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Helpful Tools to Ease Learners Back into Math, Reading, and Writing

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These (mostly) free tools can help you assess how students are doing -- and feeling -- alongside other resources for building up their skills and confidence. We've divided this list into three parts -- you can jump to any section below using these links: Assess Where Your Students Are. ASSESSMENT TOOLS FOR ALL SUBJECTS Edulastic.

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Curriculum Design is Emotional Work—This Teacher Makes It Easier

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standards-based) school for at-risk youth, pre-packaged curriculum and assessments offered very little flexibility for personalization or modification. Despite the immense amount of work involved, my colleagues and I fine-tuned our curriculum every year based on student skill gaps and results from formative assessments.

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Top 25 Sites/Apps of 2018

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Think Fluency - A wonderful iOS/Google Play app for assessing a student's reading fluency. Socrates - A cutting-edge new site where educators can seamlessly differentiate instruction through game based learning. Khan Academy Kids - A new iOS/Google Play app for finding educational resources for Math, Reading, Writing, and more.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

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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. Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s. What can that look like?

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PROOF POINTS: How can tutors reach more kids? Researchers look to ed tech

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Another tutoring researcher, Philip Oreopoulos at the University of Toronto, is studying whether once-a-week Zoom tutoring sessions at home are sufficient for some students when combined with practice problems from Khan Academy, a nonprofit organization that provides free online learning.

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Helping Learners Move Beyond “I Can’t Do This”

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I work part-time with elementary learners – with gifted learners during the school year and teaching maker education camps during the summer. Struggles with authentic tasks mimics real life so much more than completing those types of tasks and assessments done at most schools. Struggles are good. Teaching for mastery ).