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Teachers As Researchers: The Power of Mindset

Digital Promise

I used to make changes in my classroom based on intuition - I just know what my students need - but found that intuition alone wasn’t enough to truly spark student learning. That quest to prove the effectiveness of my own practice started my interest in finding “research-based” teaching practices.

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Math Scores Drop, But Achievement Gap Narrows for U.S. Teens in International PISA Assessment

Edsurge

average math literacy score fell 18 points below the 2009 average and 12 points below the 2012 average. The Bay State, which participated in PISA 2012, also outperformed the U.S. We’re losing ground — a troubling prospect when, in today’s knowledge-based economy, the best jobs can go anywhere in the world,” Education Secretary John B.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

When given agency, teachers understand the what, why, and how so they can genuinely embrace what they are learning and put those skills to use in their classroom instruction. He has been recognized by EdScoop (EdTech Hero, 2017), SETDA (Leader of the Year, 2013), and Common Sense Media (Educator of the Year, 2012).

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After the pandemic disrupted their high school educations, students are arriving at college unprepared

The Hechinger Report

When she started at a new school in the fall of 2012, she breezed through the timed math tests. From then until the coronavirus hit, when she was a 16-year-old precalculus student, Hernandez shined in the classroom. Even in a normal year, Treisman said, students don’t all show up with the same level of preparedness or knowledge base.

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Live Interview Tuesday, January 24th - Lee Crockett on 21st Century Fluencies

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The authors write : "In our present society we are seeing powerful technologies and information systems causing a parallel change in the knowledge base. Why are facts are becoming obsolete faster and knowledge built on these facts less durable? psid=2012-01-24.1328.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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Five Steps to Empowering Educators with Evidence

edWeb.net

School leaders and classroom teachers need reminders that just because a specific program or pedagogy has evidence that it works, that doesn’t mean it will work in every classroom. Using a Level 4 (lowest level) program, for instance, is a chance for districts to innovate and contribute to the knowledge base.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I The Flipped Classroom". Textbook Publishers vs. Boundless. 3D Printing. I know, I know.

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