The Principal of Change

APRIL 11, 2023

There has been a multitude of conversations regarding assessment and grading practices, focusing on shifting practice that makes more sense not only for the current time we live in but also moving forward. She had said, “How we assess drives our teaching, not the other way around.” ” I would agree.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2024

A couple of years ago, Kelly Spoon decided to experiment with her assessment practices. She has changed her approach to grading in other classes as well, now offering more frequent assessments, providing chances to retake tests or quizzes and putting a stronger emphasis on incorporating accommodations in her class.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2024

Meanwhile, digital media, heavily reliant on visuals and text, with audio often secondary, is playing an increasing role in education. Audio is often a secondary consideration; particularly once users can read. Far too many students, especially those with special needs, do not progress as well as their peers do academically.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015). Interestingly, teachers also reported higher levels of engagement when giving video and audio feedback. Video-based feedback on student assessment: Scarily personal.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

2023 calculations by the UNESCO Global Education Monitoring Report reveal that fewer than 1 in 5 countries have legislation in place to prevent and act on cyberbullying in school. ” At the center of the study was a new, easy-to-implement protocol for secondary school teachers to use to help increase reading fluency of their students.

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MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The condition has numerous names: secondary traumatic stress (STS), vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue. One of the handful of studies of STS in schools found that more than 200 staff surveyed from across six schools reported very high levels of STS. How Schools Can Acknowledge Secondary Trauma.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 17, 2023

During the edLeader Panel “ A Roadmap to Employability: Integrating Higher-Order Skills Into Curricula and Assessment ,” distinguished speakers shed light on crucial aspects of education policy, funding, and curriculum development, with a focus on preparing students for employability and entrepreneurship.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Key points: More than half of surveyed students say they will opt out of the traditional four-year undergraduate path This decision to pursue alternative post-secondary options hints at an evolving postsecondary landscape. The findings from YouScience’s second annual national 2023 Post-Graduation Readiness Report.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

The national online survey, Post-Graduation Readiness Report , polled more than 500 students from the 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022 high school graduation classes. At a time when many industry leaders report that their top challenge is the limited supply of talent and nearly six million people in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Nevertheless, teens report that their own mental health is spiraling : Increasingly, they are anxious, depressed and wrestling with thoughts of suicide. As other measures improved, youth also reported feeling less anxiety and depressive symptoms. In reality, they’re not appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

A new report from Washington, D.C., This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The numbers are stark in a March 2023 report by the D.C. Within six months of high school graduation, only 51 percent of the class of 2022 enrolled in post-secondary education, down from 56 percent from the class of 2019. Based on these trends, the D.C.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

We wondered about the role of AI in one specific teaching practice: assessing student learning. This yielded a total of 160 teacher-assessed essays, which we could compare directly to the AI-given scores and feedback on those same essays. How were teachers’ scores similar to or different from scores given by the AI?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

The discussion was based on the research of primary and secondary documents and was quite creative. I assigned students to develop a running conversation between historical personalities such as Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton for a quick formative assessment for one lesson.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?” ” The Nation’s Report Card. Prior to the pandemic, nearly two-thirds of students in the US were below grade reading level for grade 4,8, and 12 (NAEP).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Credit: Holly Korbey for The Hechinger Report Kindergarten may be math’s most important year — it lays the groundwork for understanding the relationship between number and quantity and helps develop “number sense,” or how numbers relate to each other, experts and researchers say. Student math achievement, which dropped to a low of 13.5

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edWeb.net

MAY 30, 2019

We, as edtech leaders and classroom teachers, must explore pathways where assessments support teaching and learning in the 21st century. Authentic assessments are always about the connections we make with students, each other, and the broader community as indicated in a Gallup poll. But What About Technology?

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2024

But how are we addressing the ways that the system has failed our secondary students when they first learned to read? Conversations about the science of reading are happening primarily with elementary and early childhood educators. Those conversations are preventing further literacy injustice and disenfranchisement.

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EdTechTeacher

MAY 12, 2023

[INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers. ( Check out our first tip here!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Today’s technology makes it easy to collect concrete data and view reports that provide guiding insights. With PLCs, we decide as a team that ‘this’ is really what every student at Benton High School leaving Algebra 1 should know how to do,” says Brandy Beckman, Secondary Math Instructional Facilitator.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

The results of large-scale tests may be used by schools or policy-makers to make important decisions such as grouping students by ability or assessing how well schools are doing. Across Canada, researchers and educators have documented the need to transform how the provinces assess literacy and consider more innovative designs.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2022

Maybe to assess the health and character of our education system we should look at how our teachers are treated and how they are feeling. Almost half of all school leaders (47 percent) report that the role of the principal has changed “a great deal” since the start of the coronavirus outbreak.

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EdTechTeacher

JUNE 9, 2023

[INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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EdTechTeacher

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Post by Tom Daccord A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Nevertheless, teens report that their own mental health is spiraling : Increasingly, they are anxious, depressed and wrestling with thoughts of suicide. As other measures improved, youth also reported feeling less anxiety and depressive symptoms. Fewer teens are taking up smoking. Arrest rates among teens are dropping.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. Recognize and Alleviate Barriers to Involvement.

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eSchool News

JUNE 23, 2022

2020 and 2021 saw $190 billion in federal relief funds go to schools through the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). According to a report from AASA, superintendents must collaborate with numerous stakeholders as they develop spending plans. But why aren’t schools spending the money?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Savvas also announced that its Savvas Math Screener and Diagnostic Assessments (MSDA) tool, for use with enVision Mathematics K-8, now includes mid-year and year-end growth assessments to help educators monitor student progress and skills proficiency throughout the school year.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 4, 2023

Post by Tom Daccord [INTRO: A recent national report by the Watson Foundation found that teachers are using ChatGPT more than students and are using it to create new lesson ideas. Each post will focus on a practical strategy for using ChatGPT and will include ideas for both elementary and secondary school teachers.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 20, 2023

You can’t read legal papers without reading for voice and vocabulary, which are part of the literacy standards across the content areas in elementary and secondary education. That showed up on his report card sometimes, but in his interactions with us and his peers even more. Not every parent/guardian has that deep knowledge.

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2023

Declining mental health has become an unfortunate trend for high school students across the country,” said Jennifer Rushton, Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment at Greater Egg Harbor Regional High School District. “We We wanted to address these growing concerns among our students with additional SEL support.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2019

I remember report card days as a child, me sitting outside on a brick wall, scared to death as my mother met with the teacher and received the (always bad) news about how I wasn’t doing. I love report card days now because this is when I get to meet parents. I love report card days now because this is when I get to meet parents.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

News reports—and rumors—about the pandemic are inescapable. Called the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , it asks elementary and secondary schools and districts throughout the U.S. to report confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 among their students and staff who are learning and teaching in person this fall.

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techieMusings

APRIL 27, 2021

This year has undoubtedly forced us to reexamine assignments and assessments, reimagine what collaboration and projects look like, and create new avenues for students to actively participate in all aspects of class, whether at home or in the classroom. STEP 1: RESEARCH USING SECONDARY AND PRIMARY SOURCES. STEP 2: WRITE A SCRIPT.

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ExcelinEd

JUNE 5, 2019

A new report from Excel in Ed and Burning Glass Technologies, Where Credentials Meet the Market: State Case Studies on the Effect of High School Industry Credentials on Educational and Labor Market Outcomes , addresses that gap. Read the Report. Secondary Educational Outcomes. View this table as a full-size image.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

The Australian Curriculum is said to be the national curriculum in Australia, which is followed by all primary and secondary schools. VCE (Victorian Certificate of Education) The VCE is granted to the students who successfully complete their secondary education in the state of Victoria. Australian Curriculum 9.0

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2022

Credit: Liz Willen/The Hechinger Report. We made a conscious decision to make the sixth-grade experience one where we expose children to everything,” said Rick Doss, the district’s director of secondary education. and her classmates were scrolling through Naviance for Middle Schools, a tool for assessing strengths and interests.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

schools, their needs are often seen and treated as secondary rather than as of equal importance to their peers’. And that has resulted in policies, textbooks, training and assessments for our nation’s 5 million ELs that seem like an afterthought. Though English learners are the fastest-growing student population in U.S.

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