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6 Practical Blended Learning Examples

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

The blended learning format enabled the instructor to work individually with students, facilitate small group discussions connected to their texts, and deliver targeted formative assessments. Winters’s Study In their study “ Why Did You Blend My Learning? Luna and Stephanie A. ” by Yvonne M.

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How to Assess Your District: The Global Challenge Project Case Study

The CoolCatTeacher

A district is assessing itself with a massive project for 800 eighth graders. How to Assess Your District: The Global Challenge Project is an Example. How the District Uses This Project to Assess Itself. Then we use that data to then inform our other programs and our other types of assessments to see how we can improve those.

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

Doug Levin

FY 2010 $100,000,000. Rationale for Obama administration FY 2010 program funding reduction : “ The proposed reduction of $169.9 Rationale for Obama administration FY 2010 program funding reduction : “ The proposed reduction of $169.9 FY 2009 $269,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $0).

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If You Want Equity in the Classroom, Above-Average Readers Need Intervention Too

Edsurge

In the past, kids in K-2 would get a reading assessment with their teacher but students in upper grades were just expected to be able to read. It was difficult to ascertain those students’ reading levels unless you were a reading specialist, and even then, assessments were performed individually and were very time-consuming.

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How to Boost Family Involvement through Parent-Teacher Conferences

Waterford

14] Also set a few student goals for the upcoming semester during the meeting to involve parents in the assessment process.[8]. Language & Communication, January 2010, 30(1), pp. To Involve Parents in the Assessment of the Child in Parent–Teacher Conferences: A Case Study. Markström, A. Machen, S.M.,

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

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. To encourage them along, the state offered schools $50,000 grants to subsidize RISC training, Gendron recalled. The state ramps up.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.