Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 19, 2019

Secondary and middle schools in Ontario, Canada , are banning the use of cell phones during classes effective from September 2019. In 2017, a study was conducted which states that even when a smartphone is not in use, its presence can reduce available cognitive capacity. More on digital devices. Is technology outpacing you?

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These and other important lessons from Oregon’s Gresham-Barlow School District were discussed during a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , with the district’s Superintendent, Dr. Katrise Perera, and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, Lisa Riggs.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Today, Lee is a Post Secondary Programs Coordinator for Valley Center USD 262. To engage students and help them explore their career options, we implemented our advisory program and started using career software in the 2017/2018 school year. Our job as educators is to inspire and inform our students. This year, we switched to Xello.

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Future Ready Software Program Evaluation Secondary 115

techlearning

MAY 9, 2018

In the Fall of 2017, Edmond Public Schools began implementing their new Digital Conversion Strategy district wide. The incorporation of Discovery Education’s Math Techbook into EPS secondary instruction will help accelerate these developments by connecting students to math through real-world problems worth solving in dynamic digital settings.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2019

This Show is From the 10 Minute Teacher Podcast Vault Andrew Stadel’s show aired in 2017 and was the top show of 2017 how to help kids really learn. Listen Now Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher Stream by clicking here. This is one of the top shows of the 10-Minute Teacher of all time.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Angela Peery has been an educator 31 years and has served as a secondary English teacher, secondary administrator, instructional coach, turnaround specialist, curriculum developer, and consultant.

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EdTechTeam

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Cross-posted from Brian's Blog It is has been just a few weeks since the Google Certified Innovators Sydney 2017 cohort graduated. Working through this process I decided a common bridge/gateway activity (assessment as learning) was needed to enhance the impact and increase student efficacy.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

Today, Lee is a Post Secondary Programs Coordinator for Valley Center USD 262. To engage students and help them explore their career options, we implemented our advisory program and started using career software in the 2017/2018 school year. Our job as educators is to inspire and inform our students. This year, we switched to Xello.

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Future Ready Tools Software Program Evaluation 81

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.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

One of the company’s vocal proponents is Jayne Ellspermann, an education consultant and 2015 National Association of Secondary School Principals National Principal of the Year, who has been advising the company. He returned to Apple in 2015 after it acquired LearnSprout, only to leave in 2017 for a brief dabble in politics.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 16, 2017

This is a game probably best for the secondary classroom and adults, although I’m sure it could be adapted for the younger grades as well. Learn all you need to know about the trainer assessment and application! © Shake Up Learning 2017. It’s usually something recorded behind the scenes and not on stage. Enroll Now!

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

They are informing a set of expanded pilots taking place in 2017. Our current approach of summative assessments has few fans. We had a diverse mix of learning providers with differing educational goals and an array of assessments to measure impact. . Framework for the Future of Learning. Source: ReSchool). The Testing Backdrop.

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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

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2018

In this May 12, 2017 photo, registered nurse Samantha Marz checks a student at Rundle Elementary School in Las Vegas. While numbers have grown over the years, among the 125,000 plus primary and secondary schools in the U.S., AP Photo/John Locher. only slightly over 2,300 have a school-based health center.

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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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ExcelinEd

MAY 23, 2019

Using a rigorous experimental design, the authors find negative effects for participating students on state assessments, particularly in math. It’s unreasonable to wait for a cohort of students to graduate from college before assessing an educational intervention. But there are indicators that shed light on whether schools are working.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

About 8 percent of teachers leave the profession annually, and only half of those leaving retire, according to a 2017 report by the Learning Policy Institute, an education think tank. You have to recognize that before you get to the other side of that transformation, your stress is going to skyrocket.”. “I I love my students.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 29, 2016

It will be out at some point in 2017 with ASCD. In this forthcoming text, the audience is teachers and how they can facilitate this authentic assessment process in their classrooms with success. What my experience has not provided is a strong understanding of using digital tools to assess student learning progress over time.

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Reading By Example

JUNE 29, 2016

It will be out at some point in 2017 with ASCD. In this forthcoming text, the audience is teachers and how they can facilitate this authentic assessment process in their classrooms with success. What my experience has not provided is a strong understanding of using digital tools to assess student learning progress over time.

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Outcomes Blended Learning Secondary Assessment 28

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Have you ever thought about how the way you grade and assess work, or maybe how the way you are required to grade could be contributing to the game of school? There have been many articles, books, and theories on shifting the way we assess and assign grades. Extra credit tends to play a major role in the secondary world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 9, 2017

In 2016, Sue Considine received the PLA Charlie Robinson award for innovation and excellence in public library leadership and finally in 2017, Sue received the Business of the Year award on behalf of the Fayetteville Free Library from the FM Chamber of Commerce. Michael received his MSED in Literacy from SUNY Cortland in 2011.

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Libraries Conference Outcomes Secondary 34

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. The shelves were once full of materials about colleges and scholarships as well as other post-secondary options, but the school laid off the center’s staffer amid budget cuts in 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. Critics complained the standards overemphasize skills while relegating factual scientific knowledge to secondary importance.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The increase included $753,687 more than was spent in 2017-18 for accompanists, instruments, travel, entry fees and uniforms, among other essentials. The percentage of secondary school teachers who specialize in art or music instruction grew from 6.7 percent — percentage of secondary school teachers who primarily teach art or music.

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MindShift

MAY 31, 2017

The idea is to liberate principals to focus more on teaching evaluation, planning and assessment and far less on milk, leaky faucets or security. ” Copyright 2017 NPR. The District of Columbia Public Schools is taking a national lead in trying to change that by adding directors of operations and logistics.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. Massachusetts became a leader in national assessments in math, reading, and science.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

In the four-column rubric for precalculus assessment, Machnik explained what it would take to be “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient” and “exemplary” in trigonometric equations. Data from the New England Secondary School Consortium shows that high school graduation rates in Vermont increased from 85.5 percent between 2009 and 2017.

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Learning System Report Outcomes 90

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

In 2017, the average score on all AP exams in Mississippi was a 2.2, In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. In 2017, the average score on all AP exams statewide was a 2.2, Some of the more time intensive virtual programs have shown poor outcomes.

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Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 70

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

At Randolph Union, the pioneer — the “pied piper,” as Goldstein calls him — is Ken Cadow, a former Navy lieutenant and grocery store owner who was given a 2017 Champion award by the Vermont Agency of Education and the New England Secondary School Consortium for his efforts in workforce development and personalized learning.

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Report Personalized Learning Dropout Course 104

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The trend-spotting Horizon Report series is a long-standing tradition—it dates back to 2004, first under the banner of the now-defunct New Media Consortium and then, after 2017, continued independently by its long-time partners: the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) in K-12 and EDUCAUSE in higher education.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 19, 2018

For Alexia Phillips, 21, it was a heated argument with a close family member in February 2017. She was ferried — without the lights or sirens — to be assessed at the hospital’s special program for college students. “We try to minimize any secondary trauma to students who are already overwhelmed,” says Braider.

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Meeting Report Secondary Exercises 33

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2018

Until 2017, New Orleans high schools had no internal options to help students who fell so far behind a conventional diploma seemed impossible. “My In 2016 schools earned the 25-point incentive for a total of only 41 students citywide; the 2017 total was worse, a mere 17 students. My grades were perfect. But I was a chatterbox.”.

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Dropout Policies Report System 58

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

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. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 113

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

When neither clinician is available, medical triage and suicide risk assessments fall to academic counselors, EMTs, and even, worryingly, school police. LA High can only afford to have a nurse one day a week and a psychiatric social worker, two days a week. ” E.

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