A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

This recognition has been validated by state-by-state data comparisons. However, just like any other profession the amount of bad educators pales in comparison to those who go above and beyond to help kids learn. A few years ago I challenged Commissioner Hespe to come to my school and see what learning can and should look like.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2017

It would involve including a comparison group, as all children change with age. The ideal comparison group would be children who participate in equally socially interactive but nonmusical training, such as sports. Follow-up assessments after their training would reveal how each group changes over time.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2018

million between 2012 and 2016, says Jeff Seaman, co-director of the Babson Survey Research Group, who has been tracking the country’s virtual education lifeline for 15 years. By comparison, for example, learning management systems captured more than 90 percent of universities years ago. At the current rate of 5.6

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MindShift

DECEMBER 18, 2016

The most recent Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) results for 15-year-olds show a significant drop in math performance between 2012 and 2015 among U.S. While an international comparison of this sort can never tell the whole story, PISA administrators have started including questions about how students study.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

The companies have offered to deliver food and learning materials like laptops and textbooks to students’ homes. Kango, founded in 2012 but using its current model since 2015, has tested a new strategy to connect children with drivers who serve as virtual tutors to help with schoolwork. m CEO Ritu Narayan.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

It is titled Experiences in Self-Determined Learning and can be found at [link]. Self-determined learning or heutagogy is fast gaining interest from educators around the world interested in an evidence-based approach to learning. This edited book is the perfect primer on self-determined learning or heutagogy. The Basics.

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100mentors

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This post is part of a 6-part series highlighting how we, as IB teachers, can bring Approaches to Teaching to our classroom and challenge students to engage in Approaches to Learning. How can your students benefit from assessment in a more learning-oriented way with the enhancement of their self-management skills?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

Students in the small classrooms gained the equivalent of four extra months of education over the course of three years compared with their peers who learned in larger classrooms of about 22 students. Class size reductions are unlikely to lead to sizable increases in student learning,” the authors of that 2012 study wrote.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2020

Comparisons to post-Katrina New Orleans make a lot of sense. The National Center for Education Statistics reported that about 23 percent of the teaching workforce in the United States was age 50 to 59 in 2012, the most recent federal data available, with more than 7 percent older than 60.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2021

It was 2012, and online learning was suddenly booming. And how is edX doing by comparison? Courses at Stanford and at MIT were opened for free online to the masses, and the masses signed up—with some courses attracting more than 160,000 each. EdX is like a distant No.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Their first 2012 report tracked changes from 1987 through 2008. For comparison, the number of non-white students increased by 96 percent during these same 30 years. Specifically, 19 percent of black, Hispanic, Asian and other non-white teachers left the profession in 2012, compared with 15 percent of white teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

” It was an experiment in so-called “personalized learning,” where algorithms churned out customized lessons for each student. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The study highlights an ongoing conflict between personalized learning and the required annual tests that schools to give students.

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EdTech4Beginners

MARCH 21, 2018

A flipped classroom is a teaching pedagogy which reverses old classroom teaching and homework through a form of blended learning using modern technology and practical application. [2] Dr. Rosenberg’s comparison is fascinating. What’s even more amazing is how we can use this comparison for a classroom environment (see Table 2).

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

The prior year, my former chief Bill Gates headlined ASU GSV and received a standing ovation for championing technology’s power to transform teaching and learning. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). MOOCs topped the cycle in 2012. NASDAQ: UDMY), and Nerdy, Inc.

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The PL2C Blog

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Digital Learning Coach, Instructional Technology Facilitator and Research Associate at the Friday Institute for Educational Innovation. The implication is that the most transformative learning experiences will be those that are directed by the learner’s own endeavors and curiosities.” Lindgren & McDaniel, 2012).

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

a favorite target of critics of the for-profit school industry, has named former Catapult Learning official Stuart J. Udell most recently served as CEO of Catapult Learning Inc., On its website, Catapult Learning describes itself as the largest provider of contracted K-12 services in the United States. Udell as its CEO.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. She said she wanted to learn if technology was a problem for younger students and commissioned data analysts at an outside research firm, the Learning Agency , to conduct this quantitative analysis. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

Today, Make School, a private, for-profit institution, announced it has raised $15 million in a Series B funding round led by Venrock, with Learn Capital and Kapor Capital also participating. For comparison, 5.5 It will be a few years before Make School opens its doors in New York, but it’s already raised funds to begin the blueprints.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2019

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. More than half of the schools in the six districts hired a new principal between 2012 and 2016, evidence of problematic high principal turnover around the country. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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ExcelinEd

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Image Source: Lumina Foundation, A Stronger Nation: Learning beyond high school builds American talent , 2019. The scope of this leaky pipeline is well-illustrated by NSC’s Tracking Transfer report, which highlights student transfer and outcomes data for the 2012 cohort of first-year community college students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2016

In his highly-acclaimed book, Visible Learning: A Synthesis of Over 800 Meta-Analyses Relating to Achievement , he highlighted 138 different factors that can influence student learning success. Similarly, I said back in April 2012: Please realize that it doesn’t matter how many safeguards are put into place before retention occurs.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 11, 2014

I wrote about the Justand iPad Document Camera Stand in 2012. Justand''s inventor, Justin Franks, has learned a lot from teachers'' feedback and has released the Justand V2. Read more about mirroring an iPad and view a comparison chart of your mirroring options. You can support Learning in Hand by making a purchase.'

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The Principal of Change

MARCH 21, 2016

I still watch games all of the time, but being a part of the game was something that I loved and I learned a great deal from each opportunity that I apply in my life to this day. I think about the comparisons a lot between these two different types of coaches. July 21, 2013 My Bad September 28, 2012 Don’t Use a 2.0

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

And why isn’t learning the same way? I’ve learned that I need to know my students academically and personally so I can modify instruction to be as effective, engaging and rigorous as possible, so every year I craft personal learner profiles for my students that go beyond their IEP goals and basic personality surveys.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 5, 2015

A lot has happened in the world of digital learning since ExcelinEd’s Digital Learning Now initiative and Getting Smart released the first Smart Series paper in August 2012. In partnership with: Digital Learning Now , Foundation for Excellence in Education. Make Real Comparisons. Download the full paper.

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techieMusings

JUNE 2, 2015

2012 – began flipping Honors Algebra 2. For a full comparison of Camtasia PC vs Mac, see Camtasia Studio vs Camtasia Mac.). I recommend Zaption as a webtool to turn any video into a learning tour. A very quick recap of my evolution: 2010 – started by making screencasts for my AP Calculus AB students.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

students are justifiably exhausted and nervous from too much homework — even though some international comparisons suggest they’re sitting comfortably at the average. In 2012, students in three different age groups — 9, 13 and 17 — were asked, “How much time did you spend on homework yesterday?” Well, here goes.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2016

This all makes a shaky foundation for year-to-year comparisons. On the long-term trend assessment, NAEP scores for 17-year olds increased in both reading and math between 1971 and 2012. And scores increased for every major ethnic group between 1971 and 2012. Have they fallen since? We also know three things: the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 11, 2012

Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University From the publisher: "This book answers a simple question: How would one redesign the American education system if the aim was to take advantage of everything that has been learned by countries with the world’s best education systems? psid=2012-04-12.1601.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

performance was flat in reading and science since the last administration, in 2012, and went down in math. Unlike other tests, such as TIMSS, which measure how well students have mastered the curriculum, PISA is designed to measure how well students can apply what they have learned to real-world problems. On PISA, U.S. can benefit.”.

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MindShift

AUGUST 11, 2016

The studies include research on K-12 schools and higher ed, both blended learning and online, and show results ranging from mixed to negative. It looked at college courses that are using so-called “adaptive learning” software as an enhancement to blended courses. NPR Ed has covered adaptive learning before.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 7, 2016

billion –and that was for 2012-13, according to the association’s Education Technology Industry Network. The Gates foundation provides financial support for Education Week’s coverage of the implementation of college- and career-ready standards and the use of personalized learning.

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EdTechSandyK

JANUARY 13, 2012

And even the two phone conversations we were able to have during this awful week paled in comparison to the hug we were finally able to share yesterday. As you move forward in 2012, I encourage you to spend as much, if not more, time investing in in-person relationships as you do in your online relationships.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2016

Related: Black and brown boys don’t need to learn “grit,” they need schools to stop being racist. When the Obama administration issued guidance in 2012** to states and districts to improve school climates, the USDOE and Department of Justice (DOJ) took aim at misuses of suspension and expulsion.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2020

But Mochly-Rosen quickly learned that there were myriad obstacles standing in the way of those kinds of payoffs, which turned out to be more exceptions than rules. billion of research in 2012, a resulting investigation found, produced less than $16 million in licensing fees, about one-tenth as much as rivals including Columbia and MIT.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Each year, when they get to campus, more than half a million American college students have to take so-called remedial or developmental education classes to teach them basic math and English skills they should have learned in high school. The next step, though, would be to make sure that high schools learn about the findings.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 10, 2015

A person's freedom of learning is part of his freedom of thought, even more basic that his freedom of speech.' Holt could easily have gone on to argue that freedom of learning should also include choice of location. Being able to choose when and where to learn is part of the freedom to learn. It is about choice.

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