The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 71

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Teacher leadership is also critical for school improvement efforts to succeed. 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Making learning “hard fun” (Papert, 2002) is a real-world balancing act that happens everyday when children are designing and inventing in the classroom. Assessment is real time and authentic. Joy and laughter should be welcome in any classroom. 2003; Cornett 1986). Benefit No. Benefit No. Benefit No.

Education 28

Education STEM Assessment Report 28

Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

In the last few days of the first semester of the 2003-2004 school year I was given the opportunity to speak with the teacher that was leaving the school briefly before he left for Christmas break to understand what the curriculum expectations were for the stand alone computer classes in the elementary school. We've come a long way baby!

Technology 40

Technology Digital Citizenship Khan Academy Elementary 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2017

Sixteen-year-olds share classrooms with 20-somethings, students earn diplomas at their own pace and if anyone has a problem with a peer, they’re encouraged to talk about it like adults. Burgos, too, has relied on staff support for help outside of the classroom. Photo: Natalie Gross. BOSTON, Mass. — Photo: Natalie Gross.

Dropout 93

Dropout Policies Report Course 93

Hapara

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In “ Assessing Teacher Presence in a Computer Conferencing Context ,” the authors explain that designing an online course “forces teachers to think through the process, structure, evaluation and interaction components of the course.” . 4 (2015): 385—418, [link]. Moore (Needham: The Sloan Consortium, 2003), 13—45.

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Hapara Digital Learning Course Examples 246

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

According to the American Institutes of Research, Minnesota spent $130 million between 2003 and 2008 just on educating students who dropped out in their first year. I felt like I needed mirrors in the classroom.”. System leaders don’t dispute that assessment. Breaking down stereotypes.

Dropout 70

Dropout Secondary Course Report 70

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom (“seat time”) doesn’t matter, nor does the number of credits they’ve accumulated. In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 The only signs that things have changed are posters that hang in some classrooms, enumerating the standards and proficiency levels.

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2023

In this study, Cooper et al analyzed a large pool of research studies on homework conducted in the United States between between 1987 and 2003. According to Fernández-Alonso, Suárez-Álvarez and Muñiz ( 2015 ), spending 60 minutes per day doing homework is considered a reasonably effective time. A synthesis of research, 1987–2003.

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Study Elementary Analysis Mobile Learning 145

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

The award-winning classroom teachers at my table wondered too. And then there was the recent release of the 2015 Horizon Report K-12 Edition. So do classroom teachers. These standards and profiles can be used for: Self-assessment and personal professional growth plans. link] (2003). ISTELIB on Twitter.

Libraries 40

Libraries Technology Conference BYOD 40

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. His focus has been on traditional institutions of learning and the traditional classroom model. And I want to do it worldwide.”

Accessibility 63

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 63

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a problem: Only 56 percent of third-graders in his district had scored proficient on the state reading test. By 2015, the district had turned the corner financially, and Silva was wondering why the reading scores were so terrible.

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Forty-nine percent of the jobs in science and engineering were held by white men in 2015, according to the National Science Foundation’s report on “ Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.”. Black and Hispanic men held less than 7 percent, total, of science and engineering jobs in 2015.

How To 112

How To Elementary STEM Report 112

MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

Forty-nine percent of the jobs in science and engineering were held by white men in 2015, according to the National Science Foundation’s report on “ Women, Minorities and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.”. Black and Hispanic men held less than 7 percent, total, of science and engineering jobs in 2015.

STEM 44

STEM How To Elementary Report 44

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2018

White principals must expand their professional circles if students are to see a better representation of society in their classrooms and teachers who look like them. We need more black teachers in the classroom, and interviewing candidates of color is just a start. But just like in the NFL, the Rooney Rule is no panacea.

Education 61

Education Data Study Report 61

NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

A recent Stanford Graduate School of Education report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Literacy assessed of the news literacy of students from middle school through college. Don’t miss the four modules, lessons and Check Tool in the Checkology Virtual Classroom. Stanford History Education Group.

Social Media 40

Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Ghosts aside, Johnson, who retired as president of the Detroit Federation of Teachers in 2015, had plenty of true and truly troubling stories of more recent vintage that speak to Detroiters’ struggle to provide decent spaces for learning. The new construction added a swimming pool and computer science classrooms, but not air conditioning.

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Elementary Report System Meeting 94