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3 ways to support special education students with college and career readiness

eSchool News

Special education students should have their ambitions, interests, and talents acknowledged and encouraged, while also taking into consideration the learning supports needed for them to succeed. For instance, in our school district, we have special education students that work as teacher’s assistants delivering mail to offices and classrooms.

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Tech Engages Today’s Students, But Teachers Need Support

EdTech Magazine

Teachers need direction from administrators on how to improve their pedagogy and incorporate technology into their lesson plans. Using the framework, administrators should ask teachers the following questions before flooding the classroom with technology: How will you use educational technology to cognitively engage your students?

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Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Quality, Learning-Focused 1to1 Initiative

More Verbs

In order to create a high performing, learning-focused 1to1 initiative, this is where to move the needle: Leadership skilled at building a high level of buy-in with educators, students and parents/community. PD designed to effectively support teachers’ successfully changing classroom practice. Technology in support of learning.

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Fair Grades, Dropping Grades, Grading Versus Knowledge

The CoolCatTeacher

With almost 9,000 downloads and counting, this show is the most popular episode on Every Classroom Matters in 2016 so far. How do we determine what the most valuable evidence a teacher has that determines student competency at the end of the course? Why we need multiple forms of evidence to determine grades.

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What Makes a Good Assessment?

The CoolCatTeacher

Assessment strategies that show what students have REALLY learned From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Assessments should cover what is taught and address important learning goals. Assessment strategies that show what students have REALLY learned.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! And, we’ll highlight the best examples from across the country on our website for others to learn from.

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The Actual Dollars That Will Shape the New K-12 Investment Ecosystem

Edsurge

It’s that most conversations about a school’s expenses don’t sync up to what’s happening in the classroom—the instruction, materials, and tools that shape the educational experience for teachers and students. Is the investment producing the anticipated learning outcome or behavior change amongst students, staff, and administration?

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