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Teachers As Researchers: The Power of Mindset

Digital Promise

Some learners see their world as “fixed,” and believe they were born with all the skills and characteristics they will ever have (Dweck, 2012). Step Three – Fund Your Knowledge Base. As isolated educators, we often forget how other people and places help inform our thinking and fund our knowledge base.

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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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OPINION: 7 in 10 students aren’t writing at grade level — we can do better

The Hechinger Report

A systematic approach to writing instruction is missing from the knowledge base. Between 2005 and 2012, a teacher-led approach to drilling down to analyze what was missing, called Strategic Inquiry, identified that students across New York City were lacking the writing strategies necessary to communicate complex ideas.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

edWeb.net

Professional learning opportunities are puzzles that include establishing knowledge bases, developing skills, instilling trust, and belief in the process and, most importantly, allowing time for practice. And before that, an advisor for Future Ready Schools and has moderated and presented numerous Future Ready’s Summits and Institutes.

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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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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. Even in a normal year, Treisman said, students don’t all show up with the same level of preparedness or knowledge base. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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Five Steps to Empowering Educators with Evidence

edWeb.net

Using a Level 4 (lowest level) program, for instance, is a chance for districts to innovate and contribute to the knowledge base. More important, there are other considerations, like cost, time, and implementation needs, that can influence which evidence-based program to pursue.