The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. Credit: Nancy Walser for The Hechinger Report. And Daniel A.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

Over 40 percent of students report that they’re sleeping less, and close to 3 in 5 students say they’re more stressed about school than they were before. He spearheads the Alabama Conference on Grading and Assessment in Learning , an annual event where educators discuss best practices for testing and grading students.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

When building a classroom environment, confer openly with teachers about their specific needs to guide more meaningful technology integrations. . We’ve already helped several schools plan alignments that fit under the top three learning space trends reported recently by eSchool News : . Consult Teachers on Classroom Needs.

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How To Lenovo Libraries Future Ready 333

User Generated Education

JANUARY 22, 2023

As I always do, I am exploring its use in my classes (elementary-level gifted education). I get frustrated when I see conference presentations about 50 educational technologies in 50 minutes. To use GLTR, a piece of text simply copy and pasted into the input box and anaylze is hit to generate a report.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Earlier this year, the Highlander Institute, The Learning Accelerator and The Christensen Institute teamed up to bring together a conference on blended and personalized learning in Providence, R.I. We called an all-school town hall the next week to both explain and to provide a traditional report card alongside a more competency-based one.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

From student-led social media to students calling parents with score reports and student-led conferencing, these three ideas can help empower students in your classroom. You’re an elementary teacher right? We finished our assessment last week, and then this week was all about STAR testing. Student-led parent-teacher conferences.

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Classroom Social Media Conference Digital Citizenship 197

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Inside the middle school math crisis I sat through other new simulations at the summit as well, including Dreamscape Learn, something I’d heard and read about from a colleague who took a trip through its virtual Alien Zoo ) and YouTube Player for Education , which is creating virtual lessons, content and assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

Since then, scholars have been trying to figure out why their scores dropped so much between 2017 and 2019 on a highly regarded national test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Here she is training math teachers on how to teach children to solve word problems at an elementary school in Brooklyn, New York. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report How does a revolution start? The post PROOF POINTS: How a debate over the science of math could reignite the math wars appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 20, 2022

All eleven of the elementary schools are using the program. The recent NAEP Mathematics Assessment—the Nation’s Report Card—reveals dramatically low math scores and highlights the need to accelerate student learning to get students back on grade level. Ryan Christopher, Elementary Curriculum Coordinator, Waterloo Schools.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 30, 2018

I recently read a report that said schools in the UK spend £900mn per year on educational technology. The Achievement Center of Texas that’s currently using Milo reported an improved attention span, a higher response rate, and better results in students. into our curriculum. Erica the News Anchor.

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Robotics Classroom Learning Tablets 323

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Credit: Patricia Kühfuss for The Hechinger Report Neriman is taking part in Kein Abschluss ohne Anschluss (KAoA) — or “no graduation without connection” — a program that has been rolled out across the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia to help students better plan for their futures. Students are encouraged to think about their futures. “We

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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. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Survey STEM Analysis Data 143

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Many students report that they are overwhelmed by the pressure to perform and are keenly aware of family expectations. Schools can build in more time for students and adults to get to know one another via conferences, advisories and lunchtime activities. Understand the role of assessment. Invite conversations about integrity.

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Assessment Report Conference Strategy 105

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

But, instead, the vilest assumptions and insults were circulated like stale air in the same conference rooms where lawmakers meet to decide the fate of educators across the country. Quite frankly, this argument relies on decontextualized data to assess student performance. No two schools are the same.

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Policies Data Personalized Learning Outcomes 158

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

-based early childhood technology and services developer best known for its GOLD observation-based assessment system and its Creative Curriculum product lines for infants, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Roden worked as an elementary school teacher and in sales for Pearson before founding ReadyRosie in 2012.

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Strategy Video Company Smartphone 121

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

In a four-week unit on Albert Camus’ “The Stranger,” his senior year English students helped design guiding questions and themes, decided on daily and weekly assignments, determined how assessment and evaluation would be conducted, led each day’s discussion, and held each other accountable to mutually agreed-upon expectations.

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Learning Outcomes Policies Student Engagement 218

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 highlights the essential role of teacher collaboration in school reform efforts, with restructured schools reporting marked improvements in student performance. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al.

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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. appeared first on The Hechinger Report. The goal has always been: let’s prove that this works,” Dickinson said. Now she’s back.

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STEM System Report Assessment 104

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 13, 2019

Formative assessment is key. Fantastic, Fast Formative Assessment Tools is a helpful article that I wrote for Edutopia. Also see Better Teaching and Learning with Formative Assessment from Advancement Courses. Edpuzzle adds formative assessment and shows us the percentage of the video watched by students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. More than 30 years ago, Rockville Centre began a gradual but determined effort to do away with gifted classes in its elementary schools as well as many of the tracked classes at the middle and high schools. The Hechinger Report is an independent unit of Teachers College.)

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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. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. What can that look like? When Dan D.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 103

MSEDTechie

MARCH 12, 2014

I had the pleasure to attend and present at the Midwest Technology Conference in February. This conference was packed with experts sharing their knowledge with cool and exciting ways to integrate technology in the classroom. Follow reputable news sources and journalists/reporters in the field. Fake twitter feeds.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. WASHINGTON — It was late May in a conference room at Capital City Public Charter School and Nia Resse, an eighth grader dressed in a business suit, guided her audience through a PowerPoint presentation. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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Report Elementary Conference Examples 107

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 77

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. Only, rather than sending health care or social service providers to support parents and assess young children’s readiness for school, McDowell is sending teachers directly to kids’ homes — including high schoolers’ — to counsel, persuade and cajole them to graduate on time and plan for their future.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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How To Common Core Elementary Report 84

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

A report released this September by Digital Promise, Microsoft, Fresno and Houghton Mifflin, tells the story of Fresno’s PLI and its impact on learning across the district. Just one example of this is a teacher at Hidalgo Elementary School, who last spring put the PLI ideas into practice.

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Learning Analytics Personalized Learning Learning Microsoft 125

The Electric Educator

MARCH 13, 2018

I've blogged about it quite a few times over the past few years: 10 Google Form Tricks Restrict Answer Length in Google Forms My most epic spreadsheet ever Elementary book report machine You have probably created a survey or quiz using Forms. Week 2: Forms for Assessment Google Forms is a great tool for assessment.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

I saw the title of this article, “ Are Parent-Teacher Conferences Becoming Obsolete? I was expecting the article to talk about moving away from the “traditional parent conference” (sitting around for 10-20 minutes talking about a child’s experience in school) to something more student-led.

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Conference MOOC Elementary Assessment 71

mauilibrarian2 in Olinda

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

What did I bring home from the 15th AASL (Annual American Association of School Librarians) Conference? Best Conference Upgrades: The AASL11 mobile app for the conference was awesome - planner, agenda, presenters, exhibits, news and alerts, social media, maps, all in one! Thanks for asking about my trip to Minneapolis.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 26, 2012

I''ve been teaching for 14 years and I can''t get students to improve their writing based on my assessment alone no matter how many times I try. Students engage in writing workshops, do some peer review, have mini-conferences with the teacher, write a draft, revise the draft, and hand it in. Who am I fooling?!?!? consecutive hours.

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Edmodo Assessment Conference Robotics 142

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Despite my best efforts, I couldn't visit classrooms as frequently as I would have liked, and the feedback I provided in written reports could have done more to enhance teaching and learning both inside and outside the classroom. When a teacher struggles with assessments, provide or co-create an example assessment.

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Personal Learning Network Strategy Conference Assessment 502

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2018

Ahead of our 2018 EdSurge Fusion conference in October, we sat down with three attendees to discuss the secret sauce of what is working in their communities. Each chart has cheat sheets on how to use each report to target instruction along with what kind of activities their students could do, including online and offline learning activities.

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Personalized Learning Learning Conference System 71

MindShift

MAY 11, 2020

In the past month, his son, who is in elementary school, has been assigned multiple worksheets per day. “I Their solutions included switching to a pass/incomplete system at secondary schools and focusing on narrative feedback at elementary schools. Eakins during a recent professional development session. Switching to Pass/Incomplete.

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Policies Secondary Elementary Chromebook 68

techlearning

JUNE 15, 2018

The foundation students get in the early elementary years often determines the entire course of their academic lives,” said MobyMax co-founder Glynn Willett. Products were judged on multiple criteria, including pre-literacy and numeracy content, assessment, and reporting, all of which are highlights of the stellar Moby Suite.

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techlearning

JULY 18, 2018

Every year the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference's expo floor is packed with edtech products vying for teachers' attention. Want to speed up fluency assessments and free up time for instruction? This platform is designed to develop elementary writing skills through a world-building game environment.

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