A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

It all began around 2003 when the smartphone wars started with Blackberry, but was quickly taken over by the Apple iPhone in 2007. Paradigm shifts need to be driven by change agents in classrooms, schools, districts, and other educational organizations across the globe. At this point change began to happen at a rapid pace. Barrett, P.,

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ExcelinEd

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Mississippi has significantly increased the percentage of students scoring proficient or above on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). In fact, Mississippi fourth graders ranked 29th in Reading and 23rd in Math on the 2019 NAEP—up from 48th and 49th, respectively, in 2003!

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eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

At eSpark Learning, we want to reimagine classrooms so that they’re student-centered, allowing students to succeed in school and in life. For the past six years, district Superintendent Dr. Michael Nagler has championed and thoughtfully questioned our strategy for meeting the needs of every learner. Chicago, Illinois.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

Liam Frometa, 5, left, and Christopher Ramos, 5, right, play with their classroom’s smart board at Fun Time Early Learning Academy in Naples, Fla. million from the foundation since 2003. They’re also accustomed to the routine and structure of a classroom setting and know how to interact with their peers, she said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready. The edtech industry made big strides during this era.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2018

In 2000 he co-founded Wireless Generation, which pioneered the use of data, digital diagnostics and assessments to support students. There’s a body of work we’ve been doing for a long time around diagnosing reading and math issues in young kids—these are observational assessments. And there’s only one transmitter: the teacher.

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Company EdTech Personalized Learning Laptops 74

techlearning

OCTOBER 9, 2018

How do we best help them to understand the value of new technology and how it might benefit their students lives (rather than how might it help my fit into their classroom). Attention When we relate the relevance of using emergent technology in the classroom we must describe how adoption is advantageous. & Birkeland, S.E.

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Connecting 2 the World

SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Unlike formal schooling, individual content knowledge is not necessarily assessed through testing (Diaz, et al, 1999). It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002). 2000; Moreland & Levine, 2001).

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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. All students need to have transparency about where they are in their progress and what they need to do to meet graduation standards.”. BOSTON, Mass. —

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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!

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Technology Digital Citizenship Khan Academy Elementary 40

Hapara

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Virtual meeting links . 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.” . Moore (Needham: The Sloan Consortium, 2003), 13—45. 2 (2001), [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Before Ontere leaves, she schedules a follow-up meeting and hands him a meal voucher. 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.”. Breaking down stereotypes.

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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.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Are you thinking about designing an online assessment for a Flipped classroom? First, consider whether the tool you are thinking about is the right tool for what you want to assess. Second, does this online assessment align with the rest of the course curriculum. 2002) and used by other academics (e.g.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 4, 2015

This past week in Philadelphia I participated in a meeting that launched the year-long process of refreshing ISTE’s Standards for Students. The award-winning classroom teachers at my table wondered too. So do classroom teachers. link] (2003). Yes, we have our own standards. But so do administrators. link] (2004).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2013

His most recent books are Classroom Assessment: What Teachers Need to Know, 6th Ed. A Fellow of the Association, he has attended each year''s AERA meeting since his first in 1958. In 2009, he was appointed to be a board member of the National Assessment Governing Board. He is inordinately compulsive.

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Blackboard Assessment Analysis Study 72

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms.

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

2003), and Universal Instructional Design (UID; Silver et al., My purpose behind this post is to introduce you to UDL, explain what it is and talk about the different ways you can use it in your classroom to enhance your teaching and boost students learning. What is Universal Design for Learning ? To start with, Courey et al.

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edWeb.net

MAY 19, 2021

Reinventing spaces—designing flexible classroom spaces and turning a library into a learning commons with flexible seating and mobile bookshelves. MacLean’s district shed some traditional grading schema to address learning during COVID and is exploring how to continue providing alternate ways to assess learners.

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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. Frank Baker on libraries and media literacy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Warm classrooms in the 60-year-old building would smell like urine, her co-workers told her. Rand recognized the classroom sets of literature books she studied from as a senior. State and federal education leaders have feted Mississippi’s four-year stretch of improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In November, Bloomberg reported that WeWork , a co-working space startup that acquired both the coding bootcamp Flatiron School and the meet-up company MeetUp this year, planned to open a private K–12 school in one of its facilities. “Is the College Board’s Newest AP Computer Science Course Closing the Gap?”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

When you go into a classroom, you want children there to be in an environment that’s conducive to learning,” said Johnson, now 67. “If The new construction added a swimming pool and computer science classrooms, but not air conditioning. While a school district assessment found Western will need $13.5 million in restoration.

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Elementary Report System Meeting 95

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

More on the Republicans’ tax plans – Via Education Week : “New Senate Tax Plan Doubles Teachers’ Deduction for Buying Classroom Supplies.” This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” A sobering assessment and a warning.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

We sat down with Boyer to learn more about his flipped syllabus, unique assessments, and the hard work that goes into an easy A. What other world leaders is Angela Merkel meeting with? Professor John Boyer teaches World Regions through his comic book alter ego. You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Board of Education school-segregation decision, Williams saw a post on Facebook shared by an old high-school friend she knew from her days playing trumpet in the Gardendale marching band: The newly empowered Gardendale Board of Education would be meeting in a few hours. After the meeting ended, two parents approached Williams in the lobby.

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