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How to Redesign Your Report Card Template

Gradelink

This moment might just be the perfect time to rethink your school’s report cards. Or perhaps you want a more user-friendly aesthetic that allows parents to check their child’s progression using grade-level standards and expectations. What Elements Make Up A Report Card? Traditional and Standards-Based Report Cards.

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Adding a Computational Boost to Your K-8 Lessons

Digital Promise

Are there teacher-friendly examples and professional development to support such work? To promote CT professional development for teachers, we held four workshops, called CT Boosters, to provide teachers with examples and guidance around the integration of two key CT practices, data and analysis and algorithms.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. But classroom walls are becoming a lot more permeable,” she said, citing examples in which a group of students in Georgia earned a patent for work they completed in school and seven districts in Iowa teamed up to help students spend part of their school days working for local companies.

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What an Admissions Fight at America’s ‘Best’ High School Says About Educational Equity

Edsurge

And that's just one example of how extraordinary this school is. News and World Report ranking of public high schools. And last fall, the Fairfax County Public School Board proposed a radical change to the TJ admissions process: Scrapping the admissions test to replace it with a lottery of students who meet a minimum academic standard.

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ThinkCERCA Raises $10.1 Million to Build Critical Thinkers, Readers and Writers

Edsurge

Each lesson, Murphy shares, will “break down academic standards around literacy into discrete subskills.” (For For example, how do you create a claim and counterclaim?) With the funding, ThinkCERCA plans to add 7,000 new interactive lessons to its platform, designed for educators in grades 3 to 12.

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OPINION: Jump in, the water is rising — it’s time to educate students for a sustainable future

The Hechinger Report

Teachers and students can learn by doing place-based projects together, all the while meeting and exceeding required academic standards in authentic and meaningful ways. And there are some heartening examples of leadership at state levels making bold efforts to address the looming climate change crisis.

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OPINION: New leadership at the top should mean big changes for English language learners

The Hechinger Report

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.