iLearn Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2014

How to integrate Prodigy into your classroom: Prodigy is aligned to the Common Core Math standards and has over 300 math skills for students to master. Because Prodigy is aligned to the Common Core, it is easy to navigate. You do not want to miss our conference in February! Registration is now open!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Soft instrumental music played in the background as families walked into the gym at Laurene Edmondson Elementary School around 5:30 in the evening. Second grade teachers Amy Hart (center) and Alina Turner (right), with her dog, Mello, meet with Karen Shutt (left), instructional coach for a planning meeting at Edmondson Elementary.

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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. On a recent spring day, Maritza Cleary’s third-grade class at the district’s Prairie Oak Elementary School tackled math pictographs. BERWYN, Ill. —

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Rogers Elementary Principal Lisa Lovato. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Is sameness the key to equal opportunity?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

SRA FLEX Literacy Projects Jumpstart promotes critical skills for at-risk elementary, middle and high school students, extends benefits of project-based learning to more U.S. FLEX Literacy Projects resources for either Elementary (3-5) or Secondary (6 and above) classrooms. classrooms.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 25, 2014

We have had such an enthusiastic response to this event that we have expanded the conference this year: we will start Wednesday afternoon/evening and go through Friday mid-day (US Time). Tell a Friend / Colleague The conference is open to ALL, so please tweet, blog, email, or shout at your friends and colleagues to let them know about us.

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Graphite Blog

JULY 3, 2015

The Common Sense Education team just returned from a fabulous four days at the ISTE Conference in Philadelphia. We were thrilled to catch up with long-time users of Common Sense resources as well as introduce our work to many more of you. DIGITAL CITIZENSHIP Digital Passport: Digital Safety for Elementary School Kids .

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My Island View

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

As a person who attends many education conferences year round, I experience many lectures often in the form of Power Point presentations. Common Core Curriculum Education Elementary Internet Leadership Mentoring PD Professionalism Reform Teacher Teched Technology Thought leadership Thought Provoking'

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

Although Illinois adopted Common Core standards in 2010, Berwyn North, a kindergarten through eighth-grade district with 3,084 students , had not yet incorporated the standards when Ayala and her new assistant superintendent, Amy Zaher, were hired in 2012. It’s not just about teachers teaching.

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Learning in Hand

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Stephen’s Episcopal Day School hosted Miami Device , a conference held on their campus November 6 & 7, 2014. The hallmark of a great conference is that there are too many concurrent sessions you want to attend, and that''s exactly what happened at Miami Device. However, what does that look like for early elementary grades (K-3)?

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There is no box

APRIL 22, 2015

I also attended CUE and CETPA conferences as well as had to put out the odd IT fire during class time every once in a while. Often I would be online checking in on my students even if I was out sick or at a conference. But it wasn’t all sad face, I did have a closet of an office for when I was wearing my IT hat.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2012

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21st, is worldwide 2012 Social Learning Summit , a one-day virtual conference being held as a partnership of Classroom 2.0 All sessions will be publicly available to attend through the online Blackboard Collaborate platform, and every session will be recorded and made available immediately following the conference.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 7, 2016

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? EIE – Engineering is Elementary EIE) supports educators and children with curricula and professional development that develop engineering literacy.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Also, check out Newsela for Elementary and note there is a also a comparison of a free and paid version. Welcome to the Future! Mike Gorman.

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Graphite Blog

AUGUST 6, 2021

Suggested grades: Elementary to high school. Through conferences, teacher trips, master classes, and more, they work to help math teachers and students while including messages of social justice. Their Common Core Connection series has quite a few worksheets to choose from. Yummy Math.

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MindShift

APRIL 6, 2015

The excerpt below is from the book “ Transforming Schools Using Project Based Learning, Performance Assessment, and Common Core Standards ” by Bob Lenz, with Justin Wells and Sally Kingston. to every student who enters our doors, even students who enter ninth grade reading at an elementary level. to some and “No!”

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MindShift

JULY 22, 2018

That’s why the American Association of School Librarians hasn’t taken an official position on the “white-hot” topic, said its current president Steven Yates, despite “spirited discussion” at the group’s biennial conference and in the “Dewey or Don’t We” issue of its print magazine. “It

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Educator Innovator

OCTOBER 7, 2015

The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) stress the importance of communication, and challenge students to engage in conversation by using evidence to support an argument, while evaluating and listening to others’ perspectives. She has previously taught middle school reading and special education in an inclusive elementary setting.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

Fifth-graders at Konguta Kool – an elementary school in a small Estonian village – prepare for a math lesson in the computer lab. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. TARTU, Estonia—Most educators and policymakers can rattle off a list of international educational powerhouses: Korea. But there’s an overlooked member of the list: Estonia.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

When parents came in for parent-teacher conferences they mentioned their kids had been talking to them about conserving water.” Pamela Tarango teaches third grade at the Downtown Elementary School in Bakersfield, Calif. . “They were very engaged, they loved it,” she explains. Talk about your personal experience.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Thirty-plus teachers and teacher educators gathered in the conference room nodded emphatically as Eckhoff, 35, told of seeing more and more students coming to school not just deficient in academic skills, but carrying a lot of emotional baggage. Elly Eckhoff, cooperating teacher at Paxton Keeley Elementary School.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

If you are at the conference, feel free to look me up with a PM at Twitter ( @mjgormans ) or email (mjgormans@gmail.com). I would love to talk with you about amazing PD I can provide at your school or conference this year! Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. It is provided free of charge.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? FETC 2019 – How does Orlando in January sound for an educational conference? I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The very first time I heard the idea of integrating the Arts into STEM education was while watching a keynote made by Daniel Pink at the NECC Conference in Washington DC… yes prior to ISTE Conferences! Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 14, 2016

Booking Info – It is time to think about your school or conference needs. Are you looking for a practical and affordable professional development workshop for your school or conference? Each project aligns with common core and national standards and delivers measurable learning while using free software.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The problem is that many American elementary schools aren’t doing that. ” But this research hasn’t made its way into many elementary school classrooms. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? “We never looked at brain research. We had never, ever looked at it.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The Gates Foundation has backed a variety of education reform initiatives : charter schools, the Common Core State Standards, “small schools,” inBloom, teacher evaluations, and yes, “personalized learning.” The policy and the discourse.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

The end of the day today is the final deadline to get in a proposal to speak at next week''s free and online 2013 Global STEMx Education Conference (STEMxCon.com) , September 19 - 21. They are listed below, and after the reminder plea for moderator volunteers, you''ll also find the current list of all conference sessions. Huge thanks!

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

So it was with parents at one of the first Basecamp schools, Marshall Pomeroy Elementary in Milpitas, a small city off the southern tip of San Francisco Bay. Pleasant View Elementary in Providence, Rhode Island, for instance, started Summit with fifth-graders in 2015, and this year introduced a few aspects of the approach to fourth-graders.

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techlearning

APRIL 10, 2018

BURLINGTON, NC, April 10, 2018 – During the recent NSTA conference, Carolina Biological Supply Company, the leading school science supplier and an NSTA show sponsor, launched the new Building Blocks of Science|3D hands-on unit kits for students in grades K to 5. The program can help elementary teachers fit science into busy school days.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Shelby Villegas, sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix. Shelby Villegas, a sixth grade math teacher at Whispering Wind Academy Elementary School in Phoenix, is in her third year with Summit. Hillman was the principal of Prairie Heights Elementary School during its first two years using Summit.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The increasing politicization of social studies was a concern shared by many educators, education leaders, researchers and advocates at last week’s annual NCSS conference in Nashville. The approach has received pushback from conservative politicians who want to see more “patriotic” social studies curriculums, experts at the conference said.

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The 21st Century Principal

AUGUST 8, 2013

Bob Pearlman, "Designing New Learning Environments to Support 21st Century Skills" In response to the Common Core State Standards many school districts and schools are discussing moving toward 21st century models of instruction like Project-Based Learning and other forms inquiry-based teaching and learning.

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MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

“I am overwhelmed with joy for my students because I know now they each stand a better chance of being a successful student,” said Regina Trout, who teaches the second-year kindergarteners at Maple Hill Elementary School in Middletown. For more, check out this story about personalized learning and Common Core by Sarah Garland.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2016

About two years ago Houston Independent School District , with its 283 schools and 215,000 students, went in search of an LMS that would help teachers create and use coursework that was both digital and aligned to Texas state standards (Texas pointedly does not use the Common Core).

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Saving Socrates

JUNE 13, 2013

The current movement towards a common core is evidence of this belief brought into action (albeit dumbed down). The promise immersion education holds in elementary school foreign language acquisition is limited only by imagination. Why can''t we have students acquire knowledge of other subjects in the same model?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Wednesday, November 19th, is day three of the fifth annual Global Education Conference. We had another great day of sessions and keynotes on Tuesday, and the recordings of any sessions that have taken place are accessible on the conference recordings page. Follow the conference through Twitter using the hashtag #globaled14.

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