EdTech Magazine

MARCH 6, 2019

4 Ways to Get a K–12 Student Help Desk Going. Wed, 03/06/2019 - 21:43. As one-to-one programs see significant growth in K–12 schools across the country, IT teams will need extra support to manage and maintain the surge of student devices. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In spring 2019, we collected nearly 350 survey responses from stakeholders working in all levels across public schools. Student engagement (#3). Survey Results Highlight Priority Education Challenges. Overall, three challenges ranked as highest-priority by all respondents: Mental health and trauma (#1).

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Absenteeism is a persistent challenge for their population of 1,649 students, mostly from Latino and Hispanic families. During the 2019–2020 school year alone, 13 percent of Golden Plains students experienced chronic absenteeism.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 10, 2019

Mon, 06/10/2019 - 09:56. When Kodak launched its newest 3D printer, the company partnered with learnbylayers to offer high-quality lessons, projects and assessments for educational purchasers. The benefits of 3D printing for students — engagement, deeper learning and the strengthening of workforce skills — are vast.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

Recent National Assessment of Educational Progress reading scores dipped to the lowest theyve ever been, falling two points on average for fourth and eighth graders. While math scores have stayed relatively the same since 2022, the last time the test was administered, theyve yet to hit what they were in 2019.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

We asked 49 edtech executives to look into their crystal balls and share their thoughts about what will happen in 2019. Read on to see what’s in store for 2019… Berj Akian, CEO, ClassLink. SEL will begin to affect school culture from the top-down, bringing about change in adults first and students second.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

K-12 educators are increasingly turning to digital resources to enhance instruction and address student needs. That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Carlanda Miller, also known as The Magical Teacher, shared her approach to motivating students and creating a joyful learning environment. Key Takeaways Assessing Student Readiness : Before teaching complex subjects like algebra, it’s crucial to identify and address any learning gaps to ensure students are prepared.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Wed, 09/04/2019 - 15:13. For educators who like to create their own assessments, platforms like Google Forms have been a godsend. . Many schools have resorted to expensive and clunky classroom management software to help monitor behavior while students engage with technology. Automatically Grade Assessments.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

TeamMakers: Positively Impacting the Lives of Children through District-Wide Dreaming, Collaborating, and Change , published by Dave Burgess Publishing was published in 2019. Schools Full of Readers: Tools for Teachers, Coaches and leaders to Support Students , is also from 2019.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 10, 2019

Scorekeeping or other assessment to determine a winner. In March 2019, ESPN Events announced that it would host the first-ever ESPN Collegiate Esports Championship (CEC). Even more telling, it sponsored the National Association of Collegiate Esports 2019 annual convention. Student Engagement: Beyond the Athlete.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

A version of this post was originally published in ICT & Computing in Education , on January 18, 2019. Students of all ages love them almost by default. Considering that at first the main purpose of a mobile phone was to make calls and send texts, teachers were right to ban them; they were a distraction for students. (I

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

performing formative assessments. student-centered instruction. We developed a district-wide protocol where for each lesson, teachers had to write the state standard, the learning target, the essential question and the assessments they were going to use for the lesson. of students passed; in 2019, 64.5%

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 28, 2023

2023), TEACHING WRITING IN SMALL GROUPS (March 2021), A TEACHER'S GUIDE TO READING CONFERENCES (2019), and UNDERSTANDING TEXTS AND READERS (2018). They were released in Spring 2019 and are available through Heinemann (Learn more: hein.pub/cc ). Let's take that engagement example. It's not about their level at all, by the way.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

Little did I know that by 2019 I would find a way to apply the data science strategies I learned as a geologist to bring joy and engagement back to my classroom. Hoping to get to the root of the issue, I conducted an anonymous survey of my students. Combing through the results was a humbling and difficult experience.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The 2019–20 school year was unlike any other, and there is uncertainty about what teaching and learning will look like this fall. School closures this spring caused students to miss important learning opportunities in mathematics, and educational inequities and unfinished learning have become more pronounced.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Integrating ST Math into these settings has helped students meet their grade-level math objectives, build resilience through challenging puzzles, and even guide their peers in the process of perseverance. Elevating student engagement in mathematics is a significant challenge for any school.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Media Lit: A Make-or-Break Competency for Teachers : As students engage more and more with media, how are they to make sense of what’s reliable—or not? The CEO of nonprofit Chicago Beyond will explore “unconventional ways” in which her group has helped children overcome trauma and build the networks and supports they need.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You can only develop the goals through a combination of evidence: attendance rate, three-year historical state assessment data, graduation rates (if applicable), CTE completion (if applicable), student evidence in ongoing formative assessments, teacher observations and qualitative feedback from students, teachers and the community.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Monitor progress at all levels: students, teachers and administrators. To identify learning gaps, teachers and district leaders worked with Edulastic , a K-12 digital assessment company, to create custom assessments. It’s so nice because teachers don't have the time to come up with those common assessments.”.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2022

Just having a genuinely consequential system of teacher performance assessment is really unusual in American public education” Stanford's Thomas Dee Dallas and D.C. Also weighted are student surveys and teachers’ contributions to the school community outside of the classroom. What Makes a Good Teacher? s model since its inception.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

A nonprofit organization, Deans for Impact, is working with them toward this goal, and as part of this effort, it administered a test to more than 1,000 teaching students at these six schools in the fall of 2019 to see how much learning science the teacher candidates understood. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter.

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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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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

There, students are embarking on a quintessential hero’s journey—all about the high seas—that centers an asset-based approach to the teaching of math. In a nearby classroom, other teams wrestle with the daily challenges of turning a profit on the high seas. Santa Fe Public Schools Multi-dimensional project-based learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Carlanda Miller, also known as The Magical Teacher, shared her approach to motivating students and creating a joyful learning environment. Key Takeaways Assessing Student Readiness : Before teaching complex subjects like algebra, it’s crucial to identify and address any learning gaps to ensure students are prepared.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2019

It seems equally crazy, impossible and risky in 2019 to unravel centuries of established classroom and school structures, update pedagogy and curriculum to reflect 21st century competencies and, perhaps most importantly, reverse deeply entrenched inequities in our education system.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Facilitate and assess (intentionally) not just content, but also the STEM (21st century and beyond) skills. Understand that each of these C;s includes indicators and subsets that can be assessed. While I am booked through 2019, I do have some dates open starting in 2020! I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA recently released results of a yearlong study examining the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention targeting struggling middle school readers from historically marginalized populations or those living in poverty. school district in 2022-23.

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2021

Are your students ready? A student who is data literate and understands how to apply statistical concepts can review sets of data with confidence, observe patterns, assess what is and is not significant, and come away with insights that inform their understanding and actions. How to bring statistical literacy to the classroom.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

But after receiving immediate and emphatic feedback that teachers enjoyed using Nintendo Labo with their students, the two organizations decided to expand the scope to 100 teachers in 100 different U.S. schools—this time, accompanied by a teacher guide filled with lesson plans, instructions and ideas.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

However, the effectiveness of online learning varied depending on factors such as instructional design, teacher involvement, and student characteristics. Conversely, a 2020 report by the National Education Policy Center found that online charter schools generally underperformed traditional schools in terms of student academic growth.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

At the time, our state test was based upon performance assessment, and learning the thinking skills framework. Then six is evaluation, and lots of research around feedback and even student’s’ knowledge of when they're getting feedback and how that affects performance. Not assessing of knowledge but assessing for knowledge.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

In July 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SXSW EDU issued a challenge to the edtech world: Design an Alexa skill to transform education. A panel of expert judges assessed the competitors using four equally-weighted criteria: innovation, impact, usability and stickiness factor. Audrey Bierly, AWS Developers across the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2019

During this advisory time, students use the software to research careers, research their majors and even figure out which careers match their personality using Xello’s Matchmaker assessment. When students get the list from the assessment, they can click on a career that interests them and dig deeper. What is the income?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2019

By eighth grade, nearly 16 percent of boys are guessing their way through at least 10 percent of a commonly used reading assessment in U.S. We’re saying all of our scores aren’t trustworthy,” said Wise, who was previously a professor of assessment and measurement at James Madison University. “It’s not just us.

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edWeb.net

JUNE 9, 2023

Step 2: Assessing and Addressing Teacher Preferences Orange Public Schools identified and implemented the following measures to assess and address teachers’ needs, concerns, and desires during and after the pandemic. This happened while the district continued intensively exploring how to support teachers and students.

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