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Ensuring Equity for English Learners (ELs)

Catlin Tucker

Therefore, it is essential to assess their language abilities and design instruction that meets their needs. This ensures they are exposed to grade-level academic content while developing their English language skills. ELs need instruction tailored to their language proficiency level.

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An Expanded Definition of Student Success

Digital Promise

In a recent presentation to the League of Innovative Schools Assessment working group, Erin and Eric shared the Cortex platform and described the academic growth and progress they have seen among their students since the platform’s implementation. Positive Youth Development.

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3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

Edsurge

Of course, following interoperability standards can help ensure the entire system works together and makes it faster, cheaper and easier to make future changes or additions to the ecosystem. Will it make life easier for already overwhelmed educators, or is it just one more item on their to-do list? Is it accessible to all learners?

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A taxonomy for using AI in education

eSchool News

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. We focused on the essential needs of the market—curriculum, assessment, and intervention—which aligned with our core competencies and interests. Sometimes very hard.

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Looking to Ditch Traditional Grades? Here’s How to Get Stakeholders On Board

Edsurge

An increasing number of schools —including charter and traditional public schools—are making a similar move to ditch traditional grades in favor of a more robust approach to assessing students’ skills. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs.

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I Never Asked My Students About Their Aspirations. Don’t Make That Mistake.

Edsurge

I modeled my classroom after the classrooms in the high school I attended—rows of desks, the teacher at the front of the room, nightly homework, and regular assessments. Of course, I can’t go back. Eight years later, I was back in high school again, this time as a math teacher.