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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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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. Post-Pilot Results : Succeeding with Common Core—Levered's 2018-19 survey.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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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. Fourth grade ELLs at both schools grew their CAASPP scores by 252% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year.

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How to Create Powerful Student ePortfolios with Google Sites

Shake Up Learning

These standards could be content standards such as Common Core or NGSS. In my first iteration of the portfolio, my students presented artifacts that demonstrated 21st Century Outcomes as outlined by the Partnership for 21st Century Learning. © Shake Up Learning 2018. He lives in Brown Deer, WI with his wife.

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Competency-Based Education: A Reading Journey

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

What School Could Be by Ted Dintersmith (2018) Before getting too deep into CBE terminology and logistics, teachers and admin should be given the chance to ideate for an "outside the box" transformative classroom experience. Breaking with Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work by Brian M.

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

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Learn More About Kiddom Academy For Schools: 3 Ways a Company Can Personalize Its Support for Teachers. Kiddom Pilot’s 2018 Scope and Sequence. Learn more about Kiddom Academy. My teaching experience helped me understand that I didn’t need to buy a blended learning or personalized learning product.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” Via Education Week : “ Common Core , College Readiness Skills Don’t Match Up, Study Says.” ” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Switching sides in the teacher wars

The Hechinger Report

TULSA, Oklahoma — On a fall morning in 2018, veteran technology teacher Abraham Kamara was working with his robotics team at Memorial Junior High School when Tulsa school superintendent Deborah Gist entered the classroom with a TV news crew. Related: Rhode Island’s lively experiment with blended learning.