eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2022

Scott Kinney, CEO of Discovery Education, will continue to lead the Company supported by the existing management team. The Company’s integrated learning platform empowers teachers by offering easy lesson creation, ready-to-use formative assessments, and personalized, data-driven recommendations from a library of educational resources.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ). Job Embedded Professional Development. Professional Learning Communities.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2021

COVINGTON, KY: October 21, 2021 – A new website launched by a collaboration of leading technology experts, STEP CG and Cradlepoint, is providing information and educational resources to help K-12 schools ensure their students have access to the technology they need to succeed. About Cradlepoint ??. Cradlepoint ?is Cradlepoint’s?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

DECEMBER 13, 2023

Drawing from peer-reviewed research papers, I’ve made sure to include diverse and illustrative examples that showcase how blended learning is being implemented across different educational contexts. Stay tuned for further discussions and explorations in the realm of modern educational methods. Luna and Stephanie A. Moore et al.’s

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

For the last two years, I’ve been increasingly frustrated with the traditional approach to assessing students and reporting grades. This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. Redesigning My Gradebook. 4 = advanced.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Reid emphasized the importance of listening and grounding equity work in the voices of the students and other community members, and also making sure achieving educational and racial justice is a process of removing barriers for all students, rather than taking something from one group and giving it to another.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. In 2002, federal education law began requiring schools to spend federal dollars on research-based products only. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz. But they are all misleading.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. According to Grauer, more than 30,000 college educators across the U.S. Another U.S.

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Learning with 'e's

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

So what will be the future of higher education, and how will it survive against this hostile backdrop? In May 2000, I was invited to present two keynote speeches about the role technology would play in the future of higher education. The first, undesirable form of disruption stops us from getting to where we wish to be.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

“When you look at college mission statements, they’re loaded with grand pronouncements about the skills and habits of mind they’re going to inspire in their students,” said Alexander McCormick, an associate professor of educational leadership and policy studies at Indiana University Bloomington.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

His efforts paid off: he boosted his SAT score by more than 350 points and landed a spot in Yale’s class of 2006. Developed with technology by Realizeit, The Edge Prep ’s AI-powered engine continually assesses students’ strengths and weaknesses as they move through a series of exam questions for the SAT, ACT or SSAT.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2017

I came to the Cobb County School District in 2006. My boss at the time, who brought me into education, told me not to worry. I was teaching special education, and my students would have behavior problems but it was nothing I couldn’t handle. Mastery-based assessment directly addressed this issue. I was mistaken.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Doug Green challenges our thinking about school, how we should teach, and the flaws with the testing programs we have in education today. I’ll be speaking with other amazing educators like Suzy Boss, Janet Zadina, Jay McTighe, Dr. Brendan Ozawa de Silva, Scott Sanchez, Dr. Ayanna M Howard and more. She has a blog on Education Week.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Pam Moran has been a leader in education reform in Virginia over the past several years as the state moved from testing to transformation. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

His efforts paid off: he boosted his SAT score by more than 350 points and landed a spot in Yale’s class of 2006. Developed with technology by Realizeit, The Edge Prep ’s AI-powered engine continually assesses students’ strengths and weaknesses as they move through a series of exam questions for the SAT, ACT or SSAT.

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The Innovative Educator

JULY 15, 2016

Alan November spoke to a group of leaders from New York City. More at [link] Stop lecturing and consider more assessment not less with students leading the learning. More at https://hbr.org/2006/12/the-curse-of-knowledge Teachers sell a product to a market that doesn't want it. Here are the takeaways and resources I collected.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

The education research and cognitive science fields are no different. ” In other words, this is meant as a learning technique, not for assessment. recommend educators provide ways for students to re-test frequently on their own and in class. The key is to make sure that tests are “low” or “no-stakes.”

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edWeb.net

JUNE 12, 2020

Two months after the COVID-19 crisis forced educators across the United States to leave their classrooms and start teaching online, the scope of the changes and challenges have now become clear, and educational leaders have started to identify what’s working and what still needs improvement. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Finding a balance between building relationships with students, developing community amongst class members and administering the assessments necessary to get the data needed to design instruction isn’t easy. During whole-group instruction, we worked on essay organization, a domain where students scored low across the board.

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N2Y

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In 2006, President George W. Department of Education formed the National Mathematics Advisory Panel as a result, and it got to work studying how to strengthen the nation’s next generation of mathematicians. Modeling is when the well-prepared teacher presents a new procedure or concept to a group of students by showing and explaining.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. 1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. This group makes up at least 20 percent of the general population. 2 Researchers call 5-10 percent “non-responders” to intervention.

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Graphite Blog

JANUARY 25, 2016

Anxiety disorders are some of the most common disorders to affect children (McLoone, Hudson, & Rapee, 2006). In addition, there is a high degree of comorbidity with anxiety, meaning the diagnosis of other disorders, such as ADHD in conjunction with an anxiety disorder (McLoone, Hudson, & Rapee, 2006, p. References. McLoone, J.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Of higher education institutions advertising, she said: “I didn’t know that was a thing”. The marketing and advertising boom is also a response to increasing public skepticism about the need to go to college in the first place, said Elizabeth Johnson, chair of the higher education marketing agency SimpsonScarborough. I mean, wow.”

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 28, 2019

Back in 2006, my students created a podcast, “Miss Bell’s Chime Time!” In this week’s episode of The Shake Up Learning Show, I’m chatting with the Podfather himself, Chris Nesi, the founder of the Education Podcast Network, The House of EdTech, and many other podcasts and productions. Click To Tweet.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2017

Since he introduced Khan Academy in 2006, the free, open-access education platform has inspired several knock-offs focused on specific disciplines. As a result, classes are becoming much more interactive, with small group sessions rather than one-hour lectures.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Lawrence Seaway remade our region, a liberal arts education is transformational to a student’s intellect. First-year programs are in wide use in American colleges and universities because they can can lead the way in higher education by engaging first-year students academically and socially from the moment they set foot on campus.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2014

It goes without saying that parents who shell this money out believe that their children will be getting a better education in exchange for all that money. Assessment Innovation science Technology' It’s grown almost 50 percent in the past decade–faster than private university tuition. But what if they’re wrong?

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MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

We also learned—and have experienced in our careers as mathematics educators and researchers—that spatial reasoning is a curiously unacknowledged and neglected area of the curriculum. Below we offer our Top Five reasons why, as educators, we should care about spatial thinking when we plan, observe, and assess mathematics in our classrooms.

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Learning with 'e's

AUGUST 22, 2012

This is the second in a series of blog posts entitled 'Shaping Education for the Future' Yesterday's post can be found on this link. In May 2000, I was invited to present two keynote speeches about the role technology would play in the future of higher education.

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Learning With Lucie

AUGUST 18, 2016

This week I got a chance to attend a meeting lead by Lars Hasselblad Torres, Director of the Generator as he kicked off a collaboration project between Burlington's makerspace the Generator, area schools, and Champlain College to help educators vision how MAKING can support Project Based Learning in their classrooms.

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MindShift

MARCH 23, 2017

Department of Education conducted between 2000 and 2006, which followed about 10,700 children born in low-income households in 2000. They do not catch up,” says Anna Johnson , a psychologist and an author of the new study. Johnson and her colleague used data from an older study by the U.S.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

1 Within this larger pool, a core group is considered to have a reading disability or dyslexia. This group makes up at least 20 percent of the general population. 7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population.

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MindShift

MAY 23, 2016

A group of young women who had graduated from high school between 1997 and 2006 sat at the front of the room crying and laughing about their experiences learning math at Railside High (a research pseudonym for the school). They cared for my education and they wanted me to succeed.”. More Resources on Complex Instruction.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 12, 2012

We are fortunate to have many innovators in education. In the post-compulsory sectors of education too, there is a lot of innovation and creativity, but sometimes this can go relatively unnoticed. It was a major influence on my beliefs with regards to interdisciplinarity, grassroots education and informal learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 5, 2010

Event and Recording Page : [link] Denise Wolk is Director of Publications and Communications and Senior Program Associate with Educators for Social Responsibility. CSSR provides TA services to all levels of schooling including the national, regional, state and local educational agencies.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

Join me Tuesday, May 31st, for a live and interactive Future of Education webinar with James Bosco, Principle Investigator at the Consortium for School Networking ( CoSN ). James Bosco is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Educational Studies at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan. and Catherine T.

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