The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

For example, their Fire Forensics: Claims and Evidence unit is a safe way to educate middle school students about fire. As it has been noted, UL (Underwriters Laboratories), the creator of Xplorlabs, is a global safety science company. Common Core State Standards (See more on the Fire Forensics Site ). Cost: FREE.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

MAY 23, 2016

Some ed-techs companies list their prices, others don’t. Flocabulary , a site that uses songs and hip-hop to meet Common Core standards, lists its pricing very clearly and gives users an easy way to purchase online. Before I started my company it didn’t occur to me why you wouldn’t list prices front and center.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2013

The inspiration for this idea came from Google’s 80/20 Innovation Model where engineers are encouraged to take 20 percent of their time to work on something company-related that interests them personally. Jerry provided examples of how he has integrated specific concepts and insights learned from each book.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Many schools are working to implement grit curricula, and these efforts need not replace or disrupt the Common Core or other existing assessment measures. For example, the SAT suite of assessments, which now includes PSATs for students in grades eight through eleven, provides a track record of student achievement and growth.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2017

So the company set out to make Kahoot Studio, a curated library of ready-to-play kahoot games for K-12 educators and their students. The company will be adding more to the library over time, and plans to have at least 300 kahoots spanning math, science, ELA, history and geography kahoots for K-12 by the end of the year.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

For example, if you have thousands of questions in Khan Academy , but they’re the same questions we’ve always asked in Algebra class, there’s no change in the design of the work. Alan November One problem is that companies are still making money off of selling those “$1000 pencils” as ways to improve productivity. This isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Grace’s story is just one example of how the American education system and American policing tactics converge. The article cited an example specific to math class: A Black high school junior was sent to the hallway to “calm down” after asking her teacher to review a math lesson. Teens not turning in their homework is hardly an anomaly.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2015

Last month, Digital Promise launched a crowdsourcing effort on how companies use scientific research to design and develop their educational technology products. If you’re interested in sharing your company’s research-based approach, be sure to submit them here. ” The science! Reading below grade level.

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

The educational technology company Amplify is spinning off a service known as School by Design into a new, separate business that will provide schools with data and technical assistance focused on financial and instructional strategy. Amplify was the education division of global media giant News Corp., ’s $1 Billion Ed-Tech Venture.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Perhaps it is because of the myth of the entrepreneur that resounds throughout popular culture: examples like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who both dropped out of college, and in doing so, seemingly spurned education in order to build major tech companies—and yet now each have education initiatives of their own. Blackboard Inc.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California. You pick your subject area, let’s say it’s language, and you have a set of standards, like the Common Core standards.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 2, 2017

An example of what a story-based classroom looks like. Give me an example. Could you give us an example – I guess you just named one with printing children’s books, but – an example from the English hat that you wear? That’s really what story is about in my room. Vicki: So your crafting your classroom into a story.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

What were two top motivating factors behind starting the company? At the time of the company’s founding, the level of Internet penetration in China had just reached a level sufficient enough to enable 51Talk’s business model to scale. The company is the first U.S. listed Chinese online education company.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Investments in teacher training programs when new state standards or social-emotional learning programs are rolled out are recent examples where statewide decisions shape local choices. Goals can vary dramatically from state to state, district to district and even school to school.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Students in Utica Community Schools have access to apprenticeship and internship opportunities with local automotive and defense companies. The list of examples are endless - and so are the possibilities.

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Learning Common Core Meeting STEM 120

The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 16, 2017

An example of teaching social development in morning meetings. Vicki: Could you give me one quick example, so we can all understand? One example would be that possibly the kids are going to have to listen to other kids share their ideas on the carpet. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. He recently authored Transforming Schools: Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment and Common Core Standards. By Kenna McHugh. Bob Lenz became CEO of Buck Institute for Education PBLWorks in 2015.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Let's examine these two issues: Silos You can find OER in dedicated online repositories including OpenEd , Curriki , and OER Commons. Several software companies have their own repositories, such as Microsoft’s Docs.com, Schoology’s public resources, Canvas Commons, and more. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

I look at outside resources and edtech organizations like CETPA , CUE , iNACOL and ISTE , for example, to connect with people who have tried the products to see if they could be a solution for our teachers. Teachers would meet edtech companies at a conference, which would then give free accounts and say, 'You’ve got to try my product.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2018

I try to focus in on the standards of the writing curriculum I’m using — augmented with Common Core or whatever other standards I’m using — and focus on those, rather than sitting there with a paper and pencil and doing it that way. Example of Tip #1 Use Minecraft to Scaffold Story Writing. But I try not to do that.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

These include Common Core, TEKS, Next General Science Standards, or California/National CTE Standards (optional but gives the experts better insight into your curriculum objectives). Select the type of expert you’d like based on occupation, company, or industry (optional if you don’t have a preference).

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Competition from a new wave of edtech companies and entrepreneurs, along with the arrival of the Common Core State Standards, was beginning to change market dynamics related to product development, distribution, and competition for customers and investment capital. But longstanding assumptions were expected to hold.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

These may allow for certain high school benchmarks which would not apply to elementary or middle schools, for example. Steve also addressed any confusion regarding the Common Core State Standards. Since the Common Core is not a federal initiative, it is unaffected by ESSA.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

A lot of the more formal makerspaces run in sessions, so you could spend the first eight weeks on robotics, the next eight on learning how to code and then the final eight on design thinking – just examples, they don’t need to be these three areas or even have a time limit. Common Core: A Lesson Plan for STEM (on Bridges).

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The arcade-style math app for kids is designed for Grade K-5 with ordinary skill presets aligned with Common Core State Standards. The kids’ math activities and books cover the Common Core Standards and the Head Start Early Learning Outcomes Framework. The math app is customizable to your kid’s skill level.

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Knowledge Avatars K-12

JANUARY 17, 2021

And we run our companies like this. EscapEDX players gain 21st Century, Social Emotional Learning (SEL), Common Core, and Bloom's higher-order thinking skills. In it, he said, "You'll never come up with anything original -- if you're not prepared to be wrong. They have become frightened of being wrong. We stigmatize mistakes.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 30, 2018

Sparking Student Creativity with Big Ideas from Adobe MAX ] Search Term Brainstorm Example If the big topic for a student project is Toucans, the subtopics might include (1) habitat, (2) diet, (3) geography, or (4) threats. When you share strategies for keyword searches with students, you can model with a teacher example.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Continue Efforts to Improve Connectivity In Schools Just last week, one of my portfolio company founders was excited to pilot a new literacy tool in a school in Richmond, Calif., only to discover that there wasn’t adequate broadband to execute the lesson. Unfortunately, this happens all the time—especially in rural and high-need communities.

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The 21st Century Principal

MARCH 23, 2011

My hopes and expectations for seeing cutting edge technological innovation from these companies were dashed to pieces. It appears textbook companies are caught in the same trap. One company did offer to strike a deal though. I might as well have been sitting in a textbook presentation from the mid-1990s.

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Fractus Learning

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

The Common Core Standards (though bearing various names across the country’s state lines), offer a tool with the power to reinstate civility and return courtesy to the natural act of talk through the teaching of Speaking and Listening Standards. But how can civil discourse be the outcome amidst a backdrop of non-examples?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

All three new tests are more rigorous than the old GED and were designed to mirror the changes in traditional high schools with the introduction of Common Core standards. For example, in New York State, the primary funding source for adult education is the Employment Preparation Education program.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

And the conference featured plenty of students who say this transformation of learning is changing their lives, including an impossibly articulate fourth-grader who said he created his own skateboard company and began loving school once he was allowed to learn at his own pace. For example, why are the new ways of learning better?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Some are returning; high-tech manufacturing companies such as Stark Aerospace have set up shop. They had no correlation to the standards that we had just switched to, which was Common Core. We also had to train teachers to not just use technology as they had traditionally; for example, point-and-click games.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

If I have to log in to seven different systems, for example, it makes it very difficult for me to get that comprehensive picture. Take New Mexico as an example. Big vendors are big companies. Tell me about the benefits a data-standard can bring to the classroom? A very large percentage is just going to that license.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2015

Summit, for example, will contribute more than 16,000 comprehensive Common Core-aligned resources for students in sixth through 12th grades in October, and High Tech High has already contributed over 4,000 resources. Teachers and students using Gooru can now adapt these high-quality resources for their classrooms.

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