Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015). I encourage teachers to use blended learning models to create time and space in the classroom to give feedback on their students’ work as they work.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

Today, Starr Sackstein @mssackstein shares 5 feedback strategies to supercharge your writing instruction and classroom culture. We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. Listen to Jennifer Burin talk about secrets for teaching great writing in the classroom by using peer feedback. Listen Now.

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Strategy Classroom Assessment BYOD 202

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Sioux Center High School. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Davenport West High School. We have STEM-focused model classrooms, STEM teacher licenses, STEM awareness campaigns, etc. Peek Into a STEM Classroom: Mt.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

teacher and tech coach from Georgia who “loves conducting classroom visits” to get a firsthand look at students on tech platforms. Administrators were a bit more tempered in their responses, expressing hesitation about whether live observation is the be-all, end-all in assessing edtech impact. Rachel Pierson, K-6 STEM Teacher.

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Battelle for Kids

AUGUST 5, 2015

August 5, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 9, Number 3. Typical projects at the end of units, time fillers, science fair entries, stretches for the gifted, and special day celebrations were and are common fare in many elementary classrooms. Introduction of the letters "P-B-L" to many educators brings a highly predictable shrug. "So

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. In this post you will find some wonderful information on using back channels and games in the classroom. Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities. Collaboration.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

classrooms from kindergarten through high school.” Spending data suggests that instructional software is indeed growing in classrooms. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. From 2011 to 2014, U.S.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 156

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Across the nation, district equity discussions include how schools must examine current biases from bus stops to classroom materials to educator and staff expectations. The district is using multiple measures from the classroom to district level across internal and external categories to determine if students are college and career ready.

Education 63

Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 63

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. My conclusion was there needs to be specific and sustained professional development around questioning in the classroom in order to see positive growth.

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Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. My conclusion was there needs to be specific and sustained professional development around questioning in the classroom in order to see positive growth.

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Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

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 2015 $0. FY 2014 $0.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These and other important lessons from Oregon’s Gresham-Barlow School District were discussed during a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , with the district’s Superintendent, Dr. Katrise Perera, and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, Lisa Riggs.

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Professional Learning Assessment Outcomes Secondary 57

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

So the CEO of the Boston-based company sat in on classrooms in over 12 schools. That’s where he learned that students were struggling to complete the lessons on their own, and why he had to redesign the platform to make it more accessible for teachers to use in the classroom. Smith thought he was done with the industry. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin. And the written language includes thousands of special characters.

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Software Company Study Flipped Classroom 137

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Disconnection between teaching and learning: Teachers often confuse covering the material with teaching to the kids—if they teach to understanding, then the classroom becomes a different environment. Does everyone feel valued? To pursue equity, schools must understand three key principles. About the Hosts.

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Secondary Policies Professional Learning Outcomes 59

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment). 2008): Successful Collaboration.

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

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. Cameron Berube, who began serving as Director of Curriculum and Instruction in 2015, was part of the design team to move the district toward PL.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Beginning teachers’ practice is enhanced further when their mentors also receive formal training and are released from some of their own classroom duties to provide one-to-one observation and coaching in the classroom, so they can demonstrate effective methods and help new teachers solve problems of practice.(33) 32) Ingersoll, R.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Malachi Ballinger, 6, laughs at how far he has made his “pinball” travel during a science lesson in his kindergarten classroom in Redmond, Oregon. 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.

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Elementary Education Survey Report 84

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Smarty Ants is not the only Achieve3000 solution currently implemented at Virginia Beach.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

The First Year In the first year of our virtual co-planning, we first wrote common assessments, then later common lesson plans and projects, before beginning video conferences to reflect on and edit our work. Students in one classroom are paired with partner “e-pals” in another class to score and provide weekly reflection on others’ work.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

For students at Central Valley middle and high schools, accessing classroom lessons rarely involves opening a book. The English language arts department debuted its curriculum in the 2015-16 school year, and the math, science and social studies departments will introduce curricula during each consecutive school year. image via AP ].

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. In a personalized classroom, students are taught how to take control of their own learning, so that they can take different pathways to gain understanding of concepts. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 68

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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Personalized Learning Learning Policies Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Teacher stress is growing, experts say, pushing educators out of classrooms and hurting learning. The biggest reason non-retiring teachers leave the classroom, the report noted, is dissatisfaction at work (55 percent). I love my students. Related: Can mental health training for teachers reduce preschool suspensions?

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur Breaking down stereotypes.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 70

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

As a freshman, she constantly got into fights, and spent long hours in a disciplinary classroom. In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. percent national average.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 121

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. Massachusetts became a leader in national assessments in math, reading, and science.

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Common Core Assessment Report Groups 40

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

Today Karen Voglesang @NBCTchr teaches children to use thinking routines in her classroom. After participating in Harvard’s Project Zero , she is applying and using the methods in classrooms and with teachers. Learn some thinking routines and how to apply these valuable techniques in your classroom. Listen Now.

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How To Classroom Elementary Examples 231

Fractus Learning

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Classrooms are embracing interactive whiteboards and mobile devices with enthusiasm. Assessment is subjective. Our objective for this technological transformation of the school desk was to ensure that the classroom would remain physically unchanged, but changed utterly in terms of new pedagogical and interaction affordances.

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Learning Analytics Gamification Assessment Industry 40

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. employment in 2015, according to the U.S. Such jobs made up 6.2 percent of all U.S. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report).

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Elementary Education Survey Report 39

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

Michelle Luhtala , Department Chair of the New Canaan, CT, High School Library and a 2015 Library Journal Mover & Shaker , is a leader in helping teacher-librarians all around the country to become Future Ready. Future Ready has developed a common set of information, tools, and assessment, that are all available for free.

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Future Ready Libraries Professional Learning Personalized Learning 45

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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Pearson STEM Training Study 28

Reading By Example

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Our students’ work, collaboratively assessed through grade level and vertical teams, has shown great gains. Staff members who have spouses teaching in other schools sometimes mention that the student writing produced is comparable with secondary level work. Specifically, they felt that students needed more structure.

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Common Core Elementary Assessment Secondary 28

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

In some cases that means being given more time on tests or being offered the option of using technology for written assignments; in other cases it means having an aide in the classroom working with them individually. Within each disability, there is variance in severity and how the disability reveals itself in a classroom.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The amount of time they’ve spent in the classroom (“seat time”) doesn’t matter, nor does the number of credits they’ve accumulated. DeLorenzo screened the candidates, assessing their capacity for change, and six districts were approved , among them the three districts mentioned above that had already begun experimenting with the model.

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Learning Report System Case Study 111