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 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. Connie Hamilton Ed.S. Transcript for this episode. www.coolcatteacher.com/e95.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2017

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning?

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Adaptive Learning Differentiated Instruction Survey Software 62

Reading By Example

JUNE 25, 2020

Last week our school surveyed almost 100 families about remote instruction. This lesson can be an introduction to a poetry unit for elementary students. All activities are possible within video conference applications such as Zoom. All activities are possible in video conference applications such as Zoom. Primary Level.

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Student Engagement Secondary Study Conference 72

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. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. So far the Acera-Pyne Arts partnership has been fruitful.

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STEM System Report Assessment 109

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.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In a survey released earlier this year, the edtech company Clever found that 85 percent of administrators say teachers are involved in choosing tools. That’s a lot of assessment, and they think they’re just playing, which is great,” she says. But where in the conversation are the people implementing those tools: the teachers?

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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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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

Reading By Example

OCTOBER 17, 2018

So far, half the teachers have taken the beliefs survey. My prediction is this number will be reduced after everyone has taken the survey. It’s a constant source of disagreement in elementary schools. For example, maybe some staff members are unfamiliar with benchmark books as an assessment tool. I am curious.

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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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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

We have developed a learning analytics platform that integrates data from across Fresno’s systems—from student information system data to school climate surveys to state assessments—with app usage data into a common data model. Learn more about the PLI and hear Ryan Fernandez’s story at Edsurge’s Fusion conference.

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Learning Analytics Personalized Learning Learning Microsoft 130

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

The use of differentiated instruction to individualize each student’s learning experience is becoming more common in today’s elementary classrooms, but creating meaningful differentiation for a typical class of 25 students or more can still be a challenge. What should educators and administrators know about adaptive learning?

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Adaptive Learning Differentiated Instruction Learning Survey 40

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. During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. BERWYN, Ill. —

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How To Common Core Elementary Report 83

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

But a new survey of classroom teachers underscores a different, and perhaps no less fundamental concern: that much of the data educators receive is of little use to them in their efforts to improve instruction. The results on data use come from an online survey of 4,600 educators, which was supplemented with interviews.

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Data Survey Classroom Report 40

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. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. But the surveys put parent satisfaction in the 88th to 96th percentiles. When Dan D.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 102

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

As momentum for digital learning builds, some districts—80 percent according to the 2017 Consortium for School Networking’s (CoSN) K12 IT Leadership Survey Report —are using open educational resources (OER), which the U.S. Once you’ve defined your first program, the next step should be to assess technology infrastructure.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

The drone was part of a demonstration of the powerful technology that the neuroinfomatics company EMOTIV offered at a conference on the power of technology and education. Soon we will have no use for interviews, focus groups or surveys—the typical go-to tools for understanding what people think and feel.

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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.

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UDL Handbook Twitter Survey 76

iLearn Technology

JANUARY 12, 2021

Each day we were in remote learning, I sent a daily email with a video message for the community, links to all of our teacher’s daily plans, links to tech-support, and a daily check-in survey so parents could share how remote learning was going in their house. At Anastasis, we start every day with a whole-community meeting.

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Video Libraries Survey Chromebook 50

Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2019

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. Alternative assessments – Multiple forms of data tell a story about students that paper-and-pencil assessments can’t.

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Data Education Analysis Assessment 38

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

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. Methods for assessing SEL are only just emerging. Photo: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. And I see SEL the exact same way.”.

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Report Elementary Conference Examples 106

edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

From an instructional and assessment perspective, Olivia recommends considering the relative importance of teaching critical skills, developing mastery, and providing grades. Olivia Miller is a 2nd grade teacher at South Ripley Elementary School in Versailles, IN.

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Education Secondary Policies Elementary 54

iLearn Technology

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each day we were in remote learning, I sent a daily email with a video message for the community, links to all of our teacher’s daily plans, links to tech-support, and a daily check-in survey so parents could share how remote learning was going in their house. At Anastasis, we start every day with a whole-community meeting.

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Video Libraries Survey Chromebook 36

edWeb.net

MAY 23, 2019

According to Learning in the 21st Century: the 2019 Digital Promise LVP Survey , 83% of teachers think students are capable of high achievement, but just 26% think students are reaching those levels today. Educators need to think about what elements are impacting a student’s ability to learn when they’re examining assignments and assessments.

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Personalized Learning Learning Strategy Policies 46

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

EdClusters leveraged an updated development rubric to assess their maturity and strategize next steps for moving ahead in four key areas: Stakeholder Engagement; Supportive Infrastructure; Compelling Communications; and. Equity, he said, needs to not just be one panel in a conference, but it “needs to be part of every conversation.”

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Assessment Tools Blended Learning Exercises 120

MindShift

APRIL 12, 2017

The job of feedback is to meet the student where they are and give them what they need to take their next steps,” said Susan Brookhart at the Learning and the Brain conference. Brookhart gave an example of an elementary class working on persuasive writing. Brookhart says surveys of students are clear on what they want from feedback. “In

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Assessment Examples Survey Elementary 77

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Estonian students are among the highest performers in Europe on international math, reading and science assessments. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. But there’s an overlooked member of the list: Estonia.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

We have had such an enthusiastic response to this event that we have expanded the conference this year: we will start Wednesday afternoon/evening and go through Friday mid-day (US Time). Tell a Friend / Colleague The conference is open to ALL, so please tweet, blog, email, or shout at your friends and colleagues to let them know about us.

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Common Core Conference Blackboard Digital Citizenship 71

Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

Finding Free eBook Platforms for My English Language Learners When surveyed, teachers report that their top three considerations for choosing tools are 1) price, 2) whether the tool was time-saving and simple to integrate into instruction, and 3) whether the tool tailored student tasks and instructions based on individual students’ needs.*.

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Technology eBook Dropout Libraries 60

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 2, 2019

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. Methods for assessing SEL are only just emerging. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report).

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Report Elementary Conference Examples 37

The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 26, 2018

I have them complete surveys that provide information about their lives, interests, and aspirations. 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.),

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How To Strategy Groups Differentiated Instruction 72

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2022

This is one of many multisensory activities Welch uses in her reading intervention class, a 30-minute pull-out session that meets daily at the elementary school. Frequent assessments can identify kids who are behind and make sure educators target resources and deliver interventions during the school day to the kids who most need help.

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Strategy Elementary Training Report 113

MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

“There’s a widespread myth that some people are math people and some people are not,” Boaler told a group of parents and educators gathered at the 2015 Innovative Learning Conference. We live in a society with lots of kids who don’t believe they are good at math,” Boaler said at an Education Writers Association conference.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. Textbooks have given way to Google Classroom and the Blackboard Learn management system, and lessons are assigned, submitted and assessed online.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 4, 2018

The topic for our first productivity roundtable is streamlining the grading and assessment process. They’ve found more effective ways to monitor and assess student learning, and they’re going to share those strategies here with you today. They’ll also share their best hacks and time-saving tips related to grading and assessment.

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