Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

Erin Mote and Eric Tucker lead Brooklyn Lab Schools , a group of charter schools in downtown Brooklyn, and are focused on building systems that support an expanded definition of student success. Brooklyn Lab views personalization as a commitment to tailoring learning experiences that meet the individual needs and interests of students.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

This type of thinking and teaching, which took a back seat to the academic standards-based accountability movement of the past 30 years, is now on the rise. Hundreds of interviews across the country revealed widespread commitment to social, emotional, and academic learning—in other words, to educating the whole child.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Be sure all students meet rigorous academic standards. A new generation of state standards has been designed to ensure that all students graduate from high school ready for college and a career. We use common district assessments to track our students’ progress toward meeting state standards in ELA and math.

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Hubbli

MARCH 29, 2023

Align Curriculum with Standards and Assessments: Curriculum development should also involve aligning the curriculum with relevant academic standards and assessments. It is important to stay up-to-date with current standards and assessments and to integrate them into the curriculum in a meaningful way.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

A study by the International Workplace Group estimates that 50 percent of people globally work outside their headquarters for at least 2.5 Eastern and Central time zones, since that worked well for our meetings, sales operations and customer support times for schools. We used Skype for our daily/weekly, 1-on-1 and group meetings.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

And the action is everywhere: an indoor plastic pool awaits student design teams testing their ship prototypes, while in the courtyard, groups of students engage in a game that both explores and challenges their perception of themselves as mathematicians. Aligning complex instruction to standards ensures accountability and readiness.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Technology has seeped its way into classrooms, streamlined academic standards, and transformed the pedagogical landscape to a large extent. It includes several collaborative learning platforms like platforms that facilitate collaboration among students and teachers, foster group projects, and encourage shared learning experiences.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

From textbooks to tests and from research papers to group projects, public education is in the midst of a sea change in how it provides learning opportunities to its students, in the tools it offers, and in what it expects its educators and students to use. There simply is no room for instructional black boxes in public education.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

I have devoted my 44-year career at the Council to improving education for children in the nation’s cities and fighting for equity and the critical resources our urban schools need to help the students they serve meet the highest academic standards and become successful and productive members of society.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

But other times, our meetings were less formal—she just wanted to talk about her dog or share her writing. After our most casual meetings, Jessica seemed a little bit lighter, a little bit stronger and better equipped to take on the rest of her day. Katie and Jessica began meeting weekly and their relationship developed quickly.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Elsewhere in the classroom, an instructor knelt to chat with two boys engrossed in playing with blocks, while a second teacher supervised a group of five students as they completed worksheets. Every 4- and 5-year-old in this transitional kindergarten classroom was doing something different, tailored specially to their academic development.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

This keeps students challenged with math and reading material that meets them where they are in their journey and progresses at their pace, slower for difficult material and faster for the skills they intuitively grasp. Take advantage of eSpark’s ability to work just as well with small groups or individuals as an entire class.

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eSpark

APRIL 14, 2022

Your class could volunteer and summarize their experience in a group presentation. Students present on a local issue at a town meeting. Most teachers simply don’t have enough time or energy to write rigorous lessons that both engage students and meet a diversity of academic needs.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

Recognizing the importance of building community among educators of color, Illinois launched a $2 million initiative supporting identity-based affinity groups. In Illinois, only 18 percent of public school educators are of color. While that example may not apply to us, much of the work educators do daily is under threat.

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 20, 2020

We can name those and build activities around those that elicit discussion among pairs and groups. I expect them to acclimate to these academic standards while sympathizing with their hunger and growing pains. Let’s make a rule, call it an equation, and find points that aren’t represented on the graph yet.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Do teachers use Seesaw to teach live, like with Zoom or Google Meet? Teachers can send group announcements to classes or families, and they can send individual private messages through the built-in messaging system , which will also send notifications when students complete work, depending on setting choices. What is Seesaw?

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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. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

JULY 10, 2017

Our education system has this funny quirk of grouping kids by birth date — rather than, say, intellectual ability or achievement or interest. Now comes a big study to say something different: Holding kids back at third grade when they don’t meet the academic standards will give them a boost in achievement, by some measures.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. Blacks, Muslims and other underrepresented groups are in the same precarious position.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Now, imagine you have been tasked with taking care of this group for the next eight hours. The maximum legal adult-to-child ratio for groups that could include 2-year-olds in these states is set at a maximum of 1:12—the highest in the nation. For groups where at least some of the children are 2.5-

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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. one superintendent asked a group. You’re all working together?”

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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? They readily folded evidence from the playful assessments into existing weekly goal-setting meetings, advisory sessions and student self-reflections. create a video project about satire.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

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. We should not see a gap for the overwhelming majority of students who have disabilities,” she said. But we do.”.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This approach can enable administrators to differentiate to meet the needs of all their teachers. In 2018, Bruce Umpstead joined IMS Global to engage State Education Agencies (SEAs) in the important work of data interoperability and drive adoption of the CASE Network of Competencies & Academic Standards (CASE®).

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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. Children sat together in small groups at tables and on the floor with large sheets of paper and markers spread out between them. BERWYN, Ill. —

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Connecting 2 the World

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This could be you (as the writer), a group, your instructor, your department (for which you are writing on their behalf), your institution (especially if writing is being used to evaluate), funders, publishers, or stakeholders (especially if you are doing participatory research). I think of grant applications or review board/ethics forms.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Today the group has swelled to 13 members and includes girls.). “We It’s made me realize how a small group can do such big things.”. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. Axel Reitzig, a program director at the St.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

The bedrock of the partnership between the school administration and these nonprofit groups is an early warning system born out of the work of Robert Balfanz, a research professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Education and director of Talent Development Secondary. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2016

Unlike groups based on race or disability or other factors, English learners are, by definition, a transient group. Students who meet English proficiency standards – and are therefore more likely to do well on the state’s exams – cease to be tracked as English learners.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2015

Even in today’s age of standardized testing and emphasis on academic standards, perhaps even because of this recent emphasis, educators are increasingly aware of the need to nurture students’ complete development. There are lots of ways we can make our daily teaching better meet the needs of the whole child.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers. Ensuring that all children with disabilities have appropriately ambitious goals and the chance to meet challenging objectives is a priority for the department,” DeVos said in a July speech.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

Children sat together in small groups at tables and on the floor with large sheets of paper and markers spread out between them. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

“Instead of going back to your old group of friends, who are going to encourage you to go back to drug use, you’re now in a completely different environment of support,” Carpenter says. Most classes meet in a large central room that feels part art studio, part living room. Photo: Austin Haeberle.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Research has shown that a majority of the educators who teach English-language learners (ELLs) are creating their own instructional materials — often with little oversight — that don’t necessarily match the student’s grade level or the rigor required by state academic standards. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

The consensus among the educators who participated in our focus groups was that making is a way for students to make order out of chaos and that this path is expectedly going to be messy. While most educators in our focus groups expressed similar ideas to Flamm, they did not offer one singular definition of making.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It’s important to note that right off the bat, none of these say “lecturer,” “discipliner,” “instructional designer,” “whole group manager,” “data entry clerk,” or any of the other things that teachers are doing daily. Live leading the whole group (capturing attention). Pairing students for small group work.

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