eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

This certification was awarded by Digital Promise , a non-profit established by the US Congress in 2011 to develop research, practice, and technologies to drive education equity, in partnership with the EdTech Equity Project.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

These elements are: differentiation, adaptivity, student engagement, direct instruction, practice, formative assessment with immediate feedback and student explanation of learning. Though the students are continually assessed throughout the program to adjust to their skills, this initial reading sets them on a path tailored to their needs.

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. Dating back to 1986, Renaissance Learning has established its name in the education market largely through its STAR assessments and Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs.

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IXL Learning Learning Company Assessment 152

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But READ THE SERIES. Even before the pandemic, reading achievement was in a slump.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. Each data point related to one major componenent of literacy: Instructional walks: Speaking and listening within daily instruction, including questioning and student discussion.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. Each data point related to one major componenent of literacy: Instructional walks: Speaking and listening within daily instruction, including questioning and student discussion.

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Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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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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edWeb.net

MAY 27, 2021

At an organizational level, he recommends consideration of an equity audit, looking in particular at data on the makeup of advanced placement and remedial classes and what types of students and other people are represented in the curriculum and media center resources. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. About the Presenters.

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Professional Learning Elementary Policies Assessment 72

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Some students constructed model airplanes and tested their flights while observing how changing one variable, such as weight, could change the data. . Last year at.

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How To Differentiated Instruction Common Core Groups 120

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

My appointment came at a time when 77 percent of McComb’s kindergarteners had not met the required performance on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment. They wanted student-centered teaching and learning environments where success would be determined by growth rather than state assessment proficiency or seat time.

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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. Talcott noted this decision remains controversial, and ongoing data is being collected and analyzed to determine its impact. Deborah Ptak.

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Policies Professional Learning Elementary Outcomes 98

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls. Text/data entry via floating on-screen keyboard. Student feedback and assessment with optional audience response accessories. In 2011, large-format interactive flat-panel displays (IFPDs) displays became a new alternative.

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Technology Classroom EdTech Training 256

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. Virtual Field Trip Data Base – This is a spreadsheet that I discovered filled with over 300 virtual field trip possibilities from multiple sites. You may need to get parent permission.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Many students cannot afford the heavy data usage required by geofencing apps, for starters. Furthermore, at launch, Pokémon Go demanded users sign over a great deal of personal data and grant permissions to the app that, for a time , gave it access to a user’s entire Google account. To data about students’ sexual identity?

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 29, 2018

Clay Spring Elementary (Florida). Clay Spring Elementary has been strongly implementing the ST Math program since 2015, and they continue to see proficiency gains across all of their student groups. Between 2014 to 2016, Killeen’s elementary students scoring Satisfactory or Advanced in math increased from 49.6%

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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. The data provided allows teachers to group students intentionally for maximized learning opportunities. The Z-Space tech lab was the next.

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Classroom Schoology Khan Academy Blended Learning 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

James started the I Promise education program in 2011, providing resources and academic support to help students stay in school. So far, it looks at data including students’ GPA, community service hours and attendance. But the I Promise School’s touchpoints with the local public university span far beyond college tuition.

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Course Groups Study Elementary 128

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

The proportion of overage students — those who have been retained for at least one grade — hovers around 40 percent for New Orleans high school students, according to an analysis of 2014 data by researchers at Education Research Alliance for New Orleans, which is based at Tulane University. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 123

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The key to all of this, said Dr. Smith, is to think of data as a flashlight and not a hammer. It tells us the questions and where to look, but data should drive us to numbers, then to names, and then to faces. 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 74

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Jon is a Google Certified Innovator (#GTAWA 2011), has been a Lead Learner for a Google Teacher Academy (#GTAMTV2), is also an Apple Distinguished Educator and has facilitated over 10 Executive Briefings and led sessions in Final Cut Pro for the 2013 Apple Institute. It’s like, why are people grading anything? I pulled it down to five.

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EdTech Tools Twitter Professional Learning 379

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. This summer, in fact, we finished the two-year opt-in period for blended learning at the elementary level. We've rolled out other programs this way. That's pretty good buy-in.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

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

MindShift

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science.

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STEM How To Elementary Report 44

ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 27, 2018

You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls. Text/data entry via floating on-screen keyboard. Student feedback and assessment with optional audience response accessories. In 2011, large-format interactive flat panel (IFP) displays became a new alternative.

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Technology Classroom Training Software 157

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

.” Via Politico : “Partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to the displacement of more than 300,000 Hispanic students between 2000 and 2011, with most of those students disappearing from elementary schools.” Data, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Education Chegg MOOC Robotics 55

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

O’Neal Elementary School, in Elgin, Illinois, none of the third graders could read and write at grade level according to state tests in 2019. Just nine miles away sits Centennial Elementary School, where 73 percent of third graders met grade-level standards on that same test. At Ronald D. This story also appeared in Daily Herald.

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Data Elementary Trends Analysis 144

techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

At the same time, we must remember to connect to the content standards while facilitating and assessing 21st century skills. Virtual Field Trip Data Base – This is a spreadsheet that I discovered filled with over 300 virtual field trip possibilities from multiple sites. You may need to get parent permission.

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Resources Classroom Sony Digital Citizenship 57

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2021

Many teachers don’t like assessments either, bemoaning the lost resources for other aspects of learning, like critical thinking , that have been drawn away by test prep. Assessment is costly not only in terms of time, but also in terms of money. First, we should strive to set ambitious goals for where assessment innovation can go.

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Assessment Broadband System Report 118

MindShift

JULY 22, 2018

Data-informed curating doesn’t just serve kids better, Minton pointed out; it’s a savvy play in a school climate where budget-cuts rein: “A busy library is a funded library.”. 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

The Principal of Change

APRIL 10, 2016

Some readers may have seen a recent front page article in the North Shore News about the annual Fraser Institute Elementary Report Card School Rankings , released in early May. If there was one piece of valuable information I might glean from the data, it is the small gap between our highest and lowest performing schools.

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Elementary Report Data Examples 28

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A 2011 study by University of Massachusetts researchers had also found standardized test-score gains by students in two EL schools in Rochester, New York, compared with peers in other city schools. The sentiment is echoed by Jason Krause, principal of Denver’s Columbine Elementary School, which joined the EL network in 2018.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Report 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

More of these kids were being removed from their home due to parental drug use, according to data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System. . She attends a local elementary school, where Matt Rhoda is the principal. Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent.

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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. Data, Privacy, and Surveillance.

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Education Company Report Data 40

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.” ” Specifically, data from its health clinic. ” (Or!

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Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Cumulative Growth in Number of MOOCs , 2011–18.” I hope none of these programs are teaching “data science,” because this is just a silly claim based on bad data. Writing assessment company Writable has raised $3.2 Good grief. Even worse?

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