A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

Student engagement that leads to actual learning is the goal of any pedagogically sound lesson. What do the students think while in class? What are students interested in now？ How do I know if they are actually learning? For readers of A Principal's Reflections the trial is free until 3/31/2016 by using a special code.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

It also found that high achieving students who won a seat in a lottery to attend a popular magnet school did better in science but not in math or English compared to similar students who lost the lottery.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As of fall 2022, Stony Brook is one of 33 higher ed institutions where students can apply for money through a local FAST Fund to help cover an education expense or address a basic life need. About 80 percent of the students served that year were African American.

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Edthena

APRIL 28, 2022

In particular, teachers want to know: Do my explanations make sense to students? Are even reluctant students engaged and catching on? Are all students feeling that they are part of the class and involved in something meaningful? Teachers want feedback from their students in their classes.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

YoungMoo Kim, director of the ExCITe Center at Drexel University , connected with the EdClusters network in 2016 and has begun to use the model as a guide for fostering deep education innovation partnerships within the city. Philadelphia is at the initial stages of this work. The Village is able to do the work it does through partnerships.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2017

An early stage education technology company, Cignition, is attempting to break that trend through a summer program that keeps students engaged in mathematics through their online virtual world Fog Stone Isle. According to a newsletter from the Harvard Graduate School of Education [2], on average, students lose 2.6 References. [1]

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EdNews Daily

MAY 31, 2016

million, on the heels of their official market launch and initial game release due June 1st, 2016, raising the total investment to nearly $2 million. We passionately believe that tool can provide authentic and engaging experiences for students and educators. Triseum announces new funding round of $1.43

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

And yet just 62 percent of college students report having ever visited their institutions’ career centers or used their affiliated online tools, according to a 2017 Gallup survey. But some leaders of client universities have previously reported significantly improved levels of student engagement with campus career resources.

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eSchool News

JULY 26, 2016

A large majority of K-12 teachers said they would like to integrate virtual reality in their classrooms, but just 2 percent of teachers have actually done so, according to a survey. The study was released at ISTE 2016 in late June. The survey of more than 1,000 U.S. Next page: Additional survey findings.

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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. From a survey of 92 sixth, seventh and eighth grade teachers from two large urban schools in the U.S. Students were able to choose different books to taste and were excited about writing responses. It’s uncomfortable.”

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Rocking the CAASPP Both schools have since experienced outstanding increases in their California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Rocking the CAASPP Both schools have since experienced outstanding increases in their California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2017

But the vast majority (37 out of the 39) faculty members responding to the survey reported that online courses take “more time or much more time” to teach. Musselman says in some ways, student engagement in his online course was “more robust” than when he teaches in person.

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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Even back then, I was not alone in finding my footing – according to a 2016 Digital Educational Survey , almost half of classrooms were using a digital device every day. On this Digital Learning Day, I look back with a smile at the growing pains as well as the growth in student engagement and outcomes.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

AUGUST 8, 2019

A four-year university-wide study conducted by Florida Virtual Campus reports that 70% of the respondents surveyed said that they had spent at least $300 on textbooks in the year 2016. They also make it possible for teachers to customize student learning and pick and choose the best content for each subject matter.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

The main finding is that four years after Maine’s proficiency law was enacted, a majority of students in the 11 rural high schools in the study didn’t experience many elements of a proficiency-based education. Half the students were somewhere in between low to medium exposure.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Teachers Can More Effectively Collaborate With One Another When it started in 2016, many teachers saw the Personalized Learning Initiative as just one more initiative. Such changes in approaches in individual classrooms have ripple effects in school culture—student engagement ignites and student ownership of learning expands.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2017

During the 2016–17 school year, 175 teachers across six school districts helped fine-tune the curriculum as part of a yearlong beta release. Students were constantly talking about math, using precise language, and constructing mathematically sound arguments.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

In 2016 ProPublica reported that 236 schools in New York City required students to go through some sort of scanner to enter schools. In Los Angeles , all public high school students have grown up with metal detectors and random searches when entering school buildings. The bus drops Blaine and his classmates off at 8:30 am.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

On Saturday, I shared why I was not at ISTE 2016. That post included our school’s limited progress in embedding technology into instruction that made an impact on student learning. In this post, I share how digital student portfolios did make a possible difference. The reading engagement survey results were messy.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 27, 2016

On Saturday, I shared why I was not at ISTE 2016. That post included our school’s limited progress in embedding technology into instruction that made an impact on student learning. In this post, I share how digital student portfolios did make a possible difference. The reading engagement survey results were messy.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2016

The findings come from an analysis of three years of data from AdvancED’s learning observation environments observation tool, eleot, which measures and quantifies active student engagement through learner-centric classroom observations, to determine how extensively technology is being used to engage students in learning.

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EdTechTeam

JUNE 21, 2017

The 2016-2017 school year is officially over for us! For weeks we’ve been fighting the “fidget spinner battle” and that combined with trying to keep students engaged during the last week of school got our wheels turning. The students also needed to create a survey to track their argument. with statistics in mind.

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edWeb.net

MAY 22, 2019

All the cell phone usage research and the study done by Pierce City sixth graders substantiates that students engage in more off-task behavior, have higher concentration and focus issues, and that there is the potential to cause detrimental physical and mental health issues. The Solutions.

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Gaggle Speaks

MARCH 1, 2016

Posted on March 1, 2016 by Jessica Sanders. While personalized learning, in which students engage with educational content based on their needs and preferences, can be integrated into any classroom, with or without technology, here’s a three-step plan for implementing personalized learning with technology by your side.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

Students worked on documentaries about race and diversity and a Nobel Prize–winning poet, conducted science experiments, and designed things like a new food waste disposal system for the campus and a low-cost hand prosthetic. 2 Those activities often end up being the most rewarding parts of college. He lives in New York.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

In a 2018 survey , the majority of school districts either have 1:1 as a current goal or have already achieved it. Her work in blended learning, student engagement, and social media has been featured by EdWeek, NBC News’s Education Nation, Instructor Magazine, Intel, ISTE, ASCD, Tech & Learning and the NEA.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

There has been a significant and steady drop nationwide in the proportion of high school graduates enrolling in college in the fall after they finish high school — from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 63 percent in 2020, the most recent year for which the figure is available, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Current implementation efforts While more than 80 percent of schools offer at least one type of tutoring in the 2022-23 school year, the modes and student participation levels vary. While the most recently administered survey defines high-dosage tutoring, it fails to state that this form of tutoring must occur during the school day.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 24, 2015

This is a follow up to a previous post about our school’s collective efforts to increase student engagement in reading, especially in their dispositions around talking about and sharing their reading lives. “Hey, I have a quote for you.” This was found in both teachers’ self-ratings and in my own observations.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 29, 2017

Between 2014-2016 the University of South Australia has been using the pedagogy associated with both playing and designing LBMLGs to blaze a trail that is informing the development of a contextually-based mobile learning framework for higher education. Professor Thomas Maak, Professor in Responsible Leadership, University of South Australia.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2016

Department of Education has increasingly encouraged and funded states to collect and analyze information about students: grades, state test scores, attendance, behavior, lateness, graduation rates and school climate measures like surveys of student engagement. Copyright 2016 NPR. Should they have access to it?

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

And the effect was particularly noticeable in students from low socioeconomic status (SES) homes, who are more at risk for unhealthy stress levels.[8]. Exposure to art in early grades is directly linked to student engagement , as well as school readiness skills for low SES students.[4,7] and Muniz, J. ScienceDaily Staff.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

Student engagement suffered. Over time, the need to quickly adapt led to heightened online student engagement, according to a CatchOn survey of 47 school districts from January 2020 to January 2021. Logged On but Logged Out: Are Students Engaged?

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Excerpted from “ Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement ” by Heather Wolpert-Gawron. From “Just Ask Us: Kids Speak Out on Student Engagement” by Heather Wolpert-Gawron. Want to know how to engage students, enthuse them, and bring out their best effort? Tasks to perform.

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Kathy Schrock

OCTOBER 1, 2016

Come learn more about Discovery Education and from great teachers who will share their info, tips, and resources at the Discovery Education Fall VirtCon 2016, Discovery Education in Action, to be held online on October 22, 2016 from 9 AM – 1 PM ET. Here is one sample survey which has students evaluating teacher performance.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

A 2016 study of 500 college students nationwide showed high expectations of interactivity. “It has become part of the recruiting pitch in a highly competitive environment.”. If you, as a college instructor or administrator, don’t want to adopt digital learning tools, you need to retire.

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