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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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

So many things are thrown their way: assessments, evaluation tasks, submitting lesson plans, building duties, parent communications, and so on. I prefer this definition over the typically more technical description frequently offered by #edtech evangelists. National Education Policy Center. Halverson, R., Barnicle, A.,

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

One deals with the actual writing process and the others provides tools and resources for various writing opportunities and student engagement In this post I will deal the first concept and the following posts will explore that wide range of writing and engagement opportunities. I see this as really multiple concepts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. The policies and infrastructures are in place to deliver. education system. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. The effort has two chief goals: keeping students engaged in school and keeping them in the state after they graduate. Field trips to local employers are another. Sign up for our newsletter.

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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. Despite the evidence-based benefits of high-dosage tutoring, only a small share of students receive this service.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers.

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MindShift

MAY 7, 2019

In their book The Power of Moments , Chip and Dan Heath write: “What’s indisputable is that when we assess our experiences, we don’t average our minute-by-minute sensations. During the school year, they co-teach with credentialed teachers, sharing their expertise on relationship building and how to make topics engaging for young people.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Four-year-olds pretend they are growing tall, like plants, in a science lesson that involves a rich vocabulary, hands-on learning and student engagement. Student engagement and positive reinforcement like this, experts say, is a sign of a quality prekindergarten program. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. BROOKLYN, N.Y. —

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

If students are allowed reassessments, for example, does it open the door for dishonesty -- especially if the reassessments are coupled with flexible turn-in or deadline policies, or done outside of class time? For example, provide students with opportunities to remediate and possibly retake exams or rewrite assignments to improve.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

When DC + XQ collected and shared information with them about how their students had fared during the health crisis, “the data was really compelling to us,” said Kira Rowe, a school counselor at Coolidge. “It It was definitely eye-opening.” Policy Center, a research organization. But that’s not always easy to assess.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2018

We had to go into different websites, find different usage reports, talk to vendors,” says Matthew Raimondi, an assessment and accountability coordinator at U-46, a school district in the northwestern suburbs of Chicago. In their study of DreamBox, Harvard researchers found that “most students did not reach the recommended levels of usage.”

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

While the debate surrounding the validity of learning styles continues, the theory undeniably offers valuable insights into the diverse ways students engage with and absorb information. Learning Styles and School Improvement. Improving Schools, 6(1), 51–65.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Gamify compliance to institutional policies instead of social change and disruptive creativity. Place students on the periphery when we design, plan, and respond to their learning. (It’s Say we value depth over breadth, but then have policies and systems in place that imply the opposite. Bus students.

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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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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

It’s definitely not always rainbows and sunshine,” said Liang-Vergara. The shift from a traditional ‘sage on a stage’ role to helping students learn at their own pace can be challenging, requiring a lot of professional development for teachers. They teach students as a class and one-on-one or in small groups.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” As a result, students engage in academics, athletics and extracurriculars because they “know you care.” Eastwood wants each student to be proficient in math and reading before finishing 5th grade. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.). Why does that matter?

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

It’s definitely not always rainbows and sunshine,” said Liang-Vergara. As part of their jobs, special education teachers assess students and develop teaching plans based on each student’s skill levels. They teach students as a class and one-on-one or in small groups. Keeping that honest and real is important.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

It’s especially vexing with regard to students who already have low achievement levels or learning problems. According to our principal, roughly 75 percent of Fern Creek students are considered “gap” kids under Kentucky’s definition — students who belong to groups that, on average, have historically performed below achievement goals.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s.

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