Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

So the company plans to release three new articles a week aimed specifically at elementary students. The online literacy platform is offering not only new materials based on thousands of student surveys, but also the option for students to customize the content they can read. The app will be ready to use starting in September.

SchoolDude 119

SchoolDude Microsoft Company Learning Analytics 119

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.

Common Core 115

Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 115

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. A 2017 study of California’s pre-expansion transitional kindergarten programs found that children who attended were better prepared for kindergarten than those who didn’t. The bill Gov.

Report 117

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2017

Gallup , a global research and analytic company, just released Gallup’s Top Education Findings in 2016, and the list includes a key data point uncovered in Making Assessments Work for All Students: Multiple Measures Matter, results of a national education survey commissioned by the nonprofit NWEA. A total of 708 U.S. Read more.

Digital Learning 80

Digital Learning Survey Trends Learning 80

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. This story also appeared in USA Today. Data show many of the 69,000 U.S. Department of Education.

Survey 118

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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.

Common Core 114

Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 114

MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

Elementary 39

Elementary Education Survey Report 39

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But READ THE SERIES. Even before the pandemic, reading achievement was in a slump.

Elementary 145

Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

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.

Company 214

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. The district relied on individual schools to call families, while its department of research, assessment and data conducted surveys at individual school sites to find out whether families had an internet connection and computer access.

Digital Divide 112

Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 112

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. One drawback of the study is that it relies on self-reported grades that students disclose on an optional survey when they register for the ACT. As grades rose, achievement fell.

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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?

Adaptive Learning 75

Adaptive Learning Differentiated Instruction Survey Software 75

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.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 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. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

Elementary 188

Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 188

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I saw that I needed to move beyond formative assessment of skills. Our school, which opened in September 2017, is a live lab for Marzano’s strategies which include personalized, competency-based instruction with a focus on STEAM and coding. We also teach and assess students’ cognitive, metacognitive and social-emotional skills.

Classroom 143

Classroom Company Blended Learning Assessment 143

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.

Policies 121

Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 121

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. Participating in even one or two PLI professional learning courses has an impact on learning outcomes.

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Learning Analytics Personalized Learning Learning Microsoft 125

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?

Adaptive Learning 40

Adaptive Learning Differentiated Instruction Learning Survey 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

They were unable to do a full survey this year, due to the pandemic, so must wait for firm numbers.) today, nearly double the number in 2017. has more than doubled since 2017 to 585 in 2020, according to the Natural Start Alliance. For instance, risk assessment is a core component in many nature preschools.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

In addition to employing qualified elementary, middle and high school music teachers, David Douglas offers inexpensive instrument rentals ($25 per year), a library of musical scores, connections to reduced-price or free private lessons and a closet of free marching band uniforms and orchestra dress blacks, among other necessities.

Elementary 101

Elementary Trends Survey Data 101

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

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. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

Blended Learning 192

Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Recent national data show the same downsides to ability grouping: In the National Assessment of Educational Progress study for 2017 , elementary schools that reported using reading groups “almost always” scored lower on average than those that used them “hardly ever.”. Why do these results arise?

Groups 90

Groups Study Report Facebook 90

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.

OER 89

OER CMS Guidelines Digital Learning 89

Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 6, 2019

million as of 2017; the U.S. But if we look at the survey results of the Pew Research Center, students in the U.S. According to the surveyed candidates who are now not working in STEM fields, they did not pursue a STEM career due to a lack of access to resources and opportunities. pulls in at third at 568,000.

STEM 90

STEM Smartphone Mobility Industry 90

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As misleading news reports, misinformation and false data spread throughout the world, students of all ages need better instruction on how to assess media and data. Launched in 2017, Calling BS became an instant hit at the University of Washington; it fills its 150-student capacity quickly each year.

Social Media 145

Social Media Data Course Report 145

SpeechTechie

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

A third session I attended at ASHA leads me to a tech-tie-in on this blog and was called Consider the Big Picture: Using Classroom Expectations to Guide Assessments and Develop Educationally Relevant Interventions (Chinen and Ireland). You all know how to read a research article, so besides a few points I will just say: PLEASE READ IT.

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MindShift

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.

Advocacy 53

Advocacy Elementary Training Assessment 53

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Surveys reveal a steady decline in student engagement throughout middle and high school, a trend that Gallup deemed the “school engagement cliff.” Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I. Eventually, she says, nothing motivated her.

How To 112

How To Learning Report Survey 112

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. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

Chromebook 190

Chromebook Study Company Assessment 190

techlearning

JULY 10, 2018

A 2017 survey of VHS participants found a 94 percent retention rate of VHS member schools in the 2016-17 school year, indicating strong educator and student satisfaction with the quality of instruction being delivered. “Our And the high quality of the instruction means we can be sure of academic rigor in each course offering.”

Course 40

Course Accessibility Blended Learning Secondary 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Recent national data show the same downsides to ability grouping: In the National Assessment of Educational Progress study for 2017 , elementary schools that reported using reading groups “almost always” scored lower on average than those that used them “hardly ever.”. Why do these results arise?

Groups 76

Groups Study Report Facebook 76

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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Data Education Analysis Assessment 38

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Leon Tynes, a 2017 Grosvenor Teacher Fellow on staff at Engineering and Science University Magnet School in Connecticut, agrees, though he has his reservations about whether AI will become a problem anytime soon. Not so fast argues Chris Gosselin, a Digital Learning Coach at Sanborn Elementary School.

IXL Learning 102

IXL Learning Education Comparison Digital Learning 102

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. Sustainable Operations. Indicators of Education Innovation in a City. How EdClusters Work and What They Do.

Assessment 120

Assessment Tools Blended Learning Exercises 120

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

Ninth graders are assessed early – and often. “We Nationwide, nearly half of teachers who responded to a RAND survey said pandemic stress had hastened their decision to leave the profession. At P-TECH, ninth grade begins immediately after middle school graduation, every July.

Industry 145

Industry Report Groups Study 145

edWeb.net

MAY 23, 2019

According to Learning in the 21st Century: the 2019 Digital Promise LVP Survey , 83% of teachers think students are capable of high achievement, but just 26% think students are reaching those levels today. Educators need to think about what elements are impacting a student’s ability to learn when they’re examining assignments and assessments.

Personalized Learning 46

Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Policies 46

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise. She attends a local elementary school, where Matt Rhoda is the principal. In Indiana ?

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Report System Survey Meeting 111