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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

If you want to follow a more formal approach towards analytics implementation, there are a number of learning analytics readiness assessment tools. ” NOTES: Get the “Handbook of Learning Analytics” if you wish to have more detailed info about some of the topics discussed on this post.

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50 Awesome Books for Teachers

Shake Up Learning

The Hyperdoc Handbook. The Growth Mindset Coach: A Teacher’s Month-by-Month Handbook for Empowering Students to Achieve. Formative Assessment & Standards-Based Grading (Classroom Strategies) . Fair Isn’t Always Equal, 2nd edition: Assessment & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom. by Harry Wong.

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Emphasize Flexibility and Adaptability When Grouping Students

edWeb.net

Base groupings on information: Use pre-tests, formatives assessments, learning styles, and even student interest surveys to divvy up the students. Don’t assess and forget: For groupings based on ability or readiness, don’t just plop the kids together and assume they’re all set. Keep gathering data. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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How an LMS Can Solve Professional Learning's Challenges—and Keep Master Teachers Engaged

Edsurge

For example, we did a training for the Michigan Department of Education on how to administer state assessments. It was the first time we ever did this; they usually handed out 48-page paper handbooks. A lot of those costs can be reduced with online options. They asked us to put together something online.

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Impero Software Announces Philip Walters as its New Chairman

techlearning

Austin, TX, May 18, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools, today announces Philip Walters as its new board chairman. It also released an Online Safety Handbook in 2017 which provides resources and best practices for schools that are using Impero Education Pro.

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How Better Teaching Can Help Kids Who Can’t Read

MindShift

According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, 32 percent of fourth-graders and 24 percent of eighth-graders aren’t reading at a basic level. On a wintry day in early March 2018, a group of mostly first- and second-grade teachers was sitting in rows in a conference room at the Bethlehem school district headquarters.

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College and career readiness activities

Kathy Schrock

This article originally appeared in the Discovery Education blog " Kathy Schrock's Katch of the Month " in December 2018 and is re-posted here with permission. One publication I love to recommend to support this process is the Occupational Outlook Handbook. There are tons of sites on the Web to help students with this process.