eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2015

Scores for grades 2-8 in math and reading on year-to-year Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) assessments show 140 to 240 percent growth, with the highest scores in grades 6-8—when students typically see a slight decline. At Poudre School District Global Academy (PGA), a hybrid school in Fort Collins, Colo.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools. Students refine these skills based on goal-setting, ungraded feedback known as the formative assessment.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. In one of the first studies of its kind to show specific links between spatial and mathematical skills, Cheng and Mix (2013) assessed children in both spatial and math skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

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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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Dr. Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. However, his formative assessments have a twist — students are all answering DIFFERENT math questions. Masterful Math: Randomizing Formative Math Assessment. We created Assessment Items.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. Critics complained the standards overemphasize skills while relegating factual scientific knowledge to secondary importance.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

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. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24) 24) Jackson, C. K., & Bruegmann, E. 25) Kraft, M.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

DeLorenzo screened the candidates, assessing their capacity for change, and six districts were approved , among them the three districts mentioned above that had already begun experimenting with the model. Nellie Mae, which had $430 million in assets at the end of 2009, began investing its own money in Maine, too. The state ramps up.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’m always in search of simple, time-saving rubrics that make it easier for kids to understand how they’re being assessed. I’ve also added a process criteria, an idea I’ve borrowed from the book, How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading by Susan M. Thank you, Dennis! Brookhart (ASCD, 2013).

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Connecting 2 the World

JANUARY 7, 2009

skip to main | skip to sidebar Connecting 2 the World Connecting ideas, cultures, and disciplines Wednesday, January 7, 2009 Learning Theories: In support of Connectivism I was first introduced to the idea of Connectivism through an online conference hosted by George Sieman s group at the University of Manitoba.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. He authored two regular columns for Library Journal Academic Newswire, "From the Bell Tower" and "Leading From the Library" from 2009 through 2019.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 25, 2015

The power to learn Heutagogy has come a long way since its initial inception over a bottle of wine and notes written on a napkin in a restaurant in 2000 (Hase, 2002, 2009; Hase and Kenyon, 2000, 2003, 2007, 2010; Kenyon and Hase, 2010). Assessment becomes the key for opening doors and teaching is geared to providing the key.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

In the four-column rubric for precalculus assessment, Machnik explained what it would take to be “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient” and “exemplary” in trigonometric equations. Data from the New England Secondary School Consortium shows that high school graduation rates in Vermont increased from 85.5 percent between 2009 and 2017.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 19, 2018

She was ferried — without the lights or sirens — to be assessed at the hospital’s special program for college students. “We try to minimize any secondary trauma to students who are already overwhelmed,” says Braider. And, colleges respect their assessment of the student’s readiness to return to campus life.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. Critics complained the standards overemphasize skills while relegating factual scientific knowledge to secondary importance.

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Neo LMS

MAY 28, 2019

In 2000 the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) released its first PISA results (Program for International Student Assessment), and Finland has never been the same again. Finnish history, and even historical tales and myths such as the Kalevala , laud wisdom over strength.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. He authored two regular columns for Library Journal Academic Newswire, "From the Bell Tower" and "Leading From the Library" from 2009 through 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

percent in 2009 to 87.9 Give them more control over the manner in which they’re taught and how their work is assessed and you’ll produce more involved, successful students. percent in 2009 to 87.9 The juniors are more likely to sign up for AP English as seniors than students who take other classes. percent in 2017.

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

Barbara Stripling, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University, and former ALA President, describes the history and goals of the project that builds on an earlier version developed by school librarians in 2009 under the auspices of the Office of Library Services and its former Director, Dr. Stripling. The heart of the ESIFC is our students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Teachers now assess students’ proficiency across four categories: basic, approaching, proficient and advanced. The New England Secondary Schools Consortium has been collecting commitments from the region’s colleges to ward off these worries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. According to the report, 38% of kids in this age range are playing mobile games, up from 8% in 2009. The Rise of the Low-Cost Tablet & the Promise It May Hold for Learning BYOD: Does It Solve or Does It Worsen K-12 Tech Woes?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Denver Public Schools, a large district at 90,000 students, hired one Colorado-based firm to create its sustainability plan and a second to do the financial impact assessment. We’ve saved $500,000 per year in electricity through conservation compared to 2009,” she said. Get reputable help. Our electricity use is down 35 percent.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

I’d love to provide a link but Andreessen deleted his blog in 2009. million devices shipped to primary and secondary schools in the US last year – that’s up from 50% in 2015. The company has raised some $77.5 Someone generously re-posted all the content from that blog to a Posterous site.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In February 2009 the words of the world were collected and given to the Council of Conscience, a gathering of religious leaders and thinkers, who are now crafting the final document. The Charter was launched in November 2009. Julene also works with Suumu Secondary School and Roots & Shoots in Tanzania.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.)

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