Assessment, Common Core, Elementary and Personalized Learning

BoomWriter Delivers a Free Common Core Aligned Personalized Literacy Tool

The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 19, 2014

BoomWriter’s interactive collaborative writing platform lets teachers deliver a fun and engaging personalized learning experience, while elementary, middle, and high school age students work online to develop their reading, writing, and peer assessment skills. BoomWriter uses a simple process but with a technology twist.

Common Core

Common Core Tools Assessment Groups

How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. “Interactive Middle School Math 7” This middle school math online textbook aligns to the Common Core State Standards. Kindergarten digital textbooks.

How To

How To Classroom Common Core Hapara

Confused by your kid’s math homework? Here’s how it all adds up

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

Mathew Felton-Koestler, known as “Mathy Matt” on his YouTube channel , makes videos for parents that explain why and how young kids are learning math these days. He has two sets of videos specifically on the Common Core, in which he talks about the kindergarten and the third grade standards. Credit: Michelle Majdoch.

Common Core

Common Core Elementary Strategy Video

This Toolkit Helps Take the Stress Out of State Testing

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Assessment For Learning. We walk you through the process of distinguishing between various assessment types, building goals, identifying best practices around your assessments and analyzing your data to make lasting instructional decisions throughout the year. Student Performance Improves on State Assessments.

Edmentum

Edmentum Common Core Assessment Study

6 EdTech Resources and Strategies to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Students

EdTechTeacher

JANUARY 9, 2019

The key strategy to get to this level of understanding involves a tried-and-true instructional practice: formative assessments and feedback. So what are some main characteristics of these assessment practices? Students learn to set goals, self-assess, monitor their progress over time. Educator Strategies: .

Strategy

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Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Online assessments are becoming more common, and students who have strong digital literacy skills often score higher on them. Students who lack these skills may not be able to effectively demonstrate mastery of key concepts in math, reading or writing on online assessments.

Online Assessments

Online Assessments Assessment Elementary Common Core

Blended Learning Models Reduce Class Sizes

eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. million for technological improvements. Superintendent Dr. .

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Case Study iPad Learning

Blended Learning Models Reduce Class Sizes

eSpark

APRIL 5, 2022

In 2011, Utica Community Schools decided to transform how students learn, starting with their first day of elementary school. With this funding and the new adoption of Common Core State Standards, UCS began exploring blended learning models. million for technological improvements. Superintendent Dr. .

Blended Learning

Blended Learning Case Study iPad Learning

Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning.

Personalized Learning

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‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Miller asked as she stood in front of her class at Doss Elementary. First grade in particular — “the reading year,” as Miller calls it — is pivotal for elementary students, when their literacy skills “really take off.” This year, she had to backtrack — all the way to the letter “H.”. This story also appeared in USA Today. “Do

Elementary

Elementary Report Groups Assessment

SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected. Besides making learning more engaging, combining classes has helped students progress academically. Last year at.

How To

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Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2017

Whether from formative and summative assessments or online instructional programs, data is both a powerful indicator of teaching and a driver for personalizing professional development. This very same approach can help you implement more personalized PD. Let technology inform your approach to professional development.

Data

Data Blended Learning LMS Knowledge Base

Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification. Plus, the available content was designed around how much time I’d spend teaching it versus what I actually needed to get students adept at learning the topic at hand.

Khan Academy

Khan Academy Assessment Differentiated Instruction EdTech

Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik. FRAMINGHAM, Mass.

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core

The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

They decided to “personalize” learning for every child, which means that they tailored lessons to each student’s needs, interests and learning pace. Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. What is personalized learning?

Personalized Learning

Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning

The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Personalized learning is one of the most popular goals in schools today. The computers themselves bring concerns about the negative effects of screens on children’s learning and brain development. MESA, Ariz.

Learning

Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data

WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

Tools

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3 LMS adoptions that go way beyond the basics

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

About two years ago Houston Independent School District , with its 283 schools and 215,000 students, went in search of an LMS that would help teachers create and use coursework that was both digital and aligned to Texas state standards (Texas pointedly does not use the Common Core).

LMS

LMS Khan Academy Blackboard Moodle

2014 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Wednesday, November 19th ( US-Eastern Time ) 1:00am Globally Connecting Classes through Interactive Learning Objects - Ezra Samantha M. Purnendu Chatterjee MAD Day from Syria Makes A Difference - Samah AlJundi Maintaining Bridges to Swaziland Via Social Media - Susan Jacques Pierson, Ph.D. Pedro Néstor Ibáñez Lic.

Conference

Conference Education Digital Badges Libraries

Learning Revolution Week's Events - Evernote in the Classroom - Yong Zhao - Google+ vs. Ning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 12,000 language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. Curriculum is available online and for iBooks, with interactive activities, videos, and assessments. Learn more and register here.

Google

Google Classroom Digital Citizenship Conference

Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. funding) and outputs (e.g., It’s weaponized already, of course.

Data

Data Technology Education Software

Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

JULY 29, 2016

Via Politico : Stolen “emails from the Democratic National Committee show DNC Deputy Communications Director Eric Walker telling his colleagues to avoid mentioning the Common Core in a video. Via Gawker : “ Black Elementary School Teacher Body-Slammed By Cop and Lectured on ‘Violent Tendencies’ of Black People.”

Education

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BoomWriter Delivers a Free Common Core Aligned Personalized Literacy Tool

How to use digital textbooks in the K-12 classroom

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Confused by your kid’s math homework? Here’s how it all adds up

This Toolkit Helps Take the Stress Out of State Testing

6 EdTech Resources and Strategies to Gain a Deeper Understanding of Students

Preparing Students for Online Assessments with Digital Literacy Skills

Blended Learning Models Reduce Class Sizes

Blended Learning Models Reduce Class Sizes

Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

Four Ways You Can Use Data to Create a Personalized, Teacher-Driven PD Playbook

Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

3 LMS adoptions that go way beyond the basics

2014 Global Education Conference - Day Three!

Learning Revolution Week's Events - Evernote in the Classroom - Yong Zhao - Google+ vs. Ning

Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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