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. Karen Vogelsang has taught elementary school in Memphis, Tennessee for fourteen years. She is the 2015 Tennessee Teacher of the Year. Listen Now.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Yet, the district has seen consistent and remarkable success in math achievement across all of its elementary schools since it began using Stepping Stones, a prekindergarten through sixth grade comprehensive math program from ORIGO Education. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 24, 2017

Karen was the 2015 Tennessee State Teacher of the Year and I interviewed her at the NNSTOY Conference in DC this summer. This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. She was State Teacher of The Year for 2015. What are thinking routines?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2021

My daughter is entering her third year of college, and I have three sons in elementary schools; my youngest starts first grade in a few weeks. artificial intelligence , the future of assessments, and leveraging block chain technology to facilitate the transitions from K-12 to higher education and the workforce). I am a father of four.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The early years are vital to a child’s long-term achievement in reading, so teaching vocabulary and content knowledge in preschool and in the elementary grades is essential. 4 Free Downloadable Chapter Books for Elementary Students. Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties. September 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a national test done every two years, Minnesota fell from second place among the 50 states in 2009 on eighth grade math scores to eighth place in 2022 , the latest year of available data. She got As in elementary school math but her grades fell once she hit algebra in eighth grade.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 25, 2017

This fun, visual tool lets students explore 150 different science and social studies units for elementary and middle school learners. Learn more about formative assessment. If you want to listen – Monica Burns did a fantastic podcast episode about her Favorite Formative Assessment Tools. Kecia: Oh yeah, absolutely.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Girls Scouts – all girl Lego leagues, Engineering is Elementary – girls are empowered – Flying Monkeys prosthetic device patent! Sioux City CSD – opening a K-5 STEM specialty school in Fall 2015. What’s missing?

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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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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2018

You’re an elementary teacher right? We finished our assessment last week, and then this week was all about STAR testing. And I’m not sure what kind of assessment you have in the south, but we have STAR tests, some people had NWEA. I think this is an important shift that needs to be made, especially in elementary classrooms.

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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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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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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Realizing this, during the 2015-2016 school year, the Elizabeth Forward elementary teachers and administrative staff began to discuss the possibility of using micro-credentials and badging for their youngest students. Vernon Elementary Schools, Central Elementary School and William Penn Elementary School respectively.

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Waterford

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

5 Reading Fluency Activities for Elementary Students. Essentials of Assessing, Preventing, and Overcoming Reading Difficulties. September 2015. If a student is having trouble reading a sentence or text, encourage them to slow down or practice reading fluently with a less challenging passage. Waterford.org, April 2021.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Melissa is dual certified in Elementary Education and Special Education.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

The report looked at how students at 435 of the biggest California districts performed on its statewide test, based on the national Smarter Balanced assessments, for three years beginning in 2015. They estimated that more than 10,000 of them were issued by the Teacher Credentialing Commission during the 2015-16 school year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Houston lawmaker championed the 2015 law that created the mandatory takeover process, something he saw as a way to hold the district accountable for continually low-performing schools. Her two children, however, were students at one of the targeted schools, Pugh Elementary in the city’s northeastern Denver Harbor neighborhood.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. Johns Hopkins University, 2015, School of Education. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School. and Tyson, D. Developmental Psychology, 2009, 45(3), pp. Sheldon, S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

The districtwide shift towards blended learning began in 2015 when Erica Hartman was hired as Supervisor of Technology Integration. The station rotation model is utilized across the district, at the elementary, middle and high school level, in both bilingual and mainstream classes. Embracing Blended Learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2019

Between 2015 and 2018, eight students and one teacher from Olathe Public Schools committed suicide. By combining all of this data, teaching SEL skills and doing the SOS assessment, not only are we having serious and meaningful conversations with families, but we are saving lives,” explains Dain. They also can see the trend data.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 6, 2017

Under Jon’s Leadership, and with his CUE Professional Learning Team, CUE PL has trained over 32,000 teachers in 2015-2017. I mean, when I started using formative assessment like this to teach binary numbers, I used to teach – binary numbers used to take seven days. It’s like, why are people grading anything?

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It didn’t matter that he’d likely never have to teach the geometry concepts that kept tripping him up (Anderson hoped to teach elementary school). Latiker points out, “but he couldn’t teach elementary education because of his performance on the Praxis math exam.” That was in 2017. “It It began to become emotionally draining.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2016

A well-designed classroom boosts student learning by as much as 16% (Barrett, Zhang, Davies, & Barrett 2015), but overdecorating is a distraction. Learning Space Toolkit by North Carolina State University has a system for needs assessment and space planning. Classroom Caboodle’s elementary Classroom Layout. Simmons, K.,

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Melvin Love, principal at Oxmoor Valley Elementary School in Birmingham City Schools in Alabama. When I came to this school in 2015, our data from the state of Alabama showed an eight percent proficiency in reading in grades three through five.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Children’s learning experiences in pre-kindergarten through early elementary are shaped by many factors, including race and income ; consequently, they often face school readiness gaps that could be addressed with technology solutions.

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Battelle for Kids

AUGUST 5, 2015

August 5, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 9, Number 3. Typical projects at the end of units, time fillers, science fair entries, stretches for the gifted, and special day celebrations were and are common fare in many elementary classrooms. Introduction of the letters "P-B-L" to many educators brings a highly predictable shrug. "So

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

In this 2015 photo, fifth graders collaborated on a Rube Goldberg machine in a Pennsylvania elementary school. For example, the United States ranked 39th in math on the 2015 PISA test. Four regions in mainland China, including Beijing and Shanghai, collectively ranked 6th in math and in 2015. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 11, 2017

The Unified Classroom brings together the teacher’s grade book, learning management system, student information system, and assessment in one powerful platform with just one log in. link] She was Kentucky State Teacher of the Year for 2015 and she’s a STREAM teacher. Learn about the Unified Classroom. Introduction.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

But at Memorial Elementary School , one of two elementary schools in New Hampshire’s Sanborn Regional School District , administrators and teachers are given the freedom to experiment with cutting-edge ideas not in spite of district and state guidelines, but because of them.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

News & World Report released its first-ever rankings of public elementary and middle schools in the United States. Relying solely on aggregated state standardized test scores and demographic characteristics of students attending a given school, the periodical ranked elementary schools and middle schools within states and school districts.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 22, 2018

Lynn: Sure, so we spent 2015-2016 really doing the research. 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? So first of all, when did you pass this, and then second, where did you start?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, when I started teaching American Literature at McClarin Success Academy, I knew I had an opportunity to break the stigmatization of at-risk youth. When an exam is designed to assess a wide set of skills and content, and success is calculated by one total score, students walk away identifying as a letter, number or percentage.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JULY 28, 2015

I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. Part 4: Forty Educational Websites For Your Summer 2015 Toolkit ( https://21centuryedtech.wordpress.com/ ). Share content and assess in real time. Assess the whole class. Simple interactive tutorials for elementary Math/Science concepts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 28, 2022

18, Richmond received an email from the Jefferson County School District: AJ was suspended while the district evaluated his risk of violence, a formal process known as a behavioral threat assessment. Still, policymakers increasingly see the use of threat assessment teams as a viable way to prevent mass shootings.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

Piedmont Elementary in Alabama, we decided to finally try it. The data from our NWEA benchmark assessments from the 2015-2016 school year showed that our students made significant growth in math, and our state standardized assessment results also showed significant improvement from the previous year's scores.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

s middling performance on international assessments to claim a “ rising tide of mediocrity ” in American education. This logic continues today, boosted by the passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 (ESSA), which retains annual student testing, with supports and sanctions for low-performing schools.

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