Waterford

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

How educators teach during a student’s early years of reading instruction matters for the child’s lifelong academic success. This is even more pressing because a significant number of students in the US do not meet reading standards. How to Use the Science of Reading in Your Classroom. In fact, of all US students:[4].

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Screencastify and Screencasting for Formative Assessment (a sponsored post) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencasting is a useful assessment tool. While I use it for my video tutorials, I also have my students make their own screencasts to help me assess their progress.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2020

I hold a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, earned at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. During my years of working in elementary education, I spent time as a classroom teacher as well as a school leader, all with the Sioux City Community School District in Sioux City, Iowa.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Fast forward 10 years, and now thousands of scholars in our district are learning to code in elementary school using engaging, hands-on tools like Ozobots , Lego Spike , and VR Labs–and that’s just where their tech journeys begin. Some teachers also felt like we were telling them how to teach. We can (and will!)

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 2, 2014

For example, Mrs. Montecuollo and Mrs. Westbrook could read student responses and be clear about what each writer needed to add or change in order to meet standard. As students struggled to articulate their ideas, they worried that their writing sounded “so simple” and “so elementary.” It also provided clarity for targeted feedback.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2023

It becomes even more of an obstacle to growth if you know how to demonstrate understanding but aren’t afforded different pathways to articulate a response. I shared the following in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms : Choice is the great differentiator that helps meet the needs of all learners. Pretty frustrating, right?

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

Find out what family engagement is, how to nurture it, and how to create a community built on family-teacher relationships in your school. You can encourage families to join your school’s family-teacher association or arrange virtual family-teacher meetings for families with transportation issues. What is Family Engagement?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The print, digital and hands-on program raises the bar in student-driven 3D learning and 3D assessment. The new program features a robust and integrated assessment system, including a new assessment map. Students talk to each other to design a solution together, brainstorm how to test it, and plan how to make it better.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

I’ve also included courses from this blog post sponsor, Advancement Courses that meet the criteria for each topic. In her qualitative study, she found that when schools meet this challenge head-on, student achievement increased and behavioral challenges decreased. How to Reach Students Who Have Experienced Trauma.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. We need to re-evaluate our goals and how we meet them. Teachers get data reports from each assessment.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Felicia Durden shares methods behind having a powerful morning meeting in special education classrooms. From routine to celebrations, we talk about how to start the day well in special education classrooms. 5 Ways to Add Morning Meetings to Special Ed Classrooms. Step 1: Set up Your Room for Morning Meetings. Felicia: Hi!

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

From our conversations with kindergarten through third grade teachers, literacy coaches, and principals in 17 elementary schools across the country, we highlight below three ways schools are reimagining student supports during a year of distance instruction. Even though kids had iPads, parents were not sure [how to use them for class].

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Shake Up Learning

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The post Engage Students AND Meet Standards with Student Podcasting! Jen shares how podcasting can help students meet content standards, explore their interests, learn new skills, tap into the 4 c’s, and engage in authentic learning. Her job is to help teachers to use technology to meet the needs of their students. .

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2021

In a previous post , I shared how members of the 4th-grade team at Red Cliffs Elementary School in the Juab School district collaborated to create a personalized experience that combined choice and data to differentiate. District 205 has given us the opportunity to have an instructional coach at each elementary building.

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Waterford

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

If you’re a parent preparing for the conference season, we’ve also included a list of tips to make the most out of meeting with your child’s teacher. For Educators: How to Run a Parent-Teacher Conference. Studies found that removing barriers like transportation makes parents more likely to attend meetings.[9].

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. LINDSAY, Calif. — This story also appeared in The Fresno Bee. Ushering in a new model.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

One of the key points I tried to make was how important it is to do the same with teachers. It warmed my heart when Amy Rhodes, the principal of Bevins Elementary, shared what she had recently implemented in regard to feedback. Next, we moved on to formative assessment and then on to questioning and discussion.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You may find a program that meets some of your requirements but not all and wonder if you should settle. The catalog include topics relevant to today’s K-12 education offered in a variety of approaches that meet teacher needs. assess success at completion. How to get started. Elementary Math.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). As a first step, assess your top 10 most expensive ESSER programs and answer these questions: What is our plan to close out or continue to fund this particular expenditure?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

How to Use Vocabulary Builder on Your Kindle Paperwhite. Angela has also authored or co-authored 13 books, including Blended Vocabulary for K–12 Classrooms: Harnessing the Power of Digital Tools and Direct Instruction (2017) and the bestseller The Data Teams Experience: A Guide to Effective Meetings (2014). VocabularySpellingCity.com.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

When a competency-based approach to assessment is in place, students must show what they know as well as what they can do. No more just showing up for class and meeting the seat time requirements. And as interest in this approach to teaching and learning increases, so does the need for assessments to support it.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 16, 2020

Lauren Williams, a fifth grade teacher in California, works in a predominantly Latinx and Black K-5 elementary school, where almost half of the students are designated as English Learners (ELs). Conducting a Needs Assessment. Meeting the Challenges of the Moment. Communicating with Learners and Families.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Educators were unsure whether it was safe for him to return to school — and, if so, how best to support him. So, as schools around the country are increasingly inclined to do amid heightened concern over school violence and threats, administrators sent the child to meet with a psychiatrist. They needed to know how to respond.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

achieved National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) proficiency in fourth grade reading. Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 26, 2020

More than half of those surveyed teach in public schools (66 percent) and more than half are elementary school teachers (60 percent). Consider giving students a series of assignments over a period of time where only one or two, not all, will be assessed for a grade. ClassTag surveyed more than 1,200 U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Throughout the year, we set aside weekly time to meet and develop lessons and hands-on activities. Brandi Todd has been an elementary teacher for sixteen years.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

It may seem like common sense that students perform better in class when they receive support that meets their needs. Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. How to Differentiate Instruction in Your Classroom. NYUSteinhardt Staff.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 6, 2016

She lives in Illinois with her two-year-old Bridgette (who already knows how to count from one to ten) and a pet dog. Students can now meet with private tutors, who are maybe from another country, through Skype, Google Hangouts, and other mobile communication applications. What subjects does their service cover?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

One of my favorites is from Kate Wagner, principal of Red Mill Elementary, who says, “ We are no longer teaching to the middle.” 2) Video - Personalizing Learning at Oregon High School Learn how Oregon High School in Oregon, Wisconsin uses technology to personalize the learning experience. Know that we are cheering you on!

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2023

At the same time, teachers will focus on assessing individual students to understand their unique learning needs. Diagnostic assessments will be critical to delivering the instruction individual students need. The only way to do this will be using assessments that help identify exactly what students need.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2023

Amy Lower , an experienced teacher at Stinson Elementary, Northwest Local Schools, Ohio, enthusiastically shares her experience with this tool, after seeing her fifth grade ELA students become co-creators of their learning experience. Image Credit: eSpark. For example, one student asked me, ‘Can I get my journal out and write about this?’

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2020

Wells Elementary has been taking the feedback that I provide for over three years and recently asked me to create a session that focused on strategies for opening and closing lessons. I was excited about this opportunity as I was going to have the honor of meeting with all teachers by grade level and present newly created content.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2021

Then, in March 2020, Araujo was at a meeting with other local child care owners when she heard about a program that could give her access to federal Early Head Start funds. Meeting the Head Start standards is “really hard,” said Shantel Meek, founding director of the Children’s Equity Project at Arizona State University.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 1, 2019

Home learning environment is an important factor to ensure each student meets their potential in school and beyond. As a former elementary school teacher, I remember the pressure the test can sometimes put on students, parents, and even teachers. How parents can support children during the state testing season. Early Reading.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2016

The use of coding journals in elementary schools to assess learning and blogs for older students. How some schools are meeting ELA (English Language Arts) standards using coding. Other options for math, science and history teachers to meet standards and use coding to do it.

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