The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. Jennifer gives you a description in simple language, a screenshot of the tool in action and then a play button that takes you to a video about how the tool works. Stream by clicking here.

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MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

Often, their intelligence masks their disability, so they are never assessed for special education or don’t receive the services best suited for them. And in New York state, lawmakers introduced bills in 2017 that would require teacher training about twice exceptionality and programming for twice exceptional students.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

After a baseline assessment identifies strengths and weaknesses, there should be explicit and systematic instruction, with metrics used to monitor progress and inform teaching. In July of 2017, Dr. Simpson was appointed Deputy Superintendent for the Division of School Leadership and Improvement for Clayton County Public Schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. How to Get Buy-in For Transformational Change from Teachers. So, that’s kind of cool.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Creger was showing the students how to read by using phonics, which teaches children the relationships between letters and sounds. The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) showed one-third of fourth graders in the state performing below the basic reading level in 2019. Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Once a technology plan is adopted, superintendents needs to make sure all constituents have a laser focus on implementing it as developed, evaluating successes and failures, and then discussing how to move forward. Instead of isolated lessons, students learn how to connect their studies with real-world problems.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

TechSoup for Libraries is a free national library online information resource that covers library technology news, how-to content and information on TechSoup product donations and services for libraries. Jennifer is passionate about community building and how the public library can be central to a thriving community.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

While some students remain unconnected, Oakland’s effort has emerged as an example of how to tackle a citywide digital divide. “We It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. The homework gap isn’t new.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

TechSoup for Libraries is a free national library online information resource that covers library technology news, how-to content and information on TechSoup product donations and services for libraries. Jennifer is passionate about community building and how the public library can be central to a thriving community.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The 2017 Tubbs Fire caused evacuations and killed more than 20 people in the county. We’re still learning how to fly as we’re flying,” he said. “We One big step forward would be universal broadband access, said Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy with the nonprofit KnowledgeWorks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

TechSoup for Libraries is a free national library online information resource that covers library technology news, how-to content and information on TechSoup product donations and services for libraries. Jennifer is passionate about community building and how the public library can be central to a thriving community.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

TechSoup for Libraries is a free national library online information resource that covers library technology news, how-to content and information on TechSoup product donations and services for libraries. Jennifer is passionate about community building and how the public library can be central to a thriving community.

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Educator Innovator

JUNE 29, 2017

Research the chosen issue and decide how to change or improve the situation. Plan an action, including determining a goal for change; identifying who or what body in the community has power to make the change; and deciding how to approach that person or those people. Have students work in small groups to create draft surveys.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. Mary Nadeau, principal of Nokomis High School in Newport, poses for a photo in a hallway of the school on Friday, June 2, 2017. Elderkin says she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Except, after a year and a half of using this hand-picked program, Robert had to admit the truth: His students just weren’t learning how to read.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

To support that effort, Prescott brought on Cara Brown, a licensed independent social worker, in July 2017. And that’s incredibly important when we’re thinking about how to retain teachers, and not only how to retain staff at all, but also retain quality staff.”.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

And yet, there are proven ways to teach people with dyslexia how to read that are not new or controversial. “I remember her saying, like, ‘See if you can teach this kid how to spell these words.’ Scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress showed most students were not reading proficiently.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. Monday, September 4, 2017. 1 – Give students options about how to answer the question. You know, the advocacy is not lost on them. You know, make it a two-way street.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. announced the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Facebook has not been one of them since 2017, but the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has full access to the Summit Learning platform’s content and traffic data. Since 2017, Summit has revised its middle and high school curriculum and teachers routinely say it’s high-quality. But at Rhodes, Christie doesn’t hear complaints like that.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2022

Nathaniel Wylie, who is trained in therapeutic crisis intervention, works with students participating in an aggression replacement group therapy session on how to recognize and control anger and other behaviors that landed them on long-term suspension. No answer, no gesture was too small to merit thanks.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The NEO mobile app for Windows allows users to access the full feature set within the platform including creating and delivering online classes, assessing students, sharing resources, tracking student achievement, and collaborating on projects. Registration for the course began November 1, 2017. exclusively through FuelEd.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Whether working with an OPM will drive up the price of a degree program for students is one of the many factors universities consider when assessing whether to enter into an agreement with one of these companies, said Deborah Seymour, owner and principal at Higher Education Innovation Consulting, LLC. “No

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

I mean, 2017 really sucked, and we’re all feeling it. For its part, Edsurge pushed hard with its marketing of SEL in 2017: “ Want Social-Emotional Learning to Work? ” “ Assessing Social-Emotional Skills Can Be Fuzzy Work; SELweb Offers Concrete Data.” The Careful Balance of Tech and Relationships.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2016

“It’s disheartening to families, and it fosters the ‘check mentality,’ ” said Carrie Guiden, executive director of The Arc of Tennessee, a nonprofit disability advocacy group, referring to government checks. Officials would not say whether the state would again fail to match and thus lose federal funds in 2017. More advocacy.”.

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

assessment banks, assignments, online homework tools).) How many courses are offered at an average institution, anyway? As of 2017, the Linux operating system: ran 82 percent of the world’s smartphones, had 99 percent of the supercomputer market share, ran 90 percent of the public cloud workload, and. Let’s keep chasing this.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Curt Coy, who was the VA’s deputy under secretary for economic opportunity from 2011 until his retirement in late 2017, said it was hard to find resources for veterans’ educational issues. Financial challenges have also curtailed training in such areas as how to authorize and track the flow of GI Bill dollars.

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Kathy Schrock

AUGUST 1, 2019

The focus of that post was how to create an infographic to use for advocacy or promotion. I have included infographics in many of my Kathy’s Katch blog posts, but, in my series of posts “Literacies for the digital age”, I again targeted the use of infographics as a summative or formative assessment in the Data Literacy post in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

State and federal education leaders have feted Mississippi’s four-year stretch of improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. She resorted to an English major and returned to Holmes County in the summer of 2017 with her bachelor’s degree. Mississippi ranked No. She suggested they draft a student bill of rights.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

I think it is worthwhile, as the decade draws to a close, to review those stories and to see how much (or how little) things have changed. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” ” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. ” You are a fool.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2019

And in the summer of 2017, Taheem’s 16-year-old sister, Naveha Gibbs, was shot and killed in a city a 20-minute drive to the north. She taught him how to help himself when he’s feeling overwhelmed with sadness or rage. Earlier this year, Taheem witnessed a shooting as he was walking to school. Sign up for our newsletter. Weekly Update.

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