Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 17, 2013

Our fourth guest blog post is written by Dara Easterling, a Catholic elementary school teacher from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Thank you, Dara, for attending EdmodoCon 2013 and the compliments! You can read about Dara''s adventures in elementary education on her blog, Kontemporary Kreations.

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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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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary School in Texas get an unusual introduction to technology. Personalized learning is core to the model at Rogers Elementary, and Kristen Watkins, director of the personalized learning program at Dallas Independent School District, says that exposing students to multiple devices is an intentional part of the school’s approach.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

achieved National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) proficiency in fourth grade reading. Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 4, 2024

Researc h: The Influence Of Socioeconomic Status In Elementary School Kieffer (2010) organized a study on upper elementary students focusing on reading levels of English language learners (ELLs) and native English speakers. Neighborhood segregation and district boundaries have contributed to this (Palardy, 2013).

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Educational Technology Guy

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Dedicated to the education industry, Livescribe is kicking off a pilot program with select school districts and higher education institutions to assess use cases, as well as the impact of using the Sky wifi smartpen both in and out of the classroom. Livescribe will officially launch the Sky wifi smartpen in the education market in early 2013.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

Our programs assign these lessons based on a student’s placement assessment and their demonstrated mastery. International Journal of Inclusive Education, 2013, 17(1), pp. Differentiation of Instruction in the Elementary Grades. Waterford ensures that students learn to read through thousands of games, songs, and activities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Jon is a Google Certified Innovator (#GTAWA 2011), has been a Lead Learner for a Google Teacher Academy (#GTAMTV2), is also an Apple Distinguished Educator and has facilitated over 10 Executive Briefings and led sessions in Final Cut Pro for the 2013 Apple Institute. It’s like, why are people grading anything? I pulled it down to five.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2024

Because student identifiable information is not gathered in these assessments, they are more likely to provide truthful responses and as a result they can receive greater personalized feedback. Questions that constitute a good screening tool assess the most quintessential factors of mental health, functioning, and academic achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

In Molly Long’s kindergarten class at Burrus Elementary in Hendersonville, Tenn., Manipulating numbers in different ways, part of a supplemental math curriculum for Murphy’s whole class at Hilltop Elementary in this suburb of Philadelphia, is an attempt to address those problems.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

And at the end of that year, we did some assessment, and we realized that we needed some more time to build this vision. What can it look like in an elementary classroom? We had another professional learning cohort called “Leading Your Salisbury.”. People need to understand, “What does this look like?

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Today is day four of the 2013 Global Education Conference. Middle East and North Africa through Online Projects - Jennifer Russell, Program Coordinator Developing and sustaining communities of practice in elementary history education: Doing history in the classroom with limited professional development support - Katherine Ireland, B.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2019

In Loudoun County, Virginia, fourth-graders from Goshen Post Elementary School took up the challenge personally. As the 21st century learning movement expands internationally, we’re seeing an abundance of frameworks, assessments, and semantic labels as different organizations put their spin on what’s worth knowing.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. A new elementary school, Presidential Park, hosts more than 1,000 students in a modern, state-of-the-art building. The initiative is in place at elementary and middle schools in Middletown.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

-based early childhood technology and services developer best known for its GOLD observation-based assessment system and its Creative Curriculum product lines for infants, preschoolers and kindergarteners. Roden worked as an elementary school teacher and in sales for Pearson before founding ReadyRosie in 2012.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

So the company plans to release three new articles a week aimed specifically at elementary students. REN FAIRE: K-12 learning analytics software, Renaissance , announced Renaissance Flow 360 , an assessment-based platform that aims to help teachers analyze differentiated student data to help determine what students are ready to learn next.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

In Houston, Texas, almost 30 percent of the schools had no fine arts teachers in 2013-14. Researchers randomly assigned 21 elementary and middle schools to receive arts education first and watched what happened to 8,000 of their students in grades three through eight. More schools signed up than the program could handle.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

From 1992 until 2007, the state’s average score for fourth-graders remained below the “basic” level of achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Student performance on state tests has been poor in recent years as well, with only a little more than half of students in some grade levels scoring proficient. Weekly Update.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 12, 2014

For example, 2013-14 English 9 or 2014-15 Honors English 9. From taking quick quizzes as a homework check to group quizzes to summative tests, Edmodo''s quiz feature is my go to feature for assessment. Preparing for digital assessments, students complete quick Edmodo Snapshot assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

On the 2019 National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), Delaware scored in the middle of the pack in elementary reading achievement. Both in Delaware and nationally, about two-thirds of fourth graders scored at or above “basic” on the 2019 assessment, a rate that remained flat from prior years.

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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. 2013; Parsons, 2012; Vaughn, 2015, ). 2013) investigated the impact of instructional adaptations on student literacy achievement. Adaptive teachers, as Madda et al. 57, cited in Vaughn, 2015, p.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 8, 2018

It’s often possible to further your training while continuing to teach thanks to self-paced online courses: for example, this comprehensive prep course for Praxis Core exams and Subject Assessments. Everything a New Elementary Teacher REALLY Needs to Know (But Didn’t Learn in College). Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

In recent months, the phrase has been associated with Mississippi’s performance on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the Nation’s Report Card. These supports, we suspect, have been influential in better preparing Mississippi elementary school teachers and changing instruction in K-3 classrooms.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2016

Back in 2013, approximately 60% of Maine's participating districts chose iPads. In 2013, school districts were given the option to participate in one of five solutions, which included Apple laptops, Hewlett-Packard laptops, and iPads. Now, as has been reported , a number of districts have opted to move back to laptops from iPads.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Experts say it’s a promising model for alleviating some of the problems plaguing ed tech.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 22, 2017

published by ISTE in 2013), Learning First, Technology Second (published by ISTE in 2017). Liz is also the creator and coordinator of the Triple E Framework , which is an open-source framework for K-12 teachers and administrators to use to assess the effectiveness of technology in lesson plans. Her blog is at [link].

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

One key element of this approach is the continuum of Cultural Proficiency, a tool that helps organizations diagnose their current activities, organize improvements, and assess their progress. Stacie Stanley serves as the associate superintendent of Eden Prairie Schools, which is located in Minnesota just outside of Minneapolis. Recently, Ms.

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eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2016

The study examined Dreambox Learning and the individual test scores of nearly 3,000 students in grades 3-5 during the 2013-14 and 2014-15 school years in two districts, Howard County Public School System (HCPSS) in Maryland and Rocketship Education in California.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Whereas a Google search for “learning techniques” returns over 400 million results, researchers Dunlosky, Rawson, Marsh, Mitchell, and Willingham (2013) culled through hundreds of studies to provide a “curated” analysis of the 10 most effective learning techniques commonly used by students. Dunlosky et al. Dunlosky, J.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

Officials at Amazon, which purchased the rights to TenMarks in 2013, declined to comment for this story. 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.

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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

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Which is what stirred teachers at Orchard Lake Elementary School in Minnesota back in 2011. They chunked the curriculum into “strands,” with assessments so students could progress at their own pace. The teachers called it Impact Academy and piloted it in the fall of 2013 within Orchard Lake Elementary.

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Waterford

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

As the Stanford research team put it: “We shouldn’t assess a hospital based on the health of its patients; rather, we should ask how much a patient’s health improves as a result of his or her time in that hospital.”. Educational Leadership, May 2013, 70(8), pp. Journal of Literacy Research, December 2003, 35(4), pp. Reardon, S.F.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Beginning a technological evolution When I first became an administrator in the 2013-14 school year, I started a coding initiative. One of our scholars recently achieved a perfect score on our mathematics statewide assessment. We can (and will!) always hope for more funding. It has made a difference in our scholars’ lives, too.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

All components: student books, lesson cards, digital learning, reading response journals, sound-spelling activities, and formative assessment cards work together to provide ample opportunities for children to read, talk, and write—all vital steps on the path toward successful reading. For more information, please see www.lwtears.com.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2020

The version of the tool launched this fall focused on late elementary and middle school math, with new topics planned for the future. But based on initial data from a much smaller pilot in Long Beach, California, in 2017-18 and another in 33 tiny Idaho districts in 2013-14, he was optimistic. Students at B.

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