The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. The post How to sort the good from the bad in OER appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

When instructors make videos where they use their presence in the video well, the researchers argue in a recent peer-reviewed paper , it can “contribute to greater engagement, promote generative learning, direct efficient integration of the instructional material, and lead to better post-test performance.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

The state trained K-3 teachers and elementary school administrators how to teach foundational reading skills and provided support by placing highly trained reading coaches in its lowest-performing schools. After the Act’s passage, Mississippi aligned with the science of reading. As school districts, educators and parents across the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

She invested $19 — the cost of hosting a website — and created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, in tables clearly organized by grade level and subject matter, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

A new report details the importance of state advocacy in connecting schools, students to broadband internet. A new report from SETDA and Common Sense Kids Action focuses on K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity, state leadership for infrastructure, state broadband implementation highlights, and state advocacy for federal broadband support.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2023

The state education agency also established a committee to advise the state on how to bring the TEAACH Act to life in schools and produced a webinar series to support the mandate’s implementation. As a PD facilitator, Hurh says she prioritizes modeling how to incorporate Asian American history in a way that treats the community with dignity.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. For curriculum materials specifically, Clark drafted requirements for anything being added to Skyline. The program covers blended learning and project-based learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 Journalists discovered cheating scandals and evidence of low-quality instructional materials. But teachers often didn’t understand when or how to override the online lessons. And they need examples of how to combine in-person instruction with computer time.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 29, 2019

High-quality instructional materials simply aren’t optional. Related: How to program greater diversity among Mississippi’s computer science grads. They received training on how to evaluate texts and other materials. It went deeper than simply examining whether the materials are aligned to state standards.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

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. The data are now being gathered and they need to be ready for publication on the 2019-2020 state and district report cards.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

Pitchbook reported a similar trend, noting that the pandemic’s “impact on aggregate VC activity was hardly apocalyptic,” with healthcare, digital enterprise and consumer-service startups attracting plenty of capital. MasterClass, recipient of a $100 million round , offers courses featuring celebrities who teach how they hone their craft.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

This story is a part of Learning from Lockdown , a series about education solutions in the pandemic, produced in partnership with the Education Labs at AL.com , the Dallas Morning News , Fresno Bee and Seattle Times partnered with The Christian Science Monitor , Hechinger Report and Solutions Journalism Network.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

If you don’t have a teacher that has a strong background in word work, or how to crack the code of reading, they’re not going to know how to target specific needs and then support the child in their classroom,” said Rachel Logan, a literacy specialist who consulted schools nationally on equitable practices.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Blended classes greatly benefit from BYOD scenarios because most of the class instructional materials are on the cloud and all students need to do is to sync them on their devices. Teachers Today’s teachers know how to use Excel to compute grades or Word to create documents, but that’s not enough. Sounds easy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

One of the most popular English lessons in the instructional marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is a unit on how to teach William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” and claims to explain how to teach the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers in a fun-filled way while hitting almost 50 Common Core standards in five weeks.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2017

By providing out-of-school access to digital instructional materials , students now have more opportunities to personalize their own learning and support to complete their homework. Traditionally, the responsibility of homework has relied 100 percent on students and parents, despite some parents being absent or unable to help.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. And that’s when I said no.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

The template resources help them develop high-quality tutorials, flipped learning content, and training material without starting from scratch. The talk and draw features make it easy to create how-to and instructional videos from screenshots. A teacher can capture the entire desktop screen, a window, or a scrolling screen.

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eSchool News

JULY 15, 2015

While 54 percent of respondents said that teachers in their schools have assessment data that tells them whether intervention plans are working, significantly fewer (only 37 percent) believed that their assessment data told them how to change an ineffective intervention plan currently in place.

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Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. Teachers have spent decades learning how to reliably help students master new skills, debunk misconceptions, and connect their prior knowledge to new concepts.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MAY 24, 2017

How to spend less time planning standards-aligned work & more time engaging w/ kids Click To Tweet. A Playlist is a collection of thoughtfully curated instructional materials. Assignments created on the Planner automatically sync with Kiddom’s ready-made reports.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2016

Educators agree that all students deserve access to all instructional materials. However, few institutions have clear, well-communicated plans that document how accommodations will be provided to students who need them. Faculty are the ones in the trenches developing content and activities for students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

Leaders will be looking for new ways to streamline observation to ensure teachers feel supported, connected with colleagues, and aligned on how to have the most impact with students. Reporting dashboards should become more student-focused. Reports in edtech products are often created for teachers or school leaders.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

The national report, From Print to Pixel: The role of videos, games, animations and simulations within K-12 education , reveals that in 2010, only 23 percent of surveyed teachers said they used games, compared to 48 percent of those surveyed in 2015.

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ViewSonic Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

In 2021, Stateline, the news arm of the Pew Charitable Trusts , reported that the number of cases of mental health struggles, behavioral outbursts, and mild-to-extreme forms of self-harm has been on the rise with some numbers jumping over 31 percent. How is that represented? Just this month, a highly anticipated review of U.S.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Instead of traditional report cards, though, students assemble digital portfolios to show their progress. During her time in the makerspace, she learned how to design and create keychains to sell at local veterinarians’ offices and at fundraisers. Developing digital portfolios and personalized learning plans: Every student at St.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 5, 2017

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. Teacher librarians also show young people how to curate around their own interests and how to create launchpads to manage their information worlds. ” Library Technology Reports 50.7

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

From how to delve into the nuances of student learning and removing the heavy lift of teachers trying to figure out how to individualize instruction, to enabling someone like me to speak in seven languages so that I may express ideas or collaborate with others from around the world, AI holds endless potential.

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 20, 2016

Common Lit – It is the mission of Common Lit to provide a collection of high quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades five through twelve. This Research Report will provide you with even more information on this wonderful program.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2022

Before the pandemic, a growing number of parents, educators and advocates criticized how students were tested and the importance placed on statewide tests. High quality instruction materials, whether curriculum or classroom environment, play a role in how a student performs on these assessments. ” Multiple choice v.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report. More important, the data entry can seem pointless when the outcomes aren’t applicable to the students.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2023

“What’s so exciting about this study is it shows that you can get a lot of the benefits of high impact tutoring – relationship-based, individualized instruction with really strong instructional materials – at a cost that is doable for most districts in the long run.” Technology plays a big role.

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User Generated Education

JULY 1, 2018

Program leaders and instructors remain predominantly male, and a language analysis of recruiting and instruction materials revealed evidence of implicit bias. Implicit bias is pervasive and insidious,” the report states. I expected to find a decent number of articles on this topic, but became a bit dismayed on how few I found.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

technicians, programmers and technology coaches), network infrastructure, maintenance and—importantly—teacher training on how to effectively use all that new technology. But how do schools pay for all of this? State Funding States vary drastically in the funds they make available for K-12 technology.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

This article is about book choice as well, but it’s about the choice to say no (how to say no, how to tell when you should say no, what are the ramifications of saying no, what to do when you maybe should have said no but said yes instead, and how to turn a no into a consenting yes).

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Ebert, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Nevada Department of Education Nominated by: Discovery Education The shift to distance education precipitated by the COVID pandemic highlighted challenges including access to technology, professional learning for educators, and high-quality instructional materials.

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