A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2018

What and how we assess carries little to no weight in the eyes of our students if they don’t understand and appreciate the value of the learning experience. 2008) conducted a study where 36 students were interviewed about aspects of the teaching and learning environment that motivated or demotivated their learning. Kember et al.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The Association of Test Publishers (ATP), the leading international organization for publishers of assessment programs, has named Curriculum Associates’ CEO Rob Waldron to its newly formed CEO Council. It’s an honor to be chosen alongside respected leaders from across different assessment sectors for the ATP CEO Council,” said Waldron.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2023

Founded in 2008, the MWF accomplishes this through directly empowering young people and equipping youth organizations with mindsets-based training and resources to help them transform the lives of the youth they serve.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

The presence of disruptive technologies like ChatGPT should cause us to reflect on our learning goals, outcomes, and assessments, and determine whether we should change them in response, wall off the technology, or change the technology itself to better support our intended outcomes. Boy, have times thankfully changed, but I have not.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 6, 2018

The primary goal has been to take a critical lens to instructional design with a focus on increasing the level of questioning, imparting relevance through authentic contexts and interdisciplinary connections, creating rigorous performance tasks, innovating assessment, and improving learner feedback. I loved this activity for so many reasons.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2013

This not only reflects grading as punishment, but also creates a hole that students cannot dig out of (Gusskey, 2000, Reeves, 2004, Reeves, 2008, O’Conner and Wormeli, 2011). Multiple forms of formal assessment : Marking period grades have to be comprised of multiple forms of assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000. Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. Comparing an unsupported MOOC from 2008 to an in-person college experience isn’t apples to apples. In 2008 nearly every state in the nation significantly reduced state support for higher education institutions.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Each activity incorporates the target words and controversial topic of the week: The math teacher assigns and discusses one or two problems in a format modeled on the Massachusetts state math assessment. To measure the effectiveness of the intervention, the researchers assessed comprehension of the target words using a multiple choice test.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

CliftonStrengths Assessment is one resource to find out what you (or another person) have as greatest strengths that sets you apart from everyone else. Remember the words of John Maxwell (2008) that we should “Never work alone. In education, as in life, we must take the time to find strengths in each person.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2020

This year, I put a special focus on pandemic relevant topics, from the effectiveness of tutoring to helping struggling learners catch up to lessons learned from the 2008 recession. A well-intended effort to invest in education after the 2008 recession left many Americans in debt without degrees. Will history repeat?

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

That inspired him to start Instructure in 2008, best known for its Canvas LMS. (He This week, he announced the launch of Derivita , a Salt Lake City-based startup self-funded by Daley that offers math homework and assessment software. He left in 2013, a couple years before the company went public.)

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N2Y

OCTOBER 8, 2020

When Unique Learning System launched in 2008, special educators found the content and instructional support they needed to help unique learners achieve this goal. In this webinar you’ll learn how to: Take advantage of flexible delivery options and use data to automate differentiated lesson planning, assessment, and reporting.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

2004; Vescio, Ross, and Adams, 2008 ; The Wallace Foundation, 2012): A vision of academic success for all students based on high expectations. 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). 2008): Successful Collaboration. 2004; The Wallace Foundation, 2012 ). A safe and cooperative climate for learning.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Each activity incorporates the target words and controversial topic of the week: The math teacher assigns and discusses one or two problems in a format modeled on the Massachusetts state math assessment. To measure the effectiveness of the intervention, the researchers assessed comprehension of the target words using a multiple choice test.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

In 2008, through some fabulous colleagues, I discovered TED Talks, which led me to leadership guru Simon Sinek. In 2008, I was recruited to run a grant with the purpose of connecting adult learners with data to inform their college choices so they didn’t need to depend on marketing hype from lead generation websites.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2024

As the halfway point approaches, there have already been 69 shootings this school year, up from 18 in all of 2008. Conduct an assessment of risks pertinent to the school’s geographic location, physical layout, and available resources. There are many reasons for this. First, school shootings have increased in frequency and scope.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Then the 2008 recession slashed school art budgets even more. The only academic benefit from art at all was in one aspect of writing, as measured by Texas state assessments. Arts classes were further squeezed out after a 2001 federal law required schools to test children annually. Dose of Reality.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Entrepreneurial education was quite the buzzword in 2008/09, as educators grappled with how to prepare young people for economic meltdowns. Recognize, create and act on opportunities. Make imaginative use of technology. Understand how to start and run an organization. Value innovation.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. They are hoping to teach their subject area while enhancing lessons, developing assessments, and engaging students in a more personalized manner.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Founded in 2008, Edmodo attracted a large online community of educators, who used the free, Facebook-like platform to communicate and share resources with their peers and students. To keep pace, Edmodo has started—and shuttered —various features over the years that aimed to generate revenue, such as an assessment tool. “In

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

“ FY 2008 $267,500,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). National Educational Technology Trends Study: Local-Level Data Summary (SRI International, 2008). FY 2007 $273,100,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). Rationale: “ The Congress eliminated much of the program in 2006; the request would complete the process.

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Waterford

MARCH 3, 2020

Teaching How to Listen: Blended Learning for the Development and Assessment of Listening Skills in a Second Language. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, November 2008, 12(11), pp. Develop Listening Skills as a Part of the Curriculum. The Reading Teacher, November 1988, 42(2), pp. Colombi, A.G., Rycroft, E. Active Listening. and Seitz, A.R.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

From Shaelynn - In 2008, the district I worked in adopted a 1:1 Laptop Initiative. Not only do educators need to understand how to choose the best technology for learning but the research behind the collaboration or student reflection or formative assessment. Shaelynn and I are pleased to offer a new course through Participate.

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Omega Notes

OCTOBER 15, 2019

But learning new ways of teaching and preparing new materials in response can be overwhelming, given a faculty member’s overall responsibilities (Loch & Reushle, 2008; Price & Oliver, 2007). Use this information to assess your selection and application of course material toward learning goals. By Andrew Lang.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. Increase the flexibility of instruction, learning and assessment.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

As a well-respected writer on both the NCTM Focal Points and Common Core State Standards, Fennell served as President of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) from 2006–2008 and was a founding member of the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators.

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Neo LMS

JULY 6, 2017

Koehler, who co-authored a paper in 2006 and another one in 2008 , referring to the above core idea with these exact words. The challenge for teachers is to identify the right technology and assess its impact over the content and pedagogy. The TPACK framework is being credited to P. Mishra and M. Resistance is futile.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The company was founded in 2008 and went public in 2015 (at $18 a share), and plans to continue to operate with its same management team after the acquisition. Under his watch, Instructure purchased two companies: a digital portfolio tool for $43 million and a K-12 assessment platform for $42.5

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. A 2008 panel of math experts appointed by the U.S. Department of Education called Algebra I the gateway course to all higher math study.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This was not the first drop in national test scores since the biennial test, called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP, was first administered in the early 1990s. Every state has its own annual assessments but they vary in difficulty and how they are scored. Scores also dropped between 2013 and 2015.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Since the 2008 Time magazine cover story on Washington, D.C. That made fiscal and pedagogical sense. Under the ed reform push to get public money in private hands, some very powerful people want teachers to shut up and do as we are told. What do teachers want?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

In 2008, I read Clayton Christensen’s Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns. They are hoping to teach their subject area while enhancing lessons, developing assessments, and engaging students in a more personalized manner. Assess students on how well they met all the steps towards their goal.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

on a 2021 strategy to assess and fill the needs of homeless families. Without the stabilizing environment of in-person school, Blackwell expects that his job in the summer will be to find all the homeless students who disconnected from school. His department is already working with its partners?which

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 3, 2017

It will be a term filled with preparation and paperwork - lesson plans, resources, reports, assessment, attendance records, letters to parents, risk assessments, possibly even an Ofsted visit (school inspection) - and all the other seemingly peripheral work that accompanies the actual teaching of children. 2008) Creativity Revealed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 18, 2016

Consider this from the 2008 Leadership and Learning Center : In schools where writing and note-taking were rarely implemented in science classes, approximately 25 percent of students scored proficient or higher on state assessments. Note-taking not only collects information, but power boosts learning.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

In 2008, a Journal of School Health study discovered that fifth-graders eating fast food scored worse on standardized literary assessments. Impact of Nutrition on Students. For years, scientists have been studying the effect of nutrition on student performance.

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