Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Research Projects: When students engage in research projects, they need time to gather information, synthesize their findings, and put together presentations or reports to share their findings. The depth and breadth of research can vary greatly among students, benefiting from a flexible timeline.

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Blended Learning Differentiated Instruction Groups Strategy 479

MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 25, 2020

I took what for me seemed like the most logical path, I gave a diagnostic assessment, provided the relevant online remediation materials for the students as needed, and tried to do some reteaching of the “big gaps” that were shared by a large number of the students (like fractions, for example). Differentiate to Meet Students Where They Are.

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Differentiated Instruction Assessment Game-Based Learning Examples 92

Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2019

Creating the Assessment Data Interoperability Challenge Collaborative. Together with a team of researchers and developers, this group formed the Assessment Data Interoperability Challenge Collaborative. DIFFERENTIATING. INSTRUCTION. COMMUNICATION. MULTI-LEVEL. grouping students and meeting on Data Days).”

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User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

In this case, I inform the Breakout Groups to decide on a spokesperson or two to report to the whole group. Poll Everywhere is a live student-response tool that offers whole-class participation and assessment through teacher-designed surveys, polls, and discussion boards. Breakout Groups. Poll Everywhere. Once back in the whole group.

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Meeting Poll Everywhere Groups Case Study 380

eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Based on the assessment data of 3.8 million students from all 50 states, Renaissance’s midyear How Kids Are Performing report provides targeted insights to help educators accelerate spring and summer learning. million students’ assessments. BLOOMINGTON, Minn.

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Report Assessment Differentiated Instruction Comparison 107

eSchool News

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Renaissance, the global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, has enhanced Star Spanish , its assessment platform for students who speak, or are learning to speak, Spanish, with new reports and the first authentic K–12 learning progression for Spanish available in the country. For more information, visit www.renaissance.com.

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Assessment Differentiated Instruction Common Core Report 94

edWeb.net

JANUARY 12, 2023

We know assessment is a tool that helps teachers to inform personalized learning, differentiate instruction, accelerate learning, and ultimately support healthy learning mindsets. But all this happens only when assessments are valid and reliable. Or, more simply, when assessments are good. In the edLeader Panel.

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Assessment Pearson Differentiated Instruction Data 92

eSchool News

MAY 6, 2021

Literacy Measurement Tool is the Only LDS-integrated Assessment That Provides Data on Student Motivation and Silent Reading Rate. The Hawaii DOE uses the LDS, which serves all public and charter schools in the state, to store student information, including assessment data, in one central location. Winooski, Vt. ( Winooski, Vt. (

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Assessment Data System Differentiated Instruction 98

eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2021

The report shares findings from a survey of more than 1,000 educators across 48 states as well as from two focus groups examining educators’ beliefs about readiness for the 2021-22 academic year. About 95% of educators anticipate that their districts will provide technology to support learning. About Cambium Learning Group.

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Report Differentiated Instruction Survey Education 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 18, 2018

With the push to move assessments online, students need good keyboarding skills. It does this through a process of review, demonstration, practice, and assessment. This takes you to your teacher dashboard where you will find student reports and more. With most of these freemium online programs, students log in and get started.

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Learning Differentiated Instruction Digital Citizenship Assessment 214

eSchool News

AUGUST 17, 2022

Bloomington, MN (August 17, 2022) – Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, is pleased to introduce a powerful new connection between its industry-leading Star Assessments and Nearpod platforms to accelerate learning in the 2022–2023 school year. About Renaissance.

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Assessment Differentiated Instruction Data Accessibility 97

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

Student Assessment By now (mid-June), nearly every school in the U.S. Quality formative assessments, a requisite for providing meaningful instruction, will be especially important for closing COVID learning gaps. has been running remotely for twelve weeks.

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Assessment Differentiated Instruction Data Comparison 197

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: GradeCam is a web-based tool that lets you customize assessments with multiple choice, true/false, number grids, rubrics, and more. Tip #2: Remember that we’re mandatory reporters. I would say, maybe a caution for first year teachers — I think many teachers are aware, but – we’re all mandatory reporters.

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Differentiated Instruction Advocacy Report Twitter 339

Technology Tidbits

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Wikipedia Differentiation, the ability for teachers to meet the needs of a variety of learners, is a key component for successful teaching. Also, the "Go Interactive" features allows teachers to collaborate w/ students in real-time and gauge student understanding to differentiate instruction.

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Differentiated Instruction Game-Based Learning Assessment Mobility 45

Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2021

At the classroom level, teachers spend an exorbitant amount of time distilling an entire year of information into a few sentences on student report cards, even though the intervention window has closed. State assessments and report cards, for example, arrive too late to be actionable.

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Data Differentiated Instruction Assessment LMS 174

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

To gauge students’ progress, the schools administered the Measures of Academic Progress® (MAP) Growth Reading assessment, which measures grade-level reading achievement and growth, during the 2020-21 academic year. The full “Using Lexia Core5 Reading” report is available at [link]. About Lexia Learning. About Cambium Learning Group.

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Differentiated Instruction Report Learning Company 98

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Ten instructional coaches, all with advanced degrees, had the following insights into the instructional use of AI in K12 education. The coaches reported that AI is used for various instructional purposes. AI-powered feedback helps teachers provide more personalized responses without increasing their workload.

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Differentiated Instruction Trends LMS Guidelines 88

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

In a sentence, personalized learning: “tailors instruction, expression of learning, and assessment to each student’s unique needs and preferences.” If you think it sounds like differentiated instruction, it does with this caveat: Personalized learning is student-directed, student-paced, and designed for each learner.

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Personalized Learning Learning Educreations Edmodo 256

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JUNE 1, 2016

I came out of the newsroom as a senior reporter for WBUR in Boston. The skills of being able to engage students and control a classroom are very different from selecting public radio stories or writing curriculum and assessments. I didn’t come out of the classroom to start my company, Listen Current. The dynamic is different.

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Differentiated Instruction Company Twitter Assessment 178

eSchool News

AUGUST 30, 2022

To help accelerate teaching and learning this coming school year, Curriculum Associates has updated its award-winning i-Ready Personalized Instruction and Assessment program with new reports, lessons, accessibility features, and more. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass. — More about i-Ready. About Curriculum Associates.

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Assessment Instructional Materials Differentiated Instruction EdTech 98

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

We had to balance providing teachers time to prepare for 100 percent online instruction with the need to provide PD pertaining to specific areas like SEL, differentiated instruction and technology integration. Moore is the Director of Curriculum, Instruction and Assessment for the East Pennsboro Area School District.

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iLearn Technology

DECEMBER 8, 2014

MobyMax also includes “Power Tools” acting like a clicker, monitoring behavior, messaging, a social wall for students, a parent portal, manipulatives and time reports. Students can earn prizes and badges as they work through MobyMax and can set their own daily goals.

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Tablets Differentiated Instruction Android Common Core 65

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Interestingly enough, Dr. Fleming reports that Kinesthetics (the K in VARK) is the most common learning style though not the most common teaching style. Differentiated instruction, also called “personalized learning”, addresses the truism that every student learns differently. It was time to shake things up.

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Learning Differentiated Instruction Report Digital Citizenship 232

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

Students collaborated, constructed their designs, collected data, wrote reports and gave presentations. What if I could differentiate instruction in more effective ways than providing extra worksheets to advanced students or offering after-school tutoring for those who struggled? How much more might my students have learned?

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System Differentiated Instruction Social Media Assessment 167

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The UEPC’s study shows that IXL can be a reliable partner in Utah educators’ efforts toward recovering learning, differentiating instruction and boosting achievement in math.” To further target instruction, the diagnostic provides educators with personalized action plans for each student.

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Personalized Learning STEM IXL Learning Differentiated Instruction 116

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: The results were “sobering,” according to a March 2020 report, “ Learning by Scientific Design; Early insights from a network informing teacher preparation.” One common misunderstanding, according to the report, is mistaking student engagement for learning.

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Learning Report Differentiated Instruction Assessment 145

Technology Tidbits

AUGUST 6, 2013

Wikipedia Differentiation, the ability for teachers to meet the needs of a variety of learners, is a key component for successful teaching. Also, the "Go Interactive" features allows teachers to collaborate w/ students in real-time and gauge student understanding to differentiate instruction.

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Differentiated Instruction Assessment Game-Based Learning Mobility 35

Educate AI Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teacher/Classroom Level: Safety means ensuring that AI tools do not reinforce harmful stereotypes or biases in curriculum materials, assessments, or classroom interactions. Teacher/Classroom Level: Equity means using AI to differentiate instruction effectively and provide targeted support to students who need it most.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

Here’s why: “The report suggested that “we have not yet become good enough at the kind of pedagogues that make the most of technology; that adding 21st century technologies to 20th century teaching practices will just dilute the effectiveness of teaching.”. I went to a recent professional development about differentiated instruction.

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Technology Classroom Education Differentiated Instruction 150

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Like all districts in Texas, we live and die through accountability ratings based on how our students perform on the state’s STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests. To this end, we began using Renaissance Star Assessments districtwide in the 2015–2016 school year.

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Data Assessment Differentiated Instruction Mobility 100

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2020

For much of the previous decade, advocates of education technology imagined a classroom where computer algorithms would differentiate instruction for each student, delivering just the right lessons at the right time, like a personal tutor. So it was interesting to see McKinsey & Co.,

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Software Differentiated Instruction Report Study 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

Teachers must take care of children and elderly parents in their homes, as well as their own precarious health, and cannot be available in the same ways they are during “normal” times when they are reporting to school each day. These conditions combined are not conducive to teaching and learning. Together, what can’t we accomplish?

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Online Learning Differentiated Instruction Learning Guidelines 135

Digital Promise

MARCH 29, 2016

I am glad to report I’ve never seen a district make all these mistakes, but most districts make at least a few. Element #2: Targeted Instruction: In Benjamin Bloom’s famous study, he found that effective small group instruction supported student learning nearly as much as one-on-one tutoring. Six Risks To Avoid.

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Personalized Learning Education Elements Learning Differentiated Instruction 174

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today released its much anticipated What Kids Are Reading report for 2021. The report features a foreword by Jewell Parker Rhodes, author of Black Brother, Black Brother, and an introduction by James S. from the Harvard Graduate School of Education. About Renaissance.

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Study Differentiated Instruction Trends Report 98

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

The report showed the first-ever decline in mathematics and the most significant drop in reading achievement since the 1980s. Reviewing student data starting in November each year provides educators with qualitative and quantitative student performance patterns that can inform future instruction. Effective student data analysis.

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Trends Data Differentiated Instruction Analysis 138

Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2016

Instead, let's take a look at some ways to use data regularly in your classroom and take some of the pain out of obtaining it to differentiate instruction. Formative assessments give us an idea of what our students are understanding during instruction, and can be embedded in the lesson activities.

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Data Classroom Assessment Edmodo 112

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2018

To supplement in-person support offered during class and lunch periods, I published a simple Google site to house my lessons, assessments, and other resources. I stepped up my game by adding even more videos and assessment exercises to my class website, mining resources from IXL and CK-12.

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