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Vet What You Buy

A Principal's Reflections

What has resulted is a pursuit of ways to work smarter, not harder, while still improving outcomes for all learners. I also see plenty of investments in materials from Teachers Pay Teachers. I am all for teachers selling lesson plans, assessments, support materials, and other resources to their peers.

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CoSN 2019: K–12 Schools Address Digital Equity with Curriculum Framework

EdTech Magazine

Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. For students who do not have appropriate materials in K–12, it can cost an additional $3,000 to earn a bachelor’s degree. .

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Help Build an OpenSciEd Research Agenda

Digital Promise

As such, OpenSciEd has several unique benefits relative to typical, commercially produced instructional materials. Further, research studies can guide districts to strengthen their implementation of the curriculum materials. As an open educational resource, OpenSciEd is under an open license for people to use, remix, and share.

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Curriculum Associates and Corwin Partner on i-Ready® Assessment and Professional Learning Services

eSchool News

Additionally, Hattie will now serve as a technical advisor for i-Ready Assessment, bringing over 30 years of research on what works best to improve learning. Professor Hattie’s Visible Learning research and our i-Ready Assessment program are a natural complement to one another.

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OPINION: Struggling readers need standards and structure based on the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

achieved National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) proficiency in fourth grade reading. Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year.

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How Districts Can Develop a Comprehensive Plan for Remote Learning Come Fall

Edsurge

The United States ranked 36th in math and 13th in reading among 79 countries and regions that took the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) in 2018. Hoping to improve our standing, researchers have been calling for a new approach to education for nearly a decade—one that combines in-person and virtual instruction.

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Using open educational resources to empower differentiated instruction

Hapara

Differentiation is the adjustment of teaching methodologies, instructional materials, the classroom environment, means of assessment, and content to match the interests and needs of learners to achieve the targeted learning outcomes. Addressing context.