eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2024

This article explores the significance of digital tools in social studies instruction, delving into their benefits, implications, and the emerging capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) in both elementary and secondary settings.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

This shortcoming means that, every year, nearly 100,000 elementary teachers across the country enter classrooms with false assurances that they are ready to teach reading. However, many licensure tests are weak in that they do not adequately assess teachers’ preparedness to teach reading. Far too many states are using these weak tests.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

Family partnerships formed during elementary school years build a strong foundation for future student success and continued engagement.[6] Analysis of Parental Involvement and Self-Esteem on Secondary School Students in Kieni West Sub-County, Nyeri County, Kenya.” Wairimu, M.J., Macharia, S.M., Sheldon, S. B., & Jung, S.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Indeed, it’s so aspirational that most states are not trying to reach that level with their annual assessments. But that’s a hard case to make, judging by a 2007 analysis from Gary Phillips, former acting commissioner of NCES.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. Magnet Elementary School , is excited about the prospect of redesigning traditional approaches to assessment and instruction.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” That was in 2017. “It It began to become emotionally draining.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A new report by the nonprofit educational assessment maker NWEA documents that third graders are currently suffering the largest pandemic-related learning losses in reading , compared to older students in grades four to eight, and not readily recovering. Learning to read well in elementary school matters. Source: NWEA).

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2017

At the beginning of the 2016-17 school year, 82 percent of Morgen Owings Elementary School’s students were working below grade level. We have work to do, but shifting our mindset regarding assessment has made a huge impact. With only so many hours in a day, and days in a week how do we decide which assessments we need?

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

” “We are once again excited to partner with EveryLibrary on assessing and understanding parental perceptions of the public library,” said Kelly Jensen from Book Riot. However, many licensure tests are weak in that they do not adequately assess teachers’ preparedness to teach reading.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. article, video, podcast). This promotes an understanding of ecological relationships.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. His analysis indicates that low math performance is common throughout U.S. More analysis is needed to see if there’s a stronger link between school closures and test score changes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A new meta-analysis confirms that the answer is no. If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If And that’s the source of the current debate.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

Cyberbullying, increasingly more common, occurred at least once per week in 37 percent of middle schools, 25 percent of high schools, and 6 percent of elementary schools. The analysis revealed that any association with bullying increased the odds of school absences due to illness and truancy.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Consider giving students a series of assignments over a period of time where only one or two, not all, will be assessed for a grade. ClassTag surveyed more than 1,200 U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 2, 2014

Image credit: [link] Scaffold 1 & 2: Student Generated Exemplars and Writing the “Recipe” for Literary Analysis First, Mrs. Westbrook created a task that required students to identify and interpret the underlying meaning of a piece of literature and then to make arguments about it. It also provided clarity for targeted feedback.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 21, 2021

Little did I know that my visit to Red Cliffs Elementary was going to blow my socks off. On this Padlet, students had to write a character analysis paragraph about a character in a book that we have been reading. We also felt that Nearpod was a great way to assess learning.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2021

The new data and analysis examines both the academic admissions requirements and diversity in enrollments in more than 1,200 of the nation’s elementary teacher preparation programs.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Since 2011, national math test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, fell by 17 points for eighth graders and 10 points for fourth graders in data analysis, statistics and probability. In a recent analysis of state programs, only nine states earned an “A” or “B” grade for the teaching of data science.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. Challenge: Encourage them to identify parts of the music that they found unexpected or unfamiliar.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). As a first step, assess your top 10 most expensive ESSER programs and answer these questions: What is our plan to close out or continue to fund this particular expenditure?

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

billion in Race to the Top funds was spent on teacher evaluation and incentive pay, and the Gates Foundation invested $575 million to test and evaluate a more intricate system to use student test scores to assess teaching effectiveness of individual teachers. A large share of $4.3 Questions must be considered when developing policies.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

An analysis of test scores in California and South Carolina found that students had lost almost a third of a year in reading. A national analysis of the test scores of 5.5 Her Dallas elementary school extended its school year in an effort to help students make up for lost time. READ THE SERIES. In 2016, U.S. In 2016, U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

And those that are planned aren’t taking place in person, according to a recent analysis from the Center for Reinventing Public Education, or CRPE. “A That approach might miss an opportunity for addressing learning loss caused by missed instruction during the switch to remote learning, according to the CRPE analysis.

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My Paperless Classroom

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

I had writing assignments with menus instead of prompts, but all of the kids were reading the same text and writing some form of an analysis. My challenge, now working in elementary school as a push-in tech teacher, how can I develop and model the possibilities of choice based learning for the teachers I work with? pedagogy'

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Martin said that the survey showed that high schools should stress “reasoning and critical thinking skills, decrease the emphasis on specific mathematical topics, and increase the focus on data analysis and statistics.” A diversion to data analysis risks putting students at a disadvantage. Understanding statistics was high on the list.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2023

The highly regarded, independent nonprofit seeks to improve education by providing reviews of K-12 instructional materials and applying evidence-based analysis in evaluating programs. This is a pivotal year when students are transitioning from learning to read to reading to learn,” Forsa said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. Sometimes, their lack of confidence is why they go into early ed in the first place.

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techlearning

MARCH 14, 2018

An analysis of more than 22,600 K–5 students within the Charter Schools USA (CSUSA) network found that incorporating recommended use levels of the Lexia Reading Core5® program into instruction resulted in growth in reading skills during the 2016/17 school year, over and above that achieved with non-Core5 instruction.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2023

These include: Contextual Analysis: Rawlins & Invernizzi underscores the significance of deriving sight words from familiar texts. This counters the common practice of rote drill with flashcards, which she finds ineffective due to the lack of context and sound-to-spelling analysis. Scientific Studies of Reading, 9(2), 167–188.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

Vernier Connections emphasizes fun and interactive investigations and projects, and it gives educators the ability to assess student comprehension across all science disciplines. It includes robust content, resources, assessments, and management tools.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One of my favorites is from Kate Wagner, principal of Red Mill Elementary, who says, “ We are no longer teaching to the middle.” In this webinar we walk through a self-assessment that will allow you to determine which blended learning models can work with specific schedules, resources, goals, spaces, and technology setups.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The collaborative data analysis process helps the school frame a systemic problem of practice that can best be solved by the entire school staff. Allen Elementary in rural Floyd County, Kentucky, has embedded micro-credentials within a system of personalized learning.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

In a cross-analysis of fifty different studies, researchers found a strong link between parent engagement and student achievement.[8] Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. The only academic benefit from art at all was in one aspect of writing, as measured by Texas state assessments. Disciplinary infractions were 3.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Relying solely on aggregated state standardized test scores and demographic characteristics of students attending a given school, the periodical ranked elementary schools and middle schools within states and school districts.

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Elementary Report Policies Analysis 144

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Now that I’m older, these include Regents exams, New York State tests and Advanced Placement assessments. I signed up for this class because I am fascinated by the subject, especially the philosophical and open-ended aspects that require thoughtful discussion and analysis. Take AP Psychology.

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