Digital Promise

JUNE 8, 2017

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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Common Core Academic Standards Data Assessment 191

Digital Promise

APRIL 6, 2021

So we—a small group of researchers and educators—decided to collaboratively design our own solution to support teacher-leaders in Appalachian Kentucky. We also wanted to center each districts’ CS mission and vision and integrate the Kentucky Academic Standards (KAS) for Computer Science and the KAS for Technology.

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Analysis Handbook Data Academic Standards 289

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2021

After a challenging and unique year of emergency remote learning, I recently spoke with a group of faculty members new to online teaching to learn more about their experiences. While no two educators ever face identical challenges, I heard the same refrains over and over.

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Online Learning Learning Academic Standards Survey 217

Edsurge

MAY 25, 2021

While about 27 percent of the district is Hispanic and 10 percent is Black, each group makes up just 2 percent of the student body at TJ. That change has sparked a feisty battle between groups of parents and alumni, including protests and rallies, lawsuits and passionate arguments at school board meetings.

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Education Academic Standards Robotics System 168

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

It’s also a problem for the research groups whose primary audience are working educators. The groups also surveyed 510 educators about their views on research in the field today. For most of the day, education leaders broke into groups and got to work. During a day-long event on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Ahead of the D.C.

Survey 157

Survey Social Media Education Academic Standards 157

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2020

The consensus among the educators who participated in our focus groups was that making is a way for students to make order out of chaos and that this path is expectedly going to be messy. While most educators in our focus groups expressed similar ideas to Flamm, they did not offer one singular definition of making.

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Groups Academic Standards Secondary Robotics 176

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Educational stakeholders, according to Ferrero, fall into three categories: “Professionals” (which include teachers, researchers, entrepreneurs and reformers), “Provocateurs” (including journalists, politicians and advocacy groups), and “People” (including students, parents and taxpayers), all of which interact in complex and dynamic ways.

Technology 188

Technology Education Academic Standards Advocacy 188

Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In an education reform climate that has redefined education as academic standards and success on tests, online pre-K programs are an easy sell. The more recent emergence of online preschool programs opens the door for cyber education businesses to cash in on the estimated $70 billion per year “pre-K market.”

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Education Academic Standards Company Groups 167

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2020

The team selected 60 finalists across three age groups (13-14, 15-16, 17-18) in May, and yesterday announced the winners and runner-ups in each age group. Meyer says Desmos’ middle-math core curriculum aligns with state and Common Core academic standards. All are getting cash prizes, up to $500.

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Company Exercises Common Core Academic Standards 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

And the action is everywhere: an indoor plastic pool awaits student design teams testing their ship prototypes, while in the courtyard, groups of students engage in a game that both explores and challenges their perception of themselves as mathematicians. Embedding a social-emotional learning lens into instruction.

Learning 217

Learning Strategy Academic Standards Professional Learning 217

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Murphy, the co-founder and CEO, has made that message clear to at least one group of people. Each lesson, Murphy shares, will “break down academic standards around literacy into discrete subskills.” (For Today the Chicago-based company has raised $10.1 For example, how do you create a claim and counterclaim?)

Instructional Materials 265

Instructional Materials Academic Standards Company Industry 265

Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

Freckle can group students of similar learning levels for small group activities. The tool also offers educators reports on how students perform across various academic standards and skills. Students in one class see different versions of the same material depending on their proficiency.

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Education Company Academic Standards Learning 132

Edsurge

AUGUST 26, 2019

“You can’t actually function in a purely academic zone without also developing the sensibilities, orientations, behaviors and strategies that all of us use to navigate our everyday lives.” In response, members of the group hold up a hand sideways and gently wag their fingers in a gesture of affirmation. Hands go up. “So

Learning 167

Learning Strategy Academic Standards Groups 167

Edsurge

MAY 17, 2017

Rather than a traditional GPA, the group imagines a credit-based transcript , with links to artifacts that demonstrate students’ mastery across different competencies. When undergoing any departure from the norm, families are perhaps the most difficult group to persuade. “They just make sense.”. First and Foremost: Families.

How To 132

How To Common Core Academic Standards Outcomes 132

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

In 1993, Massachusetts enacted a bipartisan education reform law that gave schools a massive infusion of state money in return for high academic standards and accountability. Academic standards were the next to go. State SAT scores rose for 13 consecutive years.

Common Core 127

Common Core Academic Standards Comparison Report 127

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2023

Nationally, mathematics achievement on average remains low with glaring, persistent inequities across racial and ethnic groups. As we think about the future of math classrooms, we continue to explore how academic standards and cultural, social and emotional development intersect to support learning mathematics.

Classroom 183

Classroom Academic Standards Assessment Elementary 183

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

New Jersey recently adopted academic standards that intentionally place climate science in all the different sciences and also in a bunch of civics classes, because in addition to being a science issue, it’s more importantly a question of ‘What are we going to do about it?’ What would you say characterizes a “good” state?

Academic Standards 194

Academic Standards Company Course Report 194

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

A study by the International Workplace Group estimates that 50 percent of people globally work outside their headquarters for at least 2.5 We also conducted multiple interviews using one-to-one and group video conferencing calls, which not only allowed us to see the candidate but also gave us a good indication of how tech-savvy they were.

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Company EdTech How To Meeting 164

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

And today she’s a senior advisor to Jobs for the Future and a staff consultant for the Youth Transition Funders Group. Her book doesn’t dive into what academic curriculum is better, or whether or not kids need to learn to code. Louis, and was president of an educational foundation working for disengaged nontraditional students.

Academic Standards 200

Academic Standards Robotics Technology Strategy 200

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

It’s important to note that right off the bat, none of these say “lecturer,” “discipliner,” “instructional designer,” “whole group manager,” “data entry clerk,” or any of the other things that teachers are doing daily. Live leading the whole group (capturing attention). Pairing students for small group work.

Khan Academy 141

Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 141

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 21, 2021

Design a 6 week project that addresses some self-selected local challenge through collaboration with local experts or entrepreneurs—or groups at an elderly home or related organization, for that matter. Combination: Project-Based Learning + Local Challenges + Local Entrepreneurs. Text-Version Of Graphic.

Learning 139

Learning Analysis Strategy Academic Standards 139

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Note: These are for mixed age groups so preview them first and select those that work for your students: BrainPOP Human Body video. There are also lots of teacher resources to help in using this unit such as lesson plans, training, and academic standards met. Click to view slideshow. BrainPOP Jr.

How To 150

How To Digital Citizenship iPad Academic Standards 150

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

From textbooks to tests and from research papers to group projects, public education is in the midst of a sea change in how it provides learning opportunities to its students, in the tools it offers, and in what it expects its educators and students to use. There simply is no room for instructional black boxes in public education.

Instructional Materials 150

Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Learning is aligned not just with Common Core and Next Generation Learning Standards, but with many state standards like Ohio’s Learning Standards, Michigan Academic Standards, and Illinois Learning Standards. It works with Google Classroom–now that’s exciting.

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Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 183

eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

ePlus and Cisco are leading the way with Girls Re-Imagining Tomorrow (GRIT) ® , a hands-on, STEM-based program focused on introducing diverse groups of middle and high school girls to technology-focused career possibilities.

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STEM Industry Education Trends 138

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2019

Additionally, Sphero says it has more than a thousand lessons and activities that are aligned to Common Core and other state academic standards for math and computer science. Students making and tinkering with littleBits. Source: littleBits) Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Robotics Company Common Core Learning 161

eSchool News

JANUARY 7, 2019

Be sure all students meet rigorous academic standards. A new generation of state standards has been designed to ensure that all students graduate from high school ready for college and a career. We use these common assessments to identify the skills and standards where students are either struggling or excelling.

Differentiated Instruction 111

Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards Assessment Meeting 111

Hapara

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Educators can use the guided browsing feature in Highlights to focus individual students, groups or the class on specific websites. For example, maybe it’s difficult for a group of learners to focus during the first few minutes of class after lunch. They can also set up a time duration.

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Mobility Examples 173

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

a dozen entrepreneurs from Camelback’s third fellowship shared ambitious social ventures to support literacy, speech therapy, incarcerated youth, Black male educators, restorative justice programs and media content that feature underrepresented groups in a positive light. Minority groups make up only 5.5 So what’s left?

Education 143

Education Social Media Groups Company 143

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

He was so absorbed in email that it took until Baltimore before Siegelman spotted KKR’s Richard Sarnoff, who chairs the firm’s media, entertainment and education group, across the aisle. EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards.

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Industry Student Data Privacy Education Company 156

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Both groups, he observes, want to see evidence of profitability before investing more dollars or making an acquisition offer.

EdTech 125

EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 125

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

Districts should look to solutions that streamline peer feedback, classroom polls, and flexible groupings. Even in districts without 1:1 devices, digital content can be used to provide context for academic standards and spark classroom discussion and inquiry. Additional Resources from eSpark.

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Technology Differentiated Instruction Broadband Academic Standards 157

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

EdTech 166

EdTech Academic Standards Technology Social Media 166

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

In fall 2007, Larry Berger, CEO of Wireless Generation (now Amplify) was invited to submit a paper to an “Entrepreneurship in Education” working group led by Rick Hess, the director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. I’d recently moved to Washington, D.C. and he asked me to co-author the piece.

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Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 163

Hapara

AUGUST 16, 2023

The benefit is that group members build on each other’s knowledge and skills, rather than focusing on their own point of view. Instead, there should be conversations between educators and the class or small groups. Flexible grouping can also help with differentiation.

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Gamification Learning Assessment Strategy 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

One included academic standards for my state. The other was filled with the English language development (ELD) standards. My job was to ensure that my students, all of whom were categorized as English learners (ELs), met these grade-level and proficiency standards by the end of the year.

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Academic Standards Secondary Policies System 124

eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2023

According to the DESE website, all HQIM—across subject areas and grade levels—are curriculum materials aligned to state academic standards that include evidence-based strategies, inclusive practices, and embedded support for teachers. Additionally, high-quality materials consider the needs and experiences of diverse learners.

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Instructional Materials Academic Standards Secondary Assessment 97