Graphite Blog

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While Google Classroom and its accompanying suite of tools is immensely popular in education -- especially at the secondary level -- Seesaw is a fast-growing and user-friendly digital platform for teachers to assign work, engage with students, and provide feedback, among other classroom activities. Activities library: Just as Kahoot!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. Secondary school superintendents joined their counterparts from the elementary school level to compare notes across schools, hoping to identify common problems and patterns. Photo: Jackie Mader. Training the trainers.

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edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

Due to COVID-19, most of our educational systems reflect a new normal, with hybrid and remote learning, increased use of technology, and teacher professional development. The positives were that we banded together as a system to try to fill in those gaps, whether it was training gaps, infrastructure, or device gaps.”. Approach to PD.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2021

Public Schools, the 12th largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. Dr. Morton Sherman has more than 30 years’ administrative experience in raising academic standards, closing achievement gaps, and uniting stakeholders He has served in public education for over 40 years, 25 as a public school superintendent of schools.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. The system, she said, “failed me.”.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

A State’s college- and career-ready standards must be either (1) standards that are common to a significant number of States; or (2) standards that are approved by a State network of institutions of higher education, which must certify that students who meet the standards will not need remedial course work at the post-secondary level.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2017

First Comes Plans, Then Comes (Effective) PD Stephanie Avera, secondary TOSA, and John Morgan, Director of EdTech, of Capistrano Unified School District decided it was time to rethink technology PD. For each session they start with the academic standards, then get creative with devising projects that can bring the lessons to life.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Shahan said that it became even harder for charters to reach their projected scores when the state stiffened its academic standards, creating more difficult versions of the state test starting in 2013. “The rebuilding of New Orleans and the rebuilding of the schools in New Orleans was in many ways, ‘Ready, fire, aim,’” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Because of time constraints, the many academic standards that must be taught, and a lack of support, “teachers are not only hesitant to implement individualized instruction, but they do not even know how to do so,” the report stated. Educators say little has changed since then. Promising programs. Photo: Jackie Mader.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

public education system has evolved throughout its history, school libraries have also developed with a consistent central goal: to give students the best opportunity to succeed academically. As the U.S. But this simply isn’t true in the modern educational climate.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

More and more, employers are realizing the education system can’t, nor should it be, producing exactly what they need without their engagement and importantly, their investment,” Parton said. Potts said it’s also important to make sure the work experience is meaningful and relates to academic content.

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