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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

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Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report Washington Elementary is a K-8 school in Lindsay, an agricultural community in California’s Central Valley. Ushering in a new model.

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Looking to Ditch Traditional Grades? Here’s How to Get Stakeholders On Board

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Heyck-Williams says these conferences help families understand the grading system, as students sit down with the data to discuss their strengths and weaknesses. Some people need that data.”. We’re doing things that are a little radical but still grounded in academic standards. . Now we want to prove it works.

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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

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At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king. They include not just academic standards, but several teacher-selected “habits”: responsibility, curiosity, creativity, and self-improvement. In other words, SEL competencies. His main focus? So what will the selected prototypes look like?

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Learning Impact Conference Report: How Can We Create More Seamless Digital Ecosystems?

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At the IMS Global Learning Impact conference this week (#LILI2018), there were dozens of sessions covering the many ways interoperability is helping data play well together to create more user-friendly digital ecosystems.