Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2017

Written by a range of practitioners — from classroom teachers to district leaders to African American Studies professors to philosophers — these commentaries each dissect the cases differently, introducing new solutions and new ways to consider what is “right.”. The post Ethics in the Classroom appeared first on Digital Promise.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 25, 2018

A Classroom Of Proficiency: 6 Factors To Guide Your Teaching by Terry Heick First, a definition. An academic classroom is one where the primary goal is to promote proficiency of academic standards. The post A Classroom Of Proficiency: 6 Factors Of Academic Performance appeared first on TeachThought.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 6, 2021

How can K-8 teachers integrate computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) into classrooms? We hope teachers find these examples to be relevant and useful tools to integrate CS/CT lessons and to replicate and adapt these lessons for their classrooms. Have you integrated CS/CT in your classroom?

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Analysis Handbook Data Academic Standards 289

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 10, 2019

It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom by Terry Heick Among the biggest changes of modern academic standards is the shift in the burden of general literacy. The post It’s Time To Think Differently About Writing In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

Academic Standards 111

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Hapara

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

? Listen to an audio version of this post: Because most classrooms integrate technology now, it’s not enough to teach academic standards. Laurie Guyon, a digital instruction expert from New York, unlocks strategies for classroom digital wellness with Hāpara.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

Recognizing and valuing their diverse cultural backgrounds and experiences fosters a sense of belonging and enhances engagement in the classroom. Equity recognizes that ELs require additional assistance and accommodations to overcome language barriers and thrive in the classroom.

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Blended Learning Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards Groups 273

User Generated Education

AUGUST 18, 2018

Academic standards used by almost all schools are based on the false and incorrect belief of the average student. In addition, the Association for Childhood Education International (ACEI) lists the following benefits of multiage classrooms: Children are viewed as unique individuals.

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Groups Academic Standards Robotics System 287

eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2025

With todays clear academic standards, PLCs no longer need to spend precious time deciding what to teach. Instead, they can focus on other questions, starting with, Where are we going in students learning journeys? But this doesn’t happen by accident. It requires intentional structure and leadership.

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The Jose Vilson

JANUARY 20, 2020

I arrive in my classroom every morning at around 7:20 am, 40 minutes before my students trickle in. I expect them to acclimate to these academic standards while sympathizing with their hunger and growing pains. As if the plastic desktops and semi-silent rooms in my classroom were one of their few constants.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

Brooklyn Lab’s model includes whole group instruction often occurring in a co-taught classroom, small group instruction, independent work with personalized playlists to develop mastery, and passion-driven enrichment. An orchestra has woodwinds, brass, percussion, and strings that are each instrumented to play a specific role.

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Common Core Academic Standards Data Assessment 191

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

It found that in fourth through seventh grade, graduates of the Georgia pre-k program were one and half to two times more likely to meet the state’s academic standards on math tests than their peers who did not attend public pre-K. The program at that time was less academically ambitious but more comprehensive, said Neuharth-Pritchett.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. Additionally, the curricula are refined through extensive in-classroom experiences with a focus on the equitable distribution of learning.

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Common Core Digital Citizenship Academic Standards LMS 209

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 3, 2018

Why Learning Innovation Can’t Come From Teachers Alone by Terry Heick A few years ago, the late Grant Wiggins, a learning expert who inspired me since my first year in the classroom, wrote about the intersection of academic standards and creativity.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

After more than two decades in the classroom, supporting students facing intense challenges in their home lives and trying to keep up with the unrealistic expectations set by administrators, I’ve finally hit my breaking point and all the compassion I have for my students and my dedication to the field may not be enough to help me recover.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

I still remember the first time a student refused to step into my classroom. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space. I never imagined those same worksheets would become what made Truman dread the classroom so much.

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Meeting Academic Standards Classroom Assessment 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

This was a classroom full of climate refugees, and many of them said, ‘Oh, it hasn’t affected my life yet. What I found was that there’s a lot of kids who are learning climate denial in the classroom. And it’s pretty common that kids either get miseducated or they just learn nothing at all about the phenomenon in classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

Many say they feel less effective when they’re stressed , which research shows can negatively impact the quality of their instruction, classroom management and relationships with students suffer. Educators are expected to improve standardized test scores and get students “back on track.”

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Academic Standards Policies Exercises Report 201

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Each targeted quest curates a collection of third-party apps, webtools, videos, games, and other resources that focus on particular math or reading skills identified by the teacher or from the student’s earlier work as an area of academic need. This can be incorporated into Google Classroom or another LMS that you use.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

By “messy,” Kwan means two things: both the appearance of the classroom and the style of inquiry and learning that students must adopt in order to thrive during making lessons. “If When they’re engaged in making activities, students are learning, but “learning just looks different” than the typical classroom, according to Kwan.

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Groups Academic Standards Secondary Robotics 176

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

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. After I had a few years under my belt, I began collaborating with colleagues to incorporate more projects into my classroom.

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Academic Standards Course Training Assessment 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively. Design for collaboration.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 157

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

This approach seeks to strike a balance between leveraging technological advancements and maintaining academic standards. Educators play a critical role in assessing the AI-generated content, providing feedback, and ensuring that the material meets academic standards.

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Education Academic Standards Tools Assessment 126

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Specifically, the bet is that formative assessments, which can be delivered in classrooms regularly throughout the school year, offer educators a better, timelier understanding of what students know (or don’t) than an end-of-year final test. K-12 market for classroom assessment tools is expected to reach $1.7 billion by 2020.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

In a nearby classroom, other teams wrestle with the daily challenges of turning a profit on the high seas. Learning, Accelerated While we’re still digesting many of the lessons learned from the past 18 months, research from the math classroom points to some promising practices around learning acceleration.

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Learning Strategy Academic Standards Professional Learning 217

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

But while standardized test scores might improve, a recent study found that in 63% of classrooms, students aren’t using technology to “solve problems, conduct research, or to work collaboratively.” We’ve made it our mission to build lessons that nurture 21st century academic success and empower extraordinary teaching.

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EdTech Academic Standards Technology Social Media 166

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

Growth of specialist teams dedicated to supporting second-language learners, students with special needs and technology implementation can also be seen as resources put at the disposal of the classroom teachers that help them to do their jobs more effectively. But the success of such improvement efforts have proven elusive.

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Policies Trends Common Core Training 143

Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

There’s no disputing the fact that studying to earn a graduate or postgraduate degree via the web is fast growing as an option to the conventional classroom format of education. Quality is not as good as that of daytime or classroom education. As per a recent survey , 5.8 Employers don’t recognize online degrees.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, May 20, 2021) —Mississippi’s Vicksburg Warren School District (VWSD) today launched a new multiyear partnership with Discovery Education that helps educators connect current classroom instruction to students’ possible future career paths. said Superintendent Chad Shealy.

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Academic Standards Schoology Social Media Education 89

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2023

After 13 years of teaching, I’ve had just over 1,700 students walk in and out of my classroom. After dinner, we sat together and reflected on what has kept us all in the classroom, despite the challenges of the education profession. While that example may not apply to us, much of the work educators do daily is under threat.

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Learning Elementary Academic Standards Policies 183

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

It’s been our desire for a while to go deeper to engage with students in classrooms,” says Luberoff. Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards. Over the years, the company created accompanying lessons for teachers and students to use on its calculator technology.

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. But a new partnership with a budding startup may help tip that scale toward digital. million in investment to date.

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Resources OER Academic Standards Instructional Materials 111

Hapara

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Take a “Snap” of the learner’s screen to share with them during a digital citizenship conversation Guide student browsing There are many types of learners in a classroom, which means learners are on different digital citizenship journeys.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Mobility Examples 173

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

If so, are you also a classroom work foreman, logistics manager, guide, drill sergeant, disciplinarian, cheerleader, data entry clerk, cultural advocate, or analyst? They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge.

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Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 141

Educational Technology Guy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

There is also instructional context support available to help teachers implement the content in the classroom. With a classroom full of third through fifth graders who have had inconsistent education in their lives, I need to help my students learn math in different ways, at different levels. Take a look and sign up for free.

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Software Elementary STEM Learning 134

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

Consequently, students who face difficulties in meeting academic standards might find themselves lacking the requisite skills and knowledge to effectively pursue careers in IT. This can exacerbate the disparity between the demand for IT professionals and the available workforce, leading to potential economic repercussions.

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STEM Industry Education Trends 138

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

Kahoot is best known for its digital quiz tools that can turn the classroom or corporate office into a raucous quiz show. The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards. But there is no question about how it plans to grow.

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Company Academic Standards Industry Tablets 116

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

Schools rely—as they always have—on the hero in the classroom, who has to somehow synthesize everything for a roomful of children, every single day.schools still seem to work in more or less the same ways as they did in 2007—or 1997, or 1987. When schools do their best work, the moving parts are simplified, integrated and aligned.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 163