EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Data Driven Instruction: How Student Data Guides Formative Assessments. As personalized learning becomes a more mainstream pedagogy in K–12 classrooms, teachers have started to adapt assessment processes to get a deeper look at student growth. . What Are Summative Assessments Vs. Formative Assessments. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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MIND Research Institute

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

At North Elementary School in Birch Run Area Schools, Michigan, students and educators work together as a close-knit community, driven by a powerful mantra: “We’ve got grit and we don’t quit.” ST Math is giving North Elementary’s students the tools to take ownership and thrive in ways that go beyond traditional math education.

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eSchool News

MARCH 30, 2022

The role of elementary teachers has never been more important, especially as kindergarten through fifth grade students today are facing more change than ever before–from the effects of the pandemic to social media and stressful current events being right at their fingertips. According to The Annie E.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Screencastify and Screencasting for Formative Assessment (a sponsored post) From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. Screencasting is a useful assessment tool. While I use it for my video tutorials, I also have my students make their own screencasts to help me assess their progress.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Managing budgets, developing memos, attending meetings, responding to emails and phone calls, and other tasks also consumed a significant portion of my time. For learning, consider curating data weekly and present at an upcoming staff meeting. When a teacher struggles with assessments, provide or co-create an example assessment.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 27, 2020

I hold a Bachelors Degree in Elementary Education, earned at Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa. During my years of working in elementary education, I spent time as a classroom teacher as well as a school leader, all with the Sioux City Community School District in Sioux City, Iowa.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2024

Making tough choices Later this year, the final round of federal pandemic funding, known as Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER), will expire, leaving school budgets uncertain in many districts. Funds they have come to rely on for staffing and technology will end in September if not allotted.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 2, 2014

For example, Mrs. Montecuollo and Mrs. Westbrook could read student responses and be clear about what each writer needed to add or change in order to meet standard. As students struggled to articulate their ideas, they worried that their writing sounded “so simple” and “so elementary.” It also provided clarity for targeted feedback.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Dr. Sean Nank’s research shows that the single biggest method for improving learning with iPads is to use online formative assessments. However, his formative assessments have a twist — students are all answering DIFFERENT math questions. Meet Next Generation Science Standards. Formative assessment on the iPad that Works.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2023

I shared the following in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms : Choice is the great differentiator that helps meet the needs of all learners. I also encourage you to check out these posts from Wells Elementary (TX), Snow Horse Elementary (UT), Juab School District (UT), and the Corinth School District (MS). Be flexible.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 28, 2021

The Staff Needs Assessment is by far one of the most important and at the same time, most stressful part of the process in creating an EdTech Integration Plan for your school district. In this post, we are going to learn what a Staff Needs Assessment is, how it should be created, and how it should be shared with your staff.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

This new assessment tool allows educators to easily assess, track, and remediate student performance over the course of the school year. Expanding GSS to include Assessments to Guide Instruction increases the impact LWT’s literacy solution can have on very young learners. Assessment Matters.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments. Shepard Elementary School. This journey requires collaboration among technology teams, instructional coaches and educators.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Below is an overview of the benefits of using choice boards and the various types of boards you can design to meet a range of different objectives. Teachers are freed from orchestrating a lesson and able to conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on work in progress, or conduct side-by-side assessments.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Felicia Durden shares methods behind having a powerful morning meeting in special education classrooms. Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors.

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Brainscape

JUNE 14, 2024

And the Praxis Elementary Education: Social Studies Subtest (5004) is one of several quests you’ll need to complete to reach the summit of your ambitions. The Praxis 5004 is intended to evaluate the social studies knowledge and skills that are vital for an elementary school teacher. Baggins did on his quest.

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Brainscape

JUNE 14, 2024

And the Praxis Elementary Education: Social Studies Subtest (5004) is one of several quests you’ll need to complete to reach the summit of your ambitions. The Praxis 5004 is intended to evaluate the social studies knowledge and skills that are vital for an elementary school teacher. Baggins did on his quest.

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Brainscape

JUNE 14, 2024

And the Praxis Elementary Education: Social Studies Subtest (5004) is one of several quests you’ll need to complete to reach the summit of your ambitions. The Praxis 5004 is intended to evaluate the social studies knowledge and skills that are vital for an elementary school teacher. Baggins did on his quest.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. How can we personalize things that have historically been standardized to see if they meet every individual learner’s needs?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Her two children, however, were students at one of the targeted schools, Pugh Elementary in the city’s northeastern Denver Harbor neighborhood. Screenshot of teacher and parent Melissa Yarborough speaking during the public comment portion of a board meeting in February. Duncan Klussmann agreed with Yarborough’s assessment.

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

You can encourage families to join your school’s family-teacher association or arrange virtual family-teacher meetings for families with transportation issues. Family partnerships formed during elementary school years build a strong foundation for future student success and continued engagement.[6] Family Engagement = Student Success.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

From our conversations with kindergarten through third grade teachers, literacy coaches, and principals in 17 elementary schools across the country, we highlight below three ways schools are reimagining student supports during a year of distance instruction. For many adults, assessment was for your grade [when they were in school].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Indeed, it’s so aspirational that most states are not trying to reach that level with their annual assessments. If high school students are required to meet NAEP proficient to graduate from high school, large numbers will fail.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2024

The print, digital and hands-on program raises the bar in student-driven 3D learning and 3D assessment. The new program features a robust and integrated assessment system, including a new assessment map. 3D Assessment The modules integrate science and engineering seamlessly, as intended by NGSS.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2021

In a previous post , I shared how members of the 4th-grade team at Red Cliffs Elementary School in the Juab School district collaborated to create a personalized experience that combined choice and data to differentiate. District 205 has given us the opportunity to have an instructional coach at each elementary building.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Programs that sustained damage or lack access to services are working with licensed child care consultants from the Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) to create emergency plans to reopen without meeting usual requirements but still maintain safety for children.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 24, 2024

Better Meetings: How to Have More Fun and Be More Effective When You Gather Part of the Library 2.0 Service , Safety, and Security / Essential Librarian Series with Crystal Trice, hosted by Dr. Steve Albrecht OVERVIEW : We spend up to a third of our time at work in meetings. Unlimited and non-expiring access for those log-ins.

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TeacherCast

OCTOBER 28, 2021

John Wooden The Staff Needs Assessment is by far one of the most important and at the same time, most stressful part of the process in creating an EdTech Integration Plan for your school district. In this post, we are going to learn what a Staff Needs Assessment is, how it should be created, and how it should be shared with your staff.

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

The district serves a diverse student body, and as educators at Broward, we place tremendous value on meeting the needs of all our students — especially in creating equitable opportunities for skill-building and STEM. For example, we used Minecraft in one classroom long before Minecraft Education.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Washington, DC – Learning Without Tears ’ acclaimed Early Childhood curriculum, Get Set for School® (GSS), will now include the new Assessments to Guide Instruction, an addition to the complete program that provides greater value and more complete foundational learning. Assessment Matters.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. Our second grade students in our 2/3 Band went from 29% proficient in September 2016 to 77% proficient in June 2017 on i-Ready reading assessments. Multi-age classrooms also help boost students academic performance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

You may find a program that meets some of your requirements but not all and wonder if you should settle. The catalog include topics relevant to today’s K-12 education offered in a variety of approaches that meet teacher needs. assess success at completion. Elementary Math. How to get started. Writing Prompts.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2020

Asynchronous learning provides much-needed flexibility that better meets the needs of both students and teachers by relinquishing the familiar rigidity of school. Provide a few assessment options and allow students to select which one is graded. Below are some of the most practical strategies to develop asynchronous tasks.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

It warmed my heart when Amy Rhodes, the principal of Bevins Elementary, shared what she had recently implemented in regard to feedback. We meet in PLCs every Wednesday and were able to use this time to discuss and have teachers share out their Canvas pages and virtual lessons. The result was “Feedback Fridays.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

In Molly Long’s kindergarten class at Burrus Elementary in Hendersonville, Tenn., Manipulating numbers in different ways, part of a supplemental math curriculum for Murphy’s whole class at Hilltop Elementary in this suburb of Philadelphia, is an attempt to address those problems. Students are meeting their goals far faster now.

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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?

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