Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2011 $100,000,000 (President Obama’s request: $0).

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In 2011, 78% of 4th graders scored below proficient in reading on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). So, what do you do when you have been at the bottom of every educational achievement list for decades? Go big or go home. Mississippi was once in the middle of a literacy crisis. One thing was certain.

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Common Core Assessment Elementary Policies 62

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. Worldvuze – Take some time to explore this map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other!

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Resources Classroom Sony STEM 167

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

A conversation with Jon Corippo on episode 92 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. I mean, when I started using formative assessment like this to teach binary numbers, I used to teach – binary numbers used to take seven days. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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EdTech Tools Twitter Professional Learning 378

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Immediately, we can start to help new teachers and help each other in the process. A Smile is the Teacher’s Game Face This summer, I met Rob Brown , elementary school principal at Southside Christian School in South Carolina. 32) Ingersoll, R.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

Each process also allows students the opportunity to fail and assess their failures so that they understand the need for perseverance. She is the winner of the 2011 “I Love My Librarian” Award and the Library Association’s 2010 Outstanding Librarian Award. The grant, called MakerSpace 2.0:

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Libraries eBook Twitter Elementary 45

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

animations, blog posts, radio theater) for a real audience, not just the teacher. In fact, assistant Superintendent Shawn Carlson points out the one of the most successful uses of iPads in Boothbay has been in assessments. Back at Boothbay, students have created a variety of products to demonstrate their learning (e.g.

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iPad Laptops Classroom Report 92

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He also believes the arts are especially important in a district like Mount Vernon because many of the students turned out to be “twice gifted,” despite having received standardized assessment scores that did not reflect their proficiencies. Jay McTighe brings a wealth of experience developed during a rich and varied career in education.

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Outcomes Differentiated Instruction Assessment Professional Learning 63

edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2019

Homework, assessments, projects. Assessment and feedback: At first, Wilson used to just hand back assignments en masse, but she noticed her students weren’t looking at their grades or her comments. Through this strategy and the constant connection with students, Wilson feels that students have become stronger at self-assessment.

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Strategy ePortfolio Assessment Outcomes 41

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Sean Nank on episode 228 of the 10-Minute Teacher Podcast From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Dr. Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. Masterful Math: Randomizing Formative Math Assessment.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

MARCH 13, 2016

In 2011, a group of educators met at the Competency Based Learning Summit. Assessment is meaningful and a positive learning experience for students. Not harnessing the power of technology to help with assessments. Creating an overly complex system of grading and assessment that overloads them with too much paperwork.

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Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Learning Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

At Dunn Elementary, kids who are struggling get extra time with second-grade teacher Sarah Bowling. The second-graders in Sarah Bowling’s class at Dunn Elementary were on a scavenger hunt to find “arrays.”. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The bookshelf had a picture of three rows of five fish.

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Common Core Elementary Groups Meeting 78

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

A conversation with Liz Kolb on episode 81 of the 10-Minute Teacher From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Blog: [link]. Her blog is at [link]. Today Liz Kolb @lkolb talks about how we can put learning first and a very important reason technology should be second. Listen Now.

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Technology Learning Software Google 109

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

She has also worked on projects with researchers at Education Testing Service (ETS) and interned with consultants at the Center for Assessment. Dr. Smith is a member of Leadership Maryland’s Class of 2011, and he has served on a variety of volunteer boards.

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Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 63

The Principal of Change

AUGUST 19, 2020

This includes accurately assessing one’s strengths and limitations and possessing a well-grounded sense of confidence and optimism. Often, things like “circle-time” are associated with pre-school and elementary level classrooms, but I have seen it with all grade levels, including adults. Did I learn one new thing today?

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Learning Blended Learning Groups Meeting 99

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. Worldvuze – Take some time to explore this map-based question and answer education platform where elementary and secondary students around the world can learn directly from each other!

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Resources Classroom Sony Digital Citizenship 57

MindShift

JULY 22, 2018

Blogging on “ Beyond the Shelves, ” Christy Minton tried to rally other librarians: “Instead of purchasing books that you think your patrons will like, why not start ordering books you know teens will love!” Reader Pants,” reports a 36% increase after she genrefied a middle school library in Fort Worth, Texas in 2011.

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Libraries Common Core Report System 53

Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Sketchnoting is helping make your thinking visible and shareable as you are reading a professional book, watching a movie clip, reading an educational blog post or article or listening to a lecture of conference keynote. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)? Switching from Math to English?

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Resources iPad Mobility eBook 91

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

These bubble to the top: We''re doing the right thing: Those self-reflections that we ask of our students in papers, presentations, and blogs? The discussion of their very valuable (and well-attended) session "Empowering Students Through Self-Assessment" continues on a wiki. LOTS to share.

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edWeb.net

MAY 27, 2021

After starting with individual work, the next phases cover district assessments and audits, designing a district plan, and then providing support and coaching during the implementation of the plan. And equally important is determining all the assessments and grading are free of bias and accurately reflect student mastery.

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Professional Learning Elementary Policies Assessment 62

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Aliah Corona and Dakkota Ryf, both 8 in this photo, check the force it takes to move a bag of potatoes six inches using wheels during their third-grade STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington. She wrote a blog post about her experience and added a photo of herself with the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer.

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How To Elementary STEM Report 112

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This new weekly blog post / email is replacing the regular email I have sent out for the last couple of years for the now-defunct Host-Your-Own-Webinar program (I still have hopes of resurrecting that near-to-my-heart program, and when that happens we''ll wrap it into this weekly missive). We have attendees signed up from 133 countries!

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

edWeb.net

MARCH 17, 2021

This includes the use of case studies, starting at the elementary level, which are standards-based, transdisciplinary, and give young people “voice and choice” in what and how they are learning. Dr. Luvelle Brown has served as the superintendent of the Ithaca City School District (ICSD) in Ithaca, New York since January 2011.

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Policies Professional Learning Elementary Outcomes 95

MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

She wrote a blog post about her experience and added a photo of herself with the hashtag #ILookLikeAnEngineer. Third-grader Alessandra Gudino Aguilar, 9, adjusts the simple machine, a lever, that she and her classmates are experimenting with during their STEAM enrichment class at Pioneer Elementary School in Quincy, Washington.

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STEM How To Elementary Report 44

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Our elementary and middle schools utilize i-Ready diagnostics to form enrichment and intervention groups,” says Dr. Julia Lamons, assessment supervisor at Greene County Schools. This technology solved another of the district’s biggest struggles—implementing an effective common assessment among 12 elementary and middle schools.

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 56

Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now. I’m learning the methods of how to teach math to elementary students. And we even support an integration with a high stakes portfolio assessment that is used by teachers. So that was, let’s see, summer of 2010. Rod Murray: Terrific.

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Professional Learning Video Learning LMS 59

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Wesley Fryer on episode 572 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Deep fake videos are now possible. In 2013-2015 he taught 4th and 5th grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Independence Elementary in Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. Wesley completed his Ph.D.

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Trends Digital Citizenship Facebook Edcamps 241

Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now. I’m learning the methods of how to teach math to elementary students. And we even support an integration with a high stakes portfolio assessment that is used by teachers. So that was, let’s see, summer of 2010. Rod Murray: Terrific.

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Professional Learning Video Learning LMS 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015.

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Data Technology Education Software 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.” Inside Higher Ed on “The End of a Blogging Era at Harvard.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.” ” Gotta keep hyping that VR thing.

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Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Two debt collectors said in separate statements this week that they will not assess collection fees on defaulted student loan borrowers who quickly enter repayment, despite new guidance from the Department of Education.” ” That’s the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and TG. .”

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP. For what it’s worth, according to the latest data from the NCES , the number of post-secondary institutions in the US has increased since 2011. Davis on the DML Central blog. Increased by just 2, but still.).

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Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

.” “The University of Michigan has agreed to pay $165,000 to settle what was left of a lawsuit over a graduate student’s dismissal from an engineering program in 2011,” the AP reports. ” The program in question: The Global Assessment Certificate program. ” He is suing the university.

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