Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

In my work as a blended learning coach, I observe a lot of teachers facilitating blended lessons. When teachers engage students at their teacher-led station, they can collect invaluable formative assessment data that can help inform future lessons. #1 1 Hook the Group. 5TeacherLed. 2 I Do, We Do, You Do.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In science class, students may use a computer to write a lab report after conducting an experiment. There are times when I encourage them to work in small groups. Generally, the students are seated in groups of four for the online station to encourage them to use each other as resources if they get stuck.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2019

Classroom Management Pedagogically sound lessons Monitoring Accountability for learning Feedback Assessment Classroom Management It is tough to argue the fact that many learners will quickly go off and remain off task if a classroom is not managed effectively. Assessment I would be remised if I didn’t include this strategy.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job. Personalized Learning Aids All Students. They may be on to something.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels. that of 'Grades,'” Earick writes in an upcoming report on the project. There are two separate K-2 groupings, one second/third grade group, and a fourth/fifth group.

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Assessment Elementary Data Groups 159

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

You’ll learn how to identify conditions such as PTSD and how to help students through natural and healthy grieving processes. Even when connecting at a distance instead of in person, we can all benefit from learning some skills to connect with students on an emotional level, even while delivering classroom instruction. Learn More.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

BOSTON (March 9, 2022) – A 2020 report from the U.S. A recent study on the Lexia® English Language Development (Lexia English) program found that emergent bilingual students who used the program scored an average of 15 points higher than nonusers on the English Language Proficiency Assessment for California (ELPAC) test.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2017

SEATTLE — After years of declining enrollment, a growing number of Catholic schools nationwide are placing their faith in blended learning, a teaching approach in which computers share the instructional load with teachers, and one that appeals to many parents disillusioned with traditional schools.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 29, 2018

The post 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom appeared first on Shake Up Learning. The Shake Up Learning community is always chatting and sharing digital tools and lesson ideas for the K12 classroom. In this post, you will find 20 Formative Assessment Tools for Your Classroom! ” – Rick Stiggins.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 23, 2020

The school’s learning management system (LMS) is an indispensable tool for blended learning, personalized learning, and instruction in general. A big bonus is that all the progress can be demonstrated with reports that you generate directly using the LMS.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

BOSTON – During the 2021-22 school year, Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, supported over 200,000 students and teachers throughout Massachusetts with instructional and professional learning programs. Progress reports revealed significant results. About Cambium Learning Group.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

APRIL 22, 2024

Understand your learners, their age groups, learning preferences, digital tool familiarity, and educational qualifications. Facilitate Long-Term Retention, Progress and Performance When deploying a module, it’s essential to incorporate repetition techniques, regular assessments, and interactive review sessions.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2022

The US Department of Education Roadmap for Reopening Safely says that “accelerated learning provides opportunities for students to learn at grade level rather than through tracking or remediation….” Simply put, acceleration “builds on what students know as a way to access new learning.” Where are my students at?

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

A lack of access to connectivity and devices for distance learning, especially in low-income and under-resourced communities, has resulted in ELs being at a high risk for suffering from “COVID learning slide.” points—a 35% improvement—while the control group declined 3.4 About Lexia Learning.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2016

Reading Horizons has introduced Reading Horizons Accelerate ™, an educator platform designed to provide free resources for teachers and implementation support for Reading Horizons products in a blended learning environment. Accelerate provides online support for teachers in four unique ways.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

In an effort to help schools explore blended learning, a think tank has created an updated online nationwide database of schools using the strategy, in the hope that educators will communicate and learn from one another. The nonprofit institute has long pushed for schools to use technology to improve teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

“A lot of the schools are still doing virtual summer school,” says Sean Gill, a research analyst for CRPE who co-authored the report. “I But blended learning options are few and far between. Obviously the small groups are certainly helpful given social distancing guidelines.”

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Ascend Math

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The Tracker provides an enormous time saving advantage in planning for whole or small group instruction and/or a blended learning model. After spending time on task in Ascend and completing post-assessments, a student gains access to explore Base Camp for three minute increments.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I see this reluctance to experiment all of the time when I am training teachers on blended learning models. Ask any teacher what his/her biggest “pain point” is related to teaching and the majority will report “the take home” or “the grading.” We approach feedback and assessment as a team.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 1, 2016

Many people want to know how what blended learning and the personalization of student learning are and how they look in implementation. In a personalized learning environment, student needs drive the design of the learning. My classroom is a blended learning classroom and every student has a laptop.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 8, 2017

But since there are so many ways to adapt e-learning, or to blend it with face-to-face instruction in a physical learning environment, one question gets on many teachers’ lips: How do I know if I’m doing this right?! Some tactics that can work very well on a group of students may fall short in the case of others.

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Online Learning Game-Based Learning Learning Data 214

Doug Levin

APRIL 30, 2016

Employed measures of academic achievement that were standardized assessments or norm-referenced district- or school-wide tests; Reported the duration of the study; and, Otherwise provided sufficient statistical data to calculate effect sizes.

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Laptops Study Analysis Learning 279

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.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2019

Students also needed support when it came to the end of year state assessments. “We Rocking the CAASPP Both schools have since experienced outstanding increases in their California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores. She jumped at the opportunity to pilot the program in her school.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 121

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

It is a part of the Lumen Christi Academies , a group of Catholic schools in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to “nurture ethical scholars who will change the world” through active, personalized and student-led learning. Microshifts in Practice 1.

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Personalized Learning Learning Groups Elementary 162

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

When Ray was my student, I decided to test out gamifying my Greek Mythology Unit by creating a new Edmodo class, chunking the content into small groups, and providing my students with a paper game board to support the blended learning within the unit. Edmodo Assignments, too, can be used for in-person and online group work.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

The principal's students were in an alternative setting and the main delivery and assessment of content came from an online course platform. The staff fully recognized the need to provide the students with a richer learning environment than simply watching videos that led to multiple choice quizzes and eventual unit tests.

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Assessment Course Khan Academy Blended Learning 59

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 19, 2017

“So, what we often see is that schools are getting high quality ratings from their city or state report cards, and in fact, when you dig into the low-income student performance, those students are performing really poorly.”. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Carrie Douglass, managing partner at Education Cities.

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Study Survey Report Blended Learning 110

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Elsewhere in the classroom, an instructor knelt to chat with two boys engrossed in playing with blocks, while a second teacher supervised a group of five students as they completed worksheets. Students in a transitional kindergarten class at Washington Elementary, a K-8 school in the Lindsay Unified district, work in small groups.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 135

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2019

Rocking the CAASPP Both schools have since experienced outstanding increases in their California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores. Teachers can then meet with students in small groups, using the platform’s data to differentiate based on language ability, math ability or both.

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Common Core Adaptive Learning Elementary Blended Learning 121

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

When they apply the knowledge to authentic situations (like typing a book report or an essay), students return to hunt-and-peck, watching their hands, and hating what they’re doing. There’s a better way to learn keyboarding: Blended Learning. Typing is best learned by using it in class projects.

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Exercises Digital Citizenship Blended Learning Report 155

techlearning

APRIL 25, 2018

Students have access to their own avatars and dashboards to see their progress on their report cards and check on quiz scores. Teachers have their own dashboards and can request a variety of reports or make changes in student paths. The various avatar options and pod decorations to purchase can also motivate students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. They test new strategies.

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Competency Based Learning Blended Learning Report Strategy 82

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

We can all agree that the phrase “blended learning” is well and truly a part of the modern-day discourse on education; so much so that academics have begun to curate a universal definition, as well as identify sub-themes and genres of the concept. 4 Models of blended learning. In 2012 Heather Staker and Michael B.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Teachers might well still be worn out from the stress and demands of the coronavirus pandemic — but officials hope they won’t be stretched to the breaking point in the same way educational staff across the country are reporting. Thomas Arnett, an analyst with the group, said remote instruction requires different skills and types of teaching.

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Elementary Report Personalized Learning Blended Learning 111

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Education Reimagined, a reform advocacy program that emerged from an unusual coalition of union leaders and reformers, recently highlighted the Cedar Rapids district’s work, and The Hechinger Report spoke with Pickering to learn more about it. I need to teach expository writing to this group this week. You build it as you go.

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Blended Learning Survey Advocacy Meeting 83

Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. the same thing, yet it is the basis for algorithmic assessment and feedback.

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