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3 ways to support special education students with college and career readiness

eSchool News

Here are three ways to help special education students engage in the college and career planning process: Identify goals Establishing goals is a critical first step for all students in the post-secondary planning process, as this provides a clear vision of what they want to achieve, and begins to create a road map of how to get there.

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Tech Engages Today’s Students, But Teachers Need Support

EdTech Magazine

Teachers need direction from administrators on how to improve their pedagogy and incorporate technology into their lesson plans. Using the framework, administrators should ask teachers the following questions before flooding the classroom with technology: How will you use educational technology to cognitively engage your students?

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Fair Grades, Dropping Grades, Grading Versus Knowledge

The CoolCatTeacher

With almost 9,000 downloads and counting, this show is the most popular episode on Every Classroom Matters in 2016 so far. How do we determine what the most valuable evidence a teacher has that determines student competency at the end of the course? Why we need multiple forms of evidence to determine grades.

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What Makes a Good Assessment?

The CoolCatTeacher

His research focuses on on professional development and teacher change, program evaluation, assessment of student learning, grading and reporting, instructional effectiveness, and educational reform. Thomas Guskey is Professor of Educational Psychology in the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky.

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Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Quality, Learning-Focused 1to1 Initiative

More Verbs

PD designed to effectively support teachers’ successfully changing classroom practice. Managing Change: Knowing how to support a diverse staff . Managing Change: Knowing how to define success and if “it” is working (smart use of data for planning, formative feedback, and program evaluation).

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The Actual Dollars That Will Shape the New K-12 Investment Ecosystem

Edsurge

It’s that most conversations about a school’s expenses don’t sync up to what’s happening in the classroom—the instruction, materials, and tools that shape the educational experience for teachers and students. The district began the program when budgets were declining and they had to decide what to cut and what to keep.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

That’s why we’re working with these six districts: to follow along and share what they learn about piloting learning technology tools in classrooms. That’s also why we are crowdsourcing ideas from the many outstanding schools and districts across the country on how to run results-based ed-tech pilots.

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