The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

First, let’s overview what Lumio does and how it works. You can upload anything you already have in your classroom, every pdf, every electronic document, or the materials you’ve purchased and add to Lumio. How to get to the site. Sponsored Blog Post This blog post is sponsored by Lumio. All opinions are my own.

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Libraries Assessment Tools Google 351

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

On a typical day when I visit classrooms with principals in my partner districts across the country, both the building and district leaders receive a 1000-to-5000-word document laden with practical feedback. One of the key points I tried to make was how important it is to do the same with teachers. The result was “Feedback Fridays.”

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Assessment Outcomes Examples Elementary 533

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. This phase underscores the significance of critical evaluation, research skills, and reasoning.

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Secondary Analysis Comparison Data 386

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. Have students observe plants, insects, or other natural phenomena.

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Analysis Elementary Case Study Secondary 281

Waterford

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

For Educators: How to Run a Parent-Teacher Conference. Here are a few ideas for items that you could include on the document: Strengths and weaknesses. 14] Also set a few student goals for the upcoming semester during the meeting to involve parents in the assessment process.[8]. Classroom behavior feedback [17]. Markström, A.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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Classroom Blended Learning Handbook Analysis 259

Hapara

JULY 19, 2023

Collaborate One of the benefits of Google Docs for learners is that it increases their productivity because they can access their documents from any device. Learners don’t need their own separate documents, nor do they need to sit together in person. It also keeps them engaged if you choose a meaningful activity.

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Google Digital Citizenship Classroom Education 130

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 7, 2018

The winning nominator and his or her nominee each win a $20,000 package including one 7000 series SMART Board and SMART Document Camera, 30 Chromebooks, and SMART training and implementation. Hope King: How to Engage Your Students and Find Your Creative Breakthrough. Enter a great teacher today. Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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How To Social Media Company Assessment 172

Neo LMS

MAY 20, 2021

Read more: How to facilitate meaningful discussions in hybrid or virtual classrooms. Independent —the teacher interferes as little as possible; students run the discussion and self-assess. Rubric —this is the cornerstone of the whole process: to have a clear, concise rubric against which students can easily self-assess.

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LMS Examples Groups Assessment 403

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This back-to-school-season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. Piedmont Elementary School in Piedmont, Alabama. Related: How can schools dig out from a generation worth of lost math progress?

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Data Elementary Groups Report 118

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

My appointment came at a time when 77 percent of McComb’s kindergarteners had not met the required performance on the state’s kindergarten readiness assessment. But figuring out how to operate a district within a dual system, staying true to our state’s accountability model and meeting the needs of our learners hasn’t been easy.

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System How To Assessment Meeting 113

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2022

A new report by the nonprofit educational assessment maker NWEA documents that third graders are currently suffering the largest pandemic-related learning losses in reading , compared to older students in grades four to eight, and not readily recovering. Learning to read well in elementary school matters.

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Elementary Analysis Report E-rate 145

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

MORE FROM EDTECH: See how K–12 schools can get started with using blended learning platforms. Blended learning combines technology and face-to-face interaction to improve student engagement, streamline assessments and open the lines of communication between teachers and students. . What Are Blended Learning Platforms?

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Blended Learning Microsoft Google Tools 367

Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

billion in Race to the Top funds was spent on teacher evaluation and incentive pay, and the Gates Foundation invested $575 million to test and evaluate a more intricate system to use student test scores to assess teaching effectiveness of individual teachers. A large share of $4.3

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eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

Aperture was on hand to demonstrate its scalable SEL solution for K-12 that grows with students and staff, from teacher-based ratings and strategies at the elementary level, to student- and teacher-facing assessment and strategy software for high school students and staff. AVer Information Inc.,

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EdTech Robotics Assessment STEM 132

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S.

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Elementary Report Conference Exercises 127

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

“Some people in the school asked me to talk with you to try to figure out how we can make school easier for you and understand what happened,” psychiatrist Nancy Rappaport told him, according to a recording of the call. They needed to know how to respond. But, they say, relatively few districts have that level of resources.

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Assessment Report Elementary Case Study 86

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Sometimes elementary and middle school teachers come across as apologetic about how “little” they are doing in relation to personalized learning. It is easy to see how students can find their niche and flourish based on the variety of paths that are available. But they’re doing more than they think.

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Personalized Learning Elementary Learning Assessment 142

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

That’s because low-income students were less likely to attend in-person school, where diagnostic assessments were given, or take an online assessment at home. Those learning loss estimates are based on how students performed on i-Ready assessments administered in school in spring 2021.

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ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The advent of interactive large-format displays further expands the options for achieving the documented benefits delivered by this transformative classroom technology. You’ll find them in elementary classrooms and university lecture halls. The ability to collaborate on text documents, spreadsheets, design projects, etc.

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Technology Classroom EdTech Training 256

EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many suggestions have been made as to how to catch students up. The big idea of mastery learning is that at the end of a unit/chapter, students take a summative assessment and if they pass, they move on to the next unit. In my high preforming school I have noticed significant gaps in student preparation. But is there another way?

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Handbook Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Assessment 118

Hapara

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

In a nutshell, heutagogy emphasizes relearning how to learn. They help instruct learners how to teach themselves and serve as role models. Students in turn negotiate their learning and determine what they will learn and how. Educators may need to nurture students and remind them how to be active learners.

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Learning Study Social Media Strategy 157

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2016

Its roots can be traced back to the 1990s when Congress reauthorized Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The Improving America’s Schools Act (IASA) required the development or adoption of state assessments and tied them to Title I funds. Teachers intentionally and frequently use formative assessment.

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Data How To Secondary Assessment 68

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. So kind of give us the the assessment? The student was supposed to show that they can document correctly.

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STEM Industry Assessment Outcomes 106

Turning Learning On Its Head

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Many suggestions have been made as to how to catch students up. The big idea of mastery learning is that at the end of a unit/chapter, students take a summative assessment and if they pass, they move on to the next unit. In my high performing school, I have noticed significant gaps in student preparation. But is there another way?

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Handbook Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Assessment 122

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

More than a dozen studies have documented that students, on average, made sluggish progress in reading during the pandemic. Estimates of just how sluggish vary. Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. The pandemic made a bad situation worse. Michael Petrilli, president of the Thomas J.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 144

NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

Different sections provide a PK-12 continuum of skills, identification of priority skills for every grade level, and graphic organizer assessments for the priority skills. The ESIFC includes a rich repository of downloadable graphic organizers to support assessment. Offered as Word documents, these tools are easily adaptable.

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Digital Citizenship Libraries Secondary Social Media 76

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 19, 2020

And, think about ways to document these benefits. Observe and document which practices are getting good results (or perhaps better results than face to face instruction) for your students. . But let’s stay in this mode of simply observing, documenting, and envisioning. Consider it “virtual classroom-based action research.”

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How To Learning Microsoft Outcomes 88

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

Our Canopy Project , which documented student-centered learning plans in schools, found that three-quarters of them are designed to foster learner agency. How to start: Teachers can use school closures as opportunities for what Bragg calls “unlearning” of conventional roles and protocols.

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Learning Outcomes Policies Student Engagement 218

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Credit: Lillian Mongeau for The Hechinger Report That’s slowly changing — for some disabilities.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 129

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2024

Yet the change isn’t happening fast enough for many parents and researchers who say the tests remain deeply ingrained in the work of school psychologists, in particular, and that they are still regularly misused to gauge young children’s potential and assess whether they are “worthy” of extra help or investment.

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Assessment Policies Accessibility Report 114

Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2022

Bamboo conducted its pilot study at a charter elementary school in Oklahoma City throughout March and April. If the answer is yes or no, they should also be able to say, ‘Are you willing to document evidence with us, in our context? Rectanus explains. These questions are becoming increasingly common, Rectanus says.

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Company EdTech Industry Outcomes 200

edWeb.net

AUGUST 11, 2022

Dan Boatman, Executive Director for Teaching and Learning, and John Barrow, Executive Director of Intervention and Behavior Support, are leading an initiative to build a sustainable social-emotional learning (SEL) program at the elementary school level. What indicators will we use to analyze what is and isn’t working?

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Survey Data Training Elementary 74

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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Elementary Report Dropout System 102

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Kristen Mattson, author of Digital Citizenship in Action talks about how they’ve integrated digital citizenship into all of their courses at her school and how you can too. Jennifer gives you a description in simple language, a screenshot of the tool in action and then a play button that takes you to a video about how the tool works.

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Digital Citizenship Education Future Ready Course 197

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

On July 17-20, Pizmony-Levy led a first-of-its-kind professional development institute for NYC public elementary school teachers who want to teach climate change in any subject. The four day workshop covered the science of climate change, environmental justice, and ways how to incorporate climate lessons into subjects across the curriculum.

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Training Report Elementary Examples 79

User Generated Education

JULY 5, 2018

What may look like an arts and crafts activity, or just a bunch of kids playing with Legos, is actually a way to teach about ancient Rome or how to write a persuasive essay. ( [link] ). Documenting Learning and Reflection: How will learners document and reflect on their learning? Peer Assessments.

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Education Common Core STEM Examples 180