A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Michael Fullan, 2002, p. Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. Check out their book titled Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner published by Corwin.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. From Testing to Triumphant Learning with Pam Moran. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Listen Now. Enhanced Transcript.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The demand for making the learning experience responsive to every student’s individual learning needs is accelerating. Today’s education and cognitive scientists affirm that every learner has a dynamic profile of strengths and challenges that impacts their learning journey. Photo: Tatiana Kolesnikova/Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In theory, proficiency-based models let students learn at their own pace, speeding up if they grasp a concept quickly, and getting extra help if they struggle. In practice, though, it can take many different forms, including independent study, learning communities and online programs. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2017

The professor was teaching basic math skills that the 18-year-old had already learned in high school. Rodriguez was forced into remedial math by the community college’s placement test, which assesses a student’s ability to succeed in for-credit, higher education classes. Eventually, he dropped out too. The results have been promising.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

Consider a simple academic skill such as learning to name colors. In the end, the child will learn to name two colors, which is good, but it will not impact the life of the family very much. A support model mirrors the field of general medicine in which many chronic conditions are also not curable at present.

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