The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Her books and resources are used around the world: THE WRITING STRATEGIES BOOK (2017) and THE READING STRATEGIES BOOK (1st edition) (2015) have have been translated into French, Chinese, and Spanish.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE). In June, she submitted evidence for and earned all the micro-credentials in the full stack , “Leading a Performance Assessment Community.”

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EdNews Daily

MAY 17, 2017

Some point to the essential reductionism of the examination process , questioning the validity of the way that student learning is assessed. Others express concerns that traditional forms of assessment are measuring forms of intelligence and/or competencies that are no longer relevant. DigiExam: the future of assessment?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 1, 2016

Wow, 2015 was a big year for Twitter in education. Here are the 15 top Tweets from 2015 that I tweeted from my account. Lots of talk about grading and assessment this year. Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) March 3, 2015. #14 Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) June 29, 2015. #13 Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) May 17, 2015.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2020

Below are some lessons we learned after hitting the reset button on our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative in order to get it right that I captured in a 2015 post. Check out the International Center for Educational Leadership's ( ICLE ) vast services and Digital Practice Assessment (DPA) process to fill this gap.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 8, 2015

The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Sans the wine, of course.)

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?” 2015, September 2015). June 21, 2015. Andrea is noticing what many teachers are saying: students are struggling with reading stamina. The life long consequences when a student cannot read. ” Retrieved January 21, 2022, 2022, from [link]. “How Did U.S.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Ten years ago, I thought tests were the only way to assess a student’s knowledge, but now I understand that they can demonstrate their mastery in so many different ways. Ten years ago, I prepared my lessons with fixed steps and an end assessment in mind. I am a critical and creative thinker.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2018

million grant from the Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation, GlassLab aimed to prove that educational games could be just as fun as their mainstream titles, and serve as reliable formative assessment tools. The first word in GlassLab’s name stands for games, learning and assessment). Launched in 2012 with a three-year, $10.2

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Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

K-8 Market (2015-16 School Year). The top line finding is eye-opening: The 2015-16 school year will mark the first time that the majority of state mandated summative testing in U.S. Count the 2015-16 school year as the tipping point in the ongoing shift to online and computer-based testing.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 21, 2018

notifications about curriculum, assessments and emergency situations during regular school hours. Technavio analyst Jhansi Mary J says schools are finding plenty of uses for digital signage at an affordable price tag , including: welcome messages and videos during events. time-bound dayparting information.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Actual meeting time can then be dedicated to analyzing data, developing common assessments, making policy revisions, discussing and/or modeling effective pedagogical techniques, or engaging in hands-on technology trainings. In 2015 and beyond how will you make time for yourself and others to grow and innovate? Image credit: [link].

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Responsible decision-making is the ability to assess a situation, understand the benefits and consequences of different responses, consider what is ethical and safe, and make kind and productive choices. What is responsible decision-making? Responsible decision-making includes the ability to: Be open-minded. Click to copy.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Business leaders know that assessing the status of an effort prior to the change process is crucial. The SWOT activity is done in the very early stages of development of a mission so that the brand strategy can be assured of success (Armstrong & Kotler, 2015). Building awareness is also a key element. Why do a personal SWOT?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Another 2015 study shows that only 30% of teachers improve substantially with PD. Coming back from GAETC 2015, I realized that I had been to the conference before but my classroom was unchanged. Formative assessment can help teachers understand how students are learning. So, what we have doesn’t seem to be working.

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

2015, John Hopkins University School of Education. Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement.” B., & Jung, S. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School.” E., & Tyson, D. Developmental psychology, 2009, 45(3), 740-63.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

With this in mind, CYPHER LEARNING and Turnitin began collaborating in 2015. Our integration simplifies the assessment of written assignments for users of NEO LMS and Turnitin. Educators can plan through, beginning with low-stakes formative assessments, and build on as students gain comfort and awareness.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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Doug Levin

JUNE 17, 2015

Given the rise of OER (of which I am a fan ), an increasing array of business models, questions about the degree of alignment to state standards and assessments, claims of effectiveness, and interoperability concerns, the instructional materials procurement decisions facing school districts have never been more complicated. Image credits.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2019

He teaches English at Mountain House High School in California, a 1:1 Chromebook blended learning school, where he received the 2015 Online Course Design Award from Blended Schools Network for his work on creating engaging online learning courses. Forrest has been an educator for 26 years and earned his Doctorate in Teacher Leadership.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Author of Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective, Blogging for Educators, Teaching Students to Self Assess: How do I help students grow as learners?, She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Emmersion’s platform has conducted millions of automated assessments for corporate and educational institutions, including The World Bank, Randstad, Columbia University, Brown University and the University of Pennsylvania, providing valuable data insights into language proficiency scores. . SAN MATEO, Calif.

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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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Doug Levin

APRIL 30, 2016

Employed measures of academic achievement that were standardized assessments or norm-referenced district- or school-wide tests; Reported the duration of the study; and, Otherwise provided sufficient statistical data to calculate effect sizes. What did the meta-analysis reveal?

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eSpark

APRIL 12, 2022

This year, many districts are replacing state standardized tests with PARCC or Smarter Balanced, two Common Core-aligned assessments designed to measure college readiness. Schools using PARCC have the option of taking a mid year assessment as a means of monitoring student growth.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

Assessment. Online Assessment with Google Forms – this document gives walk throughs for Flubaroo and other tools to help you assess using Google Forms. Flubaroo – help for grading online assessments. 10 Tools for Assessment for Google Apps on the iPad. 2015 – New Google Classroom Features.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. She was State Teacher of The Year for 2015. She is the 2015 Tennessee Teacher of the Year. After participating in Harvard’s Project Zero , she is applying and using the methods in classrooms and with teachers.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 18, 2015

Next class: August 10, 2015. Ideas include visual, audio, video, mindmaps, infographics, graphic organizers, charts and tables, screenshots, screencasts, images, games and simulations, webtools, and hybrid assessments. Next class: July 27th, 2015. 21st, 2015. Next class: September, 2015. College credit (MTI 563).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

New America published a report in June that shows while we’ve made substantial progress—among families with children ages 6 to 13, access to non-dial-up home internet service has increased from 64 percent in 2015 to 84 percent in 2021—we still have work to do. Greater interest and investments at the edge of education innovation (e.g.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

Before joining Forward Edge in 2015, she worked in adult education, supervised students in an alternative school, taught computer science, and was an instructional technology coach at both the building and K-12 district levels. Head to Lumio for more information and to sign up for FREE. Katie finished her Ed.D. for this episode.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 18, 2017

In 2015, the district began partnering with Digital Promise to develop better processes for making evidence-based decisions in order to ensure the tools benefit their students and educators. To learn more about Elizabeth Forward’s journey, check out the video below!

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

Although low-skilled adults have minimal access to educational opportunities, I outlined in my 2015 blog post some ways in which technology has the potential to provide critical access to quality, personalized learning experiences for this underserved population.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. Books Starr has authored: Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective , Blogging for Educators , Teaching Students to Self Assess: How do I help Students grow as learners? , Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Stream by clicking here.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

At the same time, our middle school science department made the switch from traditional grading to standards-based assessment and overhauled our philosophy to focus on fostering revision practices. Since our switch to standards-based assessment in 2016, I've been keeping records on academic achievement and revision behaviors.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Assessment. Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” 2015) Who believes in me? New Assessment Beliefs for a New School Mission, Phi Delta Kappan, p.22-27. Evaluation. Upjohn Institute Working Paper 15-231.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

Sports require students to set goals, assess the competition and consider their individual strengths and weaknesses. That’s a notable jump from the 45% of all undergraduates in 2015 that planned to study STEM. Participating in a school esports team provides an environment for these kids to learn and practice these skills.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Kilpatrick writes in his book Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties, comprehension strategies cannot be a substitute for vocabulary knowledge and content knowledge.[7] Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties. September 2015. and Nation, K. Kilpatrick, D.A.

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