eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Released in conjunction with the 2016 National Title I Conference, the complimentary 15-day lesson plan covers all five stages of the SRA FLEX Project Experience in an easy-to-follow sequence, aiming to boost literacy skills through reading, writing-centered activities and group collaboration.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

—As rain poured outside on the chilly evening of February 24, a group of Arlington elementary school parents was imagining a sunnier place — Dorothy’s trip down the yellow brick road. But the shift to the Common Core State Standards meant it would have to go. Related: Common Core testing showdown in Massachusetts.

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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. John Fallon CEO, Pearson.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities.

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MindShift

APRIL 17, 2018

Additionally, t he Common Core Speaking and Listening Standards specifically focus on oral presentations. Oral presentations can take many different forms in the ELL classroom—ranging from students briefly presenting their learning in small groups to creating a multi-slide presentation for the whole class.

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Saving Socrates

JANUARY 30, 2014

I am advocate using them as one tool in helping to customize the curriculum for students in secondary schools. It can help drive instruction in all common core based areas. This will help grades be more linked definitively to common core skills. So, why am I actually advocating using standardized assessment tools?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

At that point, students decide whether to go to upper secondary school for three more years, where they focus on academics, or to vocational school to prepare for a specific career. Most students, roughly two-thirds, select upper secondary school, according to the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research. It didn’t work,” Lukk said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

A group of sophomore boys weaving baskets in an art class wish their school assigned more tests instead of oral presentations. Students, many living in poverty, can check in with each other and with a teacher who stays with their “pod” (as the school calls each group) from ninth grade until senior year. Photo: Sarah Garland.

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Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

When I first saw the long list of my classes’ ELA Common Core Standards, I remember feeling overwhelmed and worrying about how I was going to cover all of them in a single school year. I was being asked to teach approximately 60 standards in one year, a pace that I had never tried before.

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Reading By Example

DECEMBER 24, 2015

The Common Core State Standards were a primary focus. Staff members who have spouses teaching in other schools sometimes mention that the student writing produced is comparable with secondary level work. We blame the Common Core, the government, or accountability to the public. Structure and Style.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 15, 2015

The popular “Space Race” allows your group to be split into two teams that compete head to head for the quickest answers. When introduced, the Seesaw app allows for a group of ipads integrating instantly which means teachers and parents do not have to deal with embedded codes and file from other products.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 20, 2011

If you are looking for an easy calendar import / RSS feed for these events, you''ll now find a link on your calendar page or the calendar page of specific groups! We will also be crowd sourcing a monthly webinar schedule to offer PD based sessions using Common Core Standards and STEM resources.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

A few weeks back, EdSurge published a podcast interview with education consultant and commentator Alan November, and Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District Mike Dorsey, after chatting with the two education experts at ISTE. This isn’t new.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

Measured Progress, the group responsible for creating MCAS, holds thousands of tests waiting to be scored in its warehouse. The nonprofit test development group has worked with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary education to make and score MCAS for all but four of the 19 years it has been given.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

It provides reading resources either uploaded by the teacher or selected from the platform’s library of thousands of fiction and nonfiction books (some free; some through Prime plans), Common Core-aligned lesson plans, videos, or simulations. These are filtered by topic, grade, length, reading level, keyword, or standards (i.e.,

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MindShift

MARCH 16, 2015

Some parents and educators have encouraged families to “opt out” of tests , such as those related to the Common Core State Standards, as a way to protest these practices and the effects they are having on children , families and communities. Moreover, “constant ranking and sorting” creates stress and makes students less confident.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Neuman helped establish the Early Reading First program and the Early Childhood Professional Development Education Program, and was responsible for all activities in Title I of the Elementary and Secondary Act. It’s story time for a group of 5-year olds who are eagerly learning about insects and the world in which they live.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff listened intently as a group of veteran teachers listed what they think rookie teachers need before entering the classroom: more time student teaching and more training in how to communicate with colleagues, parents and students themselves. Photo: Peggy Barmore. COLUMBIA, Mo. It was the No.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Rather, most large-group instruction or reader-workshop mini-lessons involve small bits of text, typically no more than a few paragraphs. The radicals immediately seized the opportunity of making a crisis and in Boston it was this group who staged the Boston Tea Party…. They watched for every opportunity of stirring up trouble….The

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 5, 2015

Rather, most large-group instruction or reader-workshop mini-lessons involve small bits of text, typically no more than a few paragraphs. The radicals immediately seized the opportunity of making a crisis and in Boston it was this group who staged the Boston Tea Party…. They watched for every opportunity of stirring up trouble….The

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 19, 2014

Common Core Camp in UAE , The camps will introduce American curriculum schools, leaders and educators in the UAE who are new to the Common Core Standards. Secondary teachers and YA librarians: this is a great opportunity for special programming. Learn more here. Learn more here.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

When I volunteer in my children’s elementary classrooms (1st and 3rd grade), I am struck by how frequently the teacher finds time to work directly with small groups of students to offer additional support, review concepts, assess understanding, and practice skills. At the secondary level scenes like this are less frequent.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Presenters - Please Check Your Instructions Presenters: make sure you have joined the presenter group on the site, that you have read carefully the instructions there and in the emails that have been sent to you, and that you have taken or watched the training (critical). Barrios, Ed.D.;

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 12, 2015

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with students I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have time for.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2017

The Common Core ELA writing standards encourage students to “use technology, including the Internet, to produce and publish writing and to interact and collaborate with others.” We all strive to develop students with the skills necessary to be successful after high school graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cardona probably first caught the collective eye of the state’s education and political leaders in 2010 when he was appointed co-chairman of a legislative task force studying the state’s intractable academic achievement gap between racial and socioeconomic groups. The other co-chair was then-Sen.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

events , the real party takes place in the volunteer moderator lounge, where a devoted, energetic, and highly beloved group of volunteer moderators keeps the conference running and humming. Volunteering : as with our other conference 2.0 Cantwell, Instructional Services Librarian (Asst.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The group also chose to set out guidance for elementary and secondary school social studies instruction, to emphasize that education in the topic must begin in the early grades, Hedgepeth said. In those other disciplines, said Lesh, “There was an effort to take the inequity out of what was taught to students.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Teachers in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, use a curriculum that mixes teacher-directed whole-class phonics lessons with small-group activities. ” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? “I wouldn’t have been able to use that strategy at the secondary level,” she said.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2016

States and education districts have bureaucracies responsible for delivering primary and secondary education to all kids in their region and have long put a high value on standardization and central control. Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM.”). Schools can also supplement the curriculum with online digital resources.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. SHEG currently offers three impressive curricula that may be put to immediate use in secondary classrooms and libraries. You can now find out.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

IOCS is aligned to select Common Core Curriculum standards for language arts literacy, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) NET.S PIRG Panelist Nicole Allen discussed her work as Public Interest Research Group (PIRG)’s Textbook Advocate. Standards, and New Jersey World Class Standards in Technology.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump’s education platform promises to “make post-secondary options more affordable and accessible through technology enriched delivery models.” More on the future of Common Core from NPR. ” On the other side of the issue: “ Civil rights group makes legal case for controversial Education Dept.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. It will be able to ascertain which student did what during “group work.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

DeVry Education Group got a new CEO." In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. .” Dale Dougherty returned as the CEO of Maker Media, following layoffs there.

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