The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

30+ ideas to improve learning with awesome classroom design From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Classroom Design Resources.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Google Classroom allows teachers to easily manage student work and teaching with Google Docs, Google Forms, Google Spreadsheets and anything Google. This handy tool has opened up the doors of blended learning and collaborative classrooms like never before. Google Classroom Resources. How to Manage a Classroom in Google.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 17, 2019

Educators need a set of skills to successfully teach and manage their classrooms. A good program starts with a needs assessment, which is a way to figure out what teachers really need from their training. This can be as complicated as following a new curriculum, or as simple as giving feedback on new assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2019

As the white paper “ Taking Back Kindergarten: Rethinking Rigor for Young Learners ” discusses, a rigorous approach to kindergarten does not have to be at odds with developmentally appropriate education. Fusing academic and social development can create a remarkably rich kindergarten classroom.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Initial Planning A good starting point for educational leaders is the recent white paper on AI from the US Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology. Our team of experienced educators believes that when the teacher becomes an active participant in the learning process, innovation can happen in the classroom.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 9, 2021

He and I were going through a couple of clarifying questions after reading his recent white paper unpacking the underlying scientific concepts of ST Math. The evidence we've gathered over the years surrounding the spatial-temporal approach's success is extensive, grounded in classroom experience, and supported by neuroscience.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 18, 2017

Districts across the nation are exploring a new approach to professional learning to meet the evolving needs of today’s diverse classrooms and the educators who lead them. Participants then identified the challenges, including financial benefit and messaging, to ensuring micro-credentials provide value.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 26, 2019

But how do you teach it in the confines of a classroom? So what do you do in your classroom to get this important attitude across? In my classroom, that’s a learning opportunity. Another lesson plan? A movie about Mahatma Gandhi? Quotes like this from Helen Keller: The highest result of education is tolerance.

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MIND Research Institute

MARCH 9, 2021

He and I were going through a couple of clarifying questions after reading his recent white paper unpacking the underlying scientific concepts of ST Math. The evidence we've gathered over the years surrounding the spatial-temporal approach's success is extensive, grounded in classroom experience, and supported by neuroscience.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2016

AbD’s four downloadable thinking routines [available as PDFs from the educator resources page ] are short, deceptively simple strategies that can be used in a variety of classroom settings to encourage these capacities. Each two-page routine includes tips and suggestions on how to get started.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

28, 2018) — Social-emotional learning (SEL) company Aperture Education and Kickboard, which provides technology and coaching for school culture initiatives, have partnered to help schools collect, monitor and analyze data on 40 student behaviors that tie to the Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (the DESSA) core SEL competencies.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

So in 2012, we needed a resource that teachers could use to better prepare students in third, fourth and fifth grades for state assessments. Each unit has formative assessments that teachers can use to plan interventions. White Papers. Critical Thinking in the Classroom, A Practitioner's Guide by Sandra L.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

If we want our learners to have that — the knowledge, the skills, the dispositions — we know that we need to transform our classrooms. We also have adopted a set of learning beliefs to help us better articulate what we want our classrooms to look like in the future as we approach 2020. Vicki: Wow. You have learning beliefs.

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 26, 2021

A new white paper published by MIND Research Institute, “ Spatial-Temporal Math: Underlying Scientific Concepts and Mechanisms ,” explores the concept of spatial-temporal learning, and describes the design concepts and mechanisms behind MIND’s award-winning ST Math program. and 0.35, respectively.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2017

They learn on the job, with the help of teacher-leaders who provide real-life examples of how personalized learning works in the classroom. Two key initiatives – assessment literacy and digital learning teams – are being used to help both teachers and students use digital resources in creating personalized lessons.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2017

However, with the recent proliferation of Chromebooks and iPads into classrooms, there is more student activity in the classroom that has moved online. OpenEd published a new white paper and sample code at IMS showing how any edtech company can use Caliper to measure efficacy of these blended learning resources.).

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techlearning

MAY 18, 2018

Austin, TX, May 18, 2018 – Impero Software, a leading provider of classroom management, network and online safety software to schools, today announces Philip Walters as its new board chairman. It partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

DETECTION/ASSESSMENT TOOLS. Beginning in kindergarten many schools use universal screeners like the RAN/RAS (Rapid Automatized Naming) test and the PAR (Predictive Assessment of Reading/Rapid Alternating Stimulus) to assess children’s knowledge of phonemes, letter recognition, and vocabulary. Universal Screening.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. Students refine these skills based on goal-setting, ungraded feedback known as the formative assessment. This evaluation is called the summative assessment. Photo: Jessica Anderson.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

3, 2018 - Boston, MA and Bergen, Norway – Teacher efficacy is becoming a focal point for today’s K-12 classroom. The most critical efficiency challenges impacting teachers in today’s K-12 classroom 2. Over time, even the slightest reductions in teacher efficiency can add up to significant learning losses in the classroom,” said Bergby.

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Educator Innovator

MAY 29, 2014

Game designers are incorporating assessment tools into new learning games in ways that are useful for instructional decision-making, without overpowering teachers with irrelevant data. . What impressed her the most, however, was watching her fellow teachers assess their students’ learning in real time. “It Photos courtesy of GlassLab.

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 10, 2015

This paper is one of nine in the DLN Smart Series – a collection of interactive papers that provides specific guidance regarding the adoption of higher standards and quality assessments focusing on the shift to personal digital learning. Customized learning requires an enhanced and expanded Learner Profile.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 12, 2015

After spending time at 30 schools talking with administrators, teachers and education leaders, Mehta’s team came up with three big areas of improvement described in a white paper called “From Quicksand to Solid Ground: Building a Foundation to Support Quality Teaching.”. RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT.

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Kathy Schrock

MAY 31, 2015

The assessments were used to inform instruction but did not gauge student acquisition of content knowledge at all. The same day, I was sent a lesson planning white paper that was released by a company. And who is “everyone” and why are teachers more resistant to change than anyone in a different profession?

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In 2014, ALA Washington’s Office for Information and Technology Policy (OITP) developed a helpful white paper to examine CIPA’s decade-long impact, Fencing Out Knowledge t h a t d e l i n e a t e d f o u r recommendations t o ALA: Increase awareness of the spectrum of filtering choices. Develop a toolkit for school leaders. Debate.org.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2018

A lot, according to the more than 80,000 hours of classroom observations we conducted around the world. But in more than 40,000 classroom observations across the country and around the world, we’ve found common strategies that successful and effective schools implement. Tools for classroom observations.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 29, 2022

I just knew it would be the same when I started teaching and had my own classroom! The cleanliness and basic organization systems made their way into my classroom immediately. However, keeping up with the systems of organization in a high school classroom was exhausting and overwhelming. Lined paper and plain white paper.

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Kathy Schrock

OCTOBER 1, 2016

The Discovery Education in Action project allows educators to step inside the classrooms of these master teachers and watch their strategies and methods for use of the Discovery Education tools. These videos can be used in a number of ways to enhance classroom instruction.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

Instead of ranking them in order of importance, or even in the order I actually read them, I have put them in what I think would be the most useful reading sequence that would best grow one's CBE knowledge as well as help you strategically plan for implementation in your own classroom, school or district. Chris Sturgis.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Can a student’s activity on Khan Academy offer any clues into why he or she did not do well on the problem-solving section of an online benchmark math assessment? Is the student an English language learner who does best with visual and verbal cues not included on the assessment? But it’s not as simple as pulling the data.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2016

The companies will provide users of McGraw-Hill Education’s Engrade, a learning management and assessment platform for K-12 education, access to the Knovation Content Collection with more than 360,000 online learning resources, including videos, white papers, games, podcasts and articles using a single integrated search.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The NEO mobile app for Windows allows users to access the full feature set within the platform including creating and delivering online classes, assessing students, sharing resources, tracking student achievement, and collaborating on projects. Big Universe is now available in the U.S. exclusively through FuelEd.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In a recent white paper, former Scholastic president of education Margery Mayer dubbed 2021 the “year of speech recognition” in education. The effects of such biases in practice, assessment, and screening platforms, and in learning tools for kids can be disastrous.

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