Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

The disruptions in online assessments that roiled Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota in the spring of 2015 appear to have had both negative and positive effects on individual students’ test scores, according to a new analysis. See also: Assessment Fallout: Texas Fines ETS, Nevada Says DRC Misses Deadlines. We’re really moving on.”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2018

That decline, recently documented in a survey of math and statistics departments by the Conference Board for Mathematical Sciences (CBMS), is great news for students. Twelfth-graders’ scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress have barely budged over the last 10 years. million to around 780,000.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Teachers participate in a Common Core training session in Kingsport, Tenn. The growing movement to require aspiring teachers to pass performance-based assessments to demonstrate that they can teach what they know – to all of their students – is a seismic shift for the field.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Target skills and differentiate with dynamic practice and assessments Bottom line: Rich with content-aligned assessments, printable worksheets, and progress analytics. Here's a collection of some of the most-searched-for edtech tools among today's teachers.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Some tools definitely have more potential than others. Target skills and differentiate with dynamic practice and assessments Bottom line: Rich with content-aligned assessments, printable worksheets, and progress analytics. Here's a collection of some of the most-searched-for edtech tools among today's teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2015

‘Close reading’ entered the teacher’s lexicon with this Common Core literacy anchor standard: Read closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support conclusions drawn from the text.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 17, 2018

That's how I got started -- I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students' reading habits. Somebody is definitely lying -- but who? But many aren't sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 17, 2018

That's how I got started -- I wanted to use Serial as a primary text for at least a few weeks, but I wasn't sure how it would fit in with Common Core or how it might affect my students' reading habits. Somebody is definitely lying -- but who? But many aren't sure how to justify using podcasts in the classroom.

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Smartphone Analysis Common Core iPhone 40

MindShift

MAY 25, 2016

“It felt like during the number talk there was some steering towards Kiara’s thinking about a number line, so I’m wondering if other students were thinking number line is something I should definitely be using today.”. Lesson study is a common professional development practice in Japan and is slowly gaining popularity in the U.S.;

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 26, 2015

In the news, they are painted as an eclectic mix of cutting-edge vigilante and binary terrorist, with secret documents, scary viral threats, and national security all a part of their tools and struggle. They then study the “best practices” of delivering that content that yield that largest gains as measured by common assessments.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 29, 2015

But centers are also a tremendous amount of work for the teacher, as both differentiation and assessment can be time consuming and difficult. I use a document camera to help with this, so the class can see the game pieces as we play. Take anecdotal notes and/or informally assess children in meaningful contexts. – Zephyr.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

In addition to new definitions, models, and strategies, citations and references will also be added periodically, as will updates, corrections, edits, and revisions. Terry Heick offers a definition of digital citizenship as “The quality of habits, actions, and consumption patterns that impact the ecology of digital content and communities.”

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 5, 2015

And arguably the greatest weakness of the Common Core Standards is to avoid being extra-careful in their use of cognitive-focused verbs, along the lines of the rationale for the Taxonomy. 5 Common Misconceptions About Bloom’s Taxonomy. We designed UbD, in part, backward from Bloom’s definition of Application.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 10, 2015

In an age of shifts and fluidity, this is definitely a “thing.” Humanities as a term has become opaque and abstract, which can be seen in how casually we treat it in education (see the Common Core Standards). When students are too quick to Google without fully understanding what exactly they’re looking for and why?

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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