The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This damning assessment of the content of high school math comes from a survey of about 300 Alabama college professors who oversee majors and undergraduate degree programs at both two-year and four-year public colleges in the humanities, arts, social sciences and some natural sciences.

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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

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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The school visit demonstrated how they integrate culturally relevant pedagogy, differentiated instruction, and varied assessments to highlight Black brilliance in mathematics. Bessborough Drive Elementary and Middle School is a dynamic neighborhood school that uses technology predominately to redefine learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 10, 2017

As a teacher, Connie taught various elementary grades and 8th grade ELA. As a national presenter, she provides professional development and coaching for teachers around many instructional topics such as questioning, assessment, literacy, and leadership. Definitely. Connie Hamilton Ed.S. Transcript for this episode.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. If you are at the conference, feel free to look me up with a PM at Twitter ( @mjgormans ) or email (mjgormans@gmail.com). I hope you enjoy and find the time to pass this along via email or a tweet.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Networking, both in-person and online through social media, educational blogs, video conferences, and forums, plays a crucial role. This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. But culture is an elusive concept and mandates a definition here.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

On a crisp day in early March, two elementary school gifted and talented classes worked on activities in two schools, three miles and a world apart. And even before June’s historic civil rights protests, the issue of racism permeated the National Association for Gifted Children’s (largely white) November 2019 conference in Albuquerque.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2023

PRIEST RIVER, Idaho —The moms seated at the conference table on Election Day were worried. Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I I think we are in trouble based on what I saw.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

Flocks of educators and entrepreneurs have made their way down to San Antonio this week for the mecca of edtech conferences, hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education—better known as ISTE. Educators at a school can also set up their own channels and video conferences. Upgrades come just in time for back-to-school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

After leading a handful of conferences and workshops for public school teachers over the last couple years, Acera is in the first year of a three-year, whole-school partnership with the Joseph G. Dickinson believes this work is particularly important because it emphasizes an expanded definition of success.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2022

In Philadelphia, assessment tests showed that older students had more or less caught up to where they were pre-pandemic, although younger students still lagged behind, said William Hite, the outgoing superintendent of the city’s schools. Next year will be a better year, definitely. Our district has realized some of our challenges.

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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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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

But it’s not always simple to plan, and manage, and assess, so we’re going to talk about some practical teaching strategies today. With PBL, kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, interact with its lessons, collaborate with each other, and assess themselves and each other. It’s pretty complex stuff. So that’s one.

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iLearn Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Hundreds of conferences, workshops, MOOCS, edcamps, professional journals, blogs, the list seriously goes on and on. I’m about to tell you about one more… The 5Sigma Education Conference holds a special place in my heart because it gives me the opportunity to invite you to come meet the incredible people I work with every day!

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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. And Eric Curts @ ericcurts from Control Alt Achieve and co-leader of their higher Google Educators group has so many fantastic ideas.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 7, 2017

I know I was in Dubai recently at the EduTEch Conference with my students. 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. Enrique: I recently went to the Serious Play Conference. Make it more immersive.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? 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. Welcome to the Future!

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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. It’s really wonderful. Really, it’s been great. Laura: I do for sure.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2017

As a 1999 finalist for Indiana State Teacher of the Year, we recorded this conference at the recent NNSTOY conference in Washington, DC. VICKI; Today we’re at the NNSTOY conference, go to nnstoy.org and we’re talking to Karen Van Duyn. KAREN: Definitely. Definitely. Listen Now. Listen on iTunes.

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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. I was at a conference, actually with my husband, and he is in the hotel business. Something sparked me.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

At the beginning of March, I had the fortunate opportunity to attend and present at the KySTE conference in Louisville -- the first time the conference was back in person since the pandemic started. (I I was literally at KySTE in 2020 when the world shut down, a story I shared here.) How could you use it?

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EdTechTeam

JULY 7, 2017

I was finally able to incorporate video, formative assessment with responders, and have a visually appealing lesson behind me. I had surveyed one of our elementary sites to find out their tech needs. I attended AVID trainings, English Language Learner workshops, UDL conferences, ….you The list goes on. I scoured the hyperdocs.co

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Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2019

So there has to be a way to describe equity and determine at what level it has been achieved in schools, beyond only a definition. In Shane Safir’s book The Listening Leader , she describes three sets of data that educators can look to when assessing their school’s journey toward a collective capacity for achieving equity (p.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 5, 2018

There is no definitive list of symptoms for dyslexia, Kelli explained. Elementary-level red flags. She co-created and produced Dyslexia for a Day: A Simulation of Dyslexia , and she is a frequent speaker at conferences. In their recent edWebinar , Kelli Sandman-Hurley, Ed.D.,

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EdTechTeam

MAY 28, 2019

While many global collaboration projects teach a variety of skills and concepts, it’s best to narrow down your project to one content area with a definitive timeline. Creating elements of students voice, choice, and self-assessment are key elements of global collaboration. How do I need to prepare?

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Plussing your practice should definitely include a virtual visit from an expert. We’ve connected with scientists on a ship off the coast of South America and at a conference in Alaska. Want to learn more great ideas from Suzy Brooks and other elementary teachers? That’s a plus!!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools. Students refine these skills based on goal-setting, ungraded feedback known as the formative assessment.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 17, 2021

In the pages that follow, I’ll share 12 mindset shifts and workload strategies to help you streamline, because there definitely ARE things you can do to make this easier (or harder) on yourself. How well (and easily) can I assess this task for learning/growth/progress? How valuable is the learning that comes out of this task?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 5, 2022

What follows is a discussion between Twana Young, Kayla Mack, and an audience that took place at the 2022 SXSW EDU Conference and Festival. Before working with the state, she was an assessment coordinator and teacher for a school where she supported students with cognitive and behavioral exceptionalities. This idea of: How do we do it?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2017

The programs] are supposed to help kids who don’t get fed at home so they do better in school,” Mulvaney said at a press conference on the day of the announcement. Inside, tutor Louise Cox helped a group of 16 elementary and middle school students with their homework and ran them through math and language exercises. Guess what?

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 26, 2018

Project presentations are a major assessment in each of our social studies units, so we offer choices on topics, formats (Google Slides, art exhibits, videos, journal entries, etc.), My other strategy is to incorporate student choice on topic and product as much as possible for major assessments. You can imagine the disaster that was!

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 19, 2020

First off, if you are feeling like that, you are definitely NOT a bad teacher for enjoying this new way of interacting with your students. I think about this one a lot particularly for the elementary level, where going to the bathroom and getting a drink can take 15 minutes of the school day because the whole class has to make a trip at once.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 5, 2016

A lot of times at the elementary level, Genius Hour is once a week. I really think that even though Genius Hour is all about choice in terms of what they want to learn, teachers have to have a definite structure of what the process of learning looks like. Grading and assessing work done during Genius Hour.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay.

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