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Digitizing Curriculum Development: Think Efficiency

edWeb.net

And then sharing it with people meant handing over a document or a PDF at best.”. Innovation in Education is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net that brings together teachers, administrators, researchers, and policy-makers to foster collaboration in improving education. What’s Out There Now. Just a dream? Not really.

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We know how to provide good child care, we just don’t insist on it

The Hechinger Report

In fact, many of the documents, like Massachusetts’, explicitly state that the standards should not impact the state’s child care regulations. The lack of clear standards helping to shape what that care should entail has created an uneven system of care based on a fairly low bar for quality. Read the whole series.

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How Technology Should Have Already Changed Your Teaching

TeachThought - Learn better.

You may dislike standards-based reporting, using labels like “proficient,” or grading with a 1-3 scale. Fluid documents and processes. Yes, you’ve got a pile of academic standards that have to be mastered. Grant Wiggins has a great analogy for standards—building code. You may not even like pass/fail.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

The Hechinger Report

Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. The department said the documents were “outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective.”. Certificates of attendance are designed for students with severe cognitive limitations who cannot meet high school academic standards.

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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. In business, coworkers are constantly telling each other what folder to look in for what document and guiding the discourse of business.

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

Edsurge

The disconnect between what school leaders buy and what teachers actually use is well-documented. For instance, a curriculum director may decide that one math program does not align with the district’s academic standards, while another one does. Meanwhile, the number of tools in classrooms today has ballooned.

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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. Achievement gap.