Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Here are EdSurge’s top stories of 2017 in chronological order—a healthy dose of optimism and skepticism, words of encouragement and caution for the year ahead. Goodbye ABCs: How One State Is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments What happens when you take away grades and grade levels?

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2021

That was the thinking behind Along , a free digital reflection tool developed by the nonprofit Gradient Learning and the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative and announced yesterday at the 2021 annual conference of ISTE, the International Society for Technology in Education, which is EdSurge’s parent organization.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Teaching Writing in Small Groups A Teacher's Guide to Reading Conferences. 2023), TEACHING WRITING IN SMALL GROUPS (March 2021), A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO READING CONFERENCES (2019), and UNDERSTANDING TEXTS AND READERS (2018). Jennifer's Podcast: To the Classroom Conversations with Researchers and Educators. Book and the 2.0

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

You’re an elementary teacher right? We finished our assessment last week, and then this week was all about STAR testing. And I’m not sure what kind of assessment you have in the south, but we have STAR tests, some people had NWEA. Student-led parent-teacher conferences. Everybody leaves the conference feeling amazing.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. I started this program in the summer of 2017. Jody: We started in August of this year, so August 2017.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Currently, Monica serves four elementary schools in her district. To conclude the lesson, teachers can assign formative assessments. These assessments can be individual or group reviews depending on the type of feedback needed for future learning. . a $7000 grant for Farm2Table: A Service Learning Project in 2017.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2017

What if we could empower our teachers to turn student assessment into a process of learning instead of a focus on measurement? Depending on how you view the purpose and management of student assessment, this innovative process may seem counterintuitive at first—but it has led to dramatic gains in their students’ understanding.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Leslie Swanson-Anaya @InspiredLeslie elementary teacher of the year for Texas region 15 has ideas for awesome technology stations. Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. Friday, September 8, 2017. Enhanced Transcript.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2022

CHARLOTTE, NC —Texas’ Corpus Christi Independent School District (CCISD) today announced it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education , which has supported student learning across the school system since 2017. Editable ready-to-use worksheets and assessments are also available in both English and Spanish.

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Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 30, 2018

One of the hardest things about my role is that I am often asked to speak at other schools and educational conferences but my fellow educators in the school I've been at for 15 years push back the hardest. She was just an elementary computer teacher?" "How My insecurities imagine what they say "Who is she?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

She served on the leadership team for the EdTech Coaches Network of ISTE from 2015-2020, was a Future Ready Schools Instructional Coaches Thought Leader from 2017-2020, is a cohost of the Restart Recharge Podcast for coaches, and is a Google Certified Innovator, Coach, and Trainer. Head to Lumio for more information and to sign up for FREE.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. Brook Avenue Elem (@BrookAveElem) August 19, 2017. Pedrotti took over as principal of Brook Avenue Elementary School in January of 2016, and Torres joined her that April.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Quickly create assessments for any grade or subject without special forms or equipment. Tuesday, October 24, 2017. Mrs Morgado (@MrsMorgado1) October 20, 2017. Vickie has been an elementary educator in Ontario, Canada for 16 years. Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam can save you time! Enhanced Transcript. We can all do this!

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

I saw the title of this article, “ Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Becoming Obsolete? I was expecting the article to talk about moving away from the “traditional parent conference” (sitting around for 10-20 minutes talking about a child’s experience in school) to something more student-led.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. It can even be done in the elementary curriculum. Kristen: Oh, I agree 100%. Kristen Mattson, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

We have developed a learning analytics platform that integrates data from across Fresno’s systems—from student information system data to school climate surveys to state assessments—with app usage data into a common data model. Just one example of this is a teacher at Hidalgo Elementary School, who last spring put the PLI ideas into practice.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Melissa is dual certified in Elementary Education and Special Education.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Welcome to the Future!

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Date: Thursday, December 7, 2017. I know I was in Dubai recently at the EduTEch Conference with my students. Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. Enrique: I recently went to the Serious Play Conference. For guests and hyperlinks to resources, scroll down.

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techlearning

JUNE 15, 2018

The foundation students get in the early elementary years often determines the entire course of their academic lives,” said MobyMax co-founder Glynn Willett. Products were judged on multiple criteria, including pre-literacy and numeracy content, assessment, and reporting, all of which are highlights of the stellar Moby Suite.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. Once you’ve defined your first program, the next step should be to assess technology infrastructure.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Wednesday, October 11, 2017. For guests and hyperlinks to resources, scroll down. Enhanced Transcript.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

Formative assessment is key. Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools is a helpful article that I wrote for Edutopia. Also see Better Teaching and Learning with Formative Assessment from Advancement Courses. Edpuzzle adds formative assessment and shows us the percentage of the video watched by students.

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Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2019

In Shane Safir’s book The Listening Leader , she describes three sets of data that educators can look to when assessing their school’s journey toward a collective capacity for achieving equity (p. Below is how the groups compared from 2015-2016 to 2017-2018. (F/R This monitoring requires data. This is satellite data.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning?

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments. Assessments look far different than 10-15 years ago, but it’s not just the switch to computerized testing.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

EdClusters leveraged an updated development rubric to assess their maturity and strategize next steps for moving ahead in four key areas: Stakeholder Engagement; Supportive Infrastructure; Compelling Communications; and. Equity, he said, needs to not just be one panel in a conference, but it “needs to be part of every conversation.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Dr. Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. However, his formative assessments have a twist — students are all answering DIFFERENT math questions. Masterful Math: Randomizing Formative Math Assessment. We created Assessment Items.

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edWeb.net

MAY 23, 2019

Educators need to think about what elements are impacting a student’s ability to learn when they’re examining assignments and assessments. For instance, if a student is stressed while taking an assessment, it can affect the results. Context: The context of a student’s home and learning environment matter too.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

As I reflect on the upcoming 2016-2017 school year, I wonder how this negativity has affected my own 5th grade reading classroom. I had one-on-one conferences with each student to discuss their book choices, and to encourage them to challenge and push themselves to have high expectations, yet still enjoy the books they chose.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district. The Martin Luther King Jr.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

published by ISTE in 2013), Learning First, Technology Second (published by ISTE in 2017). Liz has done consulting work and has been a featured and keynote speaker at conferences all over the United States and Canada. Liz is currently co-chairing an auxiliary committee for the U.S. Her blog is at [link]. Transcript for this episode.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Thompson was happily retired after 46 years as an educator when she saw a television news conference last summer that changed her life. Related: How one Mississippi elementary school improved to an A rating. percent were proficient in math based on assessments for grades three through eight. Hymethia W.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

This is one of many multisensory activities Welch uses in her reading intervention class, a 30-minute pull-out session that meets daily at the elementary school. Frequent assessments can identify kids who are behind and make sure educators target resources and deliver interventions during the school day to the kids who most need help.

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I have found that menus and choice boards tend to be more popular among elementary teachers, but I used them in my middle school classroom, and now I use them in professional learning workshops with adults. Amber and Melinda are both elementary school principals. © Shake Up Learning 2017. Check out my Pinterest board for ideas.

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