The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Here are 8 ways you can stay ahead in lesson planning that still allow you to meet student needs every step of the way. If you teach elementary, you’ll likely have different structures for different content areas as well. Example 1: I almost always (except on assessment days) start with a number sense routine in math.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. So, the district started by replacing separate gifted classes in elementary school with individualized, project-based “talent” classes for all students.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sitting at my computer screen after being directed to explore the results of the latest adaptive assessment, “smart tests”, required by the district, I hear their little joke in my head and think, “No, it sure isn’t.”. As assessment tools, these tests, and the learning plans they generate, fail to meet the needs of teachers and learners.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Title for Kaylsta: 3 assessment tools that support student individuality and assets (not deficits). Original title: assessment-tools-that-support-student-individuality. There is another approach to assessment that supports students’ individuality and provides teachers with effective information about their learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2011

The ASSISTments Platform ASSISTS students in learning while it gives teachers assessMENT of their students'' progress. Science and literacy instruction in the elementary grades is the focus of a new series of web seminars for the 2010-2011 school year. [link] ASSISTMENTS ( Math 2.0

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 4, 2018

The topic for our first productivity roundtable is streamlining the grading and assessment process. They’ve found more effective ways to monitor and assess student learning, and they’re going to share those strategies here with you today. They’ll also share their best hacks and time-saving tips related to grading and assessment.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

In math teacher Danielle Bosse’s classroom, three students take assessments (foreground) while their classmates learn and practice different math skills. Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work).

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

APRIL 2, 2022

Once student responses come in from a Check-In, it's easy to see what category the students have self-assessed themselves so you can plan your next lesson accordingly. I come from a long line of educators--my grandmother was an elementary teacher in Alabama, and my mom was an ECS teacher in North Carolina where I grew up.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Students take an entrance assessment and grade it together as a class. Students are then given the opportunity to attend a teacher-led session around the topics addressed in the assessment. Yet instead of the teacher dictating who needs to be at the seminar, each student decides if he or she needs additional help.

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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. Others had social workers but struggled to meet the needs of non-English speaking families.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2016

Derrick Fields, 9, works on his assignment during a Spanish-language history lesson at Sherman Elementary School in San Diego, California. Last spring, Derrick Fields, 9, sat in his social studies classroom at Sherman Elementary School, learning about the creation of the telegraph. Photo: Lillian Mongeau. SAN DIEGO, Calif.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

” Via DelawareOnline : “The first step to reducing violence among young people is to have police officers assigned to elementary and middle schools, says a coalition of state officials, education administrators and police.” “ Amplify Slims Down and Spins Off Assessment Content Provider, Fluence ,” says Edsurge.

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