The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Sponsor : PowerSchool has fantastic a fantastic K12 Academic Leaders Webinar Series at coolcatteacher.com/PowerSchoolWebinar including my “Digital Dozen: 12 Tips for Building Your Digital Classroom” and an upcoming webinar on “Best Practices for a Balanced Assessment System.” Stream by clicking here.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

At the same time, the high school graduation rate rose to a record 75 percent, up from 68 percent in 2018-19. Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. Based on these trends, the D.C.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

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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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

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. For more than 30 years, the company has been on the leading edge of research and product development as it relates to student reading skills.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2020

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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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 13, 2018

As of June 16, 2018, Today’s Meet closed (read the full details here ). Polls, forms, and surveys are great options when teachers need to create sign-up sheets, push out formative assessments, auto-grade quizzes, and more. I went to my PLN for thoughts on what they’ll use in its stead. Polls, forms, and surveys.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Cali Morrison added: “I define CBE as personalized pace, mastery-based learning where students demonstrate mastery through authentic assessment and progress as they learn rather than after a set amount of time.”. calimorrison) August 14, 2018. Andersen (@busynessgirl) August 14, 2018. DLNchat -ters had differing views.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, acquired the Company in 2018 and will remain a major shareholder. Blackstone’s investment will be made through its flagship private equity vehicle. About Renaissance. Further information is available at www.blackstone.com.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 13, 2019

Primary and secondary schools are swiftly responding to the evidence in support of active learning. In 2018 a Forbes education contributor wrote that the top learning trend in K-12 classrooms was active learning spaces. ” Short written responses are a great way to review materials and assess student understanding.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 23, 2022

Effect of Classroom Learning Environment on Students' Academic Achievement in Mathematics at Secondary Level Riaz Hussain Malik and Asad Abbas Rizvi [link] Improving Students' Relationships with Teachers to Provide Essential Supports for Learning American Psychological Association. Stream by clicking here. Subscribe to the Show.

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Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Here’s what we’re doing this fall: We have analyzed data from Spring 2018 to empirically determine which learning outcomes students struggled with the most in five Waymaker courses. Simon , 1986).

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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 July 2018, the French government banned cell phones from classrooms. He also served on a number of curriculum and assessment committees. More on digital devices. Is technology outpacing you?

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Educator Innovator

JANUARY 7, 2019

Our January reading for Literacy, Equity + Remarkable Notes = LEARN investigates the experiences of three early-career secondary English teachers in urban settings who sought professional development opportunities to support teaching for social justice.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

We’ll be doing live online interviews with education industry and thought leaders throughout the 2018 ASU + GSV Summit. Pearson CEO John Fallon Other companies are looking towards bringing together curriculum and assessment, and provide the whole package to try to improve student learning outcomes. Tune in for free here!

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

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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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2022

“We made a conscious decision to make the sixth-grade experience one where we expose children to everything,” said Rick Doss, the district’s director of secondary education. and her classmates were scrolling through Naviance for Middle Schools, a tool for assessing strengths and interests. On the day I visited Northview, K.C.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 12, 2021

There is also likely to be an assessment system that includes tests, rubrics, and analytics. His current work focuses on federal requirements and programs related to education technology, early learning, accountability and assessment, data use, and educator professional development and preparation.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

21, 2018) – According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress’ reading assessment, only a third of the students in each of the grades evaluated scored at or above proficiency. And while schools’ own end-of-year assessment results tell which students are not reading proficiently, those results do not identify why.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Date: January 17, 2018. Vicki: Well, I’ll put the link in to the project, because this should be airing and going live in January 2018. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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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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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Luke Said, 18, spent the summer of 2018 picking raspberries. million for the 2018-19 and 2019-20 school years, according to numbers requested from the district finance office. In 2018, five of seven made it. The percentage of secondary school teachers who specialize in art or music instruction grew from 6.7 PORTLAND, Ore.

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techlearning

MAY 9, 2018

May 9, 2018) – Oklahoma’s Edmond Public Schools (EPS) today announced it has chosen Discovery Education, the leading provider of digital content and professional development for K-12 classrooms, to support the implementation of the district’s Digital Conversion Strategy. Currently, Discovery Education Techbooks are used by more than 5.6

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

3of October of 2018) – The Chilean Ministry of Education (MINEDUC) has launched a new partnership with Discovery Education , the leading provider of digital content and professional learning for Primary and Secondary classrooms, supporting Me Conecto para Aprender (I Connect to Learn), an initiative of Chilean President Sebastián Piñera.

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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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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

His most recent books are The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences and Solutions with Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali (New York University Press, 2018) and Race, Equity and Education: Sixty Years From Brown with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram (Springer, 2015). He is the author, co-author, and editor of 13 books. About the Hosts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

While further investigation is necessary to assess the specific affordances and long-term effects of GBL in higher education, this study offers preliminary support for the claim that GBL can improve deep learning in this setting, by increasing enjoyment. These results may have particular impact on non-traditional students.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

(Encino, CA) June 21, 2018 – Insight ADVANCE , creator of groundbreaking tools for teachers’ professional growth, today announced a collection of updates to its award-winning observation, coaching, and evaluation software. Using alignment data to inform targeted areas of improvement.

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EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Entries for today’s challenge will be accepted until 11:59 PM PST on Tuesday, October 9, 2018. There are currently 17 lessons designed for secondary students and 10 lessons for college and continuing education. I also recommend having students make copies of the rubrics to do peer and self-assessments. Get started today!

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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 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. Date: January 10, 2018.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The day before my first day of teaching middle school in 2018, I decorated my Brooklyn public school classroom with quotes from famous people reflecting on the importance of reading. When those sixth grade students finally sat down for a reading assessment, their ability to decode print text was at a first or second grade level.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 11, 2018

ILA (@ILAToday) October 10, 2018. As well, our assessments are not as clean as, say, a blood test you might take at the doctor’s office. For example, Samantha Mosher, a secondary special education teacher, guides her students to develop their own IEP goals as well as how to use various tools to monitor their own progress.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Implementation in the primary grades may look different from the examples in this post, but don’t assume that this is just for secondary students. Also, it is a place for students to reflect on formative assessments such as quizzes. © Shake Up Learning 2018. Can you implement in the primary grades? Website: [link].

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Nationally, nearly half — 45 percent — of principals said that the pandemic has prompted them to start thinking about leaving the profession or sped up their plans to do so, according to a poll released last year by the National Association of Secondary School Principals. Related: How do you turn around a school amid a pandemic?

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MindShift

JUNE 30, 2018

Cyndee Carter, assessment development coordinator for the Utah State Board of Education, says the state began very cautiously, at first making sure every machine-graded essay was also read by a real person. Commissioner of Elementary and Secondary Education Jeffrey C. And teachers will be teaching students to produce the wrong thing.”

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