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). Use a URL shortener to make links easily accessible in a slide presentation or push out using a Learning Management System (i.e., ClassTag surveyed more than 1,200 U.S. My favorites at bit.ly

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

Her comprehension assessment and teaching resources, COMPLETE COMPREHENSION: FICTION and COMPLETE COMPREHENSION: NONFICTION, help teachers make sense of comprehension, especially in whole chapter books and book-length nonfiction texts. So these text-level systems were very popular. So these text-level systems were very popular.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2018

Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., These students are all participants in The Creative School (formerly The Boys Institute) at Stanton Elementary School, an initiative designed to promote wellness and creativity—and to flip the narrative around young boys of color.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. SEL Courses Assessment Strategies for SEL In this course, you’ll get up to speed on current practices in SEL, including the history and legislation that has propelled it to the forefront of our educational focus.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2024

The science of reading refers to a vast body of research that explores how children learn to read and includes explicit, systematic and cumulative instruction methods focused on phonics, phonemic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing and oral language. The work is funded in part by a $1.5

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2024

Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. Data was collected through student assessments that reflected on their experience (Clever & Miller, 2019).

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2022

Reducing Systemic Barriers to Getting Mental Healthcare Receiving mental healthcare in this country is no easy feat. If I’m referring a student, I should be able to refer myself too, right?”. If I’m referring a student, I should be able to refer myself too, right?,” Here’s why schools are well positioned to help.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

18, Richmond received an email from the Jefferson County School District: AJ was suspended while the district evaluated his risk of violence, a formal process known as a behavioral threat assessment. Still, policymakers increasingly see the use of threat assessment teams as a viable way to prevent mass shootings.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

When assessments are deployed well, she explained, they can be essential to preventing violence in schools and mobilizing resources for a struggling student. Critz Elementary insisted he go to a hospital or crisis center for a psychiatric evaluation; twice he was taken there by police. They needed to know how to respond.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What reading program did they use in elementary school? All of this made us think about two of our students — for the purposes of privacy, we will refer to them as Brandon and Jazmine. But the system got in the way. Jazmine rarely raised her hand, her reading fluency was choppy and she scored poorly on assessments.

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

Friends can act as a support system for stressful situations, and if a child feels like they don’t have any friends in school, they may be more vulnerable to toxic stress. 2] This can refer to any stressful or traumatic event that occurs during childhood, such as health issues, loss of a loved one, community violence, and abuse or neglect.[4]

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Neo LMS

JULY 24, 2018

By authentic motivation I refer to what the theory refers to as “internal” motivation — borne of a genuine desire to do, and complete a task. However, enabling peer-based feedback and connection is a characteristic of many good learning management systems , and can help students to feel that they are not “going it alone”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The study described a 14-year-old referred to as Percy F. “He It was inadvertently codified in school systems through influential studies led by British psychiatrists Michael Rutter and William Yule on the Isle of Wight in the 1960s and early 1970s. For the child, the results were wounding.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Preparing students for college and a career is the mission of every public K-12 school system, and this work begins by establishing a strong foundation for success in the early grades. We use common district assessments to track our students’ progress toward meeting state standards in ELA and math. 60” referred to the same number.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

The apprenticeship system, which is credited with keeping youth unemployment low, has drawn strong interest in the U.S. But in Germany, the hundreds-year-old vocational system has faced headwinds. I know that they were very happy with it,” he said, referring to his career path. states, and career exposure programs are expanding.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2020

Infobase, the award-winning provider of digital reference content to the school and library community, today announced that it has created a variety of distance learning packages to help schools, colleges and universities, and public libraries affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

s middling performance on international assessments to claim a “ rising tide of mediocrity ” in American education. We’ve learned that test-based accountability systems such as NCLB and ESSA change the behaviors of schools and teachers, for both better and worse. Policymakers place great stock in standardized test scores.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

They were referred to the Lourie Center in Rockville, Md., Moreover, children who are expelled in preschool or early elementary are 10 times more likely to be incarcerated. The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Susan mentions this may be the right tool for students or teachers who need to reference a physical item like a book, notebook, or model. The library within the app includes many children’s books, so elementary teachers will really like this. The current systems today will become better and change.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 8, 2019

Programs are geared to the particular learning of Elementary and Middle School, and Middle and High School with games and lessons aligned to state and national standards like Common Core, TEKS and MAFS. Students can track correct responses allowing it to be used as an assessment if desired. Interactivate. BarGraph Sorter. Statistics.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Comparison Report 252

MIND Research Institute

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

K-12 funding has been made available in two different venues: Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) and. ESSER and GEER under the CARES Act are referred to as ESSER II and GEER II under CRRSA. Repairing school facilities, especially HVAC systems. Funds for K-12. Governor's Emergency Education Relief (GEER).

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 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. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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ExcelinEd

MARCH 13, 2019

Teaching children how to read is the most important job of elementary school teachers. Yet the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reveals that 63 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers. Oral vocabulary refers to words that we use in speaking or recognize in listening.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

According to the CRPE analysis, which looked at plans from more than 100 districts and charter school groups, less than half were offering summer programs for elementary and middle school students, while 58 percent were offering a program for high schoolers. “I think that speaks to the uncertainty even in the states that are reopening.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

A friend of mine jokingly refers to me a “Pryzbylewski,” referring to the cop-turned-teacher in “The Wire” who develops a strong relationship with the middle schoolers in his class—many of whom are affiliated with gangs. My 16, 17 and 18-year old students were entering my class reading at an elementary level. I was mistaken.

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iPad Assessment Personalized Learning Libraries 123

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

In this example, I’ve paused the video and added a comment about the numbering system that my students already know. Assess the video. You might want to just use the statistics in the dashboard to see how students are watching and what they’ve done, but I love that it tells me how many questions I have to assess or grade.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

In Molly Nealeigh’s fourth-grade math classroom at Piney Grove Elementary School in North Carolina’s Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system, students spend most of the time studying at their own pace on skills they identify that they need to improve. Romain Bertrand helped Nealeigh design her system last year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Obviously, schools as systemic structures need to change quite a bit. Those four shifts seem to resonate with folks because they have seen the power of those, at least in small doses within their systems. These could be used for assessment purposes. Unfortunately, systems change slowly. 4 Big Shifts in Schools.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Bank of rich and culturally relevant tasks: Any mathematics content management system should give teachers access to or allow them to create and import problems that represent the diverse needs of their classroom. Students should be able to clearly find and refer to rubrics as they review teacher feedback. Sara Delano Moore, Ph.D.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JULY 23, 2023

Assessment Through Spelling Attempts: Assessing word knowledge through early spelling attempts can provide valuable insight into a student’s progress. The wall provides a visual reference for children to review and practice sight words. References Murray, B. McIlwain, M. Murray, G., & Finley, S. link] Adams, M.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

In April, the NWEA, a nonprofit assessment organization, published research showing some students could start school this fall nearly one year behind where they would normally be , part of a phenomenon referred to as the “Covid slide.” Espinoza said people in his community are happy with the year-round system.

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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. Just having those icons up there at the top of the toolbar as places for them to reference.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

I think that the system, we've gotten so focused with testing and so busy and trying to deal with the whole COVID and the recovery from that and just having too many kids sometimes and everything else, we get so busy with that. Barbara Blackburn (13:03) And see, that's what teaching is all about. I don't think it's teacher's fault, okay?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

And also, you can take failure out of the system, because nobody ever fails anything that they haven’t finished yet. You want to make sure that your formative assessments are based on where the student is at, not some kind of standard that every student in your classroom has to jump through. Vicki: So, for you….

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

One Wicomico mom, who asked for anonymity because she feared retaliation from the school, recalled the terror she felt when she got the phone call saying that her son’s school was going to have him assessed for a forced psychiatric hospitalization. When she arrived at the school, she said, her son was already in handcuffs.

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