Neo LMS

MAY 28, 2019

In 2000 the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) released its first PISA results (Program for International Student Assessment), and Finland has never been the same again. Even the country’s teachers were surprised. “I Learning has been a national priority since the Finns achieved independence from Russia in 1917.

Education 227

Education Secondary EdTech Outcomes 227

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2015

Here are my notes from today’s 2015 Iowa STEM Summit … Welcome , Lt. Missed signals: The effect of ACT college-readiness measures on post-secondary decisions. Sioux City CSD – opening a K-5 STEM specialty school in Fall 2015. How do we assess student growth / development? Exploring Iowa Archaeology ).

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STEM Wiki Training Elementary 100

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. There’s videos out there so that you can see what this actually looks like in a classroom, whether it’s early childhood, middle childhood, if it’s secondary.

Classroom 606

Classroom Elementary Examples Company 606

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.

Strategy 231

Strategy Classroom Assessment BYOD 231

Battelle for Kids

AUGUST 5, 2015

August 5, 2015, Volume 2, Issue 9, Number 3. Few measure up to the standards for today's PBL, Project-Based Learning, and its many variations, all sprouting in secondary as well as elementary classrooms. Introduction of the letters "P-B-L" to many educators brings a highly predictable shrug. "So So what else is new?"

Secondary 100

Secondary Elementary Assessment Examples 100

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. She was State Teacher of The Year for 2015. She is the 2015 Tennessee Teacher of the Year. Learn some thinking routines and how to apply these valuable techniques in your classroom. What are thinking routines?

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How To Classroom Elementary Examples 263

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. higher education courseware business despite gains in digital—all because of secondary textbook market’s impact. Gartner projects that spending on U.S billion by 2023.

Chegg 165

Chegg Software Industry Pearson 165

MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The condition has numerous names: secondary traumatic stress (STS), vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue. How Schools Can Acknowledge Secondary Trauma. Take the 20-minute evidence-informed Trauma Responsive Schools Implementation Assessment to find out — and learn ways to grow your school’s work.

Secondary 53

Secondary Education Strategy Assessment 53

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 13, 2016

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e.,

Wiki 150

Wiki Flipped Classroom Common Core Digital Citizenship 150

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Administrators were a bit more tempered in their responses, expressing hesitation about whether live observation is the be-all, end-all in assessing edtech impact. Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District, felt the same. Trends change. Trends change.

Technology 119

Technology Classroom EdTech Secondary 119

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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Survey Data Elementary Strategy 167

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2015 $0. FY 2014 $0.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

I hope you are enjoying this series on formative assessment, and I am sure you will find these tools most valuable. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over 3/4 full and the 2016 calendar is beginning to fill. Part 4: Over 35 Formative Assessment Tools To Enhance Formative Learning Opportunities.

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Assessment Tools LMS Learning 60

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin. And the written language includes thousands of special characters.

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Software Company Study Flipped Classroom 159

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. Humanity’s future may well be in Africa, where 60 percent of the population are under the age of 25. Yet their prospects are perilous. In 2012, 30 million primary-age children (or 1 out of 5) in sub-Saharan Africa did not attend any school.

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EdTech Pearson Company Industry 118

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997. A decade of policy support for California’s new teachers: The beginning teacher support and assessment program. Postsecondary education descriptive analysis report. Report on new teacher induction. 33) Bartell, C.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 277

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Assessment STEM Academic Standards Course 96

Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

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).

Education 120

Education Professional Learning Study Case Study 120

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

She has also worked on projects with researchers at Education Testing Service (ETS) and interned with consultants at the Center for Assessment. A dedicated lifelong educator, Dr. McKnight served as the Director for Secondary Leadership Development Programs in Montgomery County Public Schools.

Education 94

Education Secondary Policies Professional Learning 94

Evelyn Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

ASSESSING THE DOWNFALLS Declining Academic Performance: While the U.S. It divides teachers into elementary or secondary based on the grades taught, primary teaching assignments, and the structure of their classes. Hello esteemed educators and industry leaders, This month, our deep dive explores the pressing challenges facing the U.S.

Assessment 52

Assessment Education Digital Divide Survey 52

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

As the largest school district in Rhode Island, Providence Public Schools makes up 25% of the state’s entire elementary and secondary student population. Cameron Berube, who began serving as Director of Curriculum and Instruction in 2015, was part of the design team to move the district toward PL.

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Case Study Learning Data Mobility 107

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 17, 2016

“Nevada continues to have an affirmative responsibility to ensure that all students in grades three through eight and once in high school are assessed annually in reading/language arts and mathematics as required in the ESEA,” she wrote. . .” “We’re pleased with this result.

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Common Core Secondary Assessment Analysis 40

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

One of the company’s vocal proponents is Jayne Ellspermann, an education consultant and 2015 National Association of Secondary School Principals National Principal of the Year, who has been advising the company. He returned to Apple in 2015 after it acquired LearnSprout, only to leave in 2017 for a brief dabble in politics.

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Company EdTech Industry Secondary 91

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The school has two full-time school counselors, but in 2012 laid off a staffer whose sole focus was guiding students to college or other post-secondary options. The shelves were once full of materials about colleges and scholarships as well as other post-secondary options, but the school laid off the center’s staffer amid budget cuts in 2012.

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E-rate Report Accessibility Secondary 111

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

His most recent books are The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences and Solutions with Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali (New York University Press, 2018) and Race, Equity and Education: Sixty Years From Brown with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram (Springer, 2015). About the Hosts. In addition, Domenech has served on the U.S.

Secondary 90

Secondary Policies Professional Learning Outcomes 90

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

And that could be why just 38 percent fourth grade students performed at or above proficient on the latest National Assessment of Education Progress for science, which was administered in 2015. employment in 2015, according to the U.S. Such jobs made up 6.2 percent of all U.S. Not everyone loved them though.

Elementary 96

Elementary Education Survey Report 96

edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Sponsored by ClassLink Each year, CoSN conducts a national survey among education technology leaders to assess the current state of technology innovation across multiple school systems. Quakertown Community School District (PA) kicks off an AI taskforce this year, piloting it with 50 – 60 secondary teachers.

Technology 81

Technology Survey Education Digital Citizenship 81

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2016

In 2012, Estonia’s 15-year-olds ranked 11 th in math and reading and sixth in science out of the 65 countries that participated in an international test that compares educational systems from around the world, called the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

Secondary 0

Secondary System Survey Study 0

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization.

Personalized Learning 83

Personalized Learning Policies Advocacy Assessment 83

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2018

Give them more control over the manner in which they’re taught and how their work is assessed and you’ll produce more involved, successful students. The high school dropped from a Level 1 school in 2015 to a Level 3 school in 2017 on the state report card, which looks at standardized test scores.

E-rate 111

E-rate Report Assessment Study 111

Lightspeed Systems

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

As primary and secondary schooling takes up a large portion of a child’s life, it’s at school where struggling children are frequently identified. In 2015, the introduction of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) recognized the effectiveness of MTSS practices as a more equitable model to support students.

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Assessment Data System Groups 64

edWeb.net

MAY 27, 2021

After starting with individual work, the next phases cover district assessments and audits, designing a district plan, and then providing support and coaching during the implementation of the plan. And equally important is determining all the assessments and grading are free of bias and accurately reflect student mastery.

Professional Learning 93

Professional Learning Elementary Policies Assessment 93

eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

billion under the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund, the single largest federal investment in K–12 education in American history. Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. See CGCS.org.

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Secondary Academic Standards Instructional Materials Elementary 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur

Dropout 84

Dropout Secondary Course Report 84

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2016

In 2015 we began operations in Latin America and almost immediately began looking for edtech companies with the potential to address the structural challenges affecting schools. primary and secondary education. For instance, admittance to free public post-secondary education often is contingent on high scores.

EdTech 60

EdTech Company Secondary Coursera 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

While further investigation is necessary to assess the specific affordances and long-term effects of GBL in higher education, this study offers preliminary support for the claim that GBL can improve deep learning in this setting, by increasing enjoyment. These results may have particular impact on non-traditional students.

Game-Based Learning 60

Game-Based Learning STEM Secondary Study 60

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

It is therefore imperative that current and future student assessments are in sync with America’s transformational, digital environments. Our new set of readiness indicators will open up the doors for more students to pursue their post-secondary goals with confidence.”. According to ACT, out of 1.9

Secondary 40

Secondary Policies Conference System 40