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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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

So here is my reflections on 2010 and my predictions for 2011. Think about it in a lower elementary classroom. This is basically a camera system that you connect to your Xbox and play games without an controller. My reflections on 2010, and my thoughts on 2011. I want to be hip. How did I do? The Xbox Kinect. Cool stuff.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. It’s been up and down, too, for many others involved with Cleveland’s school system, who are on edge about what comes next. Related: How to make Cleveland ‘great again’?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Chandra Scott, director of strategic outcomes for the independent nonprofit Mobile Area Education Foundation, sat in on meetings to attract new business to the area, where boosters extolled the education system. “We High school graduation rates in Mobile are way up, from 55 percent before 2011 to 86 percent in 2018.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

After a 14-year career in student & worship ministry, public speaking, and starting churches, in 2011, Chris began working for Burleson ISD in Burleson, TX as a 4th and 5th Grade Math and Reading Special Education Teacher at J.W. Norwood Elementary School. And then I have two principals who are fairly new in the role.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. In many cases it stifles creativity and curiosity, discouraging students from questioning established norms or exploring alternative perspectives.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Through a five-year radical book-weeding process from 2011- 2016, the NCHS library had eliminated all of the library’s free-standing bookshelves. “Making learning more real for students allows them to learn better in a much more energized school,” said Luhtala. A multi-year redesign.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

IBM’s famous Watson computing system—which defeated Jeopardy champ Ken Jennings in 2011—is coming to education, if not quite the classroom. From that focus group they narrowed the list of potential applications to professional development tools and, eventually, settled on a searchable database exclusively for elementary school math.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Since 2011, national math test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, fell by 17 points for eighth graders and 10 points for fourth graders in data analysis, statistics and probability. The result is that student achievement has moved in the opposite direction of modern technology.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems, M.A. He has been an active member of the Microsoft Innovative Expert Educator program since 2011. Doug Bergman Head of Computer Science Doug Bergman is Head of Computer Science at Porter-Gaud independent school in Charleston, SC. Currently, he serves on of the board of CSTA.

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Robotics Microsoft Twitter Conference 262

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

JUNE 13, 2014

To the Citizens of British Columbia, Canada, How important is a good, free, public education system to you and to our society? Here are some graphs from Statistics Canada: Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

Step-by-step instruction, particularly with math, and clear goal or expectation setting both increases test scores and improves the attitudes of students who struggle (Al-Makahleh, 2011). #5: Effects of a Measurement and Planning System on Kindergartners’ Cognitive Development and Educational Programming. Why do we do this? Bergan, J.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. At the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester, N.H.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Original interactive whiteboard systems were a display board connected to a projector. . These interactive whiteboards deliver the benefits of original projector-based IWB systems, plus added functionality. You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls. In Praise of The Interactive Whiteboard.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

New York City, Summer 2011. Learning is individualized, and we build systems to support student initiative, interest and needs. We design curriculum, learning experiences and systems (think of the organizational systems at play in your favorite elementary school classroom). Written By: Grace O’Shea. The challenge?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2021

Principal Margot Zahner’s vision for summer enrichment at Waterman Elementary School in Harrisonburg, Virginia, grows clearer every week. Margot Zahner, the principal of Waterman Elementary in Harrisonburg, Va., million through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. That program ended in 2011.

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Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2023

Teachers’ interest in making the leap from the classroom to edtech grew after COVID-19 hit, says Eva Brown, herself a former teacher who switched to edtech in 2011 after more than a decade in schools. Former educators told us they had moved on to become UX designers, part of sales teams and founders of their own edtech companies.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

SAN FRANCISCO (September 15, 2021) – To support districts in creating and sustaining a next-generation professional learning system, Edthena is launching a $1.5-million million innovation fund. The easy-to-apply-for fund will help new district partners implement the Edthena platform. Funding is valid for up to three academic years.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

Gifted education is often a flash point in school desegregation debates; in large cities, these programs often operate as an essentially separate school system, dominated by white and Asian children. Though gifted programs touch only 3.3 million school children, about 7 percent of the U.S.

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Buncee

JUNE 23, 2021

Other states have evaluation systems that also look at the social development of students as being a natural part of everyday teaching. Here are the links to the Buncee SEL -Toolkit- 7-12 and the Elementary SEL -Toolkit These are activities that you can use with your students or browse to get inspired. Self-Management.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

We've been offering EBT interventions as part of that model since the 2011-2012 school year. Douglas Gotel For example, we use child-centered play therapy intervention in our elementary schools where kids learn how to solve their problems and work through relational difficulties. Book: Lost at School, by Dr. Ross Green.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

elementary and middle schools. Since its launch in August 2011, ClassDojo has held firm to its commitment to never charge teachers and schools. One of the most commonly used tools currently is the behavior incentivization system that lets teachers give or subtract digital points based on a student’s behavior.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books. The results from my first year at the school (2011-2012) used a rubric based on the 6 traits of writing. It should be noted that our 19% growth is almost double what we achieved in 2011-2012.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books. The results from my first year at the school (2011-2012) used a rubric based on the 6 traits of writing. It should be noted that our 19% growth is almost double what we achieved in 2011-2012.

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Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Through a five-year radical book-weeding process from 2011- 2016, the NCHS library had eliminated all of the library’s free-standing bookshelves. “Making learning more real for students allows them to learn better in a much more energized school,” said Luhtala. A multi-year redesign.

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Libraries How To Elementary System 99

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

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Having a systemic and systematic strategy for supporting every student made a huge difference when Covid closed the curtain,” said Mary Walsh, executive director of City Connects, an organization based at Boston College.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

She also found a bright side: freedom from the constraints of public-school systems as she designed her innovative school. Led by Wendy Crocker-Roberge since 2011, Pyne Arts is already one of Lowell’s more progressive schools. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. So far the Acera-Pyne Arts partnership has been fruitful.

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STEM System Report Assessment 96

MindShift

AUGUST 16, 2021

When Ashley Park was converted from an elementary school to a K-8 a decade ago, over the objections of the community, it was the bus ride, with its noisy, chaotic comingling of kids, that many parents feared the most. They worried that their younger children might be corrupted, bullied or worse. They said, ‘don’t do this to us again.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

I have since become a teacher educator (with some teaching of elementary gifted students at a few Title 1 schools thrown in). Hope is not just a feel-good emotion, but a dynamic cognitive motivational system. I believe that educators do more counseling of children and young people than any other profession. That’s a shame.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2022

Papay cited his own 2015 study with Matt Kraft , along with a 2017 study of middle school teachers in North Carolina and a 2011 study of elementary and middle school teacher s. It has encouraged school systems to fire “bad” teachers because ineffective teachers were thought to be unlikely to improve. The science has evolved.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

We use Moodle as a Learning Management System. That’s what you would need to find out first, is what system is your district using? He also continues to consult for various districts across the country at the elementary, middle, and secondary level training teachers and administrators. So what we do is use randomization.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2020

As a nonprofit, Penn is exempt from property taxes, which public school systems rely on to pay teachers, nurses and counselors, as well as to finance building maintenance and buy learning equipment. A student slides on the ice after school at Nebinger Elementary School in South Philadelphia. Credit: Mark Makela/Corbis via Getty Images.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2021

To prove his point, Jackson studied more than 150,000 ninth graders in Chicago public high schools from 2011 to 2017. He picked Chicago because the school system annually surveys students about their social and emotional skills. I think what we’re showing here is that they do require attention.”.

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Outcomes Study Report Survey 143

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

He has served as Superintendent of the Ithaca City School District in Ithaca, New York since January 2011. In 2017, the district opened MOSAIC, a personalized learning elementary school, and created the MyPath program, which allows high school students to create their own class.

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