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).

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Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 5, 2015

In going through my grad students’ final workshop presentations this semester, I found one just too useful not to share. Designed as a professional development experience for secondary teachers, Jen’s workshop has school-wide value for opening conversations about academic honesty. So I asked for permission.

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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. 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. Sketch out the year.

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Groups Conference Assessment Strategy 87

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. 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. Sketch out the year.

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Groups Conference Assessment Strategy 64

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. 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. Sketch out the year.

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Groups Conference Assessment Strategy 61

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Luckily for Nyakora — and the patient, Operation’s “Cavity Sam” —the surgery is only a game, part of a stress-management workshop for freshmen and sophomores in a program for underrepresented students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Before Ontere leaves, she schedules a follow-up meeting and hands him a meal voucher.

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 72

The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 11, 2019

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: Jen Bengel explains the workshop model, how to create mini-lessons, and how to get students excited about books. So in this episode, we’re talking about the workshop model. You can use the workshop model with ANY age of students and ANY subject area. Want to listen instead of read ?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

But Say Yes also provides students with support specialists like Stubbe, access to medical and dental care, mental health counseling and legal clinics, plus after-school enrichment activities, college-readiness programs and mentoring; it provides students’ parents with job-readiness workshops and referrals to housing services.

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Data Secondary System Accessibility 97

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2019

Google Keep is also a part of G Suite for Education and is a great tool for students, especially secondary students. Keep is also a great place to save your notes from staff meetings and professional development. You can learn more about this method in my previous post, 4 Ways to Use Google Keep for Feedback and Assessment.

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Tools Google Classroom Secondary 76

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

Summative assessments evaluate competencies in each course through the year, instead of the quarters to reach a “3” in each competency to achieve course credit. We have found that having grades that continue on for a year has become abstract with students not feeling a sense of urgency to meet deadlines.

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Common Core Course Secondary Laptops 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. This workshop will introduce you to the 7-step model that we use to get schools teaching and learning effectively online. He likes the results a lot, and his students do, too.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Get to know SnapThought – one of our assessment tools – and the new game Sortify, which adds another dimension to playful assessment. To meet these challenges, educators must teach digital citizenship, an essential digital age skill that students need to become safe, responsible and respectful participants in a digital world.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

The mounting stress levels have sparked a trend of “resilience” trainings and workshops, which typically include yoga, mindfulness and meditation. And when they meet, they talk about how to roll a reform out in a teacher-centered way, which often includes dealing with the stress of it,” said Margolis. “If I love my students.

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Training Elementary Report Exercises 111

Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

I imagine teachers sitting around tables together, collaborating on lesson plans, activities and assessments. Of course, all of this is if they have an answer at all; a troubling number of teachers that I meet don’t seem to be interested in finding resources of any kind to improve themselves!

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Resources Course Secondary Training 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Am I doing enough ongoing formal assessment of student comprehension, strategy use, and tolerance of ambiguity? Sitting in on numerous classes over the years reveals a key source of the problem: students are rarely expected to read a multi-page complete non-fiction text and be assessed on their grasp of it as a whole. Less Is More?

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Strategy Secondary Analysis Common Core 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Am I doing enough ongoing formal assessment of student comprehension, strategy use, and tolerance of ambiguity? Sitting in on numerous classes over the years reveals a key source of the problem: students are rarely expected to read a multi-page complete non-fiction text and be assessed on their grasp of it as a whole. Less Is More?

Strategy 40

Strategy Secondary Analysis Common Core 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. This workshop will introduce you to the 7-step model that we use to get schools teaching and learning effectively online. He likes the results a lot, and his students do, too.

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Conference Kaplan Learning Libraries 36

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 9, 2014

Wednesday, April 9th at 4pm Thinking Scientifically: Video and Formative Assessment with POPstar Robert Miller , POPstar Robert Miller - an award-winning 5th-grade teacher - hosts this interactive workshop covering inquiry-based science curriculum; the creative use of video; and one of his favorite resources, NSTA’s Formative Assessment Probes.

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MindShift

JUNE 8, 2016

TRU is five basic dimensions that will sound familiar to most teachers: content, cognitive demand, equitable access to content, agency, authority and identity, and uses of assessment. Mathematics Assessment Project). For example, she’s applied writers and readers workshop to math workshop.

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Classroom Learning Strategy STEM 28

EdNews Daily

MARCH 6, 2020

Teachers and administrators need training and support to meet the ever-changing challenges of the profession. . What did a young white male know about the economically challenged, minority students I was about to meet? I estimate that I have delivered over 250 workshops to about 50,500 educators. million trained teachers.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Whether it was participating in device-day pickup or hosting and coordinating meet-the-teacher drive-throughs, the entire district staff stepped up to provide for nearly 61,000 students. Alexander inspires an innovative approach to learning by embedding interventions led by Istation’s assessment data into the school’s daily instruction.

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Education Learning EdTech Data 127

iLearn Technology

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

Hundreds of conferences, workshops, MOOCS, edcamps, professional journals, blogs, the list seriously goes on and on. I’m about to tell you about one more… The 5Sigma Education Conference holds a special place in my heart because it gives me the opportunity to invite you to come meet the incredible people I work with every day!

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

More than 60 percent of American fourth-graders are not proficient readers, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, and it’s been that way since testing began in the 1990s. “I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said.

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Training Elementary Report Study 112

The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 17, 2023

The Teachers College Reading and Writing Project promotes a workshop model for reading and writing and has numerous units of study as a curriculum and many resources available for teachers. I can read F series) by Alyssa Satin Capucilli and Pat Schories Meet Yasmin! Dillard (J.D.

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Secondary Libraries Groups E-rate 72

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Teachers can create multimedia assessments and activities for their students, who record and embed their responses. There is also progress in creating inclusive and engaging print and digital library collections to meet a growing demand for equitable access to school libraries. Every child deserves a library. Let’s make it happen.

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Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Here are the areas that have seen the most ed-tech investment activity so far this year: Learning to code : Investments include Galvanize ($45,000,000), Codecademy ($30,000,000), Andela ($24,000,000), Wonder Workshop ($20,000,000), Revature ($20,000,000). Everything’s a business opportunity.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. Teachers Are Moonlighting As Instagram Influencers To Make Ends Meet,” Buzzfeed reported in 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Merritt is among 14,000 Oklahoma teachers who have attended workshops on how to use what the board calls its “innovative, one-of-a-kind science and energy curriculum in their classrooms.” On a recent Saturday, a workshop was in session at Choctaw High School , east of Oklahoma City.

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