Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

It has spurred the publication of white papers, launch of incubators and conferences, as well as interest amongst journalists and advocacy groups. Pre- and post-test data will be collected, as well as usage data and responses to monthly surveys and self-assessment data. Meet the Semifinalists !

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Mobility Advocacy Data Accessibility 174

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

In early 2020, at an academic conference just before the pandemic hit, Powell commiserated with other experts in special education and students who struggle in math. A majority of students weren’t mastering the subject, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test that tracks academic achievement.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 24, 2019

Steve Albrecht with " Coaching Skills for Library Managers and Supervisors: Getting Better Performance and Behavior From Your Employees One Meeting at a Time " on February 12th. Then, being announced today, is " Library Advocacy: Everyday Marketing Tools and Techniques " with Dr. Sue Alman on February 21st. in Psychology, and a B.A.

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Libraries Advocacy Social Media MOOC 28

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Wednesday, November 18th, is day three of the sixth annual Global Education Conference. We've had two great days of sessions and keynotes, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page. Thomas Petra ‏ @ RealWorldMath 6h 6 hours ago Day 2 of the Global Educ Conference.

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Shake Up Learning

JULY 5, 2022

Together they discuss how inclusive learning is meeting the needs of all learners. One of those resources is a self-assessment tool to examine how well a teacher is providing inclusive strategies. The self-assessment can also be useful in providing new mindsets or shifts for how to provide more inclusive strategies. .

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Assistive Technology Learning Strategy Resources 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Attend workshops, webinars, and conferences to learn about emerging trends, innovative teaching methods, and best practices. Educational Conferences and Events: Attend educational conferences and events, both locally and nationally. Regularly exchange ideas, attend meet-ups, and collaborate on projects.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The sixth annual Global Education Conference , our free four-day online event bringing together educators and innovators from around the world, runs today Monday, November 16 through Thursday, November 19, 2015 (November 20th in some time zones). We invite all to attend! A full listing of sessions is below. You're going to be blown away.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 16, 2018

In fact, many school technology plans fluctuated depending upon the latest fads and what someone learned at a conference and had little connection to curriculum or learning goals. Imperative 5: Create Balanced Assessments. Assessments look far different than 10-15 years ago, but it’s not just the switch to computerized testing.

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Technology PowerMyLearning Learning EdTech 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

Leo Tolstoy The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own "conference 2.0" Come join our free online conference this Wednesday evening and all day Thursday. Global Education Conference Call For Proposals Opens May 1st! Choose from six conference strands , and plan to submit early! Looking forward to seeing you there!

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2016

We heard the buzz at AASL sessions, in the ISTE Librarians Playground , at the ISTELibrarians breakfast , and more importantly, at sessions at both conferences where others outside our little tent could hear the message. The printable Future Ready Librarians Fact Sheet can be a critical advocacy tool.

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Future Ready Libraries Advocacy Digital Learning 74

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2016

We heard the buzz at AASL sessions, in the ISTE Librarians Playground , at the ISTELibrarians breakfast , and more importantly, at sessions at both conferences where others outside our little tent could hear the message. The printable Future Ready Librarians Fact Sheet can be a critical advocacy tool.

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Future Ready Libraries Advocacy Digital Learning 41

NeverEndingSearch

JULY 1, 2016

We heard the buzz at AASL sessions, in the ISTE Librarians Playground , at the ISTELibrarians breakfast , and more importantly, at sessions at both conferences where others outside our little tent could hear the message. The printable Future Ready Librarians Fact Sheet can be a critical advocacy tool.

Future Ready 40

Future Ready Libraries Advocacy Digital Learning 40

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

The discussion was energized by an announcement made by Cengage immediately ahead of the conference, but this is a conversation that has been percolating for a while now. Lumen provides for-fee, value-added hosting, integration, assessment, messaging, and other services around openly licensed content.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 1, 2020

Whether schools are 1:1 or still relying on computer carts, the move to online assessments creates new needs from devices to professional development to data privacy policies. Have an instructional framework centered around curriculum design before talking about assessment. Feedback is more than just one assessment.

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Online Assessments Assessment Student Data Privacy BYOD 53

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 21, 2017

The purpose of this post is not to decry Accelerated Reader, although I do know this reading assessment/incentive program is not viewed favorably in some education circles. At the next staff meeting, we shared these commitments, answered any questions about their meaning and intent, and then held an anonymous vote via Google Forms.

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Assessment Report Outcomes Guidelines 44

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2017

An accurate and thoughtful assessment of a student’s abilities and interests. Many districts rely on formal assessments to help schools create viable plans for students. In high school, Peter began to take control of his IEP meetings and frequently gave input about his future goals and aspirations. He blames the system.

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Outcomes Education Report Survey 88

edWeb.net

MARCH 19, 2019

Even in today’s tech-heavy environment, before moving to online assessments, leadership needs to ask: Should we? During their presentation, “Online Assessment: An Evolving Landscape and New Opportunities,” they discussed the lessons they learned when they made the transition and what they would change if they could.

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Online Assessments Assessment PowerMyLearning BYOD 45

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In 2007, Maine’s then-commissioner, Susan Gendron, invited DeLorenzo to speak at a summer conference for superintendents in Bar Harbor. At the end of the conference, she took a survey: 80 percent of attendees said they supported the RISC philosophy, but only a quarter said they were ready to make the leap, she said in an interview.

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Learning Report System Case Study 111

eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Key points: About two-thirds of American students fail to meet reading standards every year when tested in 4 th , 8 th , and 12 th grades. 7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population.

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Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

Assess whether we are learning more and getting better. One approach I like and utilize annually is collaboratively assessing student work. Assess whether students are learning more. But if this is all that a school uses, we are outsourcing our abilities to accurately assess the learning that occurred within one school year.

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Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

Assess whether we are learning more and getting better. One approach I like and utilize annually is collaboratively assessing student work. Assess whether students are learning more. But if this is all that a school uses, we are outsourcing our abilities to accurately assess the learning that occurred within one school year.

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Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Dr. Gearing is a frequent presenter at state and regional conferences and has participated in national educational leadership activities such as the Connected Superintendents Summit at the White House. Today, Ann works as a public speaker, writer, and education consultant focused on leadership to meet the needs of today’s students.

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Data Student Data Privacy Policies Training 98

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. Assessment of students has also been transformed in many cases, with a greater emphasis on students’ social-emotional well-being and behavioral characteristics, in addition to their academic achievement. Improving the use of the various types of assessment data is another priority.

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Technology Blended Learning BYOD Assessment 97

MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

” The Gibsons gave APM Reports an audio recording of the meeting where they discussed the test results with staff at their son Eddie’s school. Scores on the National Assessment for Educational Progress showed most students were not reading proficiently. And, oh, we don’t agree with it.’

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Training Report Groups System 78

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. NEC Display Solutions of America, Inc.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 54

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

She finds the program gives her extra time to meet individual kids’ needs. And the lessons about independence and self-advocacy lead to kids who know how and when to ask for help. They also set academic goals, ask questions, request feedback and prepare for meetings with their mentors through the platform.

Learning 117

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 117

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Though the faculty teach the courses and the universities control admission standards and confer the graduates’ degrees, much of the work of building and managing the courses is done by the companies. GMU is one of a number of schools across the country that have faced challenges from faculty advocacy groups over these partnerships.

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Company Education Industry Course 57

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

CoSN 2014 Annual Conference Reminder. March 19th - 22nd in Washington DC will be the annual CoSN Conference. The conference starts with an opening "Town Hall Forum" with the Hon. The conference starts with an opening "Town Hall Forum" with the Hon. Learning Revolution Online Conference: Call for Proposals.

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Libraries Google Common Core Conference 51

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

A few months ago, I had the opportunity to participate in a systems thinking panel at the Ashoka U conference. To offset all this double counting, there is the separate issue of the many “whole course” OER that OTL refuses to index because they don’t meet the OTL’s definition of “textbook.” Unless there’s a shorter one.

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OER Course Company Smartphone 78

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

I delivered this talk today at the OEB MidSummit conference in Reykjavik, Iceland. I recognize that the theme of this conference is “shaping the future of learning” but I want to talk a little bit about the past. ” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s.

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Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

PRIEST RIVER, Idaho —The moms seated at the conference table on Election Day were worried. Buildings are infrequently cleaned; an elementary school principal reported at an October school board meeting that mice were running over children’s feet and hallways smelled of urine. The policy ended up passing 4-0.

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Elementary Report Meeting Policies 132

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Half a dozen of the 4,100 students in Dillon gathered in a conference room at Dillon High School and said they’re proud of their school and community, which is near the North Carolina border 70 miles northwest of Myrtle Beach. Obama had seen Corridor and wanted to meet him and the people in the film from Dillon and elsewhere.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” The Atlantic writes about the absence of Betsy DeVos at this year’s Education Writers Association conference. refuse to be photographed with Ryan.”

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