Reading By Example

APRIL 30, 2016

Solutions in the past have included extending the school day, increasing expectations through common standards, and holding schools and educators accountable for student learning through high-stakes tests. However, these gaps were created before many students even took their first steps through the school doors. First, this work takes a deficit-based approach, where students lacking knowledge or skills can be viewed as less than capable than their higher-achieving peers.

Student Engagement 34

Student Engagement Assessment Meeting Advocacy 34

Reading By Example

APRIL 30, 2016

Solutions in the past have included extending the school day, increasing expectations through common standards, and holding schools and educators accountable for student learning through high-stakes tests. However, these gaps were created before many students even took their first steps through the school doors. First, this work takes a deficit-based approach, where students lacking knowledge or skills can be viewed as less than capable than their higher-achieving peers.

Student Engagement 34

Student Engagement Assessment Meeting Advocacy 34

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2019

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, director of customer advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. Related content: 5 discussion tools to fuel student engagement. While definitions of SEL can vary, key elements include self-awareness and social awareness, relationship skills, self-management, and responsible decision making.

Dropout 87

Dropout Secondary Advocacy Elementary 87

Reading By Example

MAY 7, 2016

Technology should definitely be included within a makerspace, but it is not required at a level you might assume. This initiative was spurred by the results from a BrightBytes survey all staff and students took previously. Students were involved from the get go in selecting what was needed for this space. Before the room was even ready, teachers and students started utilizing our makerspace. Using these steps, the students got started.

Survey 31

Survey Libraries Mobility Training 31

Reading By Example

MAY 7, 2016

Technology should definitely be included within a makerspace, but it is not required at a level you might assume. This initiative was spurred by the results from a BrightBytes survey all staff and students took previously. Students were involved from the get go in selecting what was needed for this space. Before the room was even ready, teachers and students started utilizing our makerspace. Using these steps, the students got started.

Survey 31

Survey Libraries Mobility Training 31

Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 10, 2020

I posted the first installment yesterday, explaining how a fundamental failure to understand copyright makes the definition of OER in the new UNESCO recommendation nonsensical. It seems like much of the OER community has all but forgotten about student learning.

OER 78

OER Advocacy Course Report 78

edWeb.net

AUGUST 26, 2019

A recent edWebinar led by Bobbi Bear, Director of Customer Advocacy for Achieve3000, identified effective ways to integrate SEL with reading instruction, through classroom conversations about nonfiction and fiction texts. While definitions of SEL can vary, key elements include self-awareness and social awareness, relationship skills, self-management, and responsible decision making. At Achieve3000®, we believe literacy is the key to unlocking student success.

Advocacy 56

Advocacy Secondary Differentiated Instruction Dropout 56

Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2017

Personalized learning is something teachers do, something students do, something teachers do with students, or something students do with one another. A short list of organizations includes funders like the Gates Foundation and Next Generation Learning Challenges and advocacy groups like the International Association for K-12 Online Learning (iNACOL) and the International Society of Technology Education (ISTE). The latest buzzword in U.S.

Personalized Learning 113

Personalized Learning Advocacy Blended Learning Learning 113

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2017

The Windsor Locks High School freshman belongs to the first cohort of students going through middle and high school under a new system. The small Connecticut town, just south of the Massachusetts border, is in its fifth year under a system that asks students to master specific skills in every subject. But the commitment to helping all students achieve mastery has attracted new teachers. Already, the district’s standardized test scores have begun to reflect students’ growth.

Advocacy 73

Advocacy Common Core System Report 73

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Seniors at High Tech High School’s Media Arts campus in San Diego work on a project examining teenage stress and how to decrease it at a point in students’ lives when they’re making high-stakes decisions about college and careers. Now, policymakers are urging schools to put the 12th grade to better use, teaching students skills that many haven’t learned, as a way of improving college enrollment and college graduation.

Advocacy 64

Advocacy Survey Course Report 64

The Hechinger Report

JULY 16, 2018

Students engage in creative activities on the playground at Pre-K 4 SA North Education Center in San Antonio, Texas. Another challenged an eager student to a building contest at a LEGO table. Since 2013, the program has served almost 8,000 students in its four education centers and awarded $8.5 She said she sees clear evidence, as do others in her field, that developing those skills helps students persevere, work with others and think critically. $35

Advocacy 69

Advocacy iPad Outcomes Elementary 69

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Affluent students get to digital tools for creative exploration; poor students get to use theirs for test prep. Students don’t pay attention to lectures, they would argue.

Pearson 114

Pearson MOOC Knewton Khan Academy 114