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Tic Tack Toe in the Blended Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

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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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

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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Thoughts on Continuous Improvement and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Finally, we align each assessment item with the outcome it is designed to assess. Simon , 1986). The faculty Lumen work with carry an enormous workload. But it’s worth it.

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Robot Teachers, Racist Algorithms, and Disaster Pedagogy

Hack Education

Most, I'd wager, are facing severe funding shortages — the loss of tuition, dorm-room, and sportsball dollars, for example — as well as new expenses like PPE and COVID testing. Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work?

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. A decade of policy support for California’s new teachers: The beginning teacher support and assessment program. Stanford, CA: Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Henke, R. Geis, S., & Knepper, P.

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur

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Shifting From Pedagogy To Heutagogy In Education

TeachThought - Learn better.

Ed note 2: Hase and Kenyon make distinctions between self-determined and self-directed learning that may be in conflict with our use of the terms (see, for example, our self-directed learning model ). Assessment becomes the key for opening doors and teaching is geared to providing the key.