The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. Most definitely. Julie Hembree is definitely somebody you want to follow. Prior to landing her librarian dream job, she was both a secondary and primary classroom teacher. Vicki: I love that! Julie: Yes!

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2017

Dr. Angela Peery has been an educator 31 years and has served as a secondary English teacher, secondary administrator, instructional coach, turnaround specialist, curriculum developer, and consultant. When you’re helping teachers and they just feel like the kids, they want the teachers just to hand them the definition.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Think back to an assessment you took in your elementary years. The assessments you took were not that memorable; you probably didn’t have a lasting connection and there was absolutely no impact on you as a learner whatsoever. So why can’t we do that in a class that [only] allows for traditional assessments? Let’s embrace that!

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The school visit demonstrated how they integrate culturally relevant pedagogy, differentiated instruction, and varied assessments to highlight Black brilliance in mathematics. Bessborough Drive Elementary and Middle School is a dynamic neighborhood school that uses technology predominately to redefine learning. Dr. Baron Davis.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

A growing number of vendors are offering AI-powered language-learning apps to companies and the general public ( Speexx , Busuu , Duolingo ) for hundreds of languages, but Ponddy’s products were developed specifically for secondary and university teachers of Mandarin. There’s definitely a lot of source material.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2018

Last updated in 2007, the international standards body has defined a data model for describing, referencing, and sharing competency definitions, primarily in the context of online and distributed learning. The IEEE Learning Technology Standards Committee (LTSC) plans to update its existing standards based on this work.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In my role as a secondary interventionist and curriculum specialist, I’ve witnessed these consequences firsthand. They don’t want to interact with anyone, and by the time they reach 7 th grade, they definitely don’t want to be reminded of their reading struggles. The teachers were so excited about it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

Nicola Soares: It definitely depends on the industry. And I definitely agree with the point that there’s a faster rate of adoption [for microcredentials by] workers who are already in the job market. From an employer's perspective in terms of having it funded by employers, we definitely see that in more-traditional employment settings.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

Theres not a single subject you cannot teach within Minecraft, not a single assessment you cannot do within Minecraft. I believe the earlier we start with our students at the elementary level, theyll become more proficient as they progress onto the secondary level. We definitely need a shift. Its not engaging.

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EdTechTeacher

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

I remember when I went one-to-one with devices in my secondary English classrooms. What I needed to strive for was the “transformation” area of SAMR, modification and re definition. When iPads are added to the pedagogical equation, the recipe for curriculum, instruction, and assessment changes. Chatterpix.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2020 and 2021, Congress passed the CARES and ARP Acts, which created and added to the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Program ( ESSER ). As a first step, assess your top 10 most expensive ESSER programs and answer these questions: What is our plan to close out or continue to fund this particular expenditure?

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Saving Socrates

JANUARY 30, 2014

So, why am I actually advocating using standardized assessment tools? I am advocate using them as one tool in helping to customize the curriculum for students in secondary schools. Hence, I propose that the digital content provider''s pre assessments each unit are not enough. A test like the NWEA MAP test does.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2017

According to LD Online , the formal definition of executive functioning is “a set of processes that all have to do with managing oneself and one’s resources in order to achieve a goal. The skills that comprise executive functioning are not definitively agreed upon by educators and researchers.

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MIND Research Institute

APRIL 24, 2020

Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund , or ESSERF, $13.2 Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund. Funds were allocated to states in the same proportion as received under Title I, Part A, of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) in fiscal year 2019. How Long Will it Take?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

SEPTEMBER 26, 2015

A New Definition For Equity In Education. The ratio of girls enrolled in primary school rose from 85 to 93 per 100 boys between 1999 and 2010, whereas it fell from 83 to 82 and from 67 to 63 at the secondary and tertiary levels. As for a definition for equity in education? by Terry Heick. Equilibrium.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2021

Launched in 2014 for secondary grade students and in 2020 for elementary school students, Listenwise harnesses the power of listening to advance literacy and learning in all students by using podcasts as classroom texts, amplifying content and providing students practice in required listening skills.

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Bryan Alexander

JANUARY 19, 2022

A second problem comes in the article’s view of who’s involved in post-secondary teaching. If that’s true, he has my full sympathy, should definitely call for more support, and write about this in the article. Professor Schaberg is the only named person, and represents the (small) tenured faculty population.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2019

How do we leverage our curriculum, instruction and assessment to get to those skills so that when kids leave us they are successful in whatever lane of life that they're in? New Jersey's mandate is for secondary, but that doesn't mean we also don't want to start talking about these things in K-5.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2018

Our guest pointed to a five-page definition of CBE. Cali Morrison added: “I define CBE as personalized pace, mastery-based learning where students demonstrate mastery through authentic assessment and progress as they learn rather than after a set amount of time.”. CBENetwork @CBENetwork — Cali Morrison, Ed.D. Erin Crisp agreed.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 26, 2016

Just a disclaimer though, I am a high school math teacher, so a few of the tech-tools I reference in this post belong mostly in a secondary math classroom, but with a little elbow grease and ingenuity, there are ways to fit them into any K-12 math curriculum as well.

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EdTech4Beginners

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For students who are not shy about their intellectual pursuits and who are not afraid of immersing themselves in different disciplines, the IB Programme is definitely a good fit. . A Mind for Critical Inquiry.

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Gradelink

JULY 24, 2019

Only summative assessment Remember that crazy final exam at the end of your chemistry class? That was an example of summative assessment, or testing involving the evaluation of student learning at the end of an instructional unit by comparing it against some standard or benchmark.

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ExcelinEd

JUNE 5, 2019

This second report analyzes the credentials students earn in high school and their impact on students’ secondary completion, postsecondary enrollment and completion as well as wage earnings. Secondary Educational Outcomes. Indiana was not able to provide data to assess postsecondary educational outcomes. Labor Market Outcomes.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

OCTOBER 5, 2022

This is especially true for secondary students. Younger learners are used to SEL (socio-emotional learning) practices like sharing circles and morning meetings; these procedures tend to fade away as students get older and into more specialized secondary content.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 16, 2017

But it’s not always simple to plan, and manage, and assess, so we’re going to talk about some practical teaching strategies today. With PBL, kids show what they learn as they journey through the unit, interact with its lessons, collaborate with each other, and assess themselves and each other. It’s pretty complex stuff.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

7 Given the screening mandate, some publishers have fashioned screeners out of their reading assessment instruments designed for the typical population. Dyslexia classification There is no consensus among researchers on the definition of dyslexia. This ignores the language processing differences between typical and exceptional brains.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

The app initially focused on allowing teachers to build their own multimedia-rich presentations and assessments, beam them to students’ devices, and monitor their activities. Virtual reality in education “is definitely not a fad, but there’s definitely a lot of hype,” Kovalsky acknowledges.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Their ESSA plans detail systemic transformations of assessment methods and other practices, according to Lillian Pace, the senior director of national policy at KnowledgeWorks. These new assessment systems are a crucial component of personalization. New Hampshire is piloting its new assessment system alongside traditional testing.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

One teacher, many students: It’s basically the definition of school as we know it, going back to the earliest days of the Republic. Khan Academy has recently introduced more assessments, so that more of the exercises in their free library can be used in this way. Proficiency vs. mastery (Drew Lytle for NPR ).

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eSchool News

MARCH 13, 2024

There’s not a single subject you cannot teach within Minecraft, not a single assessment you cannot do within Minecraft. I believe the earlier we start with our students at the elementary level, they’ll become more proficient as they progress onto the secondary level. We definitely need a shift. It’s not engaging.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Founded in 1986, Renaissance combines decades of experience in assessments with personalized instruction and analytics solutions delivering teachers and administrators the tools to plan, lessons to teach, and the resources to motivate students to learn. NEW YORK, SAN FRANCISCO, WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis. About Renaissance.

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Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

The second, which is my path, is to make common cause with others who are working on solving the problem of the cost of attending a post-secondary institution, like Martha Kanter , Morely Winograd , and others making slow but steady progress eliminating tuition as a barrier to students. I settled on OER-enabled pedagogy.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

As a result, performance has increased: standardized test scores, AP enrollment and achievement, graduation rates across all demographics, student attendance, and engagement, and post-secondary concurrent enrollment. Vrain Valley Schools. . The change in viewpoint is deeply respected.”.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Have you ever thought about how the way you grade and assess work, or maybe how the way you are required to grade could be contributing to the game of school? There have been many articles, books, and theories on shifting the way we assess and assign grades. Extra credit tends to play a major role in the secondary world.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

It is therefore imperative that current and future student assessments are in sync with America’s transformational, digital environments. Our new set of readiness indicators will open up the doors for more students to pursue their post-secondary goals with confidence.”. According to ACT, out of 1.9

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TeachThought - Learn better.

OCTOBER 11, 2015

So the following list of public education terms is useful not so much for the definitions, but for the credibility (or at least authority) of the definitions, as they are sourced from the Department of Education itself, in this case in regards to clarify Race to the Top language and meaning. To clarify your own misconceptions.

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