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3 Shifts to Make Learning Personal

A Principal's Reflections

Success in this area requires a shared vision, language, and expectations that not only make sense, but also jive with curriculum, standards, and assessment. Sound pedagogy lays the foundation with an added emphasis on scaffolding, innovative assessment, and improved feedback. Enter the Rigor Relevance Framework.

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Toward Renewable Assessments

Iterating Toward Openness

For some time now I’ve been critical of “disposable assessments.” ” An assessment can be characterized as “disposable” if everyone understands that its ultimate destiny is the garbage can. ” Research on Renewable Assessments. Student writes the paper and submits it to faculty.

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Creating A Digital Study Plan: Tips And Tools for High School Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

This approach aligns with standards-based grading, where students are assessed based on their understanding of clearly defined learning targets. Merrill reported a 100% pass rate on the Standards of Learning (SOL) assessments after introducing the data notebooks.

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4 challenges–and solutions–around assessments and accountability

eSchool News

A new report examines some of the biggest challenges related to assessments and accountability, and offers recommendations for educators and policymakers as they move past spring 2021 and aim to improve student success rates. The overall goal?

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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs.

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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. Hear a teacher’s experience with cultivating agency and self-advocacy in her students to better understand what they needed from their learning environment.

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9 Characteristics of authentic learning

Neo LMS

What’s more, they even take ownership of their learning and get involved in everything the process implies: setting the tasks, the problem-solving process, the learning environment and resources, and the assessment stage. Open-ended inquiry. Any given task requires students to reach a conclusion or a solution. Mastery of key concepts.

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