eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2023

Helping one of the world’s largest book publishers create inclusive learning and teaching materials is one way we can do this.” It also includes instructional materials and digital resources to help teachers build literacy skills and social-emotional awareness.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

And while the materials he uses match his students’ level of English proficiency, Brock said he sometimes feels like he’s insulting their intelligence. A nationwide survey of ELL educators by McKinsey & Company during the 2012-13 school year revealed 70 percent created their own materials. He isn’t alone.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

It is time to take a hard look at the policies that keep our diverse students from learning from teachers who look like them. My district’s seniority-based layoff policy resulted in my being given a termination notice two years into my teaching career. Districts not making layoffs need to do more to recruit and hire teachers of color.

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

If the workday of an adult typically requires seamless broadband access, then it’s reasonable that today’s students need the same access during their school day. The key is the state leadership to make broadband accessible to all. More important, states are starting to recognize the need for equitable access off site.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 21, 2023

For example, politicians understand costs much better than they understand learning, which makes policy work and other political advocacy around eliminating textbook costs far easier than advocating for ways that “open” (whatever that word means) might be leveraged to improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Rather, it stems from a lack of access to rigorous, age-appropriate instruction in the field. Review accessibility and accommodation policies If existing policies for assessment accommodation do not consider the diversity of challenges and needs of English learners, policies should be revised.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

As students return to the classroom this fall — many for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that upended their access to quality, in-person learning — we have an opportunity to enact standards to ensure that teachers’ instruction methods are effective and backed by science.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We know that many federal education dollars are still unused ; we believe families should have direct access to educational resources so they can find the right fit for their children’s unique learning styles. This moment gives us an opportunity to address accessibility as well. To call it disastrous understates it.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2022

This dyslexia screening process is part of Arizona’s Move on When Reading policy, which is designed to provide students with evidence-based, effective reading instruction in order to position them for success as they progress through school, college, and career. To learn more about i-Ready , visit CurriculumAssociates.com/i-Ready.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Currently, 48 states and the District of Columbia have adopted state-level, dual-enrollment policies, including 28 states that have established multiple dual-enrollment programs, according to the Education Commission of the States.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 16, 2017

Access to online resources including digital content, interactive education apps and websites, videos, experts and peers is no longer a “nice to have” but rather a necessity. Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director, SETDA, noted the importance of having safe WiFi access.

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eSchool News

JULY 27, 2022

Our partnership with OpenSciEd gives middle school teachers access to free, standards-aligned, technology-integrated instructional materials to support this work. The Vernier business culture is grounded in Earth-friendly policies and practices, and the company provides a family-friendly workplace.

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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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edWeb.net

AUGUST 7, 2018

Questioning the quality of instructional materials isn’t new to the digital education era. Thus, there is the potential for more disparity in the quality of materials from school to school. State leaders need to make sure they are giving educators the tools they need to select the best materials for the classroom.

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Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

Note: The original version of this piece was published on July 7, 2016 by New America as part of an EdCentral series on the next social contract for education: https://www.newamerica.org/education-policy/edcentral/next-social-contract-public-education-needs-new-terms-service/.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

I’m imagining a school environment where students get to bring their own device, and they have access to different learning resources over the internet. Blended classes greatly benefit from BYOD scenarios because most of the class instructional materials are on the cloud and all students need to do is to sync them on their devices.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

A day late perhaps, but here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. That we go through elaborate theater to suggest that this is NOT true of online testing says more about education policy than technology.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

Just because a mandate has been passed, it doesn’t mean there’s necessarily a plan for implementation, access to training or a repository of resources, all of which are necessary to put it into practice with fidelity. It’s not even guaranteed that district- and school-based staff are aware of the mandate at all.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

Refocusing classrooms around up-and-coming digital materials requires more than just adding a new tech-based product or two as many processes for reviewing and purchasing instructional materials are still built around print textbooks. “We saw that our code was only looking at the adoption of textbooks,” said DeLeón.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Policies OER 40

Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

Students must have access to digital content that engages them in problems worth solving. In the last few years, public policy across the country has decisively moved to enable the creation of modern learning environments. However, too many students are still in the same situation I was years ago — disengaged from learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Online instructional materials have come a long way from the McGuffey Readers of the late 1800s. Microschools can also take advantage of online course providers like VLACS , FLVS or Outschool to access specialist teachers without needing to hire those teachers as full-time staff.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

Access to online resources including digital content, interactive education apps and websites, videos, experts and peers is no longer a “nice to have” but rather a necessity. States, districts and schools are also uniquely positioned to share reduce cost or no cost out-of-school access options for families. Out-of-School Access Chart.

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SETDA Says

DECEMBER 19, 2019

2019 was an action packed year for SETDA. Always working to engage state leaders, affiliates members, private sector partners, and partner organizations-SETDA developed tools and resources to support national, state, district and school leaders in the implementation of the digital teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. Lindsay Dworkin, SVP of Policy & Government Affairs, NWEA The pendulum has swung quickly toward the Science of Reading.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2020

We need to rethink how, where and when we are delivering instruction and making learning accessible. When technology is truly reimagining the task at hand, then we say that it is leading to redefinition —a totally new and different way of interacting with instructional material, building understanding or demonstrating mastery.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2023

In addition to motivating teachers by building relationships rooted in trust and respect, administrators can provide teachers with the support and resources we need to be effective and successful, including professional development opportunities, mentoring and access to instructional materials and technology.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A team of students from INCubatoredu, a high school entrepreneurship program based in Illinois, reworked their business Trashbots to make robotics and coding accessible and provide hands-on STEM education at home. There are a lot of digital materials out there that may not be well-aligned with curricula,” she said.

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SETDA Says

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Guest Post from Cynthia Curry is Co-Director of the National Center on Accessible Educational Materials for Learning (AEM Center) What do you get when you combine a state educational technology director with a state accessibility expert?

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2022

The partnership will provide educators and students with instant access to high-quality assessments aligned to the curriculum already being used in their classrooms. CenterPoint welcomes this opportunity to expand student and teacher access to our one-of-a-kind assessments,” said LJ Sylvester, Vice President of Growth at CenterPoint.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 23, 2016

Today, we know much more about designing effective instruction, and teachers and students have more instructional resource options than ever before. Students must have access to digital content that engages them in problems worth solving. To change this, three things need to happen.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Many states provide guidance for the implementation of digital materials in districts to help ensure that they are available to all learners.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 13, 2019

As explained by Christine Fox, Deputy Executive Director of SETDA, during a recent edWebinar , this searchable information will help educational leaders ensure that the materials they purchase are high-quality, aligned with their standards and goals, and accessible to all students.

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Instructional Materials Accessibility Policies OER 41

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2020

“ While having more options for students to access higher education is good, these hasty shifts to online teaching may become an excuse to further inject privatization into U.S. Faculty should review carefully any contract their institution has with OPMs and revisit their institution’s instructional Intellectual Property policy.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2015

Creating OER, which are free to use, share, and edit, would help increase educators’ access to educational, training, and instructional materials, according to the more than 85 stakeholder organizations that signed the letter. Next page: Five core principles for OER policies. Open Government National Action Plan.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 1, 2016

” Open impacts pedagogy in two ways: By increasing student access to RESOURCES, open increases the number of students who can DO things with RESOURCES. INCREASE the number of students with access to effective pedagogy). Definition: Overt or covert rearrangement of instructional materials to improve learning.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MAY 8, 2019

Despite popular rhetoric along the lines of “you can’t learn from materials you can’t afford,” their rather ingenious experiment showed that increasing access to learning materials by adopting OER instead of traditionally copyrighted resources (TCM) will almost never measurably improve learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

An increasing number of states are enacting laws designed to expand access to evidence-based reading instruction. Evidence requirements under ESSA are designed to ensure that states, districts, and schools can identify programs, practices, products, and policies that work across various populations. 95percentgroup.com.

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