Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2022

One student near the back in a white T-shirt and black baseball cap seemed to be playing a first-person shooter video game on his phone. Another student in the back appeared to be shopping for a used bed on Facebook marketplace. One was definitely watching sports clips on YouTube on his phone. Something has deeply shifted.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. But others asked her not to do that because that policy is tilted against those who get sick or have a good excuse to miss class. What's happened to them?

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Researchers like Dr. Todd Rogers, Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University and Chief Scientist at EveryDay Labs, have tirelessly worked with school districts to identify, develop and implement strategies to reduce absenteeism at scale. Can we define attendance if students simply log onto their Google Classroom or submit an assignment?

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2022

The post Strategies and Tools to Improve Student Behavior and Engagement – SULS0175 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. When so many teachers are struggling with behavior management, student engagement is at an all-time low. See: Copyright Policy. Teachers are burnout. We need tools and strategies to help.

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 20, 2021

Schoolytics helps you measure, monitor, and manage student engagement and assignments. It also organizes all the student engagement data from Google Classroom in one easy-to-use dashboard. The comment feature is available in most Google applications and is definitely a must-have skill for teachers in students.

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Our leadership works to build coherence through district policies that address digital citizenship while working with school-site leaders to incorporate digital citizenship into the classroom. LA Unified’s first step was updating and creating district policies to serve as the foundation for digital citizenship efforts.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. Student engagement and personalization remain at the heart of my work.

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eSchool News

APRIL 27, 2016

The reports, Redesigning School Accountability and Support: Progress in Pioneering States, and Pathways to New Accountability Through the Every Student Succeeds Act offer guidance for schools, districts and states hoping to revamp their support, improvement, opportunity, and accountability. Accountability is not a side issue.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

But there’s no common definition yet for what personalized learning actually is.”. EL’s definition puts two elements at its core: “expeditionary learning” projects and small groups of students called Crews who stick together from grade to grade and meet daily along with a teacher adviser to support and challenge each other.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 7, 2016

Among the items declared negotiable were tenure, “the composition of the faculty, including the proportion of the full-time faculty members,” and “the definition and centrality of ‘liberal arts.'” .” So what ended up in the negotiable column? ” Reread that paragraph. This is very, very bold stuff.

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Linways Technologies

JANUARY 14, 2021

It was exciting to get the students also into it. Also how to get the students engaged. At the end of the day from my experience as a teacher, the more attention we pay to students, the better they will respond. Students are our children. A friend told me about zoom and we jumped into it fast and tried it.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I prefer this definition over the typically more technical description frequently offered by #edtech evangelists. The focus is on what might happen when students collaborate and communicate around topics of interest. National Education Policy Center. Available: [link] (Links to an external site.). Halverson, R., Barnicle, A.,

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

When we posted our 2020 predictions on January 1 last year, we–along with the majority of the world–definitely didn’t anticipate the curveball that was (and continues to be) the global COVID-19 pandemic. The policies and infrastructures are in place to deliver. education system. Collin Earnst, CEO, LearnWell.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. The effort has two chief goals: keeping students engaged in school and keeping them in the state after they graduate. Field trips to local employers are another. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Reading By Example

OCTOBER 20, 2016

I prefer this definition over the typically more technical description frequently offered by #edtech evangelists. The focus is on what might happen when students collaborate and communicate around topics of interest. National Education Policy Center. Available: [link] (Links to an external site.). Halverson, R., Barnicle, A.,

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Shake Up Learning

APRIL 23, 2019

If you need any inspiration for tools to use, this is definitely the episode for you. 60 Tools to Inspire Students with #Chromebooks! Support for this episode comes from Pear Deck , the tool that helps you supercharge student engagement. See: Copyright Policy. If you want the entire list, just scroll down!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers.

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MindShift

MAY 7, 2019

During the school year, they co-teach with credentialed teachers, sharing their expertise on relationship building and how to make topics engaging for young people. De La Cruz subscribes to the Brené Brown definition of belonging. Every team member was excited about schools opening in both policy environments, Clemente said.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Despite the evidence-based benefits of high-dosage tutoring, only a small share of students receive this service. To adequately recover learning loss and ensure a brighter future for this generation, high-dosage tutoring programs must be properly scaled to reach more students. Secretary of Education Miguel A.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

One deals with the actual writing process and the others provides tools and resources for various writing opportunities and student engagement In this post I will deal the first concept and the following posts will explore that wide range of writing and engagement opportunities. I see this as really multiple concepts.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2016

Four-year-olds pretend they are growing tall, like plants, in a science lesson that involves a rich vocabulary, hands-on learning and student engagement. Student engagement and positive reinforcement like this, experts say, is a sign of a quality prekindergarten program. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. BROOKLYN, N.Y. —

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

When DC + XQ collected and shared information with them about how their students had fared during the health crisis, “the data was really compelling to us,” said Kira Rowe, a school counselor at Coolidge. “It It was definitely eye-opening.” Policy Center, a research organization. For example, nearly half of D.C.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 2, 2021

This policy will go into effect across all Google Workspace for Education editions for existing customers in July 2022 and will be effective for new customers signing up in 2022. Sorry, this one didn’t make it into the podcast, but definitely worth mentioning here.). See: Copyright Policy. Unlimited storage is going away.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Both she and Chang point to the fact that new attendance policies can vary dramatically from one district to the next, and many of them are under constant revision, as decision makers react to the ever-changing realities of the pandemic. But in some cases, no attendance tracking whatsoever is taking place.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

If students are allowed reassessments, for example, does it open the door for dishonesty -- especially if the reassessments are coupled with flexible turn-in or deadline policies, or done outside of class time? In today's environment, an instructor may ask whether alternative grading approaches make cheating more likely.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2018

Since last fall, Raimondi, along with technologists at 19 other school districts, have piloted a new service that automatically provides data in how students engage with different online education programs. In their study of DreamBox, Harvard researchers found that “most students did not reach the recommended levels of usage.”

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Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

When and how much should students be using technology in class? How can I make sure I am protecting student privacy when using technology? Which policies and procedures will help me get the most out of teaching with technology? Are there benefits to allowing student phones in the classroom? Student privacy is complicated.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 17, 2023

While the debate surrounding the validity of learning styles continues, the theory undeniably offers valuable insights into the diverse ways students engage with and absorb information.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Gamify compliance to institutional policies instead of social change and disruptive creativity. Place students on the periphery when we design, plan, and respond to their learning. (It’s Say we value depth over breadth, but then have policies and systems in place that imply the opposite. Bus students.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Richard Del Moro, Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction, adds that Middletown works hard to make their students “feel good” by providing opportunities beyond academics, including extracurricular activities, athletics, music, and the building environment. Why does that matter?

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

” As a result, students engage in academics, athletics and extracurriculars because they “know you care.” Eastwood wants each student to be proficient in math and reading before finishing 5th grade. Why does that matter? ” All of these efforts are setting the groundwork toward a concrete goal.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

It’s definitely not always rainbows and sunshine,” said Liang-Vergara. Stacy Stewart, principal of Belmont-Cragin Elementary School, credits personalized learning for helping to improve student engagement. Keeping that honest and real is important. Credit: Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

So the following list of public education terms is useful not so much for the definitions, but for the credibility (or at least authority) of the definitions, as they are sourced from the Department of Education itself, in this case in regards to clarify Race to the Top language and meaning. Student attendance .

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2023

But instead of strengthening social studies or helping more students engage with the subject, the focus in recent years has been on undermining or attacking it, he said. Critics say revisions, or attempted revisions, to social studies standards by policy makers in states such as Virginia and South Dakota remove inquiry-based learning.

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MindShift

JANUARY 26, 2021

It’s definitely not always rainbows and sunshine,” said Liang-Vergara. Stacy Stewart, principal of Belmont-Cragin Elementary School seen here before the COVID-19 pandemic, credits personalized learning for helping to improve student engagement. Keeping that honest and real is important. Sarah Gonser for The Hechinger Report).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2016

It’s especially vexing with regard to students who already have low achievement levels or learning problems. According to our principal, roughly 75 percent of Fern Creek students are considered “gap” kids under Kentucky’s definition — students who belong to groups that, on average, have historically performed below achievement goals.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

There were student strikes over civil rights and other social issues well before unrest arose on other campuses. A policy requiring that both parties verbally consent to sexual acts as a means of curbing sexual offenses, mocked on “Saturday Night Live,” has since been widely emulated. Related: The new minority on campus?

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