TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2015

The school uses various assessment practices to analyze student performance, target instruction, and provide students with feedback in order to increase student achievement and academic progress over time. What the school needs to improve. What are the teacher effectiveness ratings for this school?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. Related: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.

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iLearn Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Because MobyMax is based on the Common Core, you can analyze data based on standards, student, class, school, or even district. Really helpful when you are working to meet the needs of a lot of different students! As a teacher, the continuous progress monitoring makes formative instruction that much easier. Really happy!

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Tablets Differentiated Instruction Android Common Core 65

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

Rod Federwisch & Karen Goss Assessing and Developing Modern Language Fluency For Global Communication - Harry Tuttle, Ed.D. Susan Blakely Secondary Math Teacher Globalizing the High School U.S. History Survey Course: Free, Collaborative, and Self-Paced Professional Development - Craig J.

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Common Core Conference Blackboard Digital Citizenship 71

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Without the consistent conversations, a student may never pursue secondary education or have a solid career at all. At one point, half of students in grades two through nine failed to meet local assessment expectations. Next page: PBL meets college and career readiness.

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Shake Up Learning

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Implementation in the primary grades may look different from the examples in this post, but don’t assume that this is just for secondary students. These standards could be content standards such as Common Core or NGSS. Then, students present their piece of evidence with context and explain how it meets the standard.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

A few weeks back, EdSurge published a podcast interview with education consultant and commentator Alan November, and Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District Mike Dorsey, after chatting with the two education experts at ISTE.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

Summative assessments evaluate competencies in each course through the year, instead of the quarters to reach a “3” in each competency to achieve course credit. Related: Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies? Many courses are integrated to scaffold learning, but also to make content relevant.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The nonprofit test development group has worked with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary education to make and score MCAS for all but four of the 19 years it has been given. The company also works on large-scale assessments for 16 other states and is one of two companies in the running to design the MCAS 2.0.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Am I doing enough ongoing formal assessment of student comprehension, strategy use, and tolerance of ambiguity? The Challenge Of A Common Language. It is vital, therefore, to assess progress in understanding the whole of a text. Am I helping them build a flexible repertoire instead of teaching strategies in isolation?

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Strategy Secondary Analysis Common Core 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Am I doing enough ongoing formal assessment of student comprehension, strategy use, and tolerance of ambiguity? The Challenge Of A Common Language. It is vital, therefore, to assess progress in understanding the whole of a text. Am I helping them build a flexible repertoire instead of teaching strategies in isolation?

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Strategy Secondary Analysis Common Core 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. To meet these challenges, educators must teach digital citizenship, an essential digital age skill that students need to become safe, responsible and respectful participants in a digital world.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Wednesday, April 9th at 4pm Thinking Scientifically: Video and Formative Assessment with POPstar Robert Miller , POPstar Robert Miller - an award-winning 5th-grade teacher - hosts this interactive workshop covering inquiry-based science curriculum; the creative use of video; and one of his favorite resources, NSTA’s Formative Assessment Probes.

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Conference Digital Badges Libraries Education 53

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

You want to meet new people. A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

You want to meet new people. A secondary focus (but of significant interest with students I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have time for.

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cardona plans to meet with students on a regular basis so he can hear directly from them. The plan to tie those test scores to teacher performance evaluations was so controversial that ultimately the state recommended against using those scores to rate teachers. Housing insecurity, hunger, you know, economic instability,” he said. “So

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? And that’s the best they’re going to do.'”

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

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. Harris resigned shortly afterwards. It’s weaponized already, of course.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Moreover, per this ideology, without the aid of algorithms and “personalization” technology, human educators and traditional institutions have historically failed to meet the needs of individuals as individuals. ” The agendas of other foundations – big and small – often echo those of Gates.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” Dan Meyer writes “Why Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans,” in a response to Chris Lusto who suggests that we do (or at least “We need GitHub for math curriculum.”)

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