Education Elements

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I got started with this tradition of predictions in 2010 after reading Disrupting Class, a book by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn. In their book, they predicted that by 2019, 50% of all high school courses will be online in some blended learning model.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! I’ve worked with the Bismarck Public Schools multiple times on leadership, vision, and instructional design for deeper learning (and we featured Legacy High School in Leadership for Deeper Learning ). Related Posts. Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 05. 2 books for 2 different needs.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 17, 2018

Goodwin & Miller (2012) provided this summary: In Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta-analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28-percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012).

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2024

After being invited to participate in the one-and-only Google Teacher Academy for Administrators in 2010, I followed up on a goal I had set there to establish a blog. Being a connected educator opened my mind and eyes to what was possible and enabled me to move beyond comfort and fear to evolve into a more effective leader.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Way back in 2010, my school was part of their national AverAcademy program where I became very knowledgeable as to how their solutions could support good teaching and learning. Tools and solutions need to address the current climate, as well as align with future scenarios and possibilities.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! Image credit: Wish , Ben Chun. Related Posts. Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and the Denver Public Schools. My thoughts on a proposed social media policy for school employees (Part 2). Flawed, ideological, non-peer-reviewed studies should not rebut decades of anti-retention research.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Job growth from 2010 to 2014 was in the double digits in several engineering occupations. Their tagline: “A week-long event, a year-long commitment” Do you wonder why anyone would be passionate about engineering? Forbes published three good reasons: The U.S. has approximately 1.6 million engineering jobs that pay $42 per hour in median.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Bayless 2010. Robinson 2010. Evans, Kelley, Sikora, and Treiman 2010. Schubert and Becker 2010. Worthy and Roser 2010. Barbara Moss and Terrell Young (2010). Stanovich and Cunningham 2000. Atwell 2007. Achterman 2008. Krashen 2004. Guthrie 2008. Atwell 2007. Allington 2012. Swan et al.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Feedback is valuable when it is received, understood and acted on (Nicol, 2010). Feedback Verbal and non-verbal means to justify a grade, establish criteria for improvement, provide motivation for the next assessment, reinforce good work, and act as a catalyst for reflection. Bransford, J. & Cocking, R. Stockard, Jean & W.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

from the 2010 cohort. Both the 2010 and 2011 cohorts are still below the pre-recession completion rate of 55,8% (which in itself is still nothing to write home about). Public (two-year) community colleges: 38%. Just short of half of all community college students drop out entirely. While the 2011 completion rate shows an uptick of 2.1%

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Goodwin & Miller (2012) provided this summary: In Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta-analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28-percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012).

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Research suggests that when technology is effectively used in schools, access may help to bridge educational and social gaps (Warschauer & Matuchniak, 2010; Eccles, 2009; National Science Foundation, 2017). Students on the lower end of the socioeconomic spectrum are even less likely to have used technology in interesting ways.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

As the principal, I decided to implement Bring Your Own Device back in 2010 as a way to not only take advantage of student-owned devices but to also improve the learning culture through more empowerment and ownership. More on this in a little bit. I am a huge proponent of harnessing and leveraging mobile technology in the classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Upon reflection, I might readjust my goal of one post a week, which I have stuck with since 2010, to one per month. I must not be the only one in this boat, as there are fewer and fewer education bloggers these days. Writing must come naturally and not be forced. Another thing I have noticed is that readership is way down.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The year in review: Some year-end blog stats for 2010. Most popular posts – October 2010. Tools for school – Digital document annotation on an iPad, iPod Touch, or laptop. What I’ve been up to: Silver Lining for Learning. Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and the Denver Public Schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! Related Posts. What I’ve been up to: Silver Lining for Learning. A new adventure: Silver Lining for Learning. Where does 21st Century teaching begin? Guest Blog]. Forward tutoring: Educate, volunteer, improve [guest post].

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Waterford

JANUARY 10, 2020

Psychological Science, 2010, 21(3), pp. Review of Educational Research, 2010, 80(2), pp. Neurology, November 2010, 75(19), pp. Byers-Heinlein, K., Burns, T.C., and Werker, J.F. The roots of bilingualism in newborns. Adesope, O.O., Thompson, T., and Ungerleider, C. Craik, F.I.M., Bialystok, E., and Freedman, M. Bialystok, E.,

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Since 2010, the economy has added 11.6 A worker who made the same move in 2010 kept just 36 percent. This is what it feels like to be young now. Not only are we screwed, but we have to listen to lectures about our laziness and our participation trophies from the people who screwed us. million jobs—and 11.5 There is still a choice here.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 1, 2025

In 2010, she received her masters degree in Curriculum and Supervision from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Subscribe to the Show Watch the YouTube Version of the Show Gretchen Bridgers – Bio as Submitted Gretchen is a two-time National Board certified elementary school teacher from Charlotte, NC.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2021

That was 2010, and A Framework for K-12 Science Education was out for public review. For many, including my 2010 self, implementation of standards based on the Framework has not gone nearly fast enough. Naiveté is what gets us to start trying, right?

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 15, 2018

I remember as a principal in 2010 my pursuit of a tool that I wanted to purchase to improve communications with parents and students. Abusing authority, not listening, or going at it alone will not lead to embracement of new ideas and strategies to move a learning culture forward.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 6, 2025

He has been awarded a Leadership-in-Education Award from the Texas House of Representatives; was presented the Mary McLeod Bethune Heritage Award for Education by the NAACP in 2010, the Dr. June James NAACP Education Award in 2016 and the Leadership Legacy Award from the Future Schools Network in 2019.

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Waterford

JANUARY 23, 2020

April 2010, 3(4), pp. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2010, 43(1), pp. Nursing Education Perspectives, 2010, 31(4), pp. Buckenmeyer, J.A. Beyond Computers In The Classroom: Factors Related To Technology Adoption To Enhance Teaching And Learning. Contemporary Issues in Education Research. and Brand, L.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Pediatric Adolescent Medicine, 2010, 164(3), pp. Pediatrics, July 2010, 126(1), pp. International Trends in Adolescent Screen-Time Behaviors From 2002 to 2010. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, March 2014, 17(2), pp. Richards, R., Williams, S.M., and Hancox, R.J. Ramirez, E.R., Norman, G.J., Rosenberg, D.E., Fulton, J.E.,

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 20, 2019

As we explored moving towards Bring Your Own Device ( BYOD ) in 2010, I was able to glean powerful insights and evidence of efficacy from the Forsyth County School District in Georgia. Case in point.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 27, 2022

College enrollment among high school grads grew during the early 2010’s, leveling off about 2017 when it began to drop to a current low of about 62%, approx. 4% lower than 2019.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 2, 2018

Key to unlocking the potential of TVWS, the FCC in 2010 allowed unlicensed radio transmitters to be in the white space, freeing up the spectrum and opening up opportunities for high-speed internet. TVWS works by delivering broadband internet over unused TV channels, which traditionally serve as buffers between active channels.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2017

Research has shown that up to 7 in 10 corporate initiatives have not led to sustainable change ( Blanchard, 2010 ). In business, some estimates indicate that 70 percent of change initiatives fail. That’s right. Image credit: johnrchildress.files.wordpress.com Initiative overload is just as common in education as it is in business.

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Digital Promise

JULY 22, 2022

When a group of educators in Philadelphia got together in 2010 to commiserate about their district’s stale PD offerings, I’m pretty sure they never anticipated that their brainchild — Edcamp—would grow and evolve to reach more than 300,000 educators, in all 50 states, and in 46 countries around the world.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

Online courses through the Virtual High School implemented in 2010. So many of my teachers are making the choice to integrate social media as a learning tool that I just can''t list all of the examples. Students now have access to over 250 unique courses that cater to their interests. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) implemented in 2011.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 18, 2018

If the problem is that the recipient doesn’t have a current version of MS Word (say, you have 2010 and they have 2003), then save the doc as follows: go to File-save as. In MS Office: click ‘save as’ for your document. drop down the ‘save as type’ and select ‘PDF’. select file type 97-2003 (see first inset below).

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

I made three assumptions back in 2010 that still hold sway today. Back in 2010, my experience tutoring told me that students’ struggles had nothing to do with “innate ability” or subject matter difficulty. Stay tuned for other reflections in the coming weeks. Take, for example, the nation’s progress on wiring classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

The ACT study found that high school grades rose between 2010 and 2022 while scores on the ACT fell. The latest is an analysis of more than 4 million high school seniors who took the ACT from 2010 to 2021. points from 3.22 (a B) in 2010 to 3.39 (a B-plus) in 2021. in 2010, but a 3.7 Credit: ACT Inc. The top score is 36.)

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 18, 2017

In 2010 he was a finalist for ACTEM’s (Association of Computer Teachers and Educators in Maine) educator of the year award. Richard is a five time winner of the Edublogs Award for Best Resource Sharing Blog. Richard became a Google Certified Teacher in 2009.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Work in mathematics (Goldman et al., 1998), science (Kolodner et al., 2003), and technology (Kafai & Resnick, 2002; Todd, 1999) suggest that design thinking skills are not merely extras, but can in fact aid students in core subject areas as well as building cognitive and social skills (Carroll et al.,

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! As always, please stay in touch as I can be of support to your instructional redesign, technology integration, and leadership/innovation needs. Happy reading! Related Posts. Should we get rid of technology directors?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2024

Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. ELLs and low-SES students are at an elevated risk for these difficulties (Kieffer, 2010).

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