Remove Advocacy Remove Assessment Remove Professional Learning
article thumbnail

Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. Lessons Learned. Our pilot helped us learn a number of lessons which will assist us as we move forward. Create More!

article thumbnail

Prioritize Your Professional Development This Year with These New Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

Our research-backed micro-credentials are digital certifications that verify an individual’s competence in a specific skill or set of skills, regardless of where and how they learned them. Over the last many months, we’ve launched more than 50 micro-credentials from our partners, and the ecosystem is growing every day.

STEM 285
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

Edsurge

They also worked with students and teachers to identify how the strain of negative stereotypes might threaten students learning. It had to be rolled out at the district level, Nguyen says. The district also should have devoted more resources for teacher support, such as coaching, he adds.

Course 173
article thumbnail

Three Ideas for Creating More Equitable & Personal Assessments

American Consortium for Equity in Education

Tim Hudson, Chief Learning Officer, Discovery Education When I was in graduate school, the first “paper” assigned in my Qualitative Analysis class was to explain the differences between qualitative and quantitative research methods.

article thumbnail

NWEA to Explore New Science Experiences for Students on Roblox

eSchool News

Utilizing a Roblox Community Fund grant , the organization will explore innovative ways to use 3D immersive experiences to engage students in the study of science and assess their achievements in the subject. Current assessments often leave out non-academic skills like student-decision making or progress toward reaching a goal.

Advocacy 120
article thumbnail

HMH to Acquire NWEA

eSchool News

Upon closing, NWEA will operate as a division of HMH, with its current offerings, including its flagship assessment—MAP Growth—remaining under the NWEA brand. NWEA assessment solutions will be integrated with HMH curriculum on HMH’s platform to create a combined offering that links interim assessment to instruction.

article thumbnail

New Partnership Provides Texas Educators Easy Access to Critical Data

eSchool News

MAP Growth (an interim assessment. which can measure academic growth and predicts performance on the annual STAAR state assessments) was selected, in part, due to its reliability and validity. The rich data provided by MAP Growth allows districts to streamline their assessment programs, saving valuable time for instruction.

Data 103