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Rethinking Grading and Assessment Practices – Part 1 – Why Change?

The Principal of Change

There has been a multitude of conversations regarding assessment and grading practices, focusing on shifting practice that makes more sense not only for the current time we live in but also moving forward. She had said, “How we assess drives our teaching, not the other way around.” ” I would agree.

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It’s Time to Blur the Boundaries Between High School, College and Work

Edsurge

I attended low-performing elementary and middle schools in San Francisco, and no one in my family had ever gone to college. More than 7,100 Texas high school students earned associate degrees in the 2018-19 academic year, and many of those credentials included industry certifications.

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How Brain Research Helped Retool Our School Schedule for Remote Learning

Edsurge

In the fall of 2018 our school made a big shift. So the same research from the field of Mind, Brain and Education that we used in 2018 to create our new at-school schedule became the starting point for designing what distance learning should look like as well. Once again, we turned to research.

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. TEACHING Exceptional Children, 2018, 51(1), pp. Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement.

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Two Lexia Learning Products Honored in the 2018 Tech Edvocate Awards

techlearning

Lexia Learning today announced that its personalized literacy programs Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) and Lexia PowerUp Literacy™ (PowerUp) were both honored in the 2018 Tech Edvocate awards. The judges also took the results of a popular vote into consideration for the finalist selection process. in the United States and other countries.

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Teaching isn’t Rocket Science – It’s Way More Complex

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: The STLinATL Conference will be at Woodward Academy in Atlanta July 26-27, 2018. Link to show: Date: April 5, 2018. You want to make sure that your formative assessments are based on where the student is at, not some kind of standard that every student in your classroom has to jump through. www.stlinatl.com.

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Low-income districts find ways to help students make music

The Hechinger Report

Luke Said, 18, spent the summer of 2018 picking raspberries. Typically, high schools have lower poverty levels than elementary schools because parents are older and able to earn more.). million for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years, according to numbers requested from the district finance office. PORTLAND, Ore.