The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

By the end of their careers, teachers with STEM degrees were making about 40% less than their nonteacher peers with comparable degrees. “If Teachers with a science background help students become “competent outsiders to science,” including the ability to assess the credibility of sources that make scientific claims, said Osborne.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Check out my Booking Page .

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. But based on initial data from a much smaller pilot in Long Beach, California, in 2017-18 and another in 33 tiny Idaho districts in 2013-14, he was optimistic. Students at B.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

Officials at Amazon, which purchased the rights to TenMarks in 2013, declined to comment for this story. That’s how school district users last year found out about the end of TenMarks, which has provided curriculum, lesson plans, exercises and assessments in math and writing to students in an estimated 11,500 U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

And at the end of that year, we did some assessment, and we realized that we needed some more time to build this vision. What can it look like in an elementary classroom? We had another professional learning cohort called “Leading Your Salisbury.”. People need to understand, “What does this look like?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. They completely made sense to me.” Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

But after the organization closed in 2013 and was eventually reopened in 2015 with Anello at the helm, working with parents became a new focus. A collection of PDF checklists encourages parents to consider available extracurricular activities, safety, social-emotional learning and academic rigor when assessing a school’s quality.

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MIND Research Institute

MAY 26, 2022

The jobs of the future are in STEM. And according to the US Department of Labor and Statistics , the number of STEM careers is projected to grow by 8% by 2029. STEM is more than an acronym. Developing the skills essential for future STEM career success starts with a solid understanding of mathematics. Upright JiJi.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Michael’s IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments.

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MindShift

MAY 21, 2017

In his college courses he regularly quizzes students using word stems so that they repeatedly have to recall the information in their notes from memory. Fourth grade teacher Tony Zobeck tries to use both low-stakes quizzing and distributed practice regularly in his Kendell View Elementary classroom in Morrison, Colorado.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In 2013, she took on leading a ninth-grade remedial class and taught nearly 50 students the regular Algebra 1 curriculum. The disparities often stem from larger structural issues — a lack of access to quality curricula , for instance, or teachers expecting students to perform poorly. She started with a small test.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. Learn more about formative assessment. If you want to listen – Monica Burns did a fantastic podcast episode about her Favorite Formative Assessment Tools. Kecia: Oh yeah, absolutely.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

For example, your directions can provide sentence stems to model what a response or comment should sound like, and vocabulary suggestions are a reminder of both academic jargon that is appropriate to the content topic as well as discussion phrases that strengthen argumentation. How could you use it? Roslyn, welcome to Edtech Elixirs!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2019

Not even the 100-degree weather deterred the three “parent ambassadors” from delivering their message to families: They should bring their young children to the Vivian Adams Early Childhood Center to have their development assessed and have them enrolled in pre-K. The state selected East St. Megan Conn/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. They knew not all their children were especially brilliant — they just wanted to get into the best elementary school in the city. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. Lori Trent, STEM Coordinator - Innovator of Inspiration and Magic RADIO SOLIDARIA AMIGA, ONLINE, UNA HERRAMIENTA INNOVADORA - Mª Magdalena Galiana Lloret.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Elementary school: hated it,” Amber says. We’re preparing kids for these jobs of tomorrow, but we really don’t even know what they are,” said Amy McLeod, the school’s director of curriculum, instruction and assessment. Amy McLeod, Lowell High School director of curriculum, instruction and assessment. Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Diagrams of simple machines — a pulley, an inclined plane, a lever — appeared on the massive whiteboard of a school STEAM lab (STEM subjects plus Art) in South Fayette, a fast-growing suburb of Pittsburgh. There are two other STEAM labs in this school for third, fourth and fifth graders, which South Fayette opened in 2013.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Elementary Years ? Testing and Assessment ? Blended Learning ? Brain-based Learning ? Classroom 2.0 ? College Admissions ? Connections ? Creativity ? Defining Success ? Digital Citizenship ? Educational Technology ? Engagement ? Family & Parenting ? Future of Eduction ? Gap Years & Family Sabbaticals ? Global Collaborations ?

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MindShift

OCTOBER 30, 2019

On average, girls do as well as boys on elementary- and middle-school math tests. A new study offers evidence that the disparity might be getting its start in elementary school classrooms. Students in the Raleigh-area elementary schools can be nominated to participate by their teachers or parents.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 15, 2019

In 2013-2015 he taught 4th and 5th grade STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) at Independence Elementary in Yukon Public Schools in Oklahoma. He is the author of several books on effectively using digital technologies to communicate and assess learning. Wesley completed his Ph.D. Wesley completed his Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 7, 2022

But, on any given day, an untold number of children in elementary schools nationwide have all or part of their recess revoked for infractions such as failing to finish their work, talking out of turn or not following directions. Children play during recess at a Louisville, Kentucky elementary school. That’s not appropriate,” Lisa said.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 7, 2013

- Adam Simpson Not your old school academic writing assignment - Tyson Seburn Podcasting and Broadcasting in your Classroom with TeacherCast - Jeffrey Bradbury Shadowing Students as an Effective Observation Strategy for School-wide Leadership and Change - Michael Berry Transforming Education with Augmented Reality - Todd Nesloney 4:00pm 10 Sites I (..)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2019

They added resources in an existing dual-language program at the elementary school level, created a sheltered English learner program for newcomer students in the middle school, and overhauled high school offerings, placing native English speakers and English learners into more of the same classrooms, so they can learn from each other.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Jennifer Merritt’s first-graders at Jefferson Elementary School in Pryor, Oklahoma, were in for a treat. Abandoned by the school bus, Pete walks to Petroville Elementary in his pajamas. “It It was reprinted with permission. It sounds like you are missing all of your petroleum by-products today!”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

Last year, the city also made some of the largest gains nationwide on a federal assessment that was given to urban districts. In 2013, only 16 percent of entering kindergarteners scored in the top tier on Ohio’s kindergarten readiness exam, meaning they were fully ready to start school.

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