EdTechTeacher

APRIL 9, 2015

Recently, we discovered a feature of Google Drive that has changed how we prepare and access materials and resources for our students. Adobe Acrobat was our “go to” application for this type of conversion, but it was costly and often hard to come by in an educational setting. View the Full Course Catalog at ettsummer.org.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2022

The Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment for Reading as an approved universal screener for early literacy. i-Ready makes the promise of differentiated instruction a practical reality for teachers and students. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.— More about i-Ready.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Until all students are treated equally and given access to similar educational resources, we have little chance of achieving equality in K-12 schools. Checking off all of these boxes isn’t always easy in traditional educational settings, where many schools have yet to tap into the value of online, blended, and/or personalized learning.

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Doug Levin

MAY 12, 2015

I work in K-12 education in the U.S., and I am merely a fan – not a fanboy – of open educational resources (OER).** K-12 context, including issues of accessibility , the copyright that should get assigned to teacher-created materials , and interoperability gaps and needs. I have a confession to make.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2022

January 27, 2022— The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment as an approved universal literacy and dyslexia screener for the 2022–2023 school year. All i-Ready district partners have ongoing access to Curriculum Associates’ award-winning customer service.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2023

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment to its Commissioner’s List of Approved Grade 7 Reading Instruments. Results from the reading assessments will help inform additional reading instruction and intervention for students. “To NORTH BILLERICA, Mass. —

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Its diverse catalog of award-winning courses in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences are taught by hand-picked, world-class instructors from NASA, MIT, Harvard, Yale, and other top institutions. The courses are designed to fit within a standard 45-minute period.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2023

Lightning struck: There didn’t seem to be a place where teachers could share educational resources with each other, which might help them sort through it all. Called AwesomeSTEAM , it’s a small platform that collects open educational resources from around the web. I know directories exist, like, students have access to libraries.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

September 23, 2021— The Oregon Department of Education (ODE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment to its Approved Universal Screening Tools for Risk Factors of Dyslexia list for the 2021–2022 school year. i-Ready supports educators in screening for potential risk factors of dyslexia. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The accessibility of free, high-quality, and instructional internet films, available on websites such as YouTube, is a natural complement to contemporary educational settings. YouTube’s most prominent feature is that its videos may be helpful in many other kinds of educational systems, particularly online education.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

. – I want to focus instead on one aspect of how we are shifting from print to digital: the procurement decision schools make about whether to license digital instructional materials or purchase them outright, because I think ownership of instructional materials matters.**. Image credits.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In an effort to help educators, parents and other education technology consumers make better choices about the products they use, Digital Promise spent the last year developing a “research-based design” product certification. ISTE (EdSurge’s parent organization) offers a “seal” for products that align to its pedagogical standards.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

. “At Savvas, we are committed to developing innovative learning solutions that are powered by the most advanced technology to help educators meet the needs of all students,” said Bethlam Forsa, CEO of Savvas Learning Company. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY At Savvas, we believe learning should inspire.

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Edsurge

MAY 25, 2020

With some schools already announcing they will not reopen normally in the fall, and many others considering their options , educators are hoping to take advantage of the summer to improve on this spring’s sink-or-swim plunge into distance learning. For many, the recent leap to remote instruction felt rushed, chaotic and disorganized.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

August18, 2022— The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) has added Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment for Grades K–12 to its approved list of Gifted EducationAssessment Measuresto identify students’ eligibility for gifted education programs in the achievement domain. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., About Curriculum Associates.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Then COVID-19 catapulted education into crisis mode, forcing her and all students and teachers into at-home learning situations across the world. Access to computers and Wi-Fi at home was woefully inadequate. The protests collided with the pandemic to magnify the inequities of public education like nothing else in recent times.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 18, 2023

Teachers are coming out of the fog that has blinded and consumed education for the past two or so years. As we plot a course of action, we need systems to cease being those very gulfs that Tennyson mentions in “Ulysses” because we find ourselves once strong and triumphant, now beaten, broken, withered, and battered. We are change.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2022

April 3, 2022— The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) recently named Curriculum Associates’ i-Ready Assessment to its approved list of dyslexia screeners. Meeting these requirements, i-Ready supports educators in screening for potential risk factors associated with dyslexia. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

This is especially evident over the decade, as schools have increasingly adopted mobile learning as a signature initiative using BYOD and 1:1 programs and investing in tablets to provide their students with access to a wealth of relevant educational content and learning opportunities. Designing learning materials for mobile devices.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 21, 2023

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. The idea of “zero textbook costs” makes a kind of sense when you believe that the ideal instructional materials are books.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

These apps offer specialized courses, step by step guides and lessons, video tutorials, access to online teachers, and many more. Flowkey's library contains a wide range of courses and songs from classical to pop that you can easily access and work on. Just open the app to access piano tutorials!

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2021

June 22, 2021— The Indiana Department of Education recently named Curriculum Associates a School Improvement Preferred Technical Assistance Partner to Support COVID-19 Recovery and Student Learning. The Diagnostic provides educators with actionable criterion-referenced and normative data to deliver impactful, equitable learning experiences.

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ExcelinEd

JUNE 10, 2020

Department of Education made available almost $3 billion for the Governor’s Emergency Education Relief Fund (GEER). As governors across the country decide how to spend GEER funding, some are also applying to the Department’s Rethink K-12 Education Discretionary Grant Program. Priority 3: Other Remote Learning Strategies.

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Digital Promise

MAY 20, 2016

But our adult basic education programs can only serve roughly four million of those adults. This gap between the need and available educational services has prompted calls for innovative ways to improve access to quality educational resources. The four key factors: Use a real-world instructional design challenge.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

Some digitally enabled K–12 schools find it difficult to provide appropriate lesson plans that can be accessed by all students, said Tim Clark, director of curriculum, instruction and digital learning at Chicago Public Schools. . CoSN 2019: K–12 Schools Address Digital Equity with Curriculum Framework. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2023

The study demonstrated that students who used i-Ready Personalized Instruction gained significantly more points on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS) in English Language Arts and Mathematics than those who did not use i-Ready Personalized Instruction. Today the i-Ready program serves more than 11.5

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

The district has also decided to support their educators through this critical time by ensuring strong, ongoing implementations of Core5 and PowerUp via yearlong Success Partnerships with Lexia. “We Teachers also really like how user-friendly the educator platform is. About Lexia Learning. About Cambium Learning Group, Inc.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2022

March 17, 2022— Whether students are prepared for grade-level learning matters more to their progress over the course of the pandemic than whether they were remote or in school, according to a new report released by Curriculum Associates. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,March in school or remote) as a proxy for learning location.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

All of these resources—including authentic Spanish Reading lessons for Grades K–2, new Spanish versions of Mathematics lessons for Grades K–6, and a new Assessment of Spanish Reading for Grades K–6—are all designed for students to see themselves in the learning materials as they work to meet ambitious goals this school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

When a leading research university announces the removal of more than 20,000 course videos and podcasts from the public, in response to a U.S. The scrutiny, while challenging for these organizations, can yield improved accessibility of digital content over time if organizations heed the call. Accessibility is not optional.”.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

As schools and districts try to reduce textbook costs and digitize instructional resources, one of the struggles many teachers have is finding good repositories of open education resources (OER). The first step is to know how to access OER resources. Accessing OER. How to find OER.

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Edsurge

MAY 27, 2020

state has begun, in varying degrees, to reopen businesses and relax lockdown restrictions, there is still little certainty—or consensus—as to what the future of education holds this fall. The summer is also an opportunity for educators to improve the quality of their remote instruction, in the event they must teach remotely again.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

In fact, racism is systemically embedded into our educational institution and can be camouflaged with other issues like socioeconomic status and even the learning loss from the COVID-19 pandemic. With Black students not even scoring half of the overall percentage, we’ve just gotten a sign to ring the alarm on equity in science education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

BIOZONE has just published an exciting new AP Environmental Science title (in print and eBook) dedicated to addressing the College Board’s new APES Course & Exam Description (2019). Limited broadband access may be an obstacle for many students. Increased incidence and severity of wildfires (California, Australia, Brazil, Siberia).

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

As aspects of pre-pandemic life slowly emerge from nearly two years of masking, testing, and social distancing, educators are once again gathering at edtech conferences to experience the latest and greatest solutions, digital tools, and professional learning opportunities. Sandbox AR is available for download here.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2021

Acting as the ultimate teacher’s assistant, ChalkTalk enables teachers to build hyper-personalized courses in under 2 minutes. ChalkTalk mitigates all the prep work that goes into creating personalized lesson plans, teaching materials, in-class activities, and homework assignments, bringing prep time down to two minutes.

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