eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

When Florida State Assessment scores revealed that our third-graders were under-performing in reading, my colleagues and I analyzed the data to determine the root cause of performance. The feedback we gathered formed the following guidelines for our ideal platform: We needed a platform that keeps students actively engaged.

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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 118

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Suddenly, lessons on the physics of energy were tied to teaching kids how to be theme park engineers, and language arts and math lessons were anchored in running and marketing a profitable startup. There are guidelines, of course, but no scripts, and teachers have wide latitude in determining how to weave career education into their classes.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

School leaders trying to make decisions about whether and how to reopen physical classrooms this fall are feeling the absence of useful statistics acutely. Called the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , it asks elementary and secondary schools and districts throughout the U.S. percent for staff. percent for staff.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

billion program will be fully implemented by the 2025-26 school year across the nearly 900 districts in the state that include elementary grades. In the meantime, districts are figuring out how to serve this new, and quite different, age group without a unifying roadmap. But do principals know how to support them?

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2019

As part of the Reinvent the Classroom initiative, a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft, and Intel, Digital Promise is supporting innovative elementary and secondary school teachers through the HP Teaching Fellows. In 2019, 26 educators were chosen for the inaugural class.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Fostering engagement — knowing your students, knowing how to make the material sing to them — is where the art of teaching is on full display, says author Katie Novak in UDL Now! , is a collection of ideas for so-called choice assignments, where students are given the autonomy to choose how to express their knowledge to their teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

With the right kind of instruction, most children with dyslexia can learn how to read. Guidelines put out by the U.S. During her first couple of years of elementary school “her nervous system was like a pressure cooker because she wasn’t being given appropriate help,” Chittenden said. The studies came just as the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 82

Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ).

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Insight Education Group

MAY 27, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has left elementary and secondary schools across the country in need of additional resources to operate and support their school communities. billion to the Elementary and Secondary Emergency Education Relief Fund, also known as ESSER ( NCSL, 2021 ).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

With few (if any) guidelines to identify and implement high-quality learning content, educators are in need of processes to guide digital content curation to both save time and maximize the impact of their efforts. A solid purpose will give way to processes for implementation and how to measure its impact on teaching and learning.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 23, 2022

We assess young students for phonemic awareness and if they can rhyme words and segment and blend sounds. Part One: Differentiate the way you ASSESS. We often think about planning when it comes to differentiation, but I want to start with thinking about how to differentiate assessment. Read Aloud. Simplistic Language.

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Assessment Learning Groups Meeting 97

Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 13, 2020

So, while schools may start in the fall as scheduled under new guidelines, further quarantine periods can no longer be ruled out. Related Read : Learning in the Times of COVID-19 – How to Develop Your Online Learning Material. Some classes will get higher priority, such as the lower elementary grade, lab-based subjects.

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Education Trends Online Learning Guidelines 78

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

He encouraged school leaders to look to groups like the Institute for Ethical AI in Education, AI4K12 and EdSAFE AI Alliance, which have developed frameworks and ethical guidelines for schools to use when choosing emerging technologies for classrooms. AI literacy is going to be a really important part of information literacy,” she said.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

How do you decide what is best for your class? Here are guidelines, culled from top education sites like Edutopia, Google Education, Educational Technology, and EdWeek that are valuable when evaluating any website: free or small fee. Students start with a guide called Noot who explains how to progress through the game play.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2020

Carolina updated its award-winning K-8 science programs to support essential remote instruction in elementary and middle schools this fall. Our new @HOME remote learning features include lesson guides, videos, teacher demonstrations, interactive activities, assessments and much more, organized so that it’s easy to implement.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

I would argue more paper is used with 1:1 environments, but believe it will change as more and more teachers learn to assess in the cloud. Schools need to develop a when, where and how to protocol for printing. 55 for “Guidelines for Online Sharing”. And I’ll add, a protocol that strengthens environmental stewardship.

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Classroom Digital Citizenship LMS Strategy 115

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2016

Esteves, age 10, is a fourth-grader at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark, N.J., This put the small school and its 494 students in the 8th percentile of elementary schools in the state of New Jersey. Claudia Pinheiro, a fourth-grade teacher at Roberto Clemente Elementary School in Newark. and a native of Puerto Rico.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Decide how to recruit student leaders or support students who want to start an esports team. Find out what students want and help them select games within guidelines. Dennis also was a classroom teacher for 13 years, with experience in elementary, alternative education, and special education. Dennis recently completed his Ed.D.

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Digital Citizenship Learning Guidelines Blended Learning 54

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. Field Elementary, where nearly one out of every five students is classified as having some sort of a disability, has actually managed to do this. One of the tablets in use in Jessica Howard’s classroom at Field Elementary.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 54

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

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. Teachers must be intentional at exploring ways online to ensure that assessment is formative and allows them to plan scaffolding for next steps in learning.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

Reading comprehension strategies (RCS) are simply a “bag of tricks” that although are useful to teach because they are quick and easy to learn, do not provide specific guidelines on how to connect sentences. Younger students also have limited metacognition and often incorrectly assess their understanding. 2008): 407-23.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

After the games, one student, Elizabeth Martinez, explained what Crew meant to her: “It sets the example for us of how to work together and be cooperative. And how to listen to each other.”. The sentiment is echoed by Jason Krause, principal of Denver’s Columbine Elementary School, which joined the EL network in 2018.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Report 111

Saving Socrates

APRIL 22, 2013

While Tikvah''s club works well in a co-ed high school with AP Lang students and motivated participants of after school clubs, it lacks a fundamental component that schools today rely on- assessment. He was a great plumber, a great painter, a great musician, a wonderful cook, and even knew how to work with numbers. I adore E.D.

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Common Core Assessment Learning Guidelines 49

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

When she dropped out at the end of ninth grade, she didn’t know how to use punctuation or do multiplication. Hatharasinghe-Gerschler had been diagnosed with a reading comprehension disability in elementary school. Instead, she was passed from class to class at her high school in North Carolina. But he still struggled.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

The Daring Librarian

JULY 20, 2018

Related How To: Be a Daring Defender, Part 1 Be a Daring Defender, Part 2 How to be a Teacher Librarian Rock Star Psssst!!! Maybe this works in Elementary but sometimes people learn this and use it like a crutch - even when they can see it's not working. Also, with middle school kids - it just feels so elementary and childish.

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Future Ready Libraries Twitter Elementary 50

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

By combining all of this data, teaching SEL skills and doing the SOS assessment, not only are we having serious and meaningful conversations with families, but we are saving lives,” explains Dain. And we share that data with parents so they can see how their child scores during that assessment window. Let me share a story.

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Survey Data Elementary Strategy 167

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2011

The topic will be ‘How to use Elluminate in conjunction with Moodle for Online courses’. It will cover how to set up an Elluminate room, upload your slides and how to give your students access to the link before and recording after. Soon to be released, Education for a Digital World 2.0: link] ASSISTMENTS ( Math 2.0

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Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

There were major headaches, like figuring out how to stretch state subsidies intended just for afterschool care to cover the costs of full-time care. In normal times, Jolley spends a lot of time traveling, visiting classrooms and teachers and conducting assessments and observations. That's how we have to get some of our assessments.

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Education Guidelines Survey Classroom 187

MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

UDL – originally developed by researchers at the Center for Applied Special Technology ( CAST ) in collaboration with Harvard University – supports special education students, but its flexibility, technology guidelines and aim to individualize learning are best practices that can serve every student.

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UDL Online Learning Accessibility Guidelines 64

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2020

Avery Bencal is a fourth grader at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Teacher Meghan Lewis works on math problems with a small group of fourth graders at Winthrop Elementary School in Melrose, Massachusetts. Related: How to unlock students’ internal drive for learning. MELROSE, Mass. she wondered.

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Competency Based Learning Learning Elementary Report 117

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

In April 2020, as the death toll from COVID mounted across New York City, an elementary school teacher at P.S. 343, the Children’s Lab School, in Sunnyside, Queens, organized a virtual dance party to give her second-grade class some levity. She searched online, using phrases like “how to help grieving students” and cobbled together handouts.

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Training Report Analysis Elementary 93

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2016

Educators prefer to call the new exams assessments, because they’re so different in form and format from traditional standardized tests. It’s very important for arts to be seen as a subject that can be and should be tested,” said Frank Philip, an arts education assessment consultant. It’s a parity thing.”.

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Education Assessment Guidelines Elementary 40

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

The district chose itslearning because it enables the meta-tagging of learning objectives within the district’s libraries and the creation of assessment data that tells teachers whether a student has gained proficiency (or not). Those who have jumped in and learned how to use it are pleased with the results.”.

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