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An Onboarding Course to Help Your New Edtech Hires Empathize With Educators

Edsurge

The class reads about Common Core and completes a few samples of Common Core assessment questions to understand the student and teacher experience using these materials. Then as a group, we try on different perspectives and opinions of how Common Core assessments are shifting the focus of American education.

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How to Assess Your District: The Global Challenge Project Case Study

The CoolCatTeacher

A district is assessing itself with a massive project for 800 eighth graders. How to Assess Your District: The Global Challenge Project is an Example. How the District Uses This Project to Assess Itself. Then we use that data to then inform our other programs and our other types of assessments to see how we can improve those.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

This change remained in appropriations language from FY 2007 through FY 2011. FY 2007 $273,100,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). State Strategies and Practices for Educational Technology: Volume I – Examining the Enhancing Education Through Technology Program (SRI International, 2007).

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Using better metrics to build better schools

The Hechinger Report

.” Envision enacts this philosophy through a “Know-Do-Reflect” process that uses projects, portfolios and presentations to integrate assessment with learning. Bob Lenz, the founder of Envision, believes that those qualities are best cultivated by the performance assessment model integrating learning and assessment.

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Characteristics of The 21st Century Teachers

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. Adaptive teaching in literacy instruction: Case studies of two teachers. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p. Retrieved from [link]. Pedagogy of the oppressed.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment).

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

Waters agrees, saying that most schools don’t really move past the assessment. After the Great Recession that began in December 2007, the community’s unemployment rate skyrocketed. At first glance this strength-based approach seems like the educational equivalent of kitsch, a bit fringe and hardly necessary. Weekly Update.