Remove 2020 Remove Assessment Remove Elementary Remove Personalized Learning
article thumbnail

Why Assessments Are Still Useful — and Accurate — in a Pandemic Year

Edsurge

As most school systems have learned by now, assessing learning in a pandemic comes with all sorts of challenges, including but not limited to how (and where) to assess students and whether the data being gathered is even accurate. Here’s how we made key decisions about assessments and what to do with the data we gathered.

article thumbnail

PROOF POINTS: Combining remote and in-person learning led to chaos, study finds

The Hechinger Report

Now a small study of teachers across nine states finds that this hybrid solution is the worst way to teach because it’s exhausting for teachers to toggle back and forth between the two modes and all students appear to learn less this way. It’s a professional assessment of a flawed model. It’s completely absurd.”.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

One Step at a Time: A Traditional School’s Journey Into Personalized Learning

Edsurge

It is a part of the Lumen Christi Academies , a group of Catholic schools in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to “nurture ethical scholars who will change the world” through active, personalized and student-led learning. Microshifts in Practice 1.

article thumbnail

Differentiating in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

In my opinion, I learn just as much, if not more, from them as they hopefully do from me. During the spring of 2020, I connected with the Juab School District in Utah and began what would be two years of longitudinal work to help them take personalized learning to the next level. Below is Crissa's take on the activity.

Classroom 545
article thumbnail

Lexia Nationwide Report Finds 80% of Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Did Not Experience Literacy Learning Loss During Remote and Hybrid Learning in the 2020-21 Academic Year

eSchool News

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today released new research titled “Using Lexia Core5 Reading to Address Learning Loss and Accelerate Learning: Insights from a 2020-21 Nationwide Study.” About Cambium Learning Group. BOSTON ( Sept.

article thumbnail

OPINION: Struggling readers need standards and structure based on the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity to enact standards to ensure that teachers’ instruction methods are effective and backed by science.

Policies 145
article thumbnail

Most families have given up virtual school, but what about students who are still thriving online?

The Hechinger Report

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. On days when SpaRRk Academy students are learning virtually, the classrooms are empty except for teachers and administrators, who come into the office just about every day.