eSchool News

JULY 5, 2022

As the nation’s premier middle school science competition for 15 years, the 3M Young Scientist Challenge features outstanding innovations from young scientists that utilize the power of STEM to improve the world. Research-based DESSA assessments provide partners with an SEL foundation rooted in the promotion of assets, not deficits.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

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. If they don’t, they receive remediation and then continue to work on mastering the content until they pass the summative assessment. Challenges to Mastery Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The Defense Department, in a separate study, calls for an initiative akin to the 1958 Eisenhower National Defense Act to support education in science, technology, education and math, or STEM. Professors blame the pandemic In the most recent Program for International Student Assessment tests in math, or PISA, U.S.

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Turning Learning On Its Head

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

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. If they don’t, they receive remediation and then continue to work on mastering the content until they pass the summative assessment. Challenges to Mastery Learning.

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Handbook Competency Based Learning Flipped Classroom Assessment 122

User Generated Education

JULY 5, 2018

” For subjects like science, this is a little easier as the labs that often accompany science lessons often have a hint of STEM or maker education. Documenting Learning and Reflection: How will learners document and reflect on their learning? Assessment : How will learners be assessed? Peer Assessments.

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Hapara

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

They also consider it an attempt to challenge prevailing ideas about teaching and learning stemming from an educator-centered learning paradigm. These include a resistance to relinquishing control to learners, attachment to grades and assessment and lack of accessibility to the required technology, explains Blaschke.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment. Check out my Booking Page .

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) offers an approach to price transparency to consider.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Children’s learning experiences in pre-kindergarten through early elementary are shaped by many factors, including race and income ; consequently, they often face school readiness gaps that could be addressed with technology solutions.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 7, 2021

Marks also clarified while implicit bias is currently a hot topic, it has been identified and studied by social scientists for more than half a century, so there are research studies and historical data that document how it works and why it is so pervasive. Defining Implicit Bias and Its Impact. Building Awareness and Taking Action.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Inside the middle school math crisis I sat through other new simulations at the summit as well, including Dreamscape Learn, something I’d heard and read about from a colleague who took a trip through its virtual Alien Zoo ) and YouTube Player for Education , which is creating virtual lessons, content and assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 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. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. They really need to keep that in mind.” I think that is a very powerful way to learn.”

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

To help achieve this goal, the district is creating modern learning environments by introducing Discovery Education’s dynamic digital content into classroom instruction at selected MCPS elementary and middle schools. The Science Techbooks series also includes valuable STEM/STEAM resources as well.

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Technology Tidbits

DECEMBER 20, 2018

Again, this years list sees a lot of tools for STEM that focuses on programming/coding. Think Fluency - A wonderful iOS/Google Play app for assessing a student's reading fluency. Badaboom - A new game based learning tool (similar to Kahoot) where educators can make quizzes/games to assess student's learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. Did you do anything to document that? It can even be done in the elementary curriculum. Kristen: Yes.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. million to NWEA in 2019-20 for students in kindergarten through eighth grade to take the assessments. The MAP tests, however, weren’t free: Clark County paid about $1.9 Students at B.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. They can access these different assessments (tasks for them to do) in each G-suite, and they can complete that.

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Educational Technology Guy

JANUARY 12, 2015

srcid=0B6dF7rWxc-5aMGMyanRsMW5DbzQ&pid=explorer&efh=false&a=v&chrome=false&embedded=true Find Apps for Chromebook - great resource to find apps to use with Chromebooks [link] A great list of Apps and Extensions for Education https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xDrYNfAPlLY-2Y7kbL_ADBfVePYmREbNXXV_fyTh5LM/mobilebasic?pli=1

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 14, 2018

There was a meme a couple of years ago about this little elementary kid. So it doesn’t matter if you use videos or document-based questions, or reading passages or anything. We kind of take this — the Johnny Crayons — the nontraditional, the energetic, the full energy in the classroom. I kind of describe it like this.

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edWeb.net

JULY 22, 2019

Robert Furman, Principal of South Park Elementary Center, South Park Township, PA. Noakes: She recommended a needs assessment, as Diamond outlined, but said schools often look at the curricular content or internal infrastructure only. Small district: Dr. L. Developer: Dr. Ayanna Howard, CTO, Zyrobotics.

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Fractus Learning

JANUARY 12, 2017

An art teacher I am working with has students bring laptops from a STEM lab with them to art class. These sixth-grade students had experience working with a 3D printer from their STEM lab, so she built on that background knowledge. One extremely fun kindergarten teacher utilized every bit of technology she had access to.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Only, rather than sending health care or social service providers to support parents and assess young children’s readiness for school, McDowell is sending teachers directly to kids’ homes — including high schoolers’ — to counsel, persuade and cajole them to graduate on time and plan for their future.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

I have traveled the country delivering PD relating to technology integration, PBL, STEM, Digital Literacy, and the 4 C’s. STEM Workshop – If you are at Pete and C in Hershey, Pennsylvania check out the STAR Educator Discovery Preconference Workshop. I will have a session on STEM to STEAM to MAKERS.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Excerpted from Making Science: Reimagining STEM Education in Middle School and Beyond by Christa Flores, published in 2016 by Constructing Modern Knowledge Press. Assessment is real time and authentic. By Christa Flores. They act, think and work as real scientists and inventors. Benefit No. Benefit No. Benefit No.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Since then, the department has eliminated 72 guidance documents that dealt with the rights of special education students. The department said the documents were “outdated, unnecessary, or ineffective.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2018

In the mid-2000s, Louisiana implemented high-stakes tests known as Louisiana Educational Assessment Program, or LEAP, which required fourth and eighth graders to show that they were grade-level proficient. Related: An urban charter school achieves a fivefold increase in the percentage of its black and Latino graduates who major in STEM.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

Morales started out as an elementary-school teacher, then switched to academic counseling, which she’s done at LA High for the past eleven years; Martinez worked there, too, teaching history and social studies, until six years ago, when he was transferred to another high school in the district.

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MindShift

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Peg Tyre documented one school’s inquiry and implementation process at New Dorp High School in her article “ The Writing Revolution ,” published in The Atlantic. They looked at examples, identified different kinds of sentences and the details within them, filled in word stems, learned to expand sentences and how to combine them.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 26, 2015

In the news, they are painted as an eclectic mix of cutting-edge vigilante and binary terrorist, with secret documents, scary viral threats, and national security all a part of their tools and struggle. I was taught basic computer coding in the 1980s in elementary school. Hack the mainframe, change the school grades, save prom, etc.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

This remarkable functionality makes an array of assessment types possible – including spelling tests, short answers, fill-in-the-blank, and more. UKIT ( www.ubtrobot.com ) is a new robotics kit that ties STEM literacy into each unit of the curriculum through a literacy prompt that contextualizes lessons and applies them to the real world.

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MindShift

MARCH 10, 2016

Several schools in the area are part of a partnership to integrate STEM into the curriculum. When the teacher invites the coach in, the idea is this is a new STEM-integrated lesson and they want to get feedback from the coach,” said Michael Kauffmann, director of Project HISI and a math and science intervention specialist.

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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. That’s because at both the elementary and middle school level, we’ve focused on providing tiered, small group instruction on a daily basis. But they’re doing more than they think.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 28, 2019

Instead of tackling the entirety of challenges in a classroom or school at once, educators use the process of earning a micro-credential to examine a challenge in the classroom, engage with rigorous research and rich resources to build knowledge of a skill and plan for implementation, and then document their demonstration of a skill.

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MindShift

JUNE 8, 2016

TRU is five basic dimensions that will sound familiar to most teachers: content, cognitive demand, equitable access to content, agency, authority and identity, and uses of assessment. Mathematics Assessment Project). Buljan teaches second grade at Glassbrook Elementary school in Hayward, California. TEACHING WITH TRU.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 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. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S. White students had a six-point decrease between the three years.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 2, 2021

billion went to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). States must document that they’re using the money to address learning loss. There are opportunities here for assessment companies. She is a recognized STEM education expert, an authority on U.S. Thus, of the $30.7

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EdTechTeacher

JULY 6, 2015

However, until recently, it has been a bit cumbersome to highlight, add notes, and draw on documents – particularly in a BYOD environment with Macbooks, Windows laptops, and Chromebooks. Once a document had been uploaded, students can highlight, draw, insert text boxes, and even incorporate sticky notes.

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