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The Impact of Creativity on College and Career Readiness

Edsurge

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Rubrics help bring more concrete assessment to creativity , a skill that many otherwise consider difficult to score. What creative skills are employers looking for?

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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

The Hechinger Report

We provided statewide access to training and tutoring for assessments in partnership with our teacher advocacy organizations and focused on building community among Black educators. And we launched the nation’s first state-run teacher residency program for teachers: Our first class of residents, as I recall, was over 70 percent Black.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom

Waterford

2] This can refer to any stressful or traumatic event that occurs during childhood, such as health issues, loss of a loved one, community violence, and abuse or neglect.[4] Anxiety about grades and assessments is one of the major causes (outside of ACEs) of student stress.[12] Inability to control their emotions. Sources : Sigler, M.K.

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Learning Walks

A Principal's Reflections

To help achieve an ROI we increased the number of formal observations and evaluations, collected learning artifacts (lesson plans, assessments, student work, etc.) They have also been completing job-embedded tasks after these sessions and completed a reflective questionnaire as part of ICLE’s Digital Practice Assessment (DPA) process.

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Do protocols for school safety infringe on disability rights?

The Hechinger Report

18, Richmond received an email from the Jefferson County School District: AJ was suspended while the district evaluated his risk of violence, a formal process known as a behavioral threat assessment. Still, policymakers increasingly see the use of threat assessment teams as a viable way to prevent mass shootings.

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs.

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AI, Instructional Design, and OER

Iterating Toward Openness

While most of the dialog around AI and education seems to be focused on assessment, I think the implications for instructional designers are critically important, too. Reference materials and technical documentation are informational resources. Especially if you need to create several thousand assessment items.

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