Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. See our report on edtech venture capital for more details.)

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2019

we responded to this dilemma by leveraging and training our student leaders to offer mentorship and mediation for their peers. We wrote our own training program focused on developing listening skills, empathy, affirmation and mentee-led goal setting practices. At Westgate Community School, a K-12 school in Thornton, Colo.,

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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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. Gone are the days when a blackboard/whiteboard and textbooks were the only student resources available to learners.

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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. Unfortunately, though, there are no reliable ratings or certifications for these products -- no Consumer Reports. So how do you choose? That's pretty good buy-in.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education, in partnership with the Huffington Post. They spoke of teachers inadequately trained to support special education students. Photo courtesy Michelle McLaughlin.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

My question comes at a time when states like Louisiana are imposing academic standards for preschool education, and as the state education department there is giving $265,000 for technology to 29 parishes participating in a pilot program.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

“But, it’s all over the place,” he laments, “with the various textbooks, standards, digital search engines, and vendors.”. Ralyea knows well the challenge of haphazard coordination, having lived it in South Carolina, where he had to work with a standards-based report card.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. In this ongoing series, The Hechinger Report is visiting high schools that have beaten the long odds to learn what’s behind their success in improving graduation rates and sending more students to college. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. Research found that a $3.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

But training programs are doing little to prepare teachers; Fair’s experience is typical. A study in 2007 found that general education teachers in a teacher preparation program reported taking an average of 1.5 Maybe not: What two new reports show about teacher preparation. Educators say little has changed since then.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

However, teachers do not always have the time, resources, and proper training needed to really help students develop sustainable coping skills. standardized test results suggested that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed nearly two decades of progress in math and reading for K-12 students. Pedagogical alignment is equally critical.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2016

They most likely believe someone in the building will have some sort of degree relating to early childhood and that teachers will be supervised and supported by a director who is well trained and well versed in the best practices of child care. Staff members at the centers gave a variety of reasons for the directors’ absence.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2015

High school teachers may not be getting sufficient opportunities and training to learn the very subjects they are teaching–and students are taking notice–according to new findings from YouthTruth Student Survey and a new analysis on education colleges conducted by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ).

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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. Reporter Kirsten Clark can be reached at 502-582-4144. But we do.”.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 55

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Of course, the potential of two professional adults in the room to lead instruction often is unrealized, for reasons practical (lack of time to collaborate and plan together) and pedagogical (lack of training and practice on co-teaching structures). Alignment to academic standards is usually more prominent and obvious.

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Assessment Course Khan Academy Blended Learning 59

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Progress reports go out on Thursday and the teachers are up in arms because they can’t enter scores into their online gradebook. But in a competency-based model, teachers must assess and record a student’s performance on each academic standard within and across subjects.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2021

In five years of training residents at NTR, we’ve found many people with the potential to become amazing teachers if given the training, support and opportunity to do so. Related: This may be the best way to train teachers – and yes, we can afford it. Again, kids are suffering because of this — but we can do something about it.

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Dropout Training Academic Standards System 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

Cambridge Street Upper school math teacher Stephen Abreu is also a trained facilitator for weekly discussions among teachers about race and bias. Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Another colleague confesses her surprise at how often teachers of color have reported experiencing racial bias in their own interactions in the building.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 30, 2021

The what is decided by academic standards, and the when by curriculum maps and pacing guides–and all of it by anyone but the student. Without that as a context, the ‘learning’ is really a kind of academic training. In most public schools, choosing what to learn and why isn’t a big priority.

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Learning Industry Academic Standards Study 116

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

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. Writing lengthy individual student reports. A great deal of them are logistics work and require a whole set of skills most teachers have little training in.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. Certificates typically take less time to earn than a degree and train students to be cosmetologists , truck drivers and medical assistants, among other jobs. Photo: Gretchen Ertl for The Hechinger Report. OAKHAM, Mass. – The timing seemed fortuitous. Premier fits this pattern.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Photo: Meryl Schenker for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Meryl Schenker for The Hechinger Report. The tight budget meant the teachers who volunteered to run Hope Academy had little additional training. Photo: Meryl Schenker for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Meryl Schenker for The Hechinger Report. SEQUIM, Wash.

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Report Handbook Academic Standards Study 97

MindShift

APRIL 29, 2019

Another colleague confesses her surprise at how often teachers of color have reported experiencing racial bias in their own interactions in the building. Cambridge Street Upper school math teacher Stephen Abreu is also a trained facilitator for weekly discussions among teachers about race and bias. Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Nationwide, about 65 percent of public high schools reported offering opportunities for students to participate in work-based learning during the 2007-08 school year, the last year data on the topic was collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Duxbury, Vt. —

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Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 87

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

Early education sets the train in motion for where children are going to end up.”. Many recited numbers up to 30 by memory, meeting a new academic standard that Mississippi adopted for kindergarteners amid the rollout of Common Core Standards. Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Skeptics remain.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Holzweiss said she avoids outdated book report questions and formats. In other words, school librarians should be trained educators charged with providing information literacy opportunities to learners across an array of contexts. Students can find a video, photo, song, podcast, meme, or gif that illustrates a theme in their book.

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Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

Steve Kolowich is such a great reporter. ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “George Mason’s President Says Some Donor Agreements Fell ‘Short’ of Academic Standards.” The Business of Job Training. Digital training company QuizRR has raised $1.3 million total.

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MOOC Education Robotics Company 42