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Creating a Writers' Workshop in a Secondary Classroom

Edutopia

Shelby Scoffield Literacy With the station rotation model, secondary students can focus on language arts skills such as analysis, structure, and academic writing while improving their overall writing quality Photo credit: World Literature Today via flickr (CC BY-SA 2.0)

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The ultimate guide to authentically creating a secondary classroom where students feel safe, welcome, & whole

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content.

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New Personalized Learning Program Uses  Writing Analysis, Adaptive Learning Technology

techlearning

The new program combines writing analysis technology, interactive practice and personalized learning. The supplemental curriculum, for grades 2-7 and at-risk secondary students, is available to U.S. McGraw-Hill Education today announced the launch of Redbird Language Arts & Writing, a new personalized learning program that helps students master language arts concepts and build foundational writing skills.

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Fewer and richer high school grads heading to college: ACE analysis

Bryan Alexander

This information comes from Christopher Nellum and Terry Hartle of the American Council on Education ( ACE ), and is based on analysis of US Census data. ” The income gap is worse than it sounds: “While the percentage of low-income students in elementary and secondary schools is increasing, the percentage of low-income students who go on to college is falling.” Inside Higher Ed’s summary of ACE findings.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture.

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Good analysis of higher ed trends and strategy: Jon McGee’s _Breakpoint_

Bryan Alexander

Jon McGee’s Breakpoint (2015, Johns Hopkins) offers a very solid, useful, and accessible analysis of current trends in higher education. post-secondary education needs closer connections to K-12, especially given demographic and economic changes (126-8). In the book’s first half McGee does a great job of exploring transformative forces in economics, demographics, and culture.

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Math Modeling: Why are We Missing it in High School?

EdNews Daily

Mathematical modeling is essentially a logical approach to research, relying on statistics and mathematical algorithms to perform an analysis. We want to LOWER the barrier of entry for research by giving any student guidance and resources to perform meaningful analysis of real world scenarios. Advocate Education News Featured Math Science Secondary Education Social Good STEM

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How Family Engagement Leads to Student Success

Waterford

Graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education[2]. Analysis of Parental Involvement and Self-Esteem on Secondary School Students in Kieni West Sub-County, Nyeri County, Kenya.” What is one of the proven predictors of academic achievement?

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VHS Learning Is Awarded Teaching with Primary Sources Grant from Library of Congress 

eSchool News

History curriculum and professional development supporting discussion-based primary source analysis online and in other learning settings. During the grant project, VHS Learning will design 33 primary source analysis lessons within a cohesive, newly-developed U.S.

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Today's CTE Investments Help Boost Students' Success

EdTech Magazine

There is a renewed focus on CTE amid broader debates about the value of college and the student debt crisis as well as the need for viable post-secondary alternatives. Demand for Post-Secondary Options Drives CTE Investment. Department of Education, supporting instruction for elementary and secondary students as well as adults. The department awarded a share of $3 million to six states to improve high school CTE students’ access to post-secondary education and STEM careers.

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What to Know About SQL and How to Try it Out

Ask a Tech Teacher

SQL is incredibly popular in several industries, such as finance, music, data analysis, web development, and social media, making it really useful. . The prime function of SQL is data analysis. If you want a job coding, you have to know how to get around a database, and that means SQL.

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How to Compare and Contrast Authentically

Ask a Tech Teacher

More recently, Marzano’s research in The Art and Science of Teaching (2007) reconfirmed that asking students to identify similarities and differences through comparative analysis leads to eye-opening gains in student achievement.

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

In a cross-analysis of fifty different studies, researchers found a strong link between parent engagement and student achievement.[8] An Analysis of Parental Involvement and Self-Esteem on Secondary School Students in Kieni West Sub-County, Nyeri County, Kenya.

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4 Surprising Benefits of Gaming for K–12 Students

EdTech Magazine

It’s all about creativity and collaboration,” says Ron Pirayoff, director of secondary education for Saddleback Valley USD. A meta-analysis of 111 video game–related studies recently published in the Psychological Bulletin found 10 to 30 hours of gameplay can help students improve their spatial cognition and multitasking. 4 Surprising Benefits of Gaming for K–12 Students. eli.zimmerman_9856. Mon, 01/14/2019 - 15:23.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Norbert College where she taught the course Language Analysis and Applied Linguistics. She has published articles in the Wisconsin English Journal and has spoken at state and national conferences on aspects of secondary literacy.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

However the failure to adapt to, and embrace, new learning technologies as well as other advanced technologies such as AI, data analysis and machine learning will undoubtedly be the death-knell for most colleges. There is evidence that universities have a slow-changing culture , when compared to for instance high- or secondary-schools. Almost half of all Ontario secondary school teachers report using YouTube or video elements in their classrooms.

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OPINION: It may be time to rethink the emphasis on taking calculus in high school

The Hechinger Report

In 2011, a panel of mathematicians and math educators mapped college-prep sequences in high school math and proposed pathways that led not only to calculus but also to statistics, linear algebra and data analysis. I took calculus as a high school senior.

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Social Emotional Learning: Research & Applications for Distance Learning

MIND Research Institute

A meta-analysis of schools implementing comprehensive SEL programs (with the SAFE instructional framework) found an 11-percentile gain in academic performance (Durlak, et al., Another meta-analysis found between an 11 up to 17 percentile gain (Patyon et al.,

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How to Help Your Students Learn Healthy Communication Skills

Waterford

Classroom activities like reflective writing in journals is a great way to teach communication skills to PreK, elementary, or secondary students. The Impact of Enhancing Students’ Social and Emotional Learning: A Meta-Analysis of School-Based Universal Interventions.”

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Ask A Silly Question, Get A Non-Standard Answer

EdNews Daily

The possibility cannot be easily ignored that growing use of refined versions of paraphrasing tools that are designed to fool plagiarism detection software could lock educators and learners into an arms race of text analysis and obfuscation. This response was seriously limited by the proviso that information from secondary sources was permissible if it was appropriately referenced. Guest article by Simon Very. I have taught science at the post-compulsory level for ten years.

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PowerSchool to Launch Connected Intelligence, First Fully Managed Data-as-a-Service Platform for K-12 Schools

eSchool News

Connecting data from early childhood to adulthood can help improve a wide variety of initiatives aimed at supporting student outcomes and can even be leveraged within post-secondary support and workforce development.

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OER Cost Savings and Adoption Rates: New Methodologies, New Data, and New Results

Iterating Toward Openness

SPARC started with a stratified sample of 120 US post-secondary institutions. Below I present the results of some exploratory data analysis intended to answer basic questions. Exploratory Data Analysis. At the OpenEd Conference in 2013, Nicole Allen and I challenged the OER community to save students one billion dollars. Five years later, SPARC have collected a significant amount of data in order to answer the question of whether or not we have achieved that goal.

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Difference in Perspective: An Interdisciplinary Project

A Principal's Reflections

Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such features as the date and origin of the information. Compare and contrast treatments of the same topic in several primary and secondary sources. Westbrook and Mrs. Morel continue their collaboration to address the Common Core literacy standards within our fine arts program, with the goal of increasing the rigor of the writing assignments across the curriculum.

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Supporting students: What’s next for mental health

The Hechinger Report

Between March 2020 and December 2021, 92 state laws were enacted to help youth mental health through efforts in schools, according to a NASHP analysis. Toyin Anderson is a mom looking for solutions to what she sees as a crisis of youth crying out for help with their mental health.

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How to Promote Family Engagement During the First Weeks of School

Waterford

Analysis of Parental Involvement and Self-Esteem on Secondary School Students in Kieni West Sub-County, Nyeri County, Kenya.” One of the best ways to set up students for lifelong success is by involving their families in their educational journey.

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10 of the best and worst school systems

eSchool News

Public elementary and secondary education dollars traditionally flow from three sources: the federal, state (state governments contributing nearly half of public-school funding) and local governments. Because of the variances in funding for public school systems, the personal-finance website WalletHub recently conducted an analysis of 2017’s States with the Best & Worst School Systems.

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On the Impossibility of the Community-based Production of Learning Content

Iterating Toward Openness

The one place where I would push back on Yochai’s analysis is in what he sees as the difference between the adopters of K-12 textbooks and college textbooks. It’s generally up to post-secondary teachers “to construct, integrate, and use the materials as fits their needs.

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5 ways to use ESSER funds to create cleaner environments

eSchool News

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) fund is providing a significant influx of resources for schools across the nation. In fact, according analysis of the federal ESSER data by the National Conference of State Legislatures , only 19.1

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A Cross-sector Business Incubator in Taos, New Mexico: Building Networks for Frontline Talent Development

Digital Promise

She led an analysis of local education and workforce data, including information required by WIOA, such as post-secondary enrollment, retention rates, completion rates, and barriers to employment.

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Testing Literacy Today Requires more than a Pencil and Paper

Digital Promise

One recent analysis of standardized tests in the United States, for example, found tests haven’t changed much over the last 100 years: tests are mostly multiple choice, with questions geared toward assessing skills like vocabulary, recall and comprehension. And in Ontario, a 2018 report to the premier recommended replacing the Ontario secondary school literacy test , now a graduation requirement. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Data-Driven Instruction for the Real World

Edsurge

But when secondary goals don’t align, teachers and school leaders find themselves in a contentious relationship. Still, as our recent analysis of LMS trends indicates, increased technology usage doesn’t always improve efficiency.

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How not to write about HyFlex or online learning

Bryan Alexander

A second problem comes in the article’s view of who’s involved in post-secondary teaching. The problem is that the piece cites a liberal arts campus as an example of post-secondary education as a whole.

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Nureva receives Frost & Sullivan 2020 Global Technology Innovation Leadership Award

eSchool News

Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis and extensive secondary research. Nureva Inc.,

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Often Overlooked In Rankings, Hispanic-Serving Colleges Embrace A New Metric For Success

Edsurge

But if the primary purpose of post-secondary education is supposed to be to catalyze an increase in economic mobility for students, we need to elevate the schools that are actually succeeding in this goal.” Which schools deserve to top lists of the best colleges in the U.S.?

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How to Introduce Historical Thinking Skills to Your Students, and Why You Should

Waterford

Essentially it includes the reading, analysis, and writing necessary to tell historical stories—not just what we know about the past, but how we know about it.[1]. History is much more than a few wars and things some dead guys did a few hundred years ago.

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How Educators Can Support Families of Children with Disabilities During Hybrid or Online Learning

Waterford

Educators should be sure to provide a checklist or task analysis for parents when they make these assignments.[8]. Supplemental Fact Sheet Addressing the Risk of COVID-19 in Preschool, Elementary and Secondary Schools While Serving Children with Disabilities.”

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Helping Students See Hamlet and Harry Potter in a New Light With Computational Thinking

Edsurge

As it turns out, network theory as an analytic technique, or what I’d call computational literary analysis , is not just a bona fide research endeavor. It led me to his fascinating “Network Theory Plot Analysis” in which he describes the use of social graphs to analyze Shakespeare’s popular tragedy. And why stop at Shakespeare and Hamlet when you could engage kids in a social network analysis of Harry Potter?

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Leveraging big data with connected content for stronger academic outcomes

Neo LMS

The resulting analysis can then be used to better respond to students’ needs by professionals like you, content creators, decision-makers, and administrators in higher education institutions. Campus competitive analysis. Use the Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics to perform your competitive analysis. Completing this competitive analysis and acting on the results is the first step to increasing student academic outcomes in your institution.

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In a Contentious Year, Can Social Studies Be Taught Free of Bias?

Edsurge

Such an approach will require students to do more than listen to lectures as they develop their own perspectives through inquiry learning and close examination of primary and secondary sources.

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Are History Textbooks Worth Using Anymore? Maybe Not, Some Teachers Say

Edsurge

A New York Times analysis earlier this year detailed how the most influential states, Texas and California, produce markedly different versions of the same texts from publishers such as Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Pearson and McGraw-Hill “shaded by partisan politics.”

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Social Emotional Learning in the Classroom: Research & Applications for Distance Learning

MIND Research Institute

A meta-analysis of schools implementing comprehensive SEL programs (with the SAFE instructional framework) found an 11-percentile gain in academic performance (Durlak, et al., Another meta-analysis found between an 11 up to 17 percentile gain (Patyon et al.,

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A federal definition of ‘homeless’ leaves some kids out in the cold. One state is trying to help

The Hechinger Report

But beyond declaring that homeless children should have access to the same public education as other kids, the McKinney-Vento Act contained few protections for elementary and secondary students experiencing homelessness. VANCOUVER, Wash.

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

eSchool News

Students will explore conducting a cost-benefit analysis for spending and investing decisions, among other financial literacy skills. ARLINGTON, Texas/PRNewswire/ — Workforce solutions provider Ancora has developed a new relationship with McGraw Hill to launch Ancora High School.

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