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.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As a result, performance has increased: standardized test scores, AP enrollment and achievement, graduation rates across all demographics, student attendance, and engagement, and post-secondary concurrent enrollment. Katy ISD/ Bear Creek Elementary, Katy, TX. South Pittsburg Elementary School, South Pittsburg, TN.

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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

JUNE 9, 2017

Dr. Angela Peery has been an educator 31 years and has served as a secondary English teacher, secondary administrator, instructional coach, turnaround specialist, curriculum developer, and consultant. When you’re helping teachers and they just feel like the kids, they want the teachers just to hand them the definition.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks. Each year, districts and schools were rated based on whether their elementary school kids performed better than the prior year’s students in math and English.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2021

And because there’s more negative emotion with the virus and we’re all trapped in the house together, the stress is definitely amplified.”. It was definitely weird to see moments of weakness in my teachers. A bad interaction with a teacher can definitely ruin a day,” she said. We snap at each other more,” she said.

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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 Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. The MCAS has long been considered one of the nation’s best tests at assessing student performance. ARLINGTON, Mass.—As AP Photo/Lisa Poole).

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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). Best for secondary (grades 6-12).

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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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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. Allow time for student to have the option to write, record, or present with a teacher when doing assessments.

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Shake Up Learning

JANUARY 28, 2020

We are going to talk about classroom strategies to help you give students a global audience for their work, meaningful connections with outside classrooms and experts, and how student portfolios can support student learning even after it has been assessed. Mystery Hangouts are particularly great for elementary grade levels.

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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. Moreover, it must give that precise definition multiple times throughout the survey to reduce confusion.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult,” he said. The transition going from high school to college was definitely difficult. Districts recognized the need to assess how the student would do in college or work or the community and then provide services in accordance with what they find.”.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Think back to an assessment you took in your elementary years. The assessments you took were not that memorable; you probably didn’t have a lasting connection and there was absolutely no impact on you as a learner whatsoever. So why can’t we do that in a class that [only] allows for traditional assessments?

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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 definitely need a shift. I think AI is going to help us do some of that. It’s not engaging.

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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

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 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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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

Once student responses come in from a Check-In, it's easy to see what category the students have self-assessed themselves so you can plan your next lesson accordingly. As I explored Verso, I was definitely curious to hear more about how it's being used in the classroom, so reaching out to Mrs. Manning seemed a natural next step.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Fellows receive monthly stipends that start at $450 and rise each year, up to $700, in an attempt to combat steep post-secondary dropout rates — 33 percent of black college students drop out after one year of college, often because of financial shortfalls. But Albert’s struggles with speech lasted all through high school. “I

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2022

Bamboo conducted its pilot study at a charter elementary school in Oklahoma City throughout March and April. We are definitely moving in the right direction, but we’re moving very slowly,” Epstein says. “I The students involved in the study used the Bamboo Learning iPad application for five to 10 minutes each morning for six weeks.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

So the following list of public education terms is useful not so much for the definitions, but for the credibility (or at least authority) of the definitions, as they are sourced from the Department of Education itself, in this case in regards to clarify Race to the Top language and meaning. To clarify your own misconceptions.

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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 Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 6, 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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iLearn Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

If something above resonated with you, and you thought, “this is MY topic of passion,” you should definitely propose a session. We do all of this with the same per-pupil expenditure as the public schools in the area! This year our sessions and keynotes will be centered around student agency. Proposals are due November 15th !

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 20, 2019

So I’m definitely good with that. And that’s particularly true at the secondary level because your kids are only with you what, 45-90 minutes a day. And I feel like, at the elementary level, the little ones really love the repetition. So you were having them do that same thing twice in one month?

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