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

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Data-Informed, Differentiated Instruction Made Easy. Savvas offers educators an easy, fast, and seamless way to assess learning needs and differentiate instruction for every student in the grade K-8 math and literacy classroom. Personalized Learning in Action.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2022

March 16, 2022 – Riverside Insights ®, a leading developer of research-based assessments and analytics, today announced a new partnership with Renzulli Learning, an interactive online system for whole school enrichment that provides students with personalized learning resources based on their unique interests and learning preferences.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 6, 2022

Additionally, there is a continually growing Readlee library you can select from as well. ( Teachers can look at the individual assignment and (in Readlee Pro) get even more advanced analytics for providing feedback and differentiating instructions. All of these are supported! See tutorial video.) This is fantastic.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 16, 2022

You can also organize students into different groups and differentiate instruction based on students needs. ReadWorks offers several features to enhance reading instruction and learning. Student library is a feature included with the class setup. Some of these features include: 1.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 5, 2020

Teachers can use Parlay in a number of different ways such as: browsing through a robust library of discussion prompts (w/ resources), creating a online roundtable, or by creating a "live" verbal roundtable. Also, Parlay is great for assessing students making it easy to differentiate instruction and for "blended" learning.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A Student-Centered Experience increases engagement and learning with new digital resources, like articulation videos, games, a Building Knowledge Library, and a greater focus on multi-sensory practice in every lesson. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY At Savvas, we believe learning should inspire.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

As a global leader in assessment, reading, and math solutions for pre-K–12 schools and districts, Renaissance is committed to providing educators with insights and resources to accelerate growth and help all students build a strong foundation for success. We look forward to continuing to support them for many years to come.”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Our students are reading in their free time in class, at home during hybrid/remote learning, and during library time,” noted Amanda Reese, a 6th-grade teacher at Walnut Grove School in New Market, Alabama. “I I have noticed with the use of myON that students are reading so much more on their own than I have seen them read in the past.”.

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Technology Tidbits

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Teachers can use Parlay in a number of different ways such as: browsing through a robust library of discussion prompts (w/ resources), creating a online roundtable, or by creating a "live" verbal roundtable. Also, Parlay is great for assessing students making it easy to differentiate instruction and for "blended" learning.

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Kathy Schrock

MAY 1, 2020

Cathy Weselby, in a March 2020 post on the Resilient Educator Web site , provides a well-stated overview of the important research, history, and methodologies for differentiating instruction in the classroom. Teachers who practice differentiation in the classroom may: Design lessons based on students’ learning styles.

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Hapara

AUGUST 8, 2022

When you build your own, you can differentiate instruction and support every student with the specific learning content they need. Formative assessments like this NGSS-aligned weather formative assessment. Pre-assessments like this clouds pre-assessment. Lesson plans like this ESL lesson plan. OER Commons.

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Hapara

MAY 12, 2022

You can also share specific texts with individual students or small groups to differentiate instruction and personalize learning. It also includes feedback for learners when they answer formative assessment questions. You can use these digital textbooks in your lessons and units or throughout the school year.

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Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 19, 2019

Teachers can use Parlay in a number of different ways such as: browsing through a robust library of discussion prompts (w/ resources), creating a online roundtable, or by creating a "live" verbal roundtable. Also, Parlay is great for assessing students making it easy to differentiate instruction and for "blended" learning.

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techlearning

APRIL 2, 2018

Fundamentals Unlimited offers resources such as Interactive Read-Aloud Lessons, Shared Reading Lessons, Mini-Lessons, Assessments, Graphic Organizers, Charts, and Student Forms. Each unit of study has a complete set of lessons, a link to core standards, as well as learning assessments and a customizable library of resources.

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Graphite Blog

MAY 21, 2021

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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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

In her essay , runner-up Valdez wrote that “Through my year-round Books to Keep Program, I give my students one multicultural or high-interest book every Friday to build their home libraries. I have given my students over 10,000 books.” She will use her grant for targeted bilingual resources and support tools.

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Technology Tidbits

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Walnut - A excellent new site/app for finding educational videos and then taking quizzes to assess learning (think BrainPop). This is a great way for educators to assess learning and differentiate instruction. brainstorming, assessing learning, etc.). addition, subtraction, multiplication, etc.).

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 15, 2016

Quizalize is a great site for creating game-quizzes to assess student's learning in real-time. A educator can browse Quizalize's library of quizzes created by other users or use one of their many templates to get started.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 21, 2017

Differentiated instruction is a big benefit of the flipped classroom model. They can choose to watch the video at home, at the library, anywhere, at any time of the day, in order to best meet their learning needs. Is Flipping for Everyone? is part of a larger series from Edutopia called the Flipped Learning Toolkit.

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Technology Tidbits

JULY 9, 2015

This is a great site for creating game-quizzes to assess student's learning in real-time. A educator can browse Quizalize's library of quizzes created by other users or use one of their many templates to get started. Best of all is the teacher's dashboard that allows educators to track student's progress and differentiate instruction.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Teachers can use Project Pals to organize work, monitor student progress, and assess projects in an interactive environment. Project Pals also provides a resource bank of Common Core-aligned lesson plans so teachers can drag and drop content to differentiate instruction.

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Hapara

APRIL 11, 2022

They are a cost-effective choice and make differentiating instruction and personalizing learning easier. For example, on OER sites, educators can find different lesson plans for the same learning goal to help them differentiate instruction. Are there opportunities for formative assessment? Assessment.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 24, 2017

I shared with you before how much I love Kiddom as an easy tool for managing standards-based grading , and there’s a couple of new updates that you definitely need to know about if you’re spending too much time creating resources for differentiated instruction. Just create and assign Playlists.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s. We discuss their goals and what they are working on, and if they had an assessment we might talk about that,” she said. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. But it left an impression. “My

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eSpark

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Piedmont partnered with us to differentiate instruction for 300 students, and Piedmont students who are using eSpark have grown an average of 13 percentile points on national assessments in 2014. Under Matt Akin’s guidance, we’ve honed our ability to launch and support rural and remote districts from our office in Chicago.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Please see the call for proposals and submission instructions here. How does your library manage digital collections?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 29, 2016

I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. It can be in a dedicated space, or room, or in the library. Of course, important 21st-century skills can also be assessed. Hope to see you there!

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 25, 2016

The “Books That Grow” library contains a mixture of classic fiction, primary source documents, myths and folktales, biographies, original science and history books. Explore these articles that I found through extensive research while reflecting on differentiated instruction in the classroom.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

JUNE 1, 2016

That’s where Kiddom comes in–a free standards-based grading platform that comes with a vast library of standards-based content. This feature alone helps teachers save time in preparing teaching materials and differentiating instruction.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 6, 2016

I plan on providing sessions that integrate PBL with STEM, Makers, Differentiated Instruction, Inquiry, Deeper Learning, and Technology Integration. The standards and skills are constantly assessed in a variety of ways involving numerous stakeholders. Most of all, there is an alignment between standards, skills, and assessment.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 7, 2015

Oncore - A free to use iPad app for teachers that acts like an all-in-one Learning Management System, where educators can assess students, take attendance, communicate w/ parents, and much more. Help Teaching - A very nice site for educational resources, printables, assessments, and more. Xtranormal) by typing a script. .

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Educators could add digital resources and assessment pieces, and learners could submit assignments. Schools also have the option of adding their Workspaces to a private library where teams can collaborate on curating Workspaces or creating lessons, units or projects. Another project Heather supported was with the fifth grade team.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

Real ti me feedback from students for formative assessment. Teachers can use MoveNote to explain directions to individual students, making it easier to differentiate instruction. As MoveNote calls it, it is ‘Presentations with Emotions.’ All this for free on the Chrome Web Store. https://www.youtube.com/watch?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds. Details and instructions for participants here. How does your library manage digital collections?

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

With embedded glossaries and formative online assessments, they can self-monitor. That means that learners will have no problem reading the material or taking formative assessments. . It also allows instructional teams to upload their own digital textbooks and create a vetted school library.

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