The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Author of Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective, Blogging for Educators, Teaching Students to Self Assess: How do I help students grow as learners?, She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. and Tyson, D. Sheldon, S. and Jung, S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. She was State Teacher of The Year for 2015. There’s videos out there so that you can see what this actually looks like in a classroom, whether it’s early childhood, middle childhood, if it’s secondary.

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Lightspeed Systems

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As primary and secondary schooling takes up a large portion of a child’s life, it’s at school where struggling children are frequently identified. In 2015, the introduction of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) recognized the effectiveness of MTSS practices as a more equitable model to support students.

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Battelle for Kids

AUGUST 5, 2015

August 5, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 9, Number 3. Few measure up to the standards for today's PBL, Project-Based Learning, and its many variations, all sprouting in secondary as well as elementary classrooms. Introduction of the letters "P-B-L" to many educators brings a highly predictable shrug. "So So what else is new?"

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 17, 2016

“Nevada continues to have an affirmative responsibility to ensure that all students in grades three through eight and once in high school are assessed annually in reading/language arts and mathematics as required in the ESEA,” she wrote. . .” “We’re pleased with this result.

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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. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

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. higher education courseware business despite gains in digital—all because of secondary textbook market’s impact. Gartner projects that spending on U.S billion by 2023.

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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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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. A dedicated lifelong educator, Dr. McKnight served as the Director for Secondary Leadership Development Programs in Montgomery County Public Schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. Books Starr has authored: Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective , Blogging for Educators , Teaching Students to Self Assess: How do I help Students grow as learners? , Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Stream by clicking here.

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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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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. Humanity’s future may well be in Africa, where 60 percent of the population are under the age of 25. Yet their prospects are perilous. In 2012, 30 million primary-age children (or 1 out of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa did not attend any school.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

One of the company’s vocal proponents is Jayne Ellspermann, an education consultant and 2015 National Association of Secondary School Principals National Principal of the Year, who has been advising the company. He returned to Apple in 2015 after it acquired LearnSprout, only to leave in 2017 for a brief dabble in politics.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

His most recent books are The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences and Solutions with Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali (New York University Press, 2018) and Race, Equity and Education: Sixty Years From Brown with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram (Springer, 2015). About the Hosts. In addition, Domenech has served on the U.S.

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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).

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

It is therefore imperative that current and future student assessments are in sync with America’s transformational, digital environments. Our new set of readiness indicators will open up the doors for more students to pursue their post-secondary goals with confidence.”. According to ACT, out of 1.9

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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. 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 Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

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. The shelves were once full of materials about colleges and scholarships as well as other post-secondary options, but the school laid off the center’s staffer amid budget cuts in 2012.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

While further investigation is necessary to assess the specific affordances and long-term effects of GBL in higher education, this study offers preliminary support for the claim that GBL can improve deep learning in this setting, by increasing enjoyment. These results may have particular impact on non-traditional students.

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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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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. employment in 2015, according to the U.S. Such jobs made up 6.2 percent of all U.S. Not everyone loved them though.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

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. Teachers can modify and redistribute the materials without violating copyright laws. Pushes like the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

2015 PISA test scores for mathematics. Source: OECD, PISA 2015 Results (Volume I), page 177. Results from Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a test in reading, mathematics, and science administered every three years in about 70 countries by the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

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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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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. Each unit of study is centered on a common essential question in which we assess via a structured socratic method.

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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. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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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. It is worth noting that at the younger ages, there was also significant growth in their reading achievement as measures by interim assessments (running records).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

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. Students refine these skills based on goal-setting, ungraded feedback known as the formative assessment.

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. A decade of policy support for California’s new teachers: The beginning teacher support and assessment program. Postsecondary education descriptive analysis report. Report on new teacher induction. 33) Bartell, C.

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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

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In 2015 Sue received the Central NY Business Journal Not for Profit Excellence award and was invited to present on a panel at the first annual day of Making at the US Capitol in DC. He worked as a secondary educator before joining the Fayetteville Free Library in the summer of 2013.

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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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