eSchool News

MAY 11, 2023

Each day, Geneva CUSD 304’s teachers, administrators, and staff seek to educate the nearly 5,500 students they serve within an environment that encourages the desire to learn and meets the unique academic, personal, physical, and social needs of each child.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In recent weeks, news outlets and social media have been filled with depressing stories about “declines” in student achievement, in both reading and math. These reported downturns were not observed in terms of student problem-solving or thought processes, but on standardized test scores. Students deserve the same.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

As CEO at FastBridge Learning, Soutor scaled the company over a four year period to $11M ARR at a 45% annual growth rate and delivering more than 25 million assessments to over 1.6 Soutor is an experienced C-suite leader and go-to-market strategist, skilled at building and growing education technology companies. Virgin Islands.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?” Follow on Social Media Twitter: @ lhollihanallen Website: [link] Books Strategies to Support Struggling Adolescent Readers , Grades 6-12 Wisconsin English Journal Reading Aloud to Older Students: Benefits and Tips [link] Wisconsin English Journal Decoding at the Secondary Level [link].

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

14-18, 2016 to provide an introduction to coding skills for elementary and middle school students. Schools are also encouraged to use #codeathon2016 on social media to share their progress and interact with other participants. 14-18, 2016. Schools can register for the Code-a-Thon from Oct. 4 to Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

Since then, scholars have been trying to figure out why their scores dropped so much between 2017 and 2019 on a highly regarded national test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. Perhaps reading posts on social media and clicking on article links in Google searches are useful types of reading too.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

In January 2016, the team collectively took a district self-assessment to gauge BWRSD’s digital learning readiness. We also engaged stakeholders across the entire district via assessment surveys conducted through the Future Ready Dashboard, then analyzed the results along each “gear” area, exploring our strengths and weaknesses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

In the county where Texas State University sits, for instance, more people have voted early this year than cast ballots in the county during the entire 2016 election cycle. “So Natalie Richardi, a junior at Chapman University, says seeing the political views of her friends and contacts on social media has been stressful. “I

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Thanks to the GEC Sponsors Social Media Amazing List of Currently Scheduled Sessions! Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Become a Partner Organization! We're Still Taking Proposals!

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

K-12 Cyber Incident Map: 8 School Districts Have Experienced Multiple Cyber Incidents Since 2016 , which reports on a trend that I’ve seen in tracking K-12 cyber incident reports: school districts suffering repeat cyber incidents, even in the short time I’ve been tracking the issue (since the start of 2016).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

“When we dug into the data, we noticed that a sizable percentage of kids were just missing the benchmark—they were one, two, three points below,” says Hope Langston, Northfield’s Director of Assessment Services. Because Minnesota state assessments are untimed, many Northfield kids had never taken a timed test prior to the ACT.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 16, 2017

Journal of Scholarship and Practice , Summer 2016/Volume 13. of Writing Pathways: Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions , by Lucy Calkins. ILASCD Summer Newsletter , Summer 2016, Volume 62, No. Publications Bullis B., Lubelfeld M. I Hear What You’re Saying.And I Respect You. In Publication : Bullis B., Lubelfeld M.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

In 2016, two books were published: The Reading Intervention Toolkit , by Shell Education and Read Talk Write: 35 Lessons That Teach Students to Analyze Fiction and Nonfiction , published by Corwin Literacy. I hope you enjoy it and look forward to hearing your feedback on social media.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Rekor Systems, for instance, recently announced the launch of OnGuard, a program that claims to “advance student safety” by implementing countless surveillance and “threat assessment” mechanisms in and around schools. Through the course of the program, about 600 accounts were investigated, resulting in the expulsion of 14 students.

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Reading By Example

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Here he writes about the importance of journalism in the era of the 24 hour news cycle and social media. To a deeper point, any teacher using an assessment should be able to tell you a) who it’s for and b) why it’s being used. Father Tom is the priest of the Catholic church our family used to attend.

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Graphite Blog

JUNE 3, 2019

We include books, blogs, and newsletters that cover a range of topics from social media and disinformation to Gamergate. When students write to do well on assessments, they use a soul-crushing paint-by-numbers approach. This formulaic writing might work for assessments, but doesn’t work for readers or writers.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2016

At a time when students are witnessing black adults and children being murdered on video and social media while pundits and online trolls lash out at black activists, it becomes even more important for our schools to be a safe place to have conversations about race and power.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Did you know more than 80% of internet and mobile audiences watched more live-videos in 2016 as compared to 2015, and streaming video accounts for more than two-thirds of all internet traffic and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020? Millennials are widely using live streaming feature on various social media platforms.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2018

A 2016 study of 3rd to 8th grade educators found that only 55% of teachers said they enjoy teaching writing. According to a 2016 study, only a third of third to eighth grade teachers have taken a college class specifically about how to teach writing. 7th Grade Informational Writing: How is social media used in times of crisis?

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 27, 2017

This is not only with technology, but also with classroom design, assessments, rethinking leadership, and a distinct focus on serving each child in a way that works for them, not necessarily from the adult.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Classroom Management in the Digital Age: Effective Practices for Technology-Rich Learning Spaces (2016) by Heather Dowd and Patrick Green Cross-posted from Learning Light Bulbs by Nate Gildart Get your own copy of Classroom Management in the Digital Age! Schools need to develop a when, where and how to protocol for printing.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. City Year Sacramento also created about 50 videos and social media posts to engage students.

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edWeb.net

MAY 22, 2019

Laptops, Chromebooks, iPads, and even cell phones are providing students with opportunities to access the internet for researching, communicating and social learning. Classroom teachers are embracing the technology as a means to provide immediate feedback, assess student understanding and interact with both parents and students.

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Insight Education Group

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

In South Carolina, for example, there were simply not enough qualified teachers to fill positions during the 2017–2018 school year: 6,700 South Carolina teachers left their positions after the 2016–2017 school year, with 4,900 leaving teaching altogether. University of Tennessee Value-Added Research and Assessment Center. Jacobson, L.

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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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Hack Education

APRIL 30, 2020

It's also an deeply uncomfortable time to be an American with any sort of subject matter expertise — it has been since well before the 2016 election, but particularly since then. That is, we are less likely to use ed-tech to rethink assignments or assessments than we are to use ed-tech more closely scrutinize student behavior.

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MindShift

JANUARY 13, 2018

At the start of the new year, parents may encourage their teens to detox from social media, increase exercise, or begin a volunteer project. According to the American Psychological Association , young adults now face greater social and economic challenges than did previous generations.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Hyper-stimulating media pervades their worlds, social media culture makes them feel inadequate, and existential pressures of economic, community and environmental decline hover over their futures. Nearpod seized an opportunity to help the classroom teacher deliver tailored lessons and assess learning in real time.

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IT Bill

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

mobile computing, mobile apps, social media, BYOD, mobile learning). According to the ECAR 2016 Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology , 96% of undergraduate students now own a smartphone. Such media can be submitted to an e-portfolio or blog (e.g. Tumblr ) for peer review or assessment of learning.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 12, 2020

From Zoom to Skype to Webinars and even live streaming on social media itself, video is perhaps the most visible and common form of technological innovation in K-12 and higher ed. MOOCs are great ideas, but assessment and feedback loops and certification are among the many issues holding them back. We shall see. An example?

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Last Updated September 2016. One of the winners of the 2016 EdTech Start-Up Pitch Fest , Books That Grow solves a big pain point for teachers using readings in the classroom: differentiation. Educators were early adopters of live video on social media. There's no shortage of apps for quizzing and formative assessment.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Educators are also encouraged to use #codeathon2018 on social media to share their school’s progress and interact with other Code-a-Thon participants.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2019

In September 2016, that all changed abruptly. And they underwrote the cost of intensive trainings for teachers to learn about instruction, social emotional learning and how to assess children’s progress. Smith couldn’t afford a curriculum, which can cost thousands of dollars. Her teachers did not have enough training.

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Learning in Hand

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Let's see what resonated on social media in 2017. A Visual Guide to Formative Assessment Tools. See previous Best of posts from 2016 , from 2015 and from 2014 for more tips, tools, ideas, and resources. I share helpful links for educators on Twitter and Facebook everyday. I also post graphics on Instagram each week.

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ProfHacker

JUNE 6, 2016

Harris, who worked as a designer at Google until 2016, is the founder of Time Well Spent , a design philosophy intended to change the ways companies and engineers use technology.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 25, 2016

Bozza, Executive Director of the NJASA will formally announce the partnership and program at the upcoming Techspo 2016 conference in Atlantic City, January 28-29. Social Media (pressures and responsible use). Dr. Richard G. Mental Health Issues. Bystander Intervention. Nutrition & Wellness. Stress Management.

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MindShift

JANUARY 3, 2017

So after a colleague she admired and teachers she followed on social media began extolling the learning advantages of letting go of control in the classroom, Riley decided to give it a try. “I — Kristine Riley (@MrsRileyGandT) November 19, 2016. “In — Kristine Riley (@MrsRileyGandT) October 18, 2016.

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