Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. But follow-up studies showed a bigger problem.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

This story is part of a series from EdSurge Research on how schools are redefining student success using MyWays , a framework created by Next Generation Learning Challenges (NGLC). Within the first five years of the transition, Sanborn schools also built a competency-based curriculum and performance-based assessments based on those standards.

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techlearning

AUGUST 28, 2018

For teachers implementing an activity centers-based classroom, library, or makerspace, this new guide provides 10 lessons that embed the KIBO philosophy of “Build – Art – Code – Play” in student-directed, discovery-based learning experiences. Educators who have tried the activities have found them effective and engaging.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

In one back room at Skyline High School, you can learn all you need to know about St. For that biomedical project, students had to create a probe and learn to maneuver it sight unseen from behind a curtain on the box’s opening to procure a sample from the intestine/bike tire. “We Photo: Courtesy of Jeffrey Sylvester. LONGMONT, Colo. —

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Achieve3000 is the leading literacy solution in blended learning programs today, specializing in cloud-based, differentiated learning solutions for school-aged youth as well as adult learners. Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. In a district where almost 30 percent of the students are learning English, these goals have meant a radical change in how math is taught in the early grades.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 9, 2015

Meeting these standards can be done by doing less, not more. In this post, we’ll look at three effective ways to do this: integrating curriculum, combining test prep into daily learning, and cutting topics. First, let’s look at what the standards mean by more “depth.” Combine Assessment Prep Into Daily Learning.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

In a district where almost 30 percent of the students are learning English, these goals have meant a radical change in how math is taught in the early grades. Ayala said that before she took over, math lessons were basically one-size-fits-all, making it especially difficult for kids learning English to absorb what was being taught. “We

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Ron Smith (left), a middle school network superintendent in Oakland, speaks to Jaime Aquino of New Leaders during a “learning walk” at a local middle school. What’s the learning objective today?” What were kids learning?” Why do you think I’m showing you this, in the context of the learning walk?” Photo: Jackie Mader.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. It’s stuff that we learned.”. It’s stuff that we learned.”. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

As is often the case, there was singing going on in Room 2 of Kenwood Elementary one Friday afternoon. 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. born and raised.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It includes students with specific learning disabilities (such as dyslexia and dysgraphia), hearing and vision impairments, emotional disabilities, autism and more severe cognitive delays. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

But in those early days, Fair had no idea how to handle her students with disabilities, whose educational challenges ranged from learning deficits to behavioral disturbance disorders. A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., This put the small school and its 494 students in the 8th percentile of elementary schools in the state of New Jersey. Claudia Pinheiro, a fourth-grade teacher at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark. and a native of Puerto Rico.

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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

There’s a wide age range for learning to read,” said Nancy Carlsson-Paige on KQED’s Forum program. Carlsson-Paige is professor emerita of education at Lesley University and co-author of the study “Reading Instruction in Kindergarten: Little to Gain and Much to Lose,” which criticizes the Common Core standards for kindergarten.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

By “messy,” Kwan means two things: both the appearance of the classroom and the style of inquiry and learning that students must adopt in order to thrive during making lessons. “If When they’re engaged in making activities, students are learning, but “learning just looks different” than the typical classroom, according to Kwan.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Students have at least 40 minutes a day to play during what’s called “Play to Learn” time. 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. EVERETT, Wash. —

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

completion of a minimum course of study, content mastery, proficiency on college- and career-ready assessments, etc.) Digital learning content. Learning materials and resources that can be displayed on a digital device and shared electronically with other users. Personalized learning plan . Low-performing schools .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

What started as a treasure hunt had become a logic game in Quitman’s state-funded pre-K classroom, a free early learning experience that’s only recently become available to a small number of students in Mississippi. Pre-K teacher Ruth Shows calls on a student at Quitman Lower Elementary during a classroom discussion.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. What does a modern library look like? What are the emerging technologies in a library?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 18, 2015

Ed note: 2 Pieces for Context– 30 Incredible Ways Technology Will Change Education by 2028 and Curriculum is More Important Than Learning Technology. The focus of that piece was technology, and how it might impact the way students learn in the coming decades. The elementary school might evolve. ” (1).

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