A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Both of my parents were public educators; my father an elementary principal in Hackettstown and my mother an elementary teacher in Flemington. This recognition has been validated by state-by-state data comparisons. For all the hoopla, PARCC has told us nothing we didn't already know from previous assessments.

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System Comparison Education Common Core 150

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Schools are already spending big chunks of their approximately $190 billion in pandemic relief money on a range of strategies from after-school programs to cutting class size. No catch-up strategy can possibly benefit all students. There’s no silver bullet. Here’s a rundown of the most relevant research.

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Study Elementary Training Strategy 144

The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Title for Kaylsta: 3 assessment tools that support student individuality and assets (not deficits). Original title: assessment-tools-that-support-student-individuality. There is another approach to assessment that supports students’ individuality and provides teachers with effective information about their learning.

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Assessment Study Groups Personalized Learning 52

Linways Technologies

MARCH 13, 2020

Each of these are mapped with measurable outcomes to assess attainment. The believed that classifying goals like this would be beneficial to assess college student performances better. cognitive psychologists, curriculum theorists, instructional researchers and testing assessment specialists led by Lorin Anderson, a colleague.

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Assessment Outcomes Strategy Comparison 94

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Grading student work by hand takes time and there is always a lag between students’ assessment and the resulting feedback. Traditional instructional strategies like class openers and exit tickets are great places to begin using games. Games provide targeted, in-the-moment feedback based on a player's current performance.

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Game-Based Learning Learning Elementary Differentiated Instruction 142

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

This was the tail end of my first school year as the principal at Madison County Elementary School, a pre-K to 8th grade Title I school, located just outside of Huntsville in Gurley, Ala. The assessment findings are used to guide our work with students. This pill incident woke up our school community.

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Elementary Comparison Meeting Study 115

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 103

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The Nation’s Report Card, with its bad news about National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP, math and reading scores, drove home a message long hinted at : The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S. Education during the pandemic was itself an educational experience, although not one that can be assessed by the NAEP.

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Comparison Report Assessment Trends 89

Linways Technologies

JANUARY 10, 2019

Each of these are mapped with measurable outcomes to assess attainment. The believed that classifying goals like this would be beneficial to assess college student performances better. In this level, we assess the learner’s ability to retain and recall information. to assess this level of cognition.

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Outcomes Assessment Comparison Trends 58

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2017

I’ve included a comparison matrix with features to help you figure out what system is best for you. What strategies can you use? So there’s a lot of benefit to really flipping that and having students be the creators of the assessment rather than students just doing the task. Click to see Bloomz. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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Comparison Elementary System Assessment 195

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

A student at Belmont-Cragin Elementary School. Lee Elementary, a Pre-K-8 school on Chicago’s southwest side. “I As part of their jobs, special education teachers assess students and develop teaching plans based on each student’s skill levels. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Elementary 145

Edsurge

MAY 10, 2021

Whatever age group they teach, early childhood educators ought to earn salaries on par with elementary school teachers, King says, noting that elementary school teachers “do not earn a lot, in the scheme of things.” By comparison, Sen. Paying $25,000 a year—that’s just wrong. King’s research bears that out.

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Industry Comparison Elementary Accessibility 156

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

Math RIT points on the NWEA MAP Growth Math Assessment from winter to spring, exceeding expected growth of 3.3 Stride also has the Progress Monitoring Assessments (PMAs) that can be administered four times per year.” It allows for an apples to apples comparison.” Outcomes: Using UpSmart, Wirth’s students “gained an average of 5.5

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Adaptive Learning Tools Learning Outcomes 52

edWeb.net

MARCH 16, 2020

Addressing this high level of absenteeism is possible using research-centered strategies, advised a panel of research, attendance, and behavioral science specialists in the recent edLeader Panel, “ Taking an Evidence-Based Approach to Reducing Absenteeism ,” sponsored by EveryDay Labs. Implementation Strategies.

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Policies Dropout Outcomes Comparison 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

Policymakers will be looking to leverage their existing data sources to better understand those trends and the remaining gaps, and they will continue to look for innovative approaches to learning and ways to assess the needs of students. I can see a world where we overcorrect, however, and start to view it in a very narrow way.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

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. The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. “We never looked at brain research.

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Bryan gives you a head to head comparison of all of the popular interactive response systems that work on your classroom''s mobile devices. Examine the evolution of the writing process, identifying tools and strategies that may not have been previously conceivable. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)?

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Resources iPad Mobility eBook 91

MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

While there are limits to comparisons between the two educational approaches — special education is legally mandated and personalized learning is a loosely defined pedagogical philosophy that takes many forms — some of the cracks that have appeared in personalized learning are not unlike those facing special education.

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Personalized Learning Education Learning Training 45

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Looking for new ways to review learning, discuss questions, formatively assess, and be more playful with learning? These games enforce academic learning because they are a method of formative assessment that is not a paper quiz. Best for elementary (grades K-5). Games best for elementary grades.

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Classroom Learning Examples Groups 52

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

Second-graders at Dunn Elementary in Kentucky. For example, they will acknowledge that it takes years to learn academic English and, in the next breath, bluster over the “achievement gaps” of English learners with graduation rates and national reading and math assessments. Photo: Luba Ostashevsky. Around 5 million children in U.S.

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Policies Data Common Core Comparison 40

wwwatanabe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

The Arizona Department of Education (ADE) issued a letter informing us they will increase the text complexity as well as higher Lexile levels on the current AIMS test this year to help transition to the PARCC assessment. Defend your claim with evidence from past records, statistics, and strategy. What is Text Complexity? Host a debate.

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Common Core Resources Differentiated Instruction Secondary 74

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

students are justifiably exhausted and nervous from too much homework — even though some international comparisons suggest they’re sitting comfortably at the average. The best answer comes from something called the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. Well, here goes. How much homework do U.S. students get?

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