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The Web20Classroom

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Rubrics have been a part of the assessment toolbox since at least the mid-1990s. Assessed overall achievement on an activity or product Holistic Rubric Example Analytic – Written with levels of achievement as columns and assessment criteria as rows.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

What''s your experience with using portable devices to help facilitate personal learning? Monique Colbert, Baltimore math curriculum specialist and graduate student, is looking for someone interested in being interviewed about their experience using portable devices to create personal learning opportunities for students.

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