The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

ACT’s researchers calculated that the number of test takers with an A average surpassed the number of B students after 2016. Today, A students make up a majority of ACT test takers, some of whom are not college bound and take the test as a required high school assessment. Something interesting is happening in 2016.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

Among the many exciting events at AASL National in Columbus was Scholastic’s release of the 2016 edition of School Libraries Work! . The new document collects the work of Carol Kuhlthau, Keith Curry Lance and Ross Todd, You’ll find new research from Colorado, South Carolina and Pennsylvania, highlights from 25 states and one province.

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Libraries Advocacy Analysis Assessment 40

Kathy Schrock

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Having worked on the 2000 version of the plan, I was anxious to read the document entitled "Future Ready Learning: Reimagining the Role of Technology in Education". There were no real surprises for me in the document, and I know of many schools who have already met many of the goals and recommendations outlined in the document.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 4, 2016

I am doing full day workshops on The Maker Educator both at ISTE 2016 and EduTECH in Australia. Discover, through this workshop, first, a process for reflecting on making through creating circuits and hacked toys, and second, through a self-assessment, the mindset characteristics of an educator who is embracing making education.

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Education Assessment Strategy Google 120

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Grade inflation accelerated after 2016 and intensified during the pandemic, as schools relaxed standards. Department of Education documented rising grades on high school transcripts between 2009 and 2019, while 12th grade math scores fell on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

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techieMusings

JUNE 10, 2016

For the third year in a row, 9th grade Human Geography students have engaged in a Megacity Project as their final cornerstone assessment for the course. Their final project is to document their research and findings in a Weebly website and PowToon PSA. See the projects here: Megacity Projects 2016.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2017

At the fall 2016 meeting of the League of Innovative Schools, a group of leaders convened to address these questions together. Peppler discussed her ongoing work to develop tools and rubrics for documenting and assessing learning in these environments. What does research have to say about maker learning?

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Learning Assessment Meeting Examples 144

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Assessment. Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” 2016, May). New Assessment Beliefs for a New School Mission, Phi Delta Kappan, p.22-27. 6, 2016, pp. Evaluation. Retrieved from [link]. [3]

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techieMusings

APRIL 19, 2016

Document-based lesson. Gallery walk” – view all of the documents that are posted on the walls and answer all of the guiding questions. Presentation: https://prezi.com/iafcotbl4hc9/naea-march-2016/. Web Tools: Digication – ePortfolio and Assessment Management Systems. Analyze — poetry.

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Flipped Classroom ePortfolio Groups Conference 50

techieMusings

APRIL 19, 2016

Document-based lesson. Gallery walk” – view all of the documents that are posted on the walls and answer all of the guiding questions. Presentation: https://prezi.com/iafcotbl4hc9/naea-march-2016/. Web Tools: Digication – ePortfolio and Assessment Management Systems. Analyze — poetry.

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Flipped Classroom ePortfolio Groups Conference 50

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Updated: February 5, 2016. Assessment. Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walk throughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms. Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments. 10 Tools for Assessment for Google Apps on the iPad.

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Google Resources Classroom Education 120

The Cornerstone for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Microsoft’s Tay was taken down after only a day on Twitter as other Twitter users taught it to be racist and xenophobic in March of 2016. Have documentation of your policy but also announce flexibility in your policy based on AI developments. ChatGPT) well. Consider your learning goals, standards, etc.

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Tools Classroom Libraries Assessment 120

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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Assessment Tools LMS Learning 60

The Electric Educator

JANUARY 13, 2016

Reverse Engineering Google Docs (free) - turns the revision history of a Google document into a playable video, identifying the individuals who contributed to the document. Formative - formative assessment tool that allows teachers to create next-generation asessment items, send them to students, and review results.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

With the addition of PBIS Rewards, Navigate360 is setting the new standard for whole-child safety through modern, holistic solutions that address school climate and culture, full-cycle emergency management, early detection, assessment and violence prevention—issues that all desperately require action in today’s schools.

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Software System Data Report 98

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Word Processing: Develop students’ proficiency using word processing programs and tools for online document creation, design, editing, collaboration and problem-solving. To learn more, please visit [link]. About Learning.com.

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Schoology Digital Citizenship Learning Libraries 93

Tom Murray

APRIL 22, 2016

Department of Education released the 2016 National Education Technology Plan (NETP). First released in 1996 and updated every five years since, the NETP is the flagship educational technology policy document for the United States. ConnectED Fellow, Zac Chase , from the U.S.

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Future Ready Technology Equity of Access Education 100

EdTechTeacher

JUNE 19, 2018

This blog post is rooted in Jo Boaler’s (2016) book Mathematical Mindsets : Unleashing Students’ POTENTIAL Through Creative Math, Inspiring Messages and INNOVATIVE TEACHING. Teach students to document patterns and appreciate the aesthetics, creativity, and beauty of the art of math. 1- Pictures. 1- Pictures.

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iPad Classroom Twitter Video 93

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Please feel free to comment if you believe I’ve missed a key document or piece of crucial information, or if you have a question regarding the context of a specific statement or document. In any case, do not be surprised if I periodically return to this post to update or add key facts and documents.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

history class, students are given a document-based question on John Locke’s Two Treatises of Civil Government (1690). Tier II support is the first layer of additional support when assessments indicate students need remediation of skills to become proficient, independent learners.) In a high school U.S. In the U.S.

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UDL Personalized Learning Chromebook Assessment 75

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

In 2012, Maine passed a law requiring that by 2018 all students would graduate with a proficiency-based diploma; the law then went through a major update in 2015-2016. Could we design a system that effectively and explicitly synchronizes the transcript document AND the diploma document?

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System Assessment Guidelines Meeting 96

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

More than a dozen studies have documented that students, on average, made sluggish progress in reading during the pandemic. For the same reasons that many low-income students struggled to learn remotely during the pandemic, it was also hard, if not impossible, for students to take an online assessment of their progress. In 2016, U.S.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

edWeb.net

JANUARY 7, 2021

Marks also clarified while implicit bias is currently a hot topic, it has been identified and studied by social scientists for more than half a century, so there are research studies and historical data that document how it works and why it is so pervasive. Defining Implicit Bias and Its Impact. Building Awareness and Taking Action.

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Training Professional Learning Assessment Groups 84

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Credit: Image provided by Made for Math Still, schools may be resistant to assessing math disabilities, or unaware of their prevalence.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2019

At this point, the achievement and opportunity gaps that children start school with are well-documented. The kindergarten readiness gap shows that African-American and Hispanic children are up to 18 months behind their white peers in literacy and math by the time they enter kindergarten.

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How To Learning Report Strategy 105

Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Google Document URL Tricks. A Visual Guide to Formative Assessment Tools. When you "Force a copy" of a Google document, the person following the link does not see the contents before making a copy. ?? See previous Best of posts from 2016 , from 2015 and from 2014 for more tips, tools, ideas, and resources. Emoji Prompts.

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iPhone iPad Social Media Google 49

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

On Saturday, I shared why I was not at ISTE 2016. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books.

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Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

On Saturday, I shared why I was not at ISTE 2016. We used three strategies to assess growth from fall to spring: Instructional walk trends, student engagement surveys, and digital student portfolios. At the younger ages, our assessment system is built so that students are seeing steady progress with benchmark books.

Elementary 40

Elementary Classroom Survey Assessment 40

eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

Herbert Ginsburg , who teaches a course at Teachers College for early childhood education students called The Development of Mathematical Thinking, says, “preschools (are) caught between a “false dichotomy” of structure, assessment-oriented lesson plans and free play.” As children develop, they follow well-documented sequences.

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Blended Learning Common Core Groups Policies 52

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2017

Our 1200+ students would begin the 2016-2017 school year armed with a fleet of shiny new Chromebooks. As a result, I started using technology almost daily in my classroom during student-centered activities, feedback, assessment, project based learning, communication, and presentations. Crippling fear consumed me: Fear of starting.

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Chromebook Technology How To Conference 101

eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2017

Unbeknownst to parents, all first-grade classes in a suburban Los Angeles elementary school were successfully taught by teacher robots during the 2015-2016 school year. “And they all passed their post-unit assessments.” Only one parent was in on the secret.

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Robotics Elementary Assessment Report 40

100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is. Give a written or verbal stimulus (problem, graph, document, song, movie abstract…) that leaves room for multiple interpretations and walk them through a discussion for the information it communicates.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Course 78

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

The new ClassFlow Marketplace is an open community where teachers may buy and sell original teaching resources such as digital lessons, unit plans, assessments, teaching guides, worksheets, and more. and will launch internationally by mid-August 2016. It’s a win-win.”. The new ClassFlow Marketplace is available now in the U.S.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2017

Question #3: What are your expectations for student to self-assess their work and publish it for a wider audience? John Hattie’s work indicates that self-assessment can have a significant impact on the quality of learning. Self-assessment with Prism could also be even more obvious. It’s also a skill that pops up throughout life.

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Future Ready Conference Assessment Video 93

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

As of spring 2016, the company has supported 100 districts nationally, representing 300 schools and 300K students. Some 95% of districts working with Education Elements last year are returning for ongoing support in the 2016-2017 school year. Plan and Align The work began in May 2015 with a diagnostic readiness assessment.

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Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

edWeb.net

AUGUST 14, 2019

Three key steps in the Challenge-Based Learning process are engaging students in thinking about key concepts and related questions, investigating the questions to solve problems and document the results, and then acting on the results in their classroom, school, or community. Emi Iwatani, Ph.D.,

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Learning EdTech Study Video 41

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2017

The alternative diploma, attained through the LEAP Alternate Assessment, Level 1 (LAA1) graduation pathway, allows students with severe disabilities to forgo typical academic expectations and requirements, and it doesn’t end with the high school diploma. I’m asking him to swim a river, though it might be upstream.”. Here’s why they’re not.

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Dropout Advocacy Outcomes Report 79