EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In 2010, I completed an MA in Applied Linguistics with a certification in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) as well as earning an ELL (English Language Learner) endorsement for K-8 students. For the next decade, I taught Kindergarten, first, and second grades for the Lake Oswego School District.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 30, 2013

The school has been 1:1 since 2010, and Lotta is fortunate enough to be able to work with the finding and implementation of digital resources and best practices. Lotta has been using Edmodo since May 2012, and really appreciates "the global teachers'' lounge" that Edmodo creates.

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There is no box

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

It’s an amazing example of how technology can be used to build transformative cultures that support student learning. Having attended the first two Rockstar Teacher Camps ( 2010 & 2011 ), I’ve been a fan of the Rockstar experience since the beginning. gocrickets.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Most people who are middle-income or better, the Common Core kindergarten standards almost seem ridiculously easy. Like, of course my kid knows how to do those things. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

Related: Will the new Common Core SAT close the privilege gap? Today the students are learning about something called fractals and how to mathematically define dimension. You throw students into the deep end, and expect them to learn how to swim,” Freeman said in an email. “We’re Easy, right? Photo: Karen Shakerdge.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

That’s a particularly relevant question now that more than 20 states have adopted new, more rigorous exams alongside Common Core standards. At the time of the videotaping, from 2010 to 2013, Massachusetts had a notably more challenging annual test than Georgia or Washington D.C.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

He partly blamed the 2010 Common Core requirements, which had toughened middle school math at all levels and raised the cost of moving too quickly. Later on, when we have jobs, we’ll have to learn how to work with different types of people and answer questions,” he said. Academic research tends to support detracking.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. But the shift to the Common Core State Standards meant it would have to go.

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MindShift

JANUARY 8, 2016

The authors chose to compare teachers’ responses from two years, 1998 and 2010. Among the differences: In 2010, prekindergarten prep was expected. One-third more teachers believed that students should know the alphabet and how to hold a pencil before beginning kindergarten. That figure jumped to 80 percent by 2010.

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Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Financial literacy for students (2010) Financial literacy for students grades K-2 The meaning of money Counting bills and coins Writing out money: decimals and dollar signs Financial literacy for students grades 3-5 Earning power Needs versus wants saving for a goal What do banks do?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

We put them all together and with the KCK folks figured out how to implement them in an integrated way so they could enhance each other,” said James Connell, co-founder and president of IRRE. When she became superintendent in 2010, one of the first decisions to cross her desk was whether to join a new suit against the state.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Wednesday, September 17th at 7pm ISTE Webinar: 10 Classroom Tools for the Maker Movement , Discover the maker movement and find out how to harness its power to bring new tools and technology for hands-on learning to all grades and content areas – especially STEM and STEAM.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

To help the teachers at O’Keeffe learn how to do inquiry-based teaching, she gave them training. The teachers were learning about inquiry-based teaching at the workshops, but they didn’t know how to actually do it when they got back to their classrooms. Here’s how lesson study works. And that was it.”. Lots of training.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Between 1998 and 2010, the percentage of kindergarten classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent. Kindergarteners must be able to write several sentences about a specific topic and draw a related picture, while pre-Common Core, they were only expected to draw a picture and write a single sentence.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Now, I’m not equating the import of weighing your options in caffeinated beverage with one’s choice in how to display knowledge of your content area, but it seems to me that at some point, there was a shift in expectation in our culture outside of school that soon became reflected within school as well. Patall, Cooper, & Wynn, 2010).

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

This entry is an attempt to compile a useful -- but by no means exhaustive -- list of CBE related books that I personally feel have been either extremely illuminating in pragmatic ways (detailed models, insightful anecdotes, clear "how to's") or it inspired me to stay the course. Often the same book did both!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

He’s not going to be up in front of people talking about [how] we’re going to charge together. He knows how to engage people, bring people to the table, knowing you can’t solve any of these complex problems singularly. He’s more collaborative. That’ll be his main theme.”. “He The other co-chair was then-Sen.

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The Daring Librarian

OCTOBER 12, 2014

ISTE NETS & the Common Core I recently ended that four year elected term on the ISTE Board of Directors and as I reflect upon my service, participation, and accomplishments balanced with Glenda''s comment, I can say that if that was the sole standard of success - I failed! This would get our admin''s attention, right? Is it enough?

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MindShift

MAY 12, 2015

Whether they remembered suggesting it or not, the students’ field trip idea now appears on page 29 of the 41-page plan that outlines how the Vallejo City Unified School District will spend its money for this school year through the 2016-17 school year. Field trips in grades 4 to 12 claimed $120,000 of the budget this school year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

He wanted to learn how to fly an airplane, only not too far off the ground, because heights were scary. Johnson was opening outside the traditional public system not to create some kind of segregated fiefdom but because that’s where she knew how to run a great school. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Habari gani!”

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2019

About 10 years ago, in 2010, when Common Core was launched in the U.S., Q: How is edtech preparing Generation Z students to survive the future of work? Learning how to analyze data and code will be the foundation for innovation that helps us solve some of the world’s biggest problems.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

What’s striking is that this success story has occurred against the backdrop of so many major high-profile education initiatives floundering across the nation—Common Core and accountability come to mind—and amidst significant political turbulence in the Tar Heel state.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But it appears that the massive growth that the sector has experienced since 2010 stopped this year. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. Funding has shrunk.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Along with her strong support for charter schools and the Common Core curriculum, Gist was convinced that great student outcomes could be directly tied to teaching excellence. In 2010, Gist’s department was awarded $75 million through an Obama administration Race to the Top grant to implement her reforms.

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