Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

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. Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District, felt the same. Trends change. Trends change.

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Technology Classroom EdTech Secondary 116

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. How to help kids practice and give recognition for feedback. How to empower kids to be experts. She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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Strategy Classroom Assessment BYOD 202

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

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

The Research About Keeping Teachers First, let’s dive into some research about how to help teachers thrive (and not quit teaching.) Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. We have to do better. We have to help and encourage each other. 33) Bartell, C.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

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).

Education 120

Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

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 138

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

But she also routinely dismissed that idea as impossible because, she said, “I wouldn’t know how to make that happen and my family didn’t have the means to do it.”. The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options.

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E-rate Report Accessibility Secondary 111

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. All states had to submit ESSA plans this fall showing how they intend to measure students’ progress, and the advocates believed that the flexibility in the new law would inspire states to innovate. “The But developing such systems is a complicated task.

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Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 73

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 a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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Blended Learning Secondary Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards 0

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

Learn some thinking routines and how to apply these valuable techniques in your classroom. Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. How to Teach Thinking Routines in the Classroom. She was State Teacher of The Year for 2015. Shownotes: [link].

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How To Classroom Elementary Examples 231

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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Secondary System Survey Study 0

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

The idea, said Ann Swartz-Beckius, interim director of student achievement, is to teach students how to remain calm under pressure, “to tune out the noise in their heads.”. To reach the state’s target, another 131,400 Minnesotans — two-thirds of them people of color—must earn a post-secondary credential. “As

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 75

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 Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

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. In 2015-16, more than one-third of all retained students were from grades K-3. percent national average.

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Analysis Report Data Policies 125

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

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

Among teachers who stay on the job, about 28 percent are “chronically absent” (more than 10 school days a year), according to the most recent Department of Education statistics, which cover the 2015-16 academic year. The analogy is that you can’t teach somebody to play piano if you don’t know how to play piano.”. I love my students.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

Reading By Example

DECEMBER 24, 2015

Our students’ work, collaboratively assessed through grade level and vertical teams, has shown great gains. For two years, we received training in how to teach a variety of text features as readers and writers, such as topic sentences, supporting details, and transitions. One teacher had experience with The Write Tools.

Common Core 28

Common Core Elementary Assessment Secondary 28

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Even students with cognitive delays may be able to attend modified post-secondary programs if given adequate preparation and encouragement in school. When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. But too often, schools aren’t providing students with the appropriate help.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

iLearn Technology

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Sign up TODAY, Woot Math is totally free for the 2015-2016 school year! How to integrate Woot Math into your classroom: To begin with Woot Math, decide how you will use it in your classroom. Do all of your students have access to a technology device?

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Adaptive Learning Learning Chromebook iPad 28

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Not all forms of tutoring reap the same benefits, and districts may need help in determining how to select and implement the best programs. As a bonus, these sessions can allow educators more opportunities to measure student achievement through informal assessments, potentially providing new holistic accountability measures.

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Survey Data Report Assessment 105

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

About one in six 16- to 24-year-olds are neither working nor in school, according to Tulane University’s Cowen Institute, which in 2015 calculated the city’s rate of opportunity youth at 18 percent, one of the highest in the nation. But they never would tell me how to go to school when I was going through something.”.

Dropout 57

Dropout Policies Report System 57

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor? 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).

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2021

Using a well-validated instrument , we longitudinally assessed 572 students from nine universities across the U.S. and Canada over four years of undergraduate studies, from 2015 to 2019. We found that transfer students were 77.5 Some people may make assumptions about transfer student abilities or reasons why transferring occurred.

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Secondary Trends Industry Study 154

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

You’ll have a bunch of tech ed skills you can now say ‘I know how to do that’ Like TwitterChats. Is the course content theory or teaching how to teach? Topics attendees will learn by doing include: Blogging—to reflect, collaborate with classmates, share perspectives during class, complete assessments in some cases.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

Between 2015 and 2018, eight students and one teacher from Olathe Public Schools committed suicide. By combining all of this data, teaching SEL skills and doing the SOS assessment, not only are we having serious and meaningful conversations with families, but we are saving lives,” explains Dain. They also can see the trend data.

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Survey Data Elementary Strategy 164

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It was 2015 and Jack Silva, the chief academic officer for the public schools in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, had a problem: Only 56 percent of third-graders in his district had scored proficient on the state reading test. By 2015, the district had turned the corner financially, and Silva was wondering why the reading scores were so terrible.

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Assessment STEM Academic Standards Course 76

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Give them more control over the manner in which they’re taught and how their work is assessed and you’ll produce more involved, successful students. The high school dropped from a Level 1 school in 2015 to a Level 3 school in 2017 on the state report card, which looks at standardized test scores.

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E-rate Report Assessment Study 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

The edtech sector needs to figure out how to build business models to serve a wider segment of the global poor at earlier ages. In 2015 we began operations in Latin America and almost immediately began looking for edtech companies with the potential to address the structural challenges affecting schools.

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EdTech Company Secondary Coursera 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Testing and Assessment ? Special Needs ? Strengths-based Education ? Student 2.0 ? Student Entrepreneurship ? Teacher 2.0 ? Teaching Online ? Temperament and Learning Styles ? Unschooling ? Virtual Schooling ? World Schooling See you “online!” hours a day.

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Conference Learning OER Blended Learning 34

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

” But of course, that’s not quite true: my first introduction to Papert's work was actually a decade earlier, when I sat at an Apple II and taught a Turtle how to move about the screen. ” MOOC startups like Udacity and Coursera have also rebranded to target this particular post-secondary technical training market.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to “ frack” Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling. In 1960, educators helped revamp API materials that eventually made their way into 25,000 secondary schools.

Industry 58

Industry Education Company Groups 58

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

A 2015 report on the Cleveland Plan’s progress found that 79 percent of children were still enrolled in failing or low-performing district or charter schools. Nearly three-quarters of residents said Cleveland schools were moving in the right direction in a 2015 poll.

How To 40

How To E-rate Report Groups 40