eSchool News

MAY 25, 2015

Open resources can help design attractive, engaging lessons with a Common Core twist. In 2010, my state, Mississippi, joined the growing list of states adopting the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math. This academic year has been especially pivotal, as we are now in full implementation.

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Insight Education Group

APRIL 20, 2015

Kentucky has been in the news a lot in recent years when it comes to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). In 2010, it became the first state to adopt the Standards. As I have said in many past posts and conversations with educators - and as Kentucky has proved - the Common Core is a marathon, not a sprint.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

. — On a sunny winter morning in Sara Stevens’ kindergarten classroom at Pathfinder Kindergarten Center, 5- and 6-year olds spread out across the classroom learning about colors, shapes, engineering and design. During the same time, the percentage of classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. Depth of understanding was hailed by its architects as a cornerstone of the Common Core, a set of educational guidelines for what students need to know in each grade in English and math that have been adopted in 43 states and the District of Columbia.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 30, 2013

The school has been 1:1 since 2010, and Lotta is fortunate enough to be able to work with the finding and implementation of digital resources and best practices. Lotta has been using Edmodo since May 2012, and really appreciates "the global teachers'' lounge" that Edmodo creates. And I was wide awake again.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. It’s nearly impossible to test different instructional approaches in real classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

The Common Core State Standards were released in 2010, and ELA teachers still often assign tasks and texts based on independent reading levels rather than on a student’s grade level. This changes the classroom focus from what students consume (specific texts) to what they create (specific oral and written products).

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Most people who are middle-income or better, the Common Core kindergarten standards almost seem ridiculously easy. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. It's not that a classroom is “good” or a classroom is “bad.”

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The Daring Librarian

OCTOBER 12, 2014

ISTE NETS & the Common Core I recently ended that four year elected term on the ISTE Board of Directors and as I reflect upon my service, participation, and accomplishments balanced with Glenda''s comment, I can say that if that was the sole standard of success - I failed! This would get our admin''s attention, right? Is it enough?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

And, even if you could be a fly on the wall in every classroom in America, one person’s view of a good lesson might differ from another’s. Two previous studies, of math instruction, combined classroom observations and teacher interviews. “How can we improve classroom instruction in the midst of high-stakes testing?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 3, 2012

David Lankes laments that the "future of school libraries and school librarians hangs in the balance," and that even with all of the research supporting the important effects of the school librarian, "communities are presented with a false choice: reduce the number of teachers in the classroom or lay off the librarian." Harada, 2012).

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2018

Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. Instructional rounds, modeled after medical rounds, are an opportunity for educators to observe classroom instruction, and then address problems together in an effort to improve their teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

Ithaca’s detracking efforts have their roots in Susan Danskin’s classroom at DeWitt Middle School. The changes to the math curriculum have their roots in Susan Danskin’s classroom. He partly blamed the 2010 Common Core requirements, which had toughened middle school math at all levels and raised the cost of moving too quickly.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

MIND Education ’s aim for ISTE2024 next week is to highlight innovations designed to make learning more interactive and impactful through classroom technology. Leaving the classroom in 2006, he became a Mathematics Specialist for the Los Angeles Unified School District, the second largest school district in the United States.

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eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2015

Fulfilling the promise of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) requires sustainable implementation support in order for teachers to be successful. Video is an excellent starting point for seeing and understanding instructional shifts, but watching a video alone will not sustain the changes in practice that Common Core requires.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

You would think that the hype around the use of technology in classrooms in the West would have had some influence on these elite schools in China’s most economically-advanced areas. a good number of edtech products, such as Google Classroom and Edmodo, are designed exclusively for in-school use, and cannot survive without a B2B market.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2013

From the publisher: "In this lively, research-based book, award-winning educator Larry Ferlazzo tackles everyday classroom challenges with creative instructional techniques to help middle- and high-school teachers develop self-motivated and high-achieving students. It should be a must read for all teachers in inclusion classrooms."

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

BALTIMORE — The ninth graders in Elise Delamatre’s classroom at the City Neighbors High School in northeast Baltimore are sitting in a circle of armchairs, presenting their opinions about the merits of the color blue and Nacho Cheese Doritos. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too.

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There is no box

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

As Educators, the art and the craft of our profession is in designing the learning experiences in our schools and classrooms. Having attended the first two Rockstar Teacher Camps ( 2010 & 2011 ), I’ve been a fan of the Rockstar experience since the beginning. gocrickets.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

According to the student engagement survey, student choice is listed as one of the most engaging strategies a teacher can allow in the classroom. In a system that can be a flood of top down, let your classroom be one that allows voices to trickle up. Results from a 2010 study show that when. Patall, Cooper, & Wynn, 2010).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2016

Related: Will the new Common Core SAT close the privilege gap? In teaching assistant Natalie Nowicki’s math class at San Diego State, for example, step one is to reconfigure the classroom. Related: Think you know a lot about Common Core? It’s just a few minutes before her Calculus II class begins.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 1, 2016

In 2010, Marlin Equity Partners purchased Compass Learning for $32 million from Reader’s Digest as part of that company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy. ” See also: Teachers Like Technology in the Classroom, But Few Think It’s Well Integrated. Most Math Curricula Found to be Out of Sync With Common Core.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

Instead of ranking them in order of importance, or even in the order I actually read them, I have put them in what I think would be the most useful reading sequence that would best grow one's CBE knowledge as well as help you strategically plan for implementation in your own classroom, school or district.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. But the shift to the Common Core State Standards meant it would have to go.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

Researchers say many high-poverty kindergarten classrooms don’t teach enough math and the few lessons on the subject are often too basic. Instructional rounds, modeled after medical rounds, are an opportunity for educators to observe classroom instruction, and then address problems together in an effort to improve their teaching.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2017

No one had ever thought about using computers in the classroom – or so you might glean if you only read the latest marketing about apps and analytics – until this current batch of philanthropists and entrepreneurs and investors and politicians suddenly stumbled upon the idea circa 2010.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Wednesday, September 17th at 7pm ISTE Webinar: 10 Classroom Tools for the Maker Movement , Discover the maker movement and find out how to harness its power to bring new tools and technology for hands-on learning to all grades and content areas – especially STEM and STEAM. Tune in live at [link] or [link]. Learn more here.

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MindShift

JANUARY 8, 2016

Their answers can tell us a lot about what they believe and expect of their students and what they actually do in their classrooms. The authors chose to compare teachers’ responses from two years, 1998 and 2010. Among the differences: In 2010, prekindergarten prep was expected. That figure jumped to 80 percent by 2010.

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Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Financial literacy for students (2010) Financial literacy for students grades K-2 The meaning of money Counting bills and coins Writing out money: decimals and dollar signs Financial literacy for students grades 3-5 Earning power Needs versus wants saving for a goal What do banks do?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The district says it has tried to prevent the cuts from reaching the classroom by spending its limited funding more efficiently. When she became superintendent in 2010, one of the first decisions to cross her desk was whether to join a new suit against the state. Insulating the classroom. How to pay for them? Fair funding.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

As Johnson settled in Clarksdale in 2010, the reasons for her to do that work in her adopted hometown multiplied. Johnson had no intention of giving up retying kindergarteners’ shoes and ducking into classrooms just because she also had to manage federal programs and IT. Amanda Johnson, Clarksdale Collegiate’s principal. Habari gani!”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

. — Using small yellow and orange squares of paper and lengths of yarn stretched between tables and chairs, sixth-grade math students made number lines — including everything from fractions to negative decimals — in a classroom at Walsh Middle School. Related: Must a classroom be high-tech to make personalized learning work?

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

She and her administrative team would visit classrooms, hoping to see all this great inquiry-based teaching. The teachers were learning about inquiry-based teaching at the workshops, but they didn’t know how to actually do it when they got back to their classrooms. Two, they were thinking about the Common Core.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Cardona probably first caught the collective eye of the state’s education and political leaders in 2010 when he was appointed co-chairman of a legislative task force studying the state’s intractable academic achievement gap between racial and socioeconomic groups. The other co-chair was then-Sen. Miguel Cardona.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

IOCS is aligned to select Common Core Curriculum standards for language arts literacy, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) NET.S IOCS is a framework enables high school students to access OCW from prestigious institutions of learning like MIT, Yale, Harvard, and others and earn high school credit for their work.

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eSchool News

MARCH 22, 2019

About 10 years ago, in 2010, when Common Core was launched in the U.S., The required change came at a time when, as teachers began to explore and embrace alternative resources, many began to adopt technologies for the classroom too. Related: 10 findings about K-12 digital learning.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. To date, more than 70 percent of schools are equipped with a Wi-Fi network that enables digital learning in the classroom.

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