Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Linda Edgecomb is the principal of Golden Grove Elementary and a huge fan of Stinky Feet Day. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Leslie Swanson-Anaya @InspiredLeslie elementary teacher of the year for Texas region 15 has ideas for awesome technology stations. Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. Leslie: My fifth one would definitely be LearnZillion.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. If you don’t have a good pairing with each other, that definitely could happen. Blog: www.SparkEdServices.com.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

You’re an elementary teacher right? We finished our assessment last week, and then this week was all about STAR testing. And I’m not sure what kind of assessment you have in the south, but we have STAR tests, some people had NWEA. I think this is an important shift that needs to be made, especially in elementary classrooms.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

But I definitely think there's a growing space for educators on TikTok and then different conferences, professional organizations and trying to start as an online connection because it opens the door for people well beyond your geographic region. So you definitely want them to see you adding value by having you partner in it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

You can also add audio notes with your voice, but sometimes I want to include a definition or detail. Assess the video. You might want to just use the statistics in the dashboard to see how students are watching and what they’ve done, but I love that it tells me how many questions I have to assess or grade.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. It’s definitely a work in progress. It can even be done in the elementary curriculum. How are you doing that?

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one. Its parent company, 3P Learning, promises to price-match on districts’ most recent TenMarks contract.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

It’s also a time when companies of all sizes and ages announce their latest updates and tools. Our bread and butter has always been middle school ELA,” a representative from the company explains. So the company plans to release three new articles a week aimed specifically at elementary students. classrooms. “As

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Most definitely. Julie Hembree is definitely somebody you want to follow. Julie Hembree is a teacher-librarian at Cougar Ridge Elementary School near Seattle, WA. Vicki: I love that! Julie: Yes! They love it.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

We saw some movement in the 80’s and 90’s around portfolio development, around performance assessment, and other sorts of indicators of authentic work. One of the more interesting initiatives that we’re seeing is coming out of New York, a consortium of schools called the New York Performance Assessment Consortium. Scott: Right.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

You’d definitely want to check the transcript and show notes for all of these ideas. You’ll definitely want to go to Eric’s website Control Alt Achieve and his YouTube channel. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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MindShift

APRIL 30, 2021

Before she landed her job with Ovia Health, a Boston-based digital company that serves people who are starting families, Knowles was working as an aide at an elementary school. Ovia Health is among a number of companies identifying entry-level jobs like the one Knowles has and dropping the degree requirement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 7, 2018

Matthew: Well, the tribe is an affinity group — which is by definition a group of people that come together because they have an affinity or a like of something. They design these assessments based on reflections. So they’re always constantly assessing. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2018

I’ve been sharing the task board with other teachers, and other teachers have been hopping on board sharing what they’ve done, so it’s definitely kind of catching fire in our school, I see them kind of using it on Twitter and other different places, so it’s very exciting. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. They can access these different assessments (tasks for them to do) in each G-suite, and they can complete that.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. Karen Schauer, superintendent, Galt Joint Union Elementary School District. GALT, Calif.

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Learning Elementary Report Personalized Learning 87

ExcelinEd

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Elementary School Develops grade-level proficiency in math and reading. Job shadows at a local company. Completes a capstone internship with a local cybersecurity company. Works for local companies through the campus IT co-op program. in business administration with plans to open a cybersecurity consulting company.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

Since launching in 2012, Rethink has invested in 27 companies that serve a broad spectrum of learners and needs, ranging from elementary-grade grammar ( NoRedInk ) to college student success platforms ( Civitas Learning ) and career training for professionals ( General Assembly ). The firm has an eye for smart bets. Lessons From K-12.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 10, 2017

The Unified Classroom brings together the teacher’s grade book, learning management system, student information system, and assessment in one powerful platform with just one log in. But digital leadership is such a positive way of looking at it, and I got the definition from a good friend of mine and mentor, George Couros.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Within the virtual environment, you get you learning, you get your assessment, you get your experience. Enrique: Yeah, you definitely want to keep them seated. The companies that are doing this right now are not making money with it because schools don’t have money. Make it more immersive. Make the experience more all-inclusive.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Dr. Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. However, his formative assessments have a twist — students are all answering DIFFERENT math questions. Masterful Math: Randomizing Formative Math Assessment. We created Assessment Items.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Blended learning at the elementary level is different than the traditional definition. In the elementary classroom, we typically think of incorporating multiple instructional strategies, instead of the “sit and get” instructional model of long ago. It’s an approach that seems to be working.

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Fractus Learning

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

Almost 5 million students were enrolled as English learners in US public elementary and secondary school during the 2013/14 school year—that’s almost 10% of the total student population. Many companies are responding to this growing population by adding ELL support to an existing product. Would you like to work more on this?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2022

And companies, in turn, are beginning to work out the answers. The long-time classroom educator is co-founder and chief content officer of Bamboo Learning, a company that launched in 2018 with a voice-enabled literacy application and began piloting the technology in schools earlier this year. It is not a high bar.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a bonus, these sessions can allow educators more opportunities to measure student achievement through informal assessments, potentially providing new holistic accountability measures. 15 These increases in achievement show great potential for using high-dosage tutoring as a school improvement strategy.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Do you want to give us a simple definition? I have to do the in-flip, which means I do the videos sometimes in class, and use tools like “EdPuzzle” to kind of insert that formative assessment and that sort of thing. . #2 Understand what flipping the classroom is (and isn’t). Vicki: Absolutely. Vicki: Yes! And you know, I do this.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

Hines Elementary in Waco, Texas Here’s what eSN’s panel of educator experts had to say about DEI in action in their schools, the challenges they still face, and what they think will advance DEI initiatives in the years to come. We have to take us older-school education people and retrain our way of thinking about how to deliver [instruction].

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

" But the answers to that question are, of course, bound up in our beliefs and practices and expectations, in our assessments of what "preparedness" even means. Because definitely running two giant planes as a television broadcasting service makes sense. The Hagerstown CCTV project began in 1956 with a $1.5

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Education Report Khan Academy Examples 140

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. Elementary students are not immune to serious student safety issues. education system.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 21, 2021

In a survey of state testing agency recommendations, Logitech found in 2020 that 70% of state testing agencies highly recommended or required external keyboards on assessments (Logitech, 2020). Teachers who are connecting with students anywhere else should definitely have an external camera that better adjusts with lighting.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. The document also covers assessments for interpersonal skills and habits of mind. We definitely want to have them back next year.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., States were allowed to set their own definitions of proficiency and to decide how quickly schools would have to progress toward that 100 percent goal. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

One teacher, many students: It’s basically the definition of school as we know it, going back to the earliest days of the Republic. Khan Academy has recently introduced more assessments, so that more of the exercises in their free library can be used in this way. Proficiency vs. mastery (Drew Lytle for NPR ).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The Department of Education provided some answers last week with the release of a national survey conducted in December 2022 of 1,000 schools, from elementary to high school. Companies have marketed this voluntary 24/7 tutoring as high-dosage because, in theory, students could use it frequently.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2018

In a business when they implement something, it’s create and then train their staff and implement a new idea, and then they have to assess if it’s working or not to retool and retrain. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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