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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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Digital Portfolios + Micro-credentials = Massive Impact for Students & Teachers

Digital Promise

Assessment. Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” New Assessment Beliefs for a New School Mission, Phi Delta Kappan, p.22-27. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, vol. Evaluation.

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Why Teacher Self-Care Matters and How to Practice Self-Care in Your School

Waterford

By eating well, sleeping enough, exercising, and finding other ways to take care of yourself, self-care can help your reach your potential in the classroom, which will in turn help your students succeed, too.[8]. Public Health, 123(11), November 2009, pp. Self-Care Tools, Strategies and Assessment. Self-Care Ideas for Teachers.

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Khan Academy: Friend or Foe?

A Principal's Reflections

To date, these statistics are: 140 million+ lessons delivered, 500 million+ exercises done, and 6+ million unique visits per month. He officially started Khan Academy in 2009 knowing that quality videos would withstand test of time. Khan Academy merely provides the content.

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Getting started with AR and VR: Defining Terms

EdTechTeam

2] “Virtual reality in the assessment, understanding, and treatment … – NCBI.” How do we interact with VR and AR experiences? Within these definitions, we can come to the conclusion that these are two different mediums for learning. Google Earth Education Expert. www.micahshippee.com. [1] Accessed 6 Sep.

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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

Edsurge

That’s how school district users last year found out about the end of TenMarks, which has provided curriculum, lesson plans, exercises and assessments in math and writing to students in an estimated 11,500 U.S. Natick Public Schools has been using TenMarks since it launched in 2009, Nolin says.

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How Outdoor Learning Can Bring Curiosity and Connection to Education in Tough Times

MindShift

“For me, that was the perfect assessment,” Minor said. That was 2009. The exercise was part of a short-term health class that Minor was asked to teach, but most of his outdoor teaching was part of language arts. They were using everything that I taught them about empathy. The importance of a bird.