eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It was in with that question in mind, with support from the Escondido community and business leaders, that Del Lago Academy (DLA) opened in 2013 with the purpose of creating a school-to college and career pipeline connecting local students to STEM related careers within our region in southern California. So, how do we do it?

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

From an instructional and assessment perspective, Olivia recommends considering the relative importance of teaching critical skills, developing mastery, and providing grades. Setting the Course for Secondary Students. Ashley holds current Google Level 1 & 2 certifications and is a Google Certified Trainer.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

Since taking the reins as CEO in 2013, he has aggressively shed assets considered tangential to the publisher’s digital transformation strategy. EdSurge: When you took over as CEO in 2013, there was much made about transforming Pearson’s digital transformation. The interview below has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

She has also worked on projects with researchers at Education Testing Service (ETS) and interned with consultants at the Center for Assessment. Prior to going to Howard County, Dr. McKnight served as the Director for Secondary Leadership Development Programs in Montgomery County Public Schools.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. Nearly 1,900 teaching and learning staff are employed in 42 schools, each equipped with various types of technology tools (42 in all). Looking Ahead While Instituting Change.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

In 2013, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC ) released the first-ever global data on how the U.S. In 2013, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC ) released the first-ever global data on how the U.S. The PIAAC results speak directly to this. .”

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

About the Hosts. He was the first president and co-founder of the New York State Association for Bilingual Education. In addition, Domenech has served on the U.S. He began his career as a middle and high school English teacher. As superintendent of the Alexandria City Public Schools in Va.,

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2013 $0. ” FY 2012 $0. FY 2014 $0.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Since 2013, close to a third of the US school districts have charged into “one-to-one” digital instruction, putting a computer in the hands of every student—and the number is growing. Although there were many reasons, in large part the district had moved away from desktops and more teachers were using carts of devices, often for assessment.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans. In these emergent systems, the desire is to report absolute individual growth broken out by subgroups (as opposed to norm-referenced growth or the current measure of average proficient) via on-demand assessments. Framework for the Future of Learning. Source: ReSchool).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Sue is a proud recipient of the 2012 NYLA Mary Bobinski Innovative Public Library Director award and both the 2013 Library Journal Mover & Shaker and the WCNY Women Who Make America awards. He worked as a secondary educator before joining the Fayetteville Free Library in the summer of 2013.

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms. In one of the first studies of its kind to show specific links between spatial and mathematical skills, Cheng and Mix (2013) assessed children in both spatial and math skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Vermont’s experiment in experiential learning goes back a number of years, but it took off in 2013, when the legislature passed a law that lets students meet state graduation standards through work-based experiences. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. But the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), first released in 2013, could be changing all that. That pattern holds true in Oregon.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Is it the vast corpus of data that the company has amassed — decades of essays and theses and Wikipedia entries that it uses to assess student work? Students were therefore unable to sit their A Levels, the exams that are the culmination of secondary education there. Every student is guilty until the algorithm proves her innocence.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Almost 5 million students were enrolled as English learners in US public elementary and secondary school during the 2013/14 school year—that’s almost 10% of the total student population. Allow time for student to have the option to write, record, or present with a teacher when doing assessments.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

I’m always in search of simple, time-saving rubrics that make it easier for kids to understand how they’re being assessed. I’ve also added a process criteria, an idea I’ve borrowed from the book, How to Create and Use Rubrics for Formative Assessment and Grading by Susan M. Brookhart (ASCD, 2013).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

In the four-column rubric for precalculus assessment, Machnik explained what it would take to be “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient” and “exemplary” in trigonometric equations. Data from the New England Secondary School Consortium shows that high school graduation rates in Vermont increased from 85.5 percent to 89.1

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Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Assessment is subjective. The Need for Autonomous Assessment. Teachers’ observation skills and subjective judgment are used quite frequently in terms of assessing students’ behavior and performance in the classroom. For example, in primary level teachers will prescribe printed textbooks and worksheet assessments.

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Learning Analytics Gamification Assessment Industry 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

” A Hechinger Report analysis found that such lofty goals were common in the 10 years after Hurricane Katrina, particularly between 2008 and 2013, when dozens of new charter schools opened across the city. “They completely made sense to me.” Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

Join us online for new content focused on the hottest topics from ISTE 2013 and a sneak peek at what’s in store for ISTE 2014 — plus live interaction and discussion I''ll lead with ISTE 2013 keynoter Adam Bellow. ISTE members , don''t miss out on 3 hours of amazing webinars coming up Thursday (yours truly will be acting as MC).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Michael McLaughlin and his mother, Michelle, at Michael’s 2013 graduation. Even students with cognitive delays may be able to attend modified post-secondary programs if given adequate preparation and encouragement in school. He graduated in 2013. Photo courtesy Michelle McLaughlin. But he still struggled.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The Future Ready movement grew out of the Connect Ed initiative launched by President Obama in 2013 with several goals: to connect 99% of students in schools to broadband, and to address the need for more professional learning and leadership to ensure the effective use of technology. About edWeb.net.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2015

The College Board revamped the curriculum in 2013 based on recommendations from the National Research Council and others. .” The course’s dynamism is partly a response to the College Board’s revised AP physics curriculum, which places more emphasis on key foundational principles of physics and less on memorization.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

The district relied on individual schools to call families, while its department of research, assessment and data conducted surveys at individual school sites to find out whether families had an internet connection and computer access. We didn’t even have infrastructure on tracking devices,” Thomas said. for the nonprofit.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. But the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), first released in 2013, could be changing all that. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). But scores dipped in almost all grades and subject areas on the 2015 test compared with 2013.

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Education Policies Learning Report 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Wednesday, April 9th at 4pm Thinking Scientifically: Video and Formative Assessment with POPstar Robert Miller , POPstar Robert Miller - an award-winning 5th-grade teacher - hosts this interactive workshop covering inquiry-based science curriculum; the creative use of video; and one of his favorite resources, NSTA’s Formative Assessment Probes.

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MindShift

APRIL 17, 2018

We also share with our students what is known as “The Picture Superiority Effect”– a body of research showing that people are better able to learn and recall information presented as pictures as opposed to just being presented with words (Kagan, 2013). The teacher, or classmates, can then use the rubric to offer feedback to the speaker.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. Secondary teachers and YA librarians: this is a great opportunity for special programming. Anonymous For a full list of the 2013 School Leadership Summit kudos, click here. Join here !

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2014

Highlighted Recordings Michael Furdyk from the Global Education Conference 2013 - on "Imagining Future Friendly Schools" [link] Esther Wojcicki from the Learning 2.0 Secondary math teacher, Kyle Pearce, shares his most recent article on developing deeper thinking about mathematics among teen learners. How to assess 21st century skills.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

In 2013, federal officials scrutinizing the system took a second look at Louisiana, to be sure that the state’s high-school-equivalency attainment was “not masking low graduation rates and that students are not being pushed into a GED [HiSET] track.” We don’t want to coach people off a high-school diploma track,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Former state education commissioner Stephen Bowen was a cheerleader for the idea during his tenure at the Maine Department of Education from 2011 to 2013. It should be clear to students which skills will be assessed on any test or project and how those skills will be graded. Key tenets of proficiency-based learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

A recent and exciting challenge transpired as co-facilitator of the virtual participants in the 2013 Flat Classroom Conference in Yokohama, Japan. Julene also works with Suumu Secondary School and Roots & Shoots in Tanzania. She has presented locally, nationally and globally, both face to face and virtually.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

When he moved from principal of the high school to superintendent in 2013, he initiated a conversation about priorities with school board members, educators and the community. Teachers now assess students’ proficiency across four categories: basic, approaching, proficient and advanced.

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