Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2017

Teachers have a lot to juggle: state standards, district expectations, literacy assessments, reading and writing workshop, STEM, social studies, RTI, and math. I am always working with teachers to make sense of our state standards. Our primary goal was to compare and contrast the standards for each subject.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2016

Supplementary STEM videos serve to engage students in science learning. These supplemental STEM resources can enhance science curriculum connecting science teaching and learning to career and college readiness. . The South Carolina State Board of Education approved the adoption with Carolina Biological.

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ExcelinEd

OCTOBER 24, 2019

UNCF teamed up with the ACT to release a study specific to college and career readiness and along with the study, we’ve included recommendations on how we can address the overwhelming college readiness gap. We must establish clear, high and common academic standards in the classroom.

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techlearning

AUGUST 28, 2018

Each lesson includes facilitation suggestions, materials lists, center setup, and academic standards alignment. Each lesson plan provides specific setup suggestions, facilitation tips, and information on addressing cross-curricular connections and academic standards.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment. Most require that the students meet minimum academic standards and earn a predetermined number of credits. Cornell never told Wolf, who is from Millburn, New Jersey, why she was admitted conditionally, she said.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

Even the transparency and apparent relevance of a classroom activity factor into the “value” of a learning experience as much as how cleanly that activity aligns with an academic standard. There have been enough studies done to show that a well-written multiple-choice question actually measures understanding fairly well.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

The lack of clear system likely stems from the deep American ambivalence over how much government should intervene in the lives of very young children and how much should be left to families, said Rhian Evans Allvin, executive director of the National Association for Young Children. It’s not that we don’t know what better standards look like.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Related: Eight ways to introduce kids to STEM at an early age. These goals still guide the district today. We’ve become laser-focused on these areas in order to really bring up the achievement levels,” said Ayala. Related: Why very young children can — and should — learn math.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Rather than being challenged, he was allowed to use a teacher-made study guide while taking exams at his California high school. He said he never had to study or actually learn anything to get an A. high school with a traditional diploma, proving that his disability didn’t prevent him from meeting the same standards as his peers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

million 12- to 17-year-olds still met the criteria for a substance use disorder in 2014, and studies find that 9 in 10 adults with addiction problems began their chemical dependency before age 18. “My Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. My friends are all proud of me.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Shahan said that it became even harder for charters to reach their projected scores when the state stiffened its academic standards, creating more difficult versions of the state test starting in 2013. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

That’s the first word that Anna Kwan, a K-5 STEM teacher at a public school in Aurora, Colo., Few were subject-specific classroom teachers who had to adhere to a particular curriculum or set of academic standards and faced more difficulty slipping making practices into their day-to-day teaching.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

In a December 2016 letter by Clark County Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky to Kelly about the pilot program, Skorkowsky noted that students enjoyed lessons about data literacy from the product’s visualizations and about science from real-world case studies. Students also liked the avatar-based 3-D games. “I Both efforts have largely gone dark.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 30, 2015

Science has become a perhaps overly-micro study of stuff rather than a system for acquiring knowledge and moving from theory to data. And here we are, and the Common Core Standards (no matter what you might think of them) are asking all teachers to teach writing.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In addition to their focus on reading, library teachers are responsible for promoting information and digital literacies, which help democratize academic standards and provide students access to learning resources otherwise unavailable. But this simply isn’t true in the modern educational climate.

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