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Cultivating Lifelong Learners: How to Support Personalized Teacher Growth

A Principal's Reflections

Here is how educational leaders can champion personalized professional learning for their teachers: Needs Assessment: Start with the Individual One-size-fits-all professional development (PD) is a recipe for disengagement. Conduct individual needs assessments through surveys, goal-setting conversations, or classroom observations.

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Self-Regulation in Blended Learning Environments

Catlin Tucker

In classrooms where students are told what to do and how to do each task, they may not have the opportunity to develop the initiative, resourcefulness, and persistence needed to develop their ability to self-regulate (Zimmerman & Moylan, 2009). Blended Learning Environments Require Self-regulation Skills. Zeidner (Eds.), Zimmerman, B.

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Renaissance Learning Acquires Schoolzilla to Marry Assessment and School Data

Edsurge

based provider of instructional software and formative assessment tools that is on a buying spree. Schoolzilla’s life began in 2009 as a project within Aspire Public Schools, a charter network with schools across California and in Memphis. In the past, it’s focused on pairing assessments with digital instructional materials.

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What is Blended Learning?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Along similar lines, referencing Picciano (2009), Fabbian et al (2017) define a blended learning class as one that “integrates face to face (F2F) and online activities in a planned, pedagogically valuable manner while online activities replace a portion of F2F time” (pp.314-315). Fabbian et al, 2017).

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Two Cities Pay Teachers Based on Their Quality. Does It Work?

Edsurge

Just having a genuinely consequential system of teacher performance assessment is really unusual in American public education” Stanford's Thomas Dee Dallas and D.C. Teachers who wind up rated “ineffective” are almost always fired, according to a city-commissioned study , which looked at data from 2017-2019. Since 2009, D.C.

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

Doug Levin

Guidance on the Enhancing Education Through Technology (Ed Tech) Program: Funds Made Available Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (July 2009). FY 2009 $269,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). FY 2009 ( American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 special appropriation ): $650,000,000.

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ETS Tests the Waters of Investing in Education Technology Startups

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ETS is best known for offering assessments like the GRE and TOEFL exams. And ETS contracts with OECD, which creates the global education assessment benchmark test known as PISA. It bought Edusoft, an English language-learning tool, in 2011 and purchased assessment provider Questar for $127.5 million in 2017.