Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ). Performance assessments that integrate evidence of teaching practices and student learning measured in a variety of ways (such as student work, lesson plans, assignments, in-person or video observations based on standards, and/or National Board assessment).

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 14, 2020

In regard to Creativity, check out my last post, which covers facilitating and assessing Creativity in the classroom. The very first time I heard the idea of integrating the Arts into STEM education was while watching a 2009 keynote made by Daniel Pink at the NECC Conference in Washington DC… yes prior to ISTE Conferences!

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. is a type of essentialist, behaviorist education based on the three Rs – receiving by listening to the teacher; responding by taking notes, studying text, and doing worksheets; and regurgitating by taking the same assessments as all other students in the cohort.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

What reading program did they use in elementary school? Related: NAACP targets a new civil rights issue — reading Meanwhile, Megan met Jazmine as her ninth grade English teacher in East Harlem in 2009. Jazmine rarely raised her hand, her reading fluency was choppy and she scored poorly on assessments.

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eSchool News

APRIL 22, 2024

According to CDC data from 2009-2019, 1 out of 5 adolescents aged 12 to 17 reported having experienced at least some kind of major depressive episode. According to the National Center for School Mental Health , universal screening is the assessment of students to determine whether they may be in jeopardy regarding their well-being.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

Teens who read more paper books scored higher on reading assessments. Even among students of similar socioeconomic backgrounds, those who read books in a paper format scored a whopping 49 points higher on the Program for International Student Assessment, known as PISA. Credit: Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report. years of learning.

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User Generated Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

For the past several decades, I have had my feet in both elementary education and teacher training and development. Hands-on and experiential learning is used in some elementary schools but this diminishes as students get older. Engages the senses. More likely to engage emotions. ”( Hands-On is Minds-On ).

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

That’s how school district users last year found out about the end of TenMarks, which has provided curriculum, lesson plans, exercises and assessments in math and writing to students in an estimated 11,500 U.S. Across the district’s elementary and middle schools, Yakima had about 8,400 students on the program for the last three years.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. A longtime administrator in Rio Rancho, Aaker led the district-wide transition of elementary students to online learning when Covid struck. It wasn’t just a mother’s intuition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

The first was that elementary school students who attended “Core Knowledge” schools – which teach young children a broad core curriculum in many subjects – were better readers. In early April 2023, I started getting emails and messages urging me to take a look at a fresh reading study in Colorado.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 11, 2019

Whether you are a first-year teacher or a veteran teacher, classroom and system-wide assessments can be a time of high anxiety and stress for everyone involved. in School Counseling Program, Freed-Hardeman University, TN, lays out strategies and ground rules for what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

Today, A students make up a majority of ACT test takers, some of whom are not college bound and take the test as a required high school assessment. points from a 3.0 – a B – in 2009 to 3.11 Just as ACT scores declined, so did 12th grade math scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a national achievement test.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

In 2016, our Anna Reynolds Elementary School was the recipient of the National Blue Ribbon Award for high performance , and every school in the district routinely outperforms the competing magnet school on standardized assessments. The secret to our success?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

In perhaps the only attempt to summarize the detracking literature, a 2009 summary of 15 studies from 1972 to 2006 concluded that detracking improved academic outcomes for lower-ability students, but had no effect on average and high-ability students. And all three did well in the district’s detracked courses.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

This could involve using differentiated instruction, incorporating multicultural education, or employing a range of assessment methods. Brouwer & Korthagen, 2005; Ferrari, Cachia, & Punie, 2009; Zhu et al., Adaptive teaching: Reflective practice of two elementary teachers’ visions and adaptations during literacy instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Research has shown mixed results.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Founded at Brookline High near Boston in 2009, the group now works with roughly 1,000 students from 14 nearby districts beginning in the summer after seventh grade to help them complete advanced math classes like calculus before they finish high school. “One In the summer of 2009, Mims piloted his idea with a group of rising eighth graders.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Over one-half of participating school districts allowed students to take home their laptops by 2004; a second RFP was issued in 2006; and the MLTI program expanded into high schools in 2009. In fact, assistant Superintendent Shawn Carlson points out the one of the most successful uses of iPads in Boothbay has been in assessments.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population. 12 The latter can be identified with norm-referenced measures in state and standardized reading assessments. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP).

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NeverEndingSearch

AUGUST 10, 2019

Barbara Stripling, Professor Emerita, Syracuse University, and former ALA President, describes the history and goals of the project that builds on an earlier version developed by school librarians in 2009 under the auspices of the Office of Library Services and its former Director, Dr. Stripling. The heart of the ESIFC is our students.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. Venture funding in the edtech sector has increased from $385 million in 2009 to an expected $2 billion this year. We've rolled out other programs this way.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Indiana now requires all eighth graders to take a series of self-assessments through the state’s online career explorer or a similar web tool. And Virginia has kids begin work on an “academic and career plan portfolio,” which includes information about their interests, values and skills, as early as elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Starting in the “pits” The outlook for charter schools didn’t seem nearly this rosy back in 2009, when Stanford’s Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) released its first national charter school study. New York City is now requiring elementary schools to choose from three different reading curriculums ; charters are exempt.

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eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

These elements are: differentiation, adaptivity, student engagement, direct instruction, practice, formative assessment with immediate feedback and student explanation of learning. Though the students are continually assessed throughout the program to adjust to their skills, this initial reading sets them on a path tailored to their needs.

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Tech Helpful

MAY 9, 2019

Simon Sinek originally published his book Start with the Why in 2009. Our elementary school started with a rolling cart of iPads and we have slowly added more and more into the mix for use and a chromebook cart as well. According to wikipedia, the first iPad was released on April 3, 2010 ( [link] ). Oh to have read that book then!

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ViewSonic Education

JUNE 20, 2019

First, taking the time to assess your needs and installation conditions will help you pick an education projector you’ll be satisfied with. Assess lighting conditions and ability to control ambient light. Finally, you’ll want to assess connectivity. Interactive projectors were introduced in 2009. Light source.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2022

When Ann Civitareale’s father passed away in 2009, she little fathomed that she would spend thousands of her inheritance on medical and educational testing for her two sons. Why are we not making assessments in the schools better and more comprehensive?” In March, a doctor followed up by observing the boy at school.

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EdTechTeam

MAY 31, 2017

Keep in mind, group work at the elementary level remains a skill that should be modeled and refined based on the data curated from previous observations of a task. After all, according to a Johnson and Johnson study in 2009, “The power of collaborative learning is to be operational and cultivate relationships.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2018

In 2009, just over 50 percent of children entering Immokalee’s six elementary schools were considered “kindergarten ready,” as determined by Florida’s kindergarten screening exam, the Florida Assessment for Instruction in Reading. The center has received $13.7 million from the foundation since 2003.

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Hack Education

MAY 6, 2020

" But the answers to that question are, of course, bound up in our beliefs and practices and expectations, in our assessments of what "preparedness" even means. In elementary schools, between 7 to 13% of instructional time was spent watching television. The Hagerstown CCTV project began in 1956 with a $1.5

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eSpark

APRIL 18, 2016

Since arriving at Elizabeth Forward in 2009, district leaders Dr. Bart Rocco and Dr. Todd Keruskin have focused energy on establishing a culture of innovation within the district. Read on for a look at the many ways a few of our Digital Promise district partners are boosting student engagement and academic growth. Elizabeth, PA.

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EdTechTeam

APRIL 24, 2017

With the Common Core State Standards launching in 2009 and textbook publishers having to recreate their curriculums, many districts were left with their teachers having to come up with their own curriculum that met the new state standards. Ann-Marie Skaggs has been teaching elementary school in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2005.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2018

Related: How one Mississippi elementary school improved to an A rating. percent were proficient in math based on assessments for grades three through eight. He taught Language Arts in Jackson for 29 years before retiring in 2009. 184 teaching positions in Jackson Public Schools are being filled by long-term subs.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools. Students refine these skills based on goal-setting, ungraded feedback known as the formative assessment.

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MindShift

AUGUST 13, 2017

The program, which has operated at New Trier since 2009, came about when teachers and parents at this high-achieving school realized that while students were “succeeding” by traditional measures like test scores and college-admission rates, something was missing. “Those are all counter to the school culture in many ways.”.

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population. 12 The latter can be identified with norm-referenced measures in state and standardized reading assessments. National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP).

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

MARCH 24, 2015

I’ve covered the ASCD conference as a member of the press (read: education blogger , it’s not really that fancy) since 2009, and I always view the major conference themes as an indicator of the direction that American schools are currently moving. ” 3) Nimble grit. 6) The effect of relationships on motivation.

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