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My Students Can’t Meet Academic Standards Because the School Model No Longer Fits Them

Edsurge

What Doesn’t Work A typical school day asks students to sit still for long periods, listen in large groups and follow a strict schedule that dictates when and how long they need to learn certain subjects. We’ve also doubled down on siloed and basic skills instead of creating opportunities to see learning as connected and authentic.

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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. Participating in a whole group, teacher-led discussions can also be intimidating for ELs.

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How Three Organizations Are Using GenAI to Advance Equity—and Combating Bias within It

Digital Promise

For example, Asian students tended to perform worse on the assessment when given the same competence level. This process made it easy for YouthTruth and its partners to understand how students of different demographic groups and with different levels of involvement in their communities feel about math.

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An Expanded Definition of Student Success

Digital Promise

Erin Mote and Eric Tucker lead Brooklyn Lab Schools , a group of charter schools in downtown Brooklyn, and are focused on building systems that support an expanded definition of student success. An orchestra has woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings that are each instrumented to play a specific role.

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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? Plus, evidence-based assessments could improve the overall quality of project-based learning by helping educators tailor projects to specific skills and vet a lesson’s overall effectiveness.

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To Close the Math Achievement Gap, We Must Recognize What Students Bring to the Classroom

Edsurge

Nationally, mathematics achievement on average remains low with glaring, persistent inequities across racial and ethnic groups. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2022, students in fourth and eighth grade had the largest decline in mathematics achievement since 1990.

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

Edsurge

Rather than a traditional GPA, the group imagines a credit-based transcript , with links to artifacts that demonstrate students’ mastery across different competencies. Whether they call it competency-, mastery-, or standards-based grading, the movement aims to improve students outcomes sans As, Bs, and Cs. “They just make sense.”.

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