Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. In fact, some studies confirm that competition has benefits , though they vary based on the individual and the competition.

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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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Personalized Learning Elementary Learning Case Study 147

EdTechTeacher

APRIL 4, 2023

Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. Next, here is an attempt to engineer a prompt to produce a 3rd grade quiz on plant life: “I am teaching a class of 3rd grade students who are studying plant life. Check out our first tip here!

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 31, 2016

The merger of these two worlds – as well as significant research into cognitive science, adult learning, and professional development – has resulted in a complete redesign of my iPads in the Elementary Classroom workshop for this summer. None of us experienced elementary school with iPads. Workshop Plan. Workshop Plan.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment). Lesson study. 2008): Successful Collaboration. Mentoring programs.

Education 120

Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 15, 2019

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I will be providing workshops and featured sessions on STEM, PBL, Inquiry, Maker Space, and Computational Thinking! Check out my Booking Page.

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STEM Resources Robotics Learning 143

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

They don’t have the knowledge right now to assess what’s a credible source and what is not,” she said. The professional development workshops are aimed at helping teachers help their students become critical thinkers and problem solvers, said Jeff Stanford, vice president of marketing.

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Training STEM Elementary Classroom 120

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 18, 2020

He also believes the arts are especially important in a district like Mount Vernon because many of the students turned out to be “twice gifted,” despite having received standardized assessment scores that did not reflect their proficiencies. And, this sort of culturally relevant approach extends beyond the students themselves.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2017

Olin does think, however, that the five-paragraph essay format is useful for elementary students, adding that fourth grade is when the state of Texas starts assessing students’ writing in standardized tests. Take McKenzie Spehar, a Writing and Rhetoric Studies major at the University of Utah. Croix Falls Elementary School in St.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Distance learning began March 23.

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Strategy Learning Data Dropout 191

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

After leading a handful of conferences and workshops for public school teachers over the last couple years, Acera is in the first year of a three-year, whole-school partnership with the Joseph G. Teachers in Lowell have studied new science topics to bring into their classroom and how to introduce these topics with new projects.

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STEM System Report Assessment 97

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

elementary schools.”. So, you may be ready to ditch your basal reader and transition to the workshop model. Even better, assess students’ interest by giving them time to browse the stories. Do a Genre Study. So during reading workshop try to use that strategy while reading.” Don’t be afraid to jump around either.

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Libraries Common Core Strategy Meeting 83

MindShift

MARCH 10, 2016

Knowing that improving the quality of math discussion in their classrooms won’t be easy, educators are applying the “lesson study” technique to improve their craft. During the planning phase, the lesson study group is thinking about all the small steps that might enable them to teach a little differently.

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Study Common Core Data Groups 28

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

Booking Info – Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment.

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Blended Learning LMS STEM Assessment 192

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

What Uri found, through studying the students at work, was that there was one difference—the African American students worked on math problems by themselves, whereas the Chinese American students worked collaboratively. Uri and his team set up workshops for the more vulnerable students, including students of color. eight countries.

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Learning Outcomes Assessment Study 42

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Consider end goals for each unit of study. 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. Example 2: My reading or writing workshop starts with a mini lesson on the carpet.

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Groups Conference Assessment Strategy 87

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 28, 2015

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Share content and assess in real time. Assess the whole class. Scholastic Study Jams. Check out my Booking Page. Multi-platform, mobile devices.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

Erin and Ross are passionate about inquiry-based learning and have supported countless teachers in implementing it, through not only their school-based work but also through the PD and workshops they conduct. But it’s not always simple to plan, and manage, and assess, so we’re going to talk about some practical teaching strategies today.

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Assessment Secondary Learning Elementary 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Small-group math work at Prairie Oak Elementary in Berwyn North School District 98 where, two years ago, just 14 percent of third-graders were able to do grade-level math. During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. BERWYN, Ill. —

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How To Common Core Elementary Report 82

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School. The mounting stress levels have sparked a trend of “resilience” trainings and workshops, which typically include yoga, mindfulness and meditation. Her immediate reaction: “What a bunch of baloney!”. “I

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

EdTechTeam

JULY 7, 2017

I was finally able to incorporate video, formative assessment with responders, and have a visually appealing lesson behind me. I had surveyed one of our elementary sites to find out their tech needs. I attended AVID trainings, English Language Learner workshops, UDL conferences, ….you The list goes on. I scoured the hyperdocs.co

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UDL Handbook Twitter Survey 76

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Consider end goals for each unit of study. 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. Example 2: My reading or writing workshop starts with a mini lesson on the carpet.

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Groups Conference Assessment Strategy 64

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 10, 2017

The Unified Classroom brings together the teacher’s grade book, learning management system, student information system, and assessment in one powerful platform with just one log in. Show Sponsor: PowerSchool This summer, PowerSchool announced the Unified Classroom. Learn about the Unified Classroom.

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Social Media Digital Citizenship Examples Company 204

The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Consider end goals for each unit of study. 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. Example 2: My reading or writing workshop starts with a mini lesson on the carpet.

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Groups Conference Assessment Strategy 61

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

A collection of PDF checklists encourages parents to consider available extracurricular activities, safety, social-emotional learning and academic rigor when assessing a school’s quality. You can’t really tell from the website—every school has a different approach,” observed one study participant. It’s like buying a car.”

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Elementary System Study STEM 60

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. There are other areas that also come to mind including student grouping, assessment, and interest. Check out my Booking Page. I enjoy learning from all of you.

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Resources Tools Differentiated Instruction Learning 60

Saving Socrates

MARCH 19, 2014

Now I have confess, I made a major mistake (ok this is nothing new and definitely not my first nor last) by not taking the full Columbia Readers and Writers Workshop while at TC. She scores much lower on online exams than in person assessments. This leap was unfathomable to me.

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Technology Blended Learning Elementary Assessment 51

Shake Up Learning

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Shout out to all of my friends with Northside ISD in San Antonio, specifically at Thornton Elementary and Rudder Middle Schools. You cannot adequately assess any student’s reading comprehension if all students are reading the exact same thing. But first… Shoutout. Do you know what your kids are reading?

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STEM Policies Social Media Chromebook 101

Reading By Example

JULY 30, 2019

In Shane Safir’s book The Listening Leader , she describes three sets of data that educators can look to when assessing their school’s journey toward a collective capacity for achieving equity (p. Alternative assessments – Multiple forms of data tell a story about students that paper-and-pencil assessments can’t.

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Data Education Analysis Assessment 38

Baker's B.Y.O.D.

JULY 26, 2012

I''ve been teaching for 14 years and I can''t get students to improve their writing based on my assessment alone no matter how many times I try. And how about this scenario for major writing assignments: students get assigned an essay to write that connects to the novel studied in class. Who am I fooling?!?!? consecutive hours.

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Edmodo Assessment Conference Robotics 142

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. It is also possible to assess students and measure student understanding with built-in quizzes. Check out my Booking Page.

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STEM Resources Blendspace Elementary 60

EdTechTeam

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Students had to study the US map, come up with questions, and use their critical thinking skills to try and guess where in the US the other school was from. Schuylerville uses the Units of Study Writer’s Workshop program and our students creating digital storybooks based on their narrative writing.

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Digital Divide Robotics Social Media Conference 58

techlearning

APRIL 4, 2018

Teachers in grades three through five utilize BoomWriter in math, science, ELA, and social studies, as it reinforces grade-level content, builds typing skills and stamina in revising and editing, and engages students. In the primary and intermediate grades, says principal Tim Riff, teachers employ the Writer’s Workshop model.

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Neo LMS

DECEMBER 7, 2017

The key concept is active learning , which dovetails neatly into today’s topic where I will share with you three incredible Project Based Learning (PBL) case studies, that I hope will inspire you to be more ambitious in designing, developing and implementing PBL in your classroom. Peer Collaboration and Assessment. What is PBL?

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Case Study Study Learning Outcomes 150

MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

During the last school year, only 40 percent of fourth-graders nationwide scored at a proficient level in a nationwide math assessment. That was the district’s first year taking the PARCC assessment, a college- and career-readiness test mandated by the state of Illinois, and the results were dismal, though not exactly surprising.

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How To Common Core Elementary Survey 39

Tech Helpful

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Several of the elementary teachers at our school attended and many plan on attending again. As the technology coordinator, I used it as a time to introduce new tools and practical ways to use them that would be beneficial for all grade levels in an elementary setting.

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Edcamps Learning Groups Assessment 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This profile is the second in a series from the EdSurge Research team, which has spent the past six months studying the market of service providers that support schools through the redesign process. The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles.

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