eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

For her outstanding leadership and dedicated service as principal of Laurel Magnet School of the Arts, Pendleton was named Laurel School District’s Administrator of the Year in 2019. She was also later selected by the Mississippi Department of Education as a finalist for the title of Mississippi Administrator of the Year.

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Instructional Materials Professional Learning Resources Accessibility 113

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Complementing these materials on the instructional content platform are lesson plans and assessments aligned to state learning standards organized by subject and grade. The New York-based company has now raised more than $172 million in venture capital. million teachers using its platform.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In early 2019, the staff incorporated what they had heard from educators and other stakeholders to create the criteria and competencies of the research-based design certification. The team at Digital Promise had been discussing something like this for nearly six years, Cator says. Then they began piloting, iterating and improving on the idea.

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eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2022

The report, Student Growth during COVID-19: Grade-Level Readiness Matters , analyzes data gathered from the edtech company’s i-Ready Assessment tool for reading and mathematics from more than two million Grades 1–8 students who used i-Ready Diagnostics during the last three school years, using student testing location (i.e.,

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Trends Instructional Materials Data Assessment 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments. “I

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Elementary Assessment Study Instructional Materials 151

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 23, 2020

But in the spirit of “pragmatism before zeal,” I argue in my comments specifically against three unintended consequences of open requirements as they pertain to LMSs, efficacy research, and assessment security / adoptability. Another 75 million learners freely accessed the open educational resources on our website in 2019.

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ExcelinEd

MAY 12, 2020

In 2019, 35% of fourth-grade students in the U.S. Missing State End-of-year Assessment Data. Department of Education approved state assessment waivers for all 50 states and D.C. for the 2019-2020 school year. Now that end-of-year assessment data will be missing. Because of COVID-19, the U.S.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Finally, administrators should set up assessments to help track student needs. However, these assessments should be asset based. Named a 2019 “World Health Organization Champion” and a 2020 Empire Whole Health Hero by Crain’s New York, Ms. Talk with students about what they do well, what they do when they’re not successful, etc.

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Broadband Instructional Materials Professional Learning System 95

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Essential Elements for Digital Content is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net that provides policy makers, school administrators and educator leaders a better understanding of policies and practices related to digital instructional materials.

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Broadband Accessibility Instructional Materials Education 69

eSchool News

JANUARY 19, 2023

For her outstanding leadership and dedicated service as principal of Laurel Magnet School of the Arts, Pendleton was named Laurel School District’s Administrator of the Year in 2019. She was also later selected by the Mississippi Department of Education as a finalist for the title of Mississippi Administrator of the Year.

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Instructional Materials Professional Learning Resources Accessibility 52

techlearning

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

And in the 2018-2019 school year, that number is expected to double as more than half the nation are projected to report Lexile and Quantile measurements from their state assessment systems. Last school year, 15 states and US Virgin Islands used Lexile and Quantile measures to support student learning.

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TeacherCast

JUNE 19, 2019

Visit CA’s booth to learn about their research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools, including i-Ready and Ready Classroom Mathematics. MERGE – Booth 2746.

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Company Conference EdTech Microsoft 68

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. They soon realized that their strategy for letting teachers put together their own math instruction was part of the problem.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 26, 2016

percent per year through 2019, when 5 percent annual growth had been the norm before the 2008 recession. Looking ahead, a long period of tech adoption is coming up as the print-to-digital transition continues because most K-12 instructional materials and assessments are still print-based. percent to 3.5

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techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

To learn more about these new upgrades for the 2018–2019 school year, visit i-Ready.com/BackToSchool2018. About Curriculum Associates Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools.

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techlearning

JULY 27, 2018

The program runs from May 2018-June 2019. This remarkable functionality makes an array of assessment types possible – including spelling tests, short answers, fill-in-the-blank, and more. The program includes in-classroom professional development sessions. For a limited time, 100 schools can receive a grant for 50% off the program fee.

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Tools Robotics Software Microsoft 69

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2023

Minnesota, historically one of the higher performing states in the nation (it ranked first in fourth grade math in 2019) is now one of the furthest behind its pre-pandemic achievement levels with 24 weeks of learning loss. Nationally, the 2022 NAEP assessments showed an average drop of four points compared with 2019.

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Instructional Materials Learning Report Company 96

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

The committee approved the plan in March 2017, with the school’s opening date set for August 2019, but union negotiations consumed almost two full years. Somerville Public Schools had budgeted $73 million for the 2019-20 school year. And she can’t bring herself to reject anyone’s assessment. It’s kind of all true.

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