eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

[ Editor’s note: This story is Part 3 of our 3-part series on Lessons Learned in 2016. Educators made much of their learning opportunities in 2016, whether through professional development sessions, webinars, product demos, or even conferences. 2016 was a year of firsts for me as an educator.

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Waterford

DECEMBER 7, 2023

After evaluating a 2016 ETI study of Waterford Upstart , an early literacy program for PreK studies, the WWC designated it as meeting ESSA Tier 1 standards. Department of Education, evaluates and ranks early learning studies to provide educators with unbiased evaluations as they make decisions for their schools.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2015

Common Core. Lots of webinars are available on topics that range from Common Core to How to Set up Your Classroom. Common Core. Click here for more information (Next class: Summer, 2016). Subject-specific tools and information. The 21st Century classroom. Tech tools for the classroom. Keyboarding.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 10, 2016

The 18-page two-lesson plan bundle to blend your class into Martin Luther King Day January 18, 2016. Common Core and ISTE alignment. Every month, subscribers to Ask a Tech Teacher get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. This month: If you donate to my blog drive, I’ll send you FREE. Essential Question.

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Common Core EdTech Company Assessment 150

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In 2010, the Commonwealth ditched English and math standards that were a model for other states in favor of weaker national standards known as the Common Core. In the decade before the Common Core was implemented, Massachusetts NAEP reading scores rose by 0.25 Academic standards were the next to go. points each year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

2016 digital education survey. Changes in What Teachers Know and Do in the Common Core Era. With the flexibility afforded by a full suite of digital content, teachers have the freedom to assign students dynamic work tailored to their needs. Sources Consulted: Picking and choosing digital content. Here's what they said.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw attitudes toward math bottom out in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey. Request a demo of Levered's System.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

As principal at Chula Vista School District’s Salt Creek Elementary, Lalaine Perez saw the need to better support a growth mindset around math in the years following the transition to California’s new Common Core standards. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Mangum then took the floor to take the attendees back to 2016 and talked about the important edtech trends of that time. The Influence of Common Core and SBAC Testing Utah participated in the Common Core standards and was an SBAC state for online testing.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

All students in the district take Common Core Math 6, 7 and 8. By contrast, the first group of students who took Common Core Math 8 in eighth grade and Algebra 1 for the first time in ninth grade (and who graduated earlier this year) had an Algebra 1 repeat rate of 8 percent. Related: COLUMN: The U.S. Alan Schoenfeld is

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MiddleWeb

APRIL 22, 2015

Articles Media Literacy 2016 Election Common Core Frank Baker media and politics media literacy polioptics political advertising political literacy political stagecraft presidential politics social students visual literacy' As the "polioptic" presidential race begins, Baker shares insights and lesson ideas.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

In addition to this legislation reform, the Common Core State Standards had been adopted as the Mississippi College and Career Readiness Standards in 2010. These were being phased in by grade with the expectation of statewide implementation during the 2015-2016 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2017

I don’t like to be alarmist, or give too much weight to any one test result, but last week’s release of 2016 reading test scores around the world is now the third major proof point that something is awry. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. Is the U.S. educational system beginning to decay? See adjacent table.).

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Educator Innovator

MARCH 4, 2016

Deadline: March 29, 2016. “As teachers know, the persuasive essay has long been a staple of high school education, but the Common Core standards seem to have put evidence-based argumentative writing on everybody’s agenda. You couldn’t ask for a more real-world example of the genre than the classic newspaper editorial.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Indeed, in 2016, the U.S. In national surveys of opt-out activists (conducted with Nancy Green Saraisky) in 2016 and 2018, we found concerns that go beyond the narrow features of standardized testing itself. Other states have also experienced high rates of opting out.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Contact Steve Hargadon (steve@hargadon.com) about opportunities to get involved with our community. See our other sponsors, supporters, and partners on the conference website. Barrios, Ed.D.;

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

curriculum market shifted towards purchasing materials aligned materials to Common Core and state academic standards, the organization began building new offerings based on these U.S. According to the nonprofit’s most recently available 990 form , the organization took a net loss of $4 million in fiscal year 2016 (ending on Aug.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In her July 2016 account , former librarian Mary Moen witnessed a computer science training for school librarians where Klimczak encouraged teachers to think about how the five-stage story structure is right there in computer science instruction. Rather, coding instruction should be about teaching how to write a story. The initiative?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

BHP’s writing rubric is aligned with the Common Core and the writing approach is aligned to the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework for Social Studies State Standards dimensions of inquiry. The 2016-17 assessment results show strong growth over the year among high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Technology use is increasing, with 4 out of 5 teachers saying they will use classroom technology more frequently during the 2015-2016 school year, according to a survey from Front Row Education, a company that provides adaptive, gamified and data driven education programs.

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wwwatanabe

JULY 2, 2016

Importance of Global Collaborations Common Core State Standards demand students to collaborate with diverse partners , thereby expanding students' global awareness. New 2016 ISTE Standards for Students I recently attended the ISTE Conference in Denver, where they unveiled the 2016 ISTE Standards for Students.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

We'll be adding more of these pages in 2016. I've heard so many tech coordinators swoon when talking about how much they love Graphite's Common Core Explorer , which lets you search for tools by Common Core standard. Be on the lookout for our Next Generation Science Standards Explorer in 2016.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2016

They’re words that show up on assessments and standardized tests, most notably the Common Core, with which much of the game aligns. According to its Q1 2016 earnings sheet , bookings—customer commitments—totaled $182 million, up eight percent from the previous year. You can find a trailer for the app here.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 14, 2017

Your class will be covering all types of common core standards. The Genius hour and 20% time projects cover multiple common cores standards. This work often carries back to their homes where parents/guardians share their passion for learning beyond the school walls.

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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. People drafted horror stories using Shelley , “the world’s first collaborative AI Horror Writer” in 2016 which has since gone defunct.

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Tools Classroom Libraries Assessment 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

studied civics in the fall of 2016, they began by exploring a nearby park in Pontiac. Part of the appeal of project-based learning is the perception that there’s more freedom, a welcome antidote to the pressures of test prep and meeting Common Core standards. Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2019

The Common Core, in part a response to the poor quality of writing nationwide, pushes length and text complexity. In one specific example, high school students across the city did not know what the conjunctions “because,” “but” and “so” are meant to signal.

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Common Core Strategy Knowledge Base Assessment 109

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Northfield’s class of 2016, it turns out, reflects a distressing reality in the US: kids are much slower, less efficient readers than they used to be. The standards changed to Common Core in 2013 and our middle school had pretty lackluster results in reading with the adoption of more rigorous standards,” says Langston. “We

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Survey Common Core Study Assessment 117

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Lesley Farmer, Professor of Library Media 6:00pm Creative Use of QR Codes to Support Global Educational Partnerships - Dr. Susan Jacques Pierson Associate Professor of Education Globalizing the English Common Core Reading Materials - Ashley Gwinn Master Teacher and Curriculum Specialist Increasing Global Competence in K-12 Education - Ann C.

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MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

The very first Standard for Mathematical Practice in the common core speaks of helping students be able to "make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.". At MIND, we talk a lot about perseverance and growth mindset when it comes to problem-solving and mathematical success.

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Common Core Analysis Study STEM 72

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 29, 2016

“As of the date of this letter [August 16, 2016], DRC has delivered no ISRs,” the letter says of the individual student test results. Million From Common-Core Group Over Testing Mishaps. Assessment results that were due in July and August are now scheduled to arrive on Sept. 10 for Smarter Balanced.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2016

Even though Ramirez is only in second grade, she’s already learning skills that hopefully will come in handy when she starts taking New York’s Common Core-aligned assessment tests next year. Gundersen is on one side of a sharp divide within the special education community that the Common Core has brought to the fore.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

According to 5th grade scores on the 2015-2016 PARCC (a Common Core-aligned test similar to SmarterBalanced), students of all racial backgrounds have experienced a significant rise in English language arts proficiency since the school went blended, especially when compared to state averages. Hispanic/Latino 42.1%

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 12, 2015

Educators today are facing two major shifts in education–a move to the Common Core Standards and increasing pressure to teach students with the technology they’ll be expected to use in their lives beyond high school. Real-time editing with Google docs. Creating dynamic digital stories with mobile devices.

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Common Core Technology Google Mobility 150

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. Benefits for students—and teachers.

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