The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Since 2007, Mississippi has attempted to raise the bar for students; as a result, the state has succeeded in posting some of the greatest score increases on the NAEP , according to a new report by the National Assessment Governing Board, which examines the steps Mississippi took to go from flailing to becoming a leader in NAEP score improvement.

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Academic Standards Assessment Report Trends 86

Hubbli

MARCH 29, 2023

Align Curriculum with Standards and Assessments: Curriculum development should also involve aligning the curriculum with relevant academic standards and assessments. It is important to stay up-to-date with current standards and assessments and to integrate them into the curriculum in a meaningful way.

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Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards Outcomes Blended Learning 40

eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Here are four strategies that we believe are essential to any college and career readiness initiative. Be sure all students meet rigorous academic standards. A new generation of state standards has been designed to ensure that all students graduate from high school ready for college and a career.

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Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards Assessment Meeting 107

Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

It’s a simple idea: learning as navigation, choosing among concepts and strategies that either pave a path forward or trap you in the puzzle at hand. You can’t actually function in a purely academic zone without also developing the sensibilities, orientations, behaviors and strategies that all of us use to navigate our everyday lives.”

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Learning Strategy Academic Standards Groups 166

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

Less Is More: 4 Strategies To Streamline Your Curriculum. One important point is that the standards require more depth and less breadth. Meeting these standards can be done by doing less, not more. Here, we’ll focus on three major strategies; integrating, combining, and cutting. Use Power Standards. Less is more!

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Common Core Strategy Elementary Assessment 40

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. But assessing non-academic skills, it turns out, is no easy task. At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king.

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Survey Assessment Report Academic Standards 109

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs.

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How To Common Core Academic Standards Outcomes 114

Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

million for scoring 2015-16 assessments in Tennessee after the state terminated a contract in April with Measurement Inc. Pearson, a global education company that counts assessments as less than 10 percent of its total revenues , will score about 1.8 Pearson has been awarded a contract worth about $18.5 million tests.

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Pearson Common Core Assessment Academic Standards 75

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The principal's students were in an alternative setting and the main delivery and assessment of content came from an online course platform. For more quick tips on effective co-teaching, I also recommend " Co-Teaching Strategies: Dos, Don'ts, and Do Betters " by Wendy Murawski and Toby Karten, ASCD , 7/1/20.)

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Assessment Course Khan Academy Blended Learning 59

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

It proved useful in finding teachers to help develop our lesson plans, assessments and professional development. Our onboarding included a walkthrough of our mission, vision, strategy and tactics. Hiring outside and field sales reps is another geographic consideration when selling to specific states.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2017

The New Schools Venture Fund estimates that K-12 schools collectively spend about $9 billion per year on instructional software, digital assessments, laptops and tablets for students and teachers. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide.

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EdTech Accessibility Future Ready Academic Standards 60

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Two recent state initiatives are defining a set of non academic work habits that contribute to student success , and developing a statewide performance-based assessment system. After spending a few years thinking deeply about assessment in a competency-based system, Memorial teachers noticed something troubling.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 82

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2019

In the space below I have posted my contribution to FETC and promise you will walk away with some amazing ideas, resources, strategies, and future collaborators. W021 | Making Makers Mainstream … Connecting Curriculum Standards and the 4C’s. Check out my Booking Page. I also have also provided those over 150 STEM Resources.

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Technology STEM Flipped Classroom Maker Movement 94

eSchool News

JUNE 25, 2015

Alma Technologies, a provider of a holistic student engagement platform for K-12 schools, has added a standards tracking tool intended to empower educators more effectively teach to proficiency against any set of academic standards.

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Common Core Academic Standards LMS Trends 40

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

It’s a mindshift for teachers, especially when it comes to assessment, because scoring is so different. But in a competency-based model, teachers must assess and record a student’s performance on each academic standard within and across subjects. Students can upload and view their evidence of learning.

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Data LMS Company Education 112

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

For example, in the case of literacy companies in the market today, articles from around the web are curated and categorized by reading level, alignment to state academic standards, topics and connection to commonly-taught texts to give educators and students access to “real world” content.

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EdTech Company Outcomes Academic Standards 91

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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EdTech Academic Standards Social Media Technology 160

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. From 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the federal testing program.

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Policies Academic Standards Company Assessment 36

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

TeachThought - Learn better.

JULY 10, 2015

How To Add Rigor To Any Lesson, Unit, Or Assessment. Barbara Blackburn, author of “Rigor is not a 4-Letter Word,” shared 5 “myths” concerning rigor, and they are indicative of the common misconceptions: that difficult, dry, academic, sink-or-swim learning is inherently rigorous. by Terry Heick. What does it mean?

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How To Analysis Academic Standards Strategy 40

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

The digital resources in the Knovation repository—including videos, games, podcasts and articles—have been selected, evaluated, tagged and aligned to academic standards. ‘Big Three’ Publishers Rethink K-12 Strategies. Why School Leaders Are Turning to Open Educational Resources.

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OER Education Company Academic Standards 40

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Dr. Morton Sherman has more than 30 years’ administrative experience in raising academic standards, closing achievement gaps, and uniting stakeholders He has served in public education for over 40 years, 25 as a public school superintendent of schools. In addition, Domenech has served on the U.S. Dr. Morton Sherman.

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Secondary Policies Professional Learning Outcomes 61

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Her disability doesn’t mean she can’t analyze and discuss a text; she can be taught strategies to help her decode words more easily. She said she never got the help she needed or was taught strategies to work on comprehension. With these strategies in place, McLaughlin said, Michael was able to focus and comprehend more when reading.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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How To Common Core Elementary Report 82

Edsurge

APRIL 7, 2023

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? Now, this integration can take just a few minutes.

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EdTech Student Data Privacy Academic Standards LMS 156

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

And Jefferson County Public Schools is trying to bring the strategies driving Field’s success to other schools in the district. State education officials say all students are held to the same academic standards regardless of whether or not they have a disability, but some experts argue that’s not necessarily the case.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 53

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Of more pressing concern is the signage on the walls that focuses on learning strategies and digital citizenship. As the teacher, you’re used to being the control valve for content, assessment, feedback, and reporting. Yes, you’ve got a pile of academic standards that have to be mastered. Also to fret? Cool, huh?

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Technology Gamification Digital Citizenship Academic Standards 40

MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 21, 2021

Combination Learning is a new teaching and learning strategy for the 21st-century. This is a new learning strategy developed by TeachThought that responds to the endless possibilities in modern learning environments. Self-assess podcast (it can be unpublished) through self-created rubric. The Definition Of Combination Learning.

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Learning Analysis Strategy Academic Standards 133

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

Luberoff says that end-of-year assessments in 35 U.S. Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards. Tyton Partners, a strategy consulting firm and investment bank, estimated U.S. While Texas Instrument is still around, Desmos has found a profitable business model.

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 217

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

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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Assessment STEM Academic Standards Course 86

TeachThought - Learn better.

JUNE 22, 2015

Until parents have a better understanding of what pure academic work looks like–from the content to the assessment to the reporting–every single bit of this is on the shoulders of teachers. What academic standards do you use, and what do I need to know about them? Your shoulders, then. In the school?

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Game-Based Learning Mobile Learning Assessment 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

Many administrators at public schools say they are using strategies to “personalize” learning, giving students the chance to tackle coursework at their own pace or have a greater say in what they study. ASSESSMENTS Essentially another word for tests, but not necessarily old-fashioned tests. By 5W Infographics with Peter D’Amato.

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Competency Based Learning Common Core Personalized Learning Study 77

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

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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Education Secondary Assessment Data 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Many Vermont educators and people in the business community see work-based learning as a strategy to better prepare students who are not college-bound for the state’s available jobs. Before students can earn academic credit, they must complete a final project, which is then assessed by a highly-qualified teacher in that content area.

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Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 88

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Teachers can create multimedia assessments and activities for their students, who record and embed their responses. A key strategy is to curate print and digital library collections that reflect student voice, choice, and identity. Reflect voice, choice, identity. But this simply isn’t true in the modern educational climate.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 92