The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

This summer, educators need to get some rest so that we can be our best. As I look ahead to this summer and listen to educators, here are 21 hot topics that I think we should consider including in our summer PD. We have to relate to educate. From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

In my recent article regarding using Universal Design for Learning in remote classrooms , I mentioned Todd Rose’s term, “design to the edges,” which is what educators attempt to do each day as they accommodate the variety of learners in their classrooms. Read more: Implementing differentiated instruction: the good and the bad.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

To gauge students’ progress, the schools administered the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP) Growth Reading assessment, which measures grade-level reading achievement and growth, during the 2020-21 academic year. The full “Using Lexia Core5 Reading” report is available at [link]. About Lexia Learning. About Cambium Learning Group.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The approval signals to educators that IXL Math is backed by rigorous research to support its effectiveness in Utah and opens up grant funding for schools and districts to adopt the platform. The Action Center promotes STEM education in Utah by identifying and providing funding for resources that are proven to help learners grow.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

BOSTON (March 9, 2022) – A 2020 report from the U.S. Department of Education stated that the number of Emergent Bilinguals – also known as English language learners – in U.S. Cambium Learning® Group is the education essentials company, providing award-winning education technology and services for K-12 markets.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

have an overabundance of responsibilities, not the least of which is educating hundreds of eager minds each year and then sending them out into the world. As reported in April 2016 (the most recent year for which data is available from the National Assessment of Educational Progress ) only 37 percent of high school seniors in the U.S.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wikipedia Differentiation, the ability for teachers to meet the needs of a variety of learners, is a key component for successful teaching. While there are lots of ways this can be done and lots of tools that educators can use to accomplish this, there are many sites that can help facilitate the process.

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Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

Have you ever considered creating your own open educational resources (OER)? When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Let’s take a look at how to develop K-12 open educational resources. Types of OER you can develop for K-12.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2015

New tools aim to help teachers use student assessments to target individual learning needs. Flocabulary, which offers online videos and activities intended to boost achievement, has launched a new suite of features to help teachers, schools and districts assess student knowledge and diagnose needs for differentiation and intervention.

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Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

BookWidgets is an excellent site for creating educational games/quizzes. BookWidgets is ideal looking for teachers to save time by having their educational games/quizzes automatically graded. This is all done in a user-friendly interface and educational portal that allows teachers to: track and monitor students in real-time.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 21, 2021

BookWidgets is an excellent site for creating educational games/quizzes. BookWidgets is ideal looking for teachers to save time by having their educational games/quizzes automatically graded. This is all done in a user-friendly interface and educational portal that allows teachers to: track and monitor students in real-time.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2024

Available now to school districts nationwide, Pear Deck Learning offers a comprehensive ecosystem of tools for instruction, engagement, assessment, and intervention that is rooted in learning science and designed to help K-12 classrooms — teachers and students alike — achieve their full potential. million students.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 25, 2022

After a year-long collaboration with nearly 100 educators, our highly acclaimed Savvas Realize LMS has been updated with significant enhancements to provide greater simplicity, shareability, and interoperability — helping teachers be more productive in the classroom.”.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Like all districts in Texas, we live and die through accountability ratings based on how our students perform on the state’s STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests. To this end, we began using Renaissance Star Assessments districtwide in the 2015–2016 school year.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

Artificial intelligence technology has the power to transform K-12 education by dramatically helping to personalize the teaching and learning experience,” said Bethlam Forsa, CEO of Savvas Learning Company. The AI-driven technology that supports Whooo’s Reading is a great example of this.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Gimkit is an excellent game based learning solution that makes it easy for educators to assess learning and differentiate instruction. This is done through fun educational games that even students can help create and use for self paced learning. I highly recommend checking out Gimkit by clicking here !!!

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

Core5 provides students in prekindergarten through fifth grade with explicit, systematic instruction through personalized learning paths in six areas of reading. Progress reports revealed significant results. Massachusetts educators also used Lexia products to expand their teaching skills. About Lexia Learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2021

This all-in-one solution for middle school, high school, and advanced science levels helps educators support digital and hands-on learning, facilitate inquiry-based exploration, and differentiate instruction using labs, embedded safety resources, test prep, formative and summative assessments, and multi-level reporting tools. . “We

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today released its much anticipated What Kids Are Reading report for 2021. As the largest study of its kind, What Kids Are Reading provides actionable insights and helpful tools to help educators guide their students toward “just-right” reading recommendations.

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Technology Tidbits

MAY 3, 2021

Buncee, is one of the most versatile learning tools around for: project base learning, digital storytelling, scrapbooking, and much much more, just a new feature that makes it easy for teachers to assess student's virtual assignments and performance. Also, a teacher can generate a detailed report making it easy to differentiate instruction.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

The value of Zoom meetings is that the educator can create synchronous interactive conversations and activities. teacher education Zoom meetings although they can be adapted for any age group and age level (3rd grade and up), and in training professionals. My goal is to have all my students actively engaged throughout the meeting.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Aligned with the latest research on phonemic awareness and part of the One95 Literacy Ecosystem , the new suite includes core and intervention lessons, intervention tools, assessments and teacher professional learning. Digital assessments are delivered over the new One95 Literacy Platform.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

as well as educational portal that allows educators to track/manage: classes/students, assessing student learning, and generate detailed reports. What separates quizflight from other quiz generators is the robust amount of features (styles of questions, timers, etc.)

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

As developers of the only scientifically valid, universal scale for measuring reading, MetaMetrics can accurately assess reading gains of students using Achieve3000 Literacy, one of four differentiated instructional solutions offered by Achieve3000, an EdTech leader serving more than five million PreK-12 students in 40,000 schools.

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Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 27, 2021

Gimkit is an excellent game based learning solution that makes it easy for educators to assess learning and differentiate instruction. This is done through fun educational games that even students can help create and use for self paced learning. I highly recommend checking out Gimkit by clicking here !!!

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Differentiated Instruction Game-Based Learning Assessment Report 53

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Here’s why: “The report suggested that “we have not yet become good enough at the kind of pedagogues that make the most of technology; that adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices will just dilute the effectiveness of teaching.”. I went to a recent professional development about differentiated instruction.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Education technology continually examines and redesigns pedagogy in an attempt to meet the learning needs of our students. But rarely do we apply this same level of commitment and creativity to the learning experiences of educators. OTIS automatically uploads teachers’ hours directly to the state department of education.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 16, 2020

SplashLearn is an ideal learning tool to use for teachers and parents because of the educational portal. This portal/dashboard allows educators/parents to create and manage student accounts, track/manage progress, generate detailed reports that can emailed, and even set daily schedules.

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Differentiated Instruction Game-Based Learning Mobility Assessment 69

Technology Tidbits

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

SplashLearn is an ideal learning tool to use for teachers and parents because of the educational portal. This portal/dashboard allows educators/parents to create and manage student accounts, track/manage progress, generate detailed reports that can emailed, and even set daily schedules.

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Differentiated Instruction Game-Based Learning Mobility Assessment 57

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

10, 2022) – Renaissance , the global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is honored to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the community reading initiative Read on myON , a first-of-its-kind partnership between Renaissance and Hillsborough County Public Schools. Bloomington, Minn. About Renaissance. in the 2020–2021 school year.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today announced the upcoming release of How Kids Are Performing: Tracking the Impact of COVID-19 on Reading and Mathematics Achievement , a report detailing the learning effects associated with COVID-19 school closures. About Renaissance.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

A theme here at Proof Points is that many things that go on at schools are at odds with the conclusions of rigorous education research. However, experts say schools of education — the institutions that train teachers — often don’t do that. Higher Education. Most anti-bullying programs don’t work.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Even when circumstances were less complex than what’s facing schools today, educators have regularly felt hurried. Student Assessment By now (mid-June), nearly every school in the U.S. Quality formative assessments, a requisite for providing meaningful instruction, will be especially important for closing COVID learning gaps.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

SplashLearn is an ideal learning tool to use for teachers and parents because of the educational portal. This portal/dashboard allows educators/parents to create and manage student accounts, track/manage progress, generate detailed reports that can emailed, and even set daily schedules.

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Game-Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Mobility Assessment 59

Technology Tidbits

JANUARY 27, 2021

SplashLearn is an ideal learning tool to use for teachers and parents because of the educational portal. This portal/dashboard allows educators/parents to create and manage student accounts, track/manage progress, generate detailed reports that can emailed, and even set daily schedules.

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Game-Based Learning Differentiated Instruction Mobility Assessment 68

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

I stepped out of the classroom in 2010 to work on education systems change at the state and national level, learning from creative public educators across the country. It is clear the public education system needs reinvestment. I believe we need to both reinvest in, and reimagine, the education system.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 29, 2021

SplashLearn is an ideal learning tool to use for teachers and parents because of the educational portal. This portal/dashboard allows educators/parents to create and manage student accounts, track/manage progress, generate detailed reports that can emailed, and even set daily schedules.

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Differentiated Instruction Game-Based Learning Mobility Assessment 56