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.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

All classes follow an easy-to-use course design: establish goals–what students will learn by the end of the class. provide a clear module-based learning path culminating in a ready to use action plan. assess success at completion. Elementary Math. Blended Learning. course requirements.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Three years ago, with the help of the education agency the Grant Wood Area Education Agency (GWAEA), Iowa rolled out its initiative to implement blended learning as a model for the state. In a competency based system, students advance upon proficiency and receive rapid differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

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Blended Learning Learning Training Assessment 118

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In order to address these equity concerns, the district is increasingly turning to technology--in particular, blended learning--to allow all students to succeed. Embracing Blended Learning. The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

In particular, math teachers and elementary teachers will love the manipulatives that you can adapt for your own lessons. . As you can see in the graphic, you have quick exit tickets, self-assessments, speed up games, and more that you can add to your library to easily insert into your lessons.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 8, 2018

However, if a well-designed assessment is in place, then the natural course of action is to allow learners to select the best tool for the task. With that being said I do want to share a pretty cool and practical idea I stumbled upon during one of my coaching visits with Wells Elementary School. I thought this was a genius idea!

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Mobility Accessibility Blended Learning Technology 165

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

The purposeful use of technology can innovate assessment, transform time frames around learning, increase collaboration, enable learning about information and research thanks to unprecedented access, and provide a level of student ownership like never before. Students in Mrs.

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E-rate Blended Learning Social Media Outcomes 240

Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2021

Universally designing blended learning presents educators with the opportunity to transition from designing a single experience that is teacher-paced and teacher-led to a more flexible experience that gives the students more control over the pace and path. 1 Student-Paced, Free-Flow Station Rotation Lesson.

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Blended Learning UDL Learning Assessment 367

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Learning is facilitated when the student participates responsibly in the learning process. When he chooses his own directions, helps to discover his own learning resources, formulates his own problems, decides his own course of action, lives with the consequences of these choices, then significant learning is maximized” (p.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

And so that's the big idea of mastery learning, is that if a student fails a test, right, so summative assessment, then they take it again until they reach mastery. What does mastery look like in one of those courses, both of which we know are tough? Jon Bergmann - Bio as Submitted. But if you fail it, you take it again.

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Handbook Flipped Classroom Learning Competency Based Learning 431

techlearning

JULY 10, 2018

Positive response to the courses offered by The Virtual High School (VHS Inc.),a The Lincoln Public School Department in Lincoln, Rhode Island, is expanding the number of VHS semester course enrollments available to its students to 120.

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Course Accessibility Blended Learning Secondary 40

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. In this series I will provide thoughts and free resources to help you make Blended and eLearning with of course face to face a PBL possibility. Thanks so much. Leave a comment.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Staggering student schedules helps with social distancing, but class sizes in Clark County were as high as 40 in some elementary schools before the coronavirus emerged.

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Learning Software Blended Learning Flipped Classroom 218

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

Deb Ramm helps us learn the techniques to help powerful improvement happen in classrooms. Advancement Courses has more than 200 graduate level online PD courses for K-12 teachers. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the code COOL20 at checkout for 20% off any course. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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Classroom Blended Learning Company Twitter 191

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

And then there’s Seoul Foreign School in South Korea, which serves about 1,500 students from elementary to high school, and where teachers have been using a hybrid approach for about a week, explains Tanya LeClair, a digital learning coach who is originally from Canada. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M.,

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Khan Academy Secondary Blended Learning Facebook 217

Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Consider how students might use a podcast as an assessment tool. Students can present their learning on any topic without having to write it all out or record with their faces being displayed. Of course, writing out their ideas first is an option and one that can help many students. © Shake Up Learning 2021.

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Meeting Google Blended Learning Assessment 95

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Kristen Mattson, author of Digital Citizenship in Action talks about how they’ve integrated digital citizenship into all of their courses at her school and how you can too. Kristen: I think one of the things I’ve been most excited about this year is what’s happening in our government courses. It was a pilot course this year.

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Digital Citizenship Education Future Ready Course 194

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Personalized Learning Elementary Learning Case Study 147

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Sponsor: It’s a new year and time to plan your professional development with Advancement Courses. They offer over 280 online graduate-level PD courses in 20 subject areas. And right now, you can save 20% off each course with the code COOL20 — that’s just $120 per graduate credit hour or $160 for 50 clock hours.

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eSchool News

MAY 13, 2019

Northwood Elementary School, Napa, Calif. Originally we partnered with Education Elements to provide on-site personalized learning PD and consulting. You don’t have to rush through it, you can revisit things, you can actually learn the material. Lisa Keith, blended learning specialist, Guilford County (NC) School District.

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Tools Education Elements Training Elementary 111

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers. But blended learning options are few and far between.

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Analysis Guidelines Blended Learning Report 134

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 131

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

So, Science Leadership Academy, of course, Chris Lehmann’s… Doug: Yes, Chris Lehmann… Vicki: …who was there for a while, and is now superintendent, I believe. Vicki: Of course. Doug: I mean, you know, the kids are going to do a lot more profound learning if they’re engaged in something they’re interested in.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Defined Learning makes using project-based content easy to bring into any subject. These projects are created around Understanding by Design (UbD) principles to emphasize STEM education and have tools to help students customize, evaluate, assess and create portfolios. Each project will have P erformance Tasks. All In, but Unique.

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Learning Company STEM Tools 341

Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 13, 2020

Online learning must ultimately minimize loss of teaching and learning efficiency and effectiveness. Teachers across countries have taken a crash course in tech over the past several weeks. Some classes will get higher priority, such as the lower elementary grade, lab-based subjects. Planning for the future.

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Education Trends Online Learning Guidelines 78

eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

In a major move, online and blended learning solutions provider Edgenuity has acquired education software company Compass Learning , creating a suite of digital curriculum products. Compass Learning, based in Austin, Texas, offers software for blended learning, intervention and inquiry-based personalized learning.

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techlearning

APRIL 23, 2018

Herndon, Virginia, April 23, 2018 — Although every elementary school has different student needs its teachers must support, each needs an extensive library of books for its students. Wake County Public School System (WCPSS) in Cary, NC, the 15 largest school district in the United States, has 114 elementary schools.

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Accessibility eBook Elementary Libraries 40

techlearning

AUGUST 13, 2018

Florida’s second largest district partners with Learning A-Z to provide its elementary schools with professional learning and an award-winning curriculum resource that blends science and literacy TUCSON—Aug. Resources can be used for one-to-one, small-group, and whole-class instruction.

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Differentiated Instruction Elementary Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

EdTechTeacher

DECEMBER 17, 2015

One area where I have focused over the past few months is integrating technology and math in the primary classroom with my colleague, Meagan Cinfel ( @mcinfel ), a first grade #iPadAcademy teacher at Central Elementary in Bellevue Public Schools. Over the course of several months, we have constructed a digitally rich math lesson format.

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Educreations How To Classroom iPad 60

eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

Manchester Community Schools in Michigan is a smaller district, with only one elementary school. The teachers in each of these classrooms were chosen to lead the pilot based on their tech-savvy and enthusiasm for blended learning. Instead, plan multiple shorter sessions over the course of the school year.

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Technology Classroom iPad EdTech 52

Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

This is an older post, but I recently updated the bottom to include reflections on gradpoint; the blended learning digital content provider Magen David Yeshivah High School chose this past year. And, of course, the educational technology community has now begun to focus on this. I began reading Ed.

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Technology Blended Learning Elementary Assessment 51

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 14, 2018

Whether it is learning from home through online courses, professional development, conference workshops or as a keynote speaker Kasey is a relentless innovator of ideas and a devoted transformer of classrooms and teaching. and podcasts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The mere idea can be intimidating, and figuring out ways to develop ownership through teaching and learning practices compounds the challenge. Students can be responsible for a variety of elements in their own education: their class schedule, their daily schedule, the information the receive, assessments they choose to take, etc.

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Blended Learning Assessment Outcomes Strategy 40

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2016

The mere idea can be intimidating, and figuring out ways to develop ownership through teaching and learning practices compounds the challenge. Students can be responsible for a variety of elements in their own education: their class schedule, their daily schedule, the information the receive, assessments they choose to take, etc.

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Blended Learning Assessment Outcomes Strategy 40

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Achieve3000 is the leading literacy solution in blended learning programs today, specializing in cloud-based, differentiated learning solutions for school-aged youth as well as adult learners. Virginia Beach already started using Smarty Ants for PALS-identified students in its elementary schools as of February 2016.

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Blended Learning Secondary Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards 0

techlearning

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The expansion also comes amid news that the United States is falling behind in international rankings based on an assessment of fourth grade students’ reading skills. Research shows third grade is a pivotal point for acquiring reading skills, and non-fiction titles for elementary schools are always in high demand,” said Sean P.

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eBook Libraries Education Blended Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

We basically took all the traditional assumptions about school – about how we spend our time, space, curriculum, assessment – and we just challenged every one of those assumptions. They do no better or worse on the state assessment. ” Q: It’s too early in the project to assess this? We could do way better.”

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