EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, disciplinarian, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst? One must communicate prices, display goods, hold meetings, put up menus and generally relay knowledge from one person to another or many others. By LeiLani Cauthen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2019

One need only walk into any reasonably sized public library where rows of books and quiet reading spaces sit alongside banks of public computers, teen rooms and meeting facilities hosting daily community events to see the physical manifestation of this transformation.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

I modeled my classroom after the classrooms in the high school I attended—rows of desks, the teacher at the front of the room, nightly homework, and regular assessments. After I had a few years under my belt, I began collaborating with colleagues to incorporate more projects into my classroom.

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Academic Standards Training Course Assessment 146

N2Y

MARCH 6, 2020

Before many states adopted extended (accessible) educational standards for students with unique needs, we began developing differentiated materials to provide students with the ability to learn skills, demonstrate knowledge and raise the bar for educational expectations. These standards outline, by grade level, what a student should know.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. How can families use Seesaw?

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

But once a staple—and stable—presence in the classroom, Apple’s dominance in the education market has taken a backseat. Ordinary classroom walls turned into works of arts which students could examine up close to see each brush stroke. These apps can also feed data back to teachers to show students’ progress.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

In rooms on the upper floors were private meetings to wheel and deal. A big deal announced this week was private equity firm KKR’s purchase of a majority stake in Burning Glass , a Boston-based data and analytics platform that serves up insights on changes in the workforce and available jobs. Wow, what a relief!

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techlearning

OCTOBER 22, 2018

(October 22, 2018) - To fulfill its promise to provide collaborative solutions to educators, , the leading K-12 Education Intelligence Platform (EIP), announces that its suite of personalized learning solutions is IMS Global Standards certified. SchoolCity’s OpenSalt v1, Popcorn v0.1, and Suites v4.1, and 6+ have all earned.

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Academic Standards Learning Assessment Data 42

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. There’s no one size fits all.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? Maker-education advocates have a lot of student success stories to share but, so far, not a lot of data. But what else was she learning in this maker space?

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Assessment Education Academic Standards Report 111

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 21, 2015

Tomorrow’s Learning Today: 7 Shifts To Create A Classroom Of The Future. This is stuff that’s available not tomorrow with ten grand in classroom funding and 12 hours of summer PD, but today. This is directly tied to research literacy, as both digital and digitized data sources serve as primary research resources.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This approach can enable administrators to differentiate to meet the needs of all their teachers. When given agency, teachers understand the what, why, and how so they can genuinely embrace what they are learning and put those skills to use in their classroom instruction. Bruce holds an M.B.A appeared first on edWeb.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Most Altus classes meet the University of California’s “A-G” course requirements for admission, Altus officials say. They email and telephone parents and call families in to meet with the instructors, a social worker, case manager or other support staff if a student is struggling.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online GOOGLE FOR EDUCATION UPDATES ( edu.google.com ) Google for Education announced updates and new tools to help teachers keep innovation alive in their classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 55

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

So our daily greeting provides a positive interaction before they get into their classroom.”. According to data provided by district officials, in spring 2016 (the most recent year available), Webster graduated 75 percent of its seniors, a 22-point increase in just three years. The results have been impressive.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

Higher standards are right. The president went on to add, "What hasn’t worked is denying teachers, schools, and states what they need to meet these goals. Furthermore, No Child Left Behind’s one-size-fits-all method of evaluating schools has been criticized as incentivizing low academic standards.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. have adopted the standards while 21 states have standards based on the framework. Planet3 found its biggest backer in Rob Roy, CEO of Las Vegas-area data center services company Switch, which invested $10 million in the company in 2015. Nineteen states and D.C.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Modern learners must consume, evaluate, and integrate constantly changing data in highly-dynamic and visible contexts. In 2013, most elementary schools are simply diminutive high schools, with a balance of reading, writing, mathematics, geography, and other “core” skills, while character training supplements academic work.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Dressed in suits and armed with pens, notebooks, and laptops, the superintendents had one specific goal as they fanned out across the classroom, interacting with students: to look for evidence that a geometry lesson was aligned to the new state math standards. It’s rare for school district big wigs to spend time in a classroom.

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 19, 2015

classroom, home, digital) work together? Personalized “workflow” to meet each student’s needs? Which academic standards are the focus of the unit? How will data from formative assessment (that target these standards) help teachers and students respond within the project? Who can provide it?

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Academic Standards Learning Secondary Social Media 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. Instructional rounds, modeled after medical rounds, are an opportunity for educators to observe classroom instruction, and then address problems together in an effort to improve their teaching.

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How To Common Core Elementary Report 82

The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

A burgeoning population in Kentucky of students who are learning English combined with the adoption of more rigorous standards means efforts like Ogbe’s are ever more important. But measuring how well schools are reaching English-learners is not easy, at least not from looking at the state’s accountability data.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

Avera would teach them the tools in the morning, then take over one of the teacher’s classrooms in the afternoon to demonstrate the lesson. In Romoland School District, Tech Coach Greg Moon focuses on highlighting teachers who are not only doing great things with technology, but can use data to prove results.

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Technology Education EdTech Future Ready 60

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Schools and businesses can meet halfway to close the mentorship gap. Work-based learning is an instructional approach to classroom teaching that connects it to the workplace. It entails the teaching of academic, technical and social skills in actual work settings or simulated backdrops.

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Company Academic Standards Report Secondary 108

TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 1, 2015

This short book offers 4 standards for prioritizing in your classroom: Rigor, Thought, Diversity, and Authenticity. It defines each, and offers a helpful rubrics to begin measuring how each standard does or does not function in your classroom. Driven by Data: A Practical Guide to Improve Instruction. ” 12.

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Learning Case Study Data Training 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

While the academic program here leads toward a regular Massachusetts high school diploma, the teaching is often tailored to address individual areas of weakness. Most classes meet in a large central room that feels part art studio, part living room. The standard is what’s appropriate,” Mr. Kain says. “If Photo: Austin Haeberle.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

“Meet The New California Counterculture: College Republicans ” by the incredible Scaachi Koul. Via Inside Higher Ed : “New Student Visa Data Show Overall Declines.” ” There’s more financial aid news in the privacy section below – because, you guessed it, data breach.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. Instructional rounds, modeled after medical rounds, are an opportunity for educators to observe classroom instruction, and then address problems together in an effort to improve their teaching.

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How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

“Black kids need to know they’re not being singled out,” says another, during a conversation about making sure that her students see she isn’t playing favorites when it comes to classroom discipline. Each of Cambridge Street’s staff members participate in meetings just like this one every week. It’s a step that doesn’t come easily.

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Training Report Meeting Groups 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

. — On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. As kindergarten has become more widely available in the last several decades, it’s also become more academic.

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Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

This story about school segregation was produced by The Texas Tribune , a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that provides free news, data and events on Texas public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. It was reprinted with permission. And they are more likely to take classes and tests meant to prepare them for college.

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Policies Data Elementary Academic Standards 57

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

At 8:00 on a chilly spring morning in this rural Vermont town, while most kids his age are filing into classrooms and preparing for a day of school, 17-year-old Silas Woods rolls up the sleeves of his plaid button-down shirt and hoists a tire up to a mini Cooper, suspended a few feet above ground in the corner of the noisy Duxbury Auto Shop.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

On a muggy fall morning, pre-K teacher Ruth Shows inspected the work of students in her classroom, stepping over a cluster of little learners sprawled on the carpet. More than 70 percent of children who attend pre-K in the state leave ready for kindergarten, according to 2018 accountability data. ?. QUITMAN, Miss. —

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