Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2021

What is surprising is that many teacher programs don’t prepare their graduates well for the rigors of using technology to meet current educational requirements. There is an increased movement towards personalizing the educational experience, practiced with student agency and choice on assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 11, 2017

In this file photo, a student at a Mississippi elementary school reads during class. Although Governor Phil Bryant is considering taking over Jackson Public Schools, which has struggled to improve student achievement and meet accreditation standards, there are bright spots in the district. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Jennifer Burgin (@ MrsJBurgin ) teaches amazing 2nd graders at Oakridge Elementary in Arlington, Virginia. Fantastic Formative Assessment Tools ( https://www.edutopia.org/blog/5-fast-formative-assessment-tools-vicki-davis ). Jennifer Burgin teaches the most amazing 2nd graders at Oakridge Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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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. Students also needed support when it came to the end of year state assessments. “We The following year, Ruiz did the same.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2023

Amy Lower , an experienced teacher at Stinson Elementary, Northwest Local Schools, Ohio, enthusiastically shares her experience with this tool, after seeing her fifth grade ELA students become co-creators of their learning experience. Educators know that engaged students learn more, as evidenced in this 2017 Gallup Poll.

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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. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Teacher Yasmin Kudrolli sat on a low chair and lit a candle to start the morning meeting in her prekindergarten classroom in Oakland. billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. OAKLAND, Calif. The plan is that the $2.7 The bill Gov.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

That’s a lot of progress over the last five years; in 2017, when Hayes took over as superintendent, Piedmont students ranked 35th in math proficiency. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. Piedmont Elementary School Principal Brigett Stewart and Piedmont Middle School Principal Chris Hanson on Aug.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. Melissa Knapp, the literacy coach for Harpeth Valley Elementary School, answers a first grade student’s question. Third graders must now pass the Tennessee Comprehensive Assessment Program, or TCAP, at the end of the year to avoid repeating third grade.

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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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edWeb.net

JUNE 11, 2019

Whether you are a first-year teacher or a veteran teacher, classroom and system-wide assessments can be a time of high anxiety and stress for everyone involved. in School Counseling Program, Freed-Hardeman University, TN, lays out strategies and ground rules for what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to assessments.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

To quote Tom Loveless, former director of the Brown Center on Education Policy at the Brookings Institution, in most states the Proficient label is “significantly above” what most state policymakers and assessments deem as ‘grade level,’ and the more accurate NAEP proficiency level for most states would be closer to Basic.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2021

In her remarks, Chan mentioned Nottingham Elementary School , which closed for nearly four weeks after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, but invested in mental wellness and belonging in its recovery, and later saw test scores rise. It’s not always an easy task to develop a successful digital tool that aids social-emotional growth.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Mejía and her husband, Spanish-speaking immigrants from the Dominican Republic, only later learned that Joangel, now 7, would have been an ideal candidate for one of the four elementary schools in Boston that teach students in both English and Spanish, Joangel’s first language.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

During the second takeover in June 2017, the South Carolina superintendent declared a “state of emergency” in education. May Community Meeting. performing formative assessments. The curriculum, instruction, and assessment all had to be aligned. Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. LINDSAY, Calif. — This story also appeared in The Fresno Bee. Ushering in a new model.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

These 10 companies are hiring teachers over the summer 2017: Back to Basics Learning Dynamics is hiring experienced, accomplished tutors, teachers, translators, interpreters, and education specialists in Delaware. ESL / ELL Tutors (elementary through high school, all three counties). Some of these jobs are remote, too.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Schedule a meeting with each family as early as possible in the school year to discuss their hopes for their child’s education and how they would like to be involved in school. Journal of Counseling & Development, April 2017, 95(2), pp. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. Innovative teaching, as Zhu et al (2013) confirm, “is a necessity for all teachers in order to meet the educational needs of the new generations.” Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Joanna is an elementary teacher and Matt is a songwriter from Las Vegas. Tuesday, October 17, 2017. And at the end of the day, sometimes I really can’t find things that meet our needs. I guess that just has to be part of it in the elementary grades? Their 7 Continents song has almost 300K views. Listen Now.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. Often, their intelligence masks their disability, so they are never assessed for special education or don’t receive the services best suited for them.

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eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2016

Openly licensed educational resources are free online learning materials that can be used for teaching, learning and assessing students’ knowledge. The bill will phase in clearinghouse courses over two phases, with the first phase beginning in the 2017-18 school year. Pushes like the U.S. image via AP ].

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Today, A students make up a majority of ACT test takers, some of whom are not college bound and take the test as a required high school assessment. Just as ACT scores declined, so did 12th grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a national achievement test. As grades rose, achievement fell.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

We incorporated our company in Delaware, held meetings as a board and divvied up shares. The CEO of a tech company doesn’t address the whole company to solve every problem, so I ditched whole group instruction in favor of the station rotation blended learning model in order to meet the needs of all of my learners.

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Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 30, 2018

She was just an elementary computer teacher?" "How Explaining the analytics data of digital testing inside Canvas and how it can benefit or students and teachers when creating assessments. I feel fatigued from having to defend educational technology which is always odd to me that this has become part of who I am.

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techlearning

MARCH 13, 2018

CSUSA assessed students’ reading abilities in the fall, winter and spring using the computer-administered, adaptive screening tool, NWEA™ MAP®. We look forward to using the findings from this research to motivate 100 percent of our students to meet their usage targets!” “We

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Her books and resources are used around the world: THE WRITING STRATEGIES BOOK (2017) and THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK (1st edition) (2015) have been translated into French, Chinese, and Spanish. How is that going to meet the needs of every kid in my class? You need different strategies to meet kids where they are.

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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. I think this is an important shift that needs to be made, especially in elementary classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

A prominent anti-vaccine campaigner, Heckenlively made world news in 2017 when he was denied entry to Australia for a lecture tour to encourage parents to stop vaccinating their children, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Related: Will new standards improve elementary science education? “We Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Yet inflexibility is a hallmark of our current education system, apparent in our failure to meet the diverse learning needs of all our children. For example, we introduced nonverbal cognitive assessments to measure intellectual aptitude among all second graders.

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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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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

How does a fifth grader feel getting ready to do a live edtech demo at their local school board meeting? At last February’s Board meeting, 10-year old Ryan inspired the adults in the room to see how tech can be leveraged for learning in a whole new light.

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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. Jessica Torres.

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techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

Data from the 2017-18 school year demonstrates that CPS students using Achieve3000 are experiencing accelerated growth. In August 2017, fewer than one percent of students using the program were “meeting or exceeding” and 6.1 percent were “approaching” college and career readiness.

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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. We finally got a chance to meet in person and present together at ISTE this year. She’s just a wonderful a global educator, and it was wonderful to meet her in person! Enhanced Transcript.

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