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Integrate OUR Curricula into Your Kiddom Digital Platform

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They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. This partnership “helps bridge the gap that currently exists between curriculum, instruction, assessment and intervention,” (says Kiddom’s chief academic officer Abbas Manjee).

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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

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There, students are embarking on a quintessential hero’s journey—all about the high seas—that centers an asset-based approach to the teaching of math. The “Fate and Fortune” game used by Santa Fe embeds ten key standards that correlate most closely with Algebra I success. Embedding a social-emotional learning lens into instruction.

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Alma releases new standards tracker

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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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Virginia district launches summer kindergarten readiness initiative

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It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We

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Understanding ESSA: How the Every Student Succeeds Act will Change U.S. Educational Policy

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Furthermore, No Child Left Behind’s one-size-fits-all method of evaluating schools has been criticized as incentivizing low academic standards. These harsh punishments lead some districts to “teach the test” and prioritize third party assessment scores over student engagement and learning.

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Insanity In Education: 52 Mistakes We Make Over And Over Again

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Actually believe that every single student can master every single academic standard–without making them think they hate learning. Bus students. Believe that student engagement and curiosity are merely goals instead of absolutely mandatory. Separate curriculum, assessment, instruction, and technology.

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A Common Language: 30 Public Education Terms Defined

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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.