Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. In rural Alabama, Piedmont City School District helped provide students with internet access by installing a town wireless network in 2011 using a federal E-rate grant.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Create space for teachers to connect and engage with each other Most teachers naturally gravitate toward each other — during lunch breaks or cafeteria duty, standing at the copier, or before faculty meetings — to run ideas by each other, ask for resources and more. Creating schedules for teachers to observe each other “in action.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Reaching a Boiling Point With 15 minutes before and after the bell to plan and less than three hours of weekly prep, I’ve never really had enough time to meet the requirements of my job, even before the pandemic. Most of these “solutions” came with hours of training and meetings that ate into my planning time. There was the NCELI (N.C.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2013

This not only reflects grading as punishment, but also creates a hole that students cannot dig out of (Gusskey, 2000, Reeves, 2004, Reeves, 2008, O’Conner and Wormeli, 2011). Multiple forms of formal assessment : Marking period grades have to be comprised of multiple forms of assessment.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2013

Starting in December 2011, she began using Edmodo , an online platform that enables innovative and social learning, as a way to share online videos and content on the relevant topic for her students to view and assign online polls to complete in order to foster discussion on the topic the next day.

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Insight Education Group

MARCH 30, 2022

STS expert Charles Figley states, “many types of professionals, such as physicians, psychotherapists, human service workers and emergency workers, are vulnerable to developing this type of stress, though only a subset of such workers experience it” (Figley, 2011).

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

However, it was the Chromebook (2011) that truly revolutionized 1:1. “More tech-based monitoring and assessment tools will be incorporated into to the instructional mix.” ” In 2011, the FCC updated CIPA compliance requirements. The proposal must meet Florida Department of Education criteria. Indeed, $2.3

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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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Waterford

MARCH 3, 2020

Provide students with an opportunity to model active listening skills by holding regular classroom meetings.[7] 7] The subject of these meetings (anything from class policies to recent academic topics) doesn’t matter so much as the structure. Journal of English for Academic Purposes, June 2011, 10(2), pp. Colombi, A.G.,

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Staker (2011) defined this approach as “any time a student learns at least in part at a supervised brick-and-mortar location away from home and at least in part through online delivery with some element of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace” (p.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 4, 2024

Critical thinking, as Finn (2011) defines it, “is applied rationality…a set of skills that people can learn and apply in their everyday or professional lives.” (p. Personalized Learning Personalized learning in the 21st-century classroom is about tailoring education to meet the unique needs, skills, and interests of each student.

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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. But figuring out how to operate a district within a dual system, staying true to our state’s accountability model and meeting the needs of our learners hasn’t been easy.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

If you’re a parent preparing for the conference season, we’ve also included a list of tips to make the most out of meeting with your child’s teacher. Whether this is your first or your fortieth parent-teacher conference, here are a few tips to help you get the most out of these meetings. Classroom behavior feedback [17].

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The Web20Classroom

AUGUST 15, 2012

Here are my entries: 2009 , 2010 , 2011 ). These questions are adapted from the Principals Technology Leadership Assessment from Castle. 4) To what extent do you include the effective use of technology as a criterion for assessing the performance of faculty? This one, I believe, is the hardest to answer and hardest to assess.

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Waterford

JANUARY 30, 2020

Additionally, emotional intelligence involves using your emotions to plan and meet your goals.[5] Social and Personality Psychology Compass, January 2011, 5(1), pp. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2012, 30(4), pp. Sources : Brackett, M.A., Rivers, S.E., and Salovey, P. Cherniss, C. Nizielski, S., Lopes, P.N.,

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

To further complicate matters, statisticians have long warned of the pending “ 2025 cliff ,” which represents the abrupt reduction of potential first-time, full-time freshmen projected to arrive in 2025 to 2026 due to the drop in birth rates between the years 2008 and 2011. Increase the flexibility of instruction, learning and assessment.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 15, 2011

Somewhere in our conversation that spanned multiple areas of educational leadership, we talked about how we regularly meet with groups of students in our respective schools. The goals of these meetings are to challenge the students to be catalysts of change and work to make their school the best it can be for them.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The learning experience is not personalized and thus will not meet the needs of all students. Katie goes on to describe how each scenario can be shifted to meet the needs of individual learners: In the 3rd-grade class, some sprawl on beanbag chairs, silently reading from well-worn copies of Charlotte’s Web. The problem? In the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

And even though some have been used as core materials in a handful of districts, “we couldn’t meet the core curriculum needs of most school systems,” says Grayer. Since then, Weld North Education has acquired Glynlyon , which offers online K-12 courses for intervention and credit recovery, and Assessment Technology Inc.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 12, 2017

When you get into assessments and how it is done in schools, there are massive debates (as there should be) on how we move forward. In a recent conversation I had with an educator, I discussed the idea of not having the whole year entirely mapped out before you even meet your students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. The infrastructure just wasn’t ready.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

Traditional school metrics — based on attendance (“seat time”) and meeting a minimal standard in order to move to the next grade — often lead to arbitrary grading practices, uninspiring lessons and a lack of flexibility to support students socially and emotionally, critics say. And Daniel A. Related: What’s school without grade levels?

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. The initiative resulted in all students attaining double digit academic growth as well as doubling the number of students who are on a college trajectory (meeting the 70th percentile nationally).

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eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. The initiative resulted in all students attaining double digit academic growth as well as doubling the number of students who are on a college trajectory (meeting the 70th percentile nationally).

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Blended Learning Case Study iPad Learning 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

A seminal 2011 paper established the so-called “Google effect,” our tendency to forget information that we can easily look up on the internet. Students who were told they wouldn’t be able to refer to the trivia later did much better on recall assessments. The links sent people directly to the web pages that had the correct information.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

When she became principal in 2011, the Title I school had a 40 percent mobility rate, attendance rates were low and less than a third of students were meeting state standards. Attendance is now soaring, and two-thirds of students are meeting standards in reading and math. Calhoun had her work cut out for her.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Ideally, integration with our assessments. After a little bit of lecture and homework for a couple of weeks, you give an assessment. When I made that first TED Talk in 2011 , it got an immediate positive response, not just from the ed reform type crowd, but from teachers. We need training. Yes and no.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

This allows us to meet as a whole group for a 20-30 minute math and science mini-lesson at the beginning of the period, before dividing the students into small groups for the rest of class. Throughout the year, we set aside weekly time to meet and develop lessons and hands-on activities. But we have also seen other benefits.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

While attending the 2011 NASSP Conference in San Francisco, CA I listened to a keynote by Dr. Bill Daggett. This tool helps educators and schools adjust curriculum, instruction, and assessment to create high standards and increase student achievement. His message centered on the need for increasing rigor and relevancy in schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. In 2011, the Dow Jones News Fund honored Sackstein as a Special Recognition Adviser and 2012 Education Updated recognized her as an outstanding educator. So they’re using the protocol to meet the expectation. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. What’s our fourth?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Frontline Education , a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, today released a comprehensive year-to-date innovation summary that underscores the company’s commitment to anticipating and meeting the evolving needs of school districts across the country.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

In Tennessee, the seeds for success were planted in 2011, when a study showed. In the program, students who fall below college-level standards on math assessment tests in 11th grade are guided to remedial courses during their senior year in high school, which allows them to start their higher ed career ready for credit bearing coursework.

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Education Course Case Study Assessment 112

Edsurge

JANUARY 16, 2018

When we do have meetings, some people come and some people Skype in. But now those meetings are fewer because we’ve generated all of the content. People just grabbed a marker and came up with another idea, put it on the board and we refined it over time. Now they’ve all graduated. It’s mostly in the hands of programming.

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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. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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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. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 26, 2011

learncentral.org/event/143030/ APPLES AND ORANGES: EMPLOYEE SKILLS ASSESSMENT DRIVING BUSINESS PERFORMANCE (Elluminate) Wed 30 Mar 01:00PM New York / Wed 30 Mar 05:00PM GMT / Thu 31 Mar 05:00AM Sydney Ajay Pangarkar. Also, a critical discussion about apps for language learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

He also shares how the district uses case management technology to track these interventions, support clinicians and help assess when students need help—and when they don't. We've been offering EBT interventions as part of that model since the 2011-2012 school year. EdSurge: Tell us about your Evidence-Based Treatment interventions.

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