eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

In the past few years, the Common Core has significantly altered the landscape in terms of mathematics education. The Common Core has also required more coherence in our curriculum. As an instructional coach, I’m often asked about the role of technology in math education. A push for deeper learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

That includes everything from Common Core to the IB philosophy, from Depth of Knowledge to Project-based Learning. That’s when I heard about John Hattie at an education conference I attended and his concept of Visible Learning. John Hattie is a teacher but more significantly, he’s an education researcher.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 29, 2022

From educational institutions to multinational organizations and training professionals, everyone seems to insist on their importance. Finally, SMART goals will help you continuously optimize and improve your teaching and assessment. . How you answer this question is the path to creating smart objectives. Mastery coverage.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I polled my PLN to find specific tech areas students needed help with in preparing for the Assessments. Pay attention to these and your students will be much more prepared for this Spring’s Common Core assessments: Keyboarding. Make it part of a student’s educational landscape. Teacher Training.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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Saving Socrates

AUGUST 28, 2013

What Parents Need to Know About the Common Core and How They Can Help Their Children The Common Core is an attempt to nationalize the curriculum creating common core standards in grades K-12. To this effect, I will be giving them extensive professional development training on the new standards.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2015

Mentoring Minds is an education publishing company and resource site created by former teachers. Through their dashboard, teachers can identify which students have mastered specific standards, what learning goals should come next for each student, and which students require in-depth interventions to meet the standard(s) being assessed.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The nine authors, most of whom hail from the University of Virginia, issued a press release trumpeting it as the first long-term study of a knowledge-rich curriculum and the first to show outsized gains on state assessments. They said the gains were large enough to catapult U.S. However, U.S.

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MindShift

APRIL 27, 2015

For states adopting Common Core, the standards apply to kindergarten, laying out what students should be able to do by the end of the grade.* While Common Core aligned assessments don’t kick in until third grade, many teachers feel pressure to make sure kids are meeting the specified standards before they move on to first grade.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

For example, their Fire Forensics: Claims and Evidence unit is a safe way to educate middle school students about fire. Supplies and summaries of labs, including outcomes and assessment tips. Common Core State Standards (See more on the Fire Forensics Site ). 1 – Fire Investigators in Training. Cost: FREE.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 30, 2017

Zap Zap Math is a free gamified way to teach math skills that’s tied to many national and international standards (like Common Core). Each math topic is divided into four skills: Training, Accuracy, Speed and Mission , with appropriate games to support each goal. – Angles. – Time. – Pre-school Math.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Grace’s story is just one example of how the American education system and American policing tactics converge. The education system has a dangerous obsession with rule-following for Black children that cuts short opportunities, just as policing has a dangerous obsession with rule-following for Black people that cuts short lives.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

Better results for project-based learning were documented on a variety of tests, from Advanced Placement exams in high school to annual state assessments in math and reading in sixth grade. a senior fellow at the Fordham Foundation, a conservative education think tank. The George Lucas Foundation financed the four studies.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

This goes well beyond Khan Academy’s online video training, into fantasy worlds of trolls and wizards, the type of activities most parents have tried to keep their kids away from. Content aligns with Common Core, state standards and classroom instruction. Educational Applications. Educational Applications.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 26, 2017

In fact, it’s transformed 21st-century education, offering a normative tool for adapting to varied student needs, a scalable approach to differentiating for student learning styles, and a collaborative must-have with its vast offering of virtual meeting and storage options. Here are three that schools face: Teacher training.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month, Digital Promise launched a crowdsourcing effort on how companies use scientific research to design and develop their educational technology products. Mindprint Learning provides a cognitive assessment developed for children that can be administered online. Computerized method for assessing cognitive domains.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 27, 2015

Some had been teaching for thirty years and still enthusiastically embraced everything from twitter to the gamification of education. They were connected educators. Teachers eagerly looked for tech options to traditional ‘fill out this sheet of paper’ approaches to ending class and/or assessing learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

The Mountain View-based nonprofit announced it will be partnering with five of the largest county offices of education in Southern California, plus one school district, to begin implementing its first tool that is fully directed at teachers and classrooms. But that’s slowly starting to change.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Bob Lenz became CEO of Buck Institute for Education PBLWorks in 2015. Before taking on his role at PBLWorks, his familiarity with Project Based Learning (PBL) matured as the co-founder of Envision Education and served as its CEO and Chief of Innovation. By Kenna McHugh. PBL doesn’t have to be done all the time to have an impact.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

For over a decade, plenty of time and dollars have been poured into encouraging the use of open educational resources (OER). In 2007 the Hewlett Foundation’s funding helped create OER Commons. Yet many teachers still ask: “Why can’t I find the open educational resources I’m looking for?” Last year, the U.S.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Non-submitters” were more likely than students who submitted applications to have lower educational-occupational aspirations, be racial minorities, have parents who completed lower levels of education and live in communities with lower socioeconomic status — but they were not less academically qualified. Department of Education.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

‘Technology in education’ has become the buzz phrase for cutting edge classes that are plugged into the latest education trends. When you start at a new school (or classroom, or teacher), it’s important to understand the part technology will take to improve educational experiences for your child.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

Technology in education is the greatest show on earth. You get CEUs (Continuing Education Units)–between 18 and 24 hours, depending upon the class you select (where applicable). ” Education’s fix requires technology. Well, at least in the classroom. You want to be part of it. To sign up, click here.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

But I wasn’t trained to teach literacy,” you say—and I’m right there with you. This was,” Elizalde explains, “the initial assessment for a framework called the Learning Record. Students created a computer program using free online coding platform Scratch to show their progress on a particular Common Core narrative writing standard.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

September 10, 2018—success stories from educators, administrators, and most importantly, students, which bring the company’s tools and service offerings to life. In its design, we put educators and students first in sharing how our company and tools support teaching and impact learning.” NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Listen to Jennifer Gonzalez talk about 5 tech tools every educator should try in 2017. Jon’s core PL skills are focused on 1:1 deployment, Common Core, Project Based Learning, social media skills and Lesson Design. chief innovation officer of CUE, who has helped train 32,000 educators since he’s been there.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

When it comes to their children’s education, parents are like drug-sniffing dogs. Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. Higher Education.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2015

“The word PARCC became synonymous with a nightmare test,” said chair of state senate education committee. Now the state will begin a 10-month sprint to design new English and math tests and train schools to administer those tests next spring. Next page: Biggest PARCC problems.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

Education is awash with efforts to personalize learning. Working together over the course of the year, we—at Torah Academy and Kiddom—together learned three powerful lessons about how to deliver personalized support to educators: 1. Companies, too, need to build that kind of inquiry into every step of their work with educators.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 28, 2015

I want to work smarter, not harder, and not be like Alice falling down the rabbit hole learning a new and managing a new-to-me assessment platform. My high school is a Google Apps for Education school, so my students are completing their tasks predominately in Google Drive. I don't want another platform.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The one change that I didn’t see coming was a shift in my curiosity about assessment. Perhaps I sensed a tremor from the other side of the educational spectrum—the workforce. I learned quickly that just because we are expected to assess something doesn’t automatically mean that we know how to facilitate it. It’s simple, really.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2016

But when Mancos decided to adopt Mastery Connect , an online resource to help track student mastery of Common Core standards and to align curriculum, leaders realized that they needed a more intensive approach to training teachers to use the new digital tool. The district shifted its PD focus to peer coaching a few years ago.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 31, 2017

And then in addition to that, it just gave me a great assessment tool to be able to assess whether they had actually mastered the type of volcano that they each had researched. It’s a research that I got from my training. They recently sent me to a coaching training. And it’s by Kate Kinsella. GREETZEL: It is so hard.

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Insight Education Group

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Jason Culbertson and Angela Ritchie bring extensive backgrounds in K-12 education to their new roles and share in Insight's mission to ensure every student has a great teacher. Working specifically with underperforming schools across the state, he provided on-site training, thought-partnership, and innovative solutions to meet schools’ needs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

This crucial juncture, and its far-reaching implications for those who don’t meet the mark, is why some educators are focusing their literacy efforts on the school years that come before third grade — hoping through innovation to offset what could be a terrible and lasting deficit in children’s reading skills. “Yet

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Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

In his post on his blog [link] , Aaron Ross suggests that their are two polar opposite approaches to the neccessity of a common core, those who want to protect and perhaps even popularize it and those who want to totally abandon it. He trained in that area. Is a common core necessary for elementary school?

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