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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

According to presenters of a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , as school leaders look to reopen their schools, they shouldn’t just be focused on logistics. About the Presenter. By Stacey Pusey. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. Noguera, Ph.D.

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Council of the Great City Schools Names Congressman Bobby Scott as the Recipient of the Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice

eSchool News

Sponsored by Curriculum Associates, the award, named after the Council’s former executive director, is presented annually to a person who has made outstanding contributions in the field of K–12 urban education by taking courageous and passionate stances on the issues of educational justice and equity. “Bobby” Scott (D-Va.) About CGCS.

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In 2019, What’s REALLY the Definition of a Teacher?

EdNews Daily

They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge. It’s librarians that are supposed to curate and guide further studies and deeper dives or sideways jumps to secondary topics. Formative and summative assessments.

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Can Individual Tests Really Measure Collaboration?

Edsurge

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

TeachThought - Learn better.

The difference in the performance between each ESEA subgroup (as defined in this document) within a participating LEA or school and the statewide average performance of the LEA’s or tate’s highest achieving subgroups in reading/language arts and mathematics as measured by the assessments required under the ESEA. 105-244, 20 U.S.C.

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In one state, students are ditching classrooms for jobs

The Hechinger Report

For the past four years, Vermont has prioritized broadening work-based education in secondary schools, to include more than what has traditionally been offered in career-technical education. Teachers have always been presented with a question, ‘Why do I need to know this?’

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

Teachers can create multimedia assessments and activities for their students, who record and embed their responses. While these roles were drafted to appeal specifically to university and college librarians, they are universal enough to be relevant to school librarians working in primary and secondary school media centers, too.