eSchool News

MAY 31, 2016

As we collectively elevate teaching so that it may sit comfortably alongside other highly respected and important professions, we must think carefully about how to provide higher-quality, effective continuing education for teaching. But we’re not there yet. And they deserve access to high-quality professional learning resources.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. It is essential you understand how your systems work, how your leaders and teachers feel and act, and what your students need. Individuals have belief systems.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

The biggest challenge for leaders is how to integrate all the puzzle pieces into authentic learning experiences that support teachers in making changes that impact student learning. Technology and Professional Development. The post What Makes Professional Development Work? appeared first on edWeb.

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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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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

But in a competency-based model, teachers must assess and record a student’s performance on each academic standard within and across subjects. Bacon tells EdSurge that it’s rare to have someone within a district with the technical know-how to understand how SIF works.

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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. They’re probably going to have poor outcomes,’” she said. But we do.”. And we’ve got to reframe that.”.

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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. Over time, Fair figured out how to navigate these situations and talk students “down from the ledge.” Inclusion done right.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. Throughout her career, Hassan has supported and sponsored bills aimed at improving outcomes for people with disabilities. She said she holds her students to the same standards as their general education peers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Here’s how to help them. Related: Violent beginnings: How to help preschoolers who witness violence and trauma. Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. The standard is what’s appropriate,” Mr. Kain says. “If Are outcomes better for students attending recovery high schools?

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

If we want technology to finally transform education and teach the 21st century skills our students need to succeed, we need to design tools with the understanding that teachers are activators of learning and the secret to achieving better student outcomes. How to Empower Effective Teachers. How to Empower Extraordinary Teaching.

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eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

If we want technology to finally transform education and teach the 21st century skills our students need to succeed, we need to design tools with the understanding that teachers are activators of learning and the secret to achieving better student outcomes. How to Empower Effective Teachers. How to Empower Extraordinary Teaching.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 1, 2015

Whether you choose this or any other Understanding by Design resource, you’re going to get a focus on understanding, and how to promote it through intentional backwards design of learning experiences. This resource is a collection of short essays/chapters that explore different strands of how people think, and how to better teach it.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The new policy stands to degrade academic standards and exclude students based on race, she argued, calling it “a backdoor attempt to dismantle the exam school system altogether.” ” “We believe there is no tension between diversity and academic excellence,” he said.

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