Shake Up Learning

MAY 25, 2021

The post 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment – SULS0111 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Jen shares ideas that will help teachers go BEYOND traditional assessments like reports, essays, presentations, and cookie-cutter assignments. 4 Projects that Go Beyond Traditional Assessment with @virtualgiff.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2022

The partnership will provide educators and students with instant access to high-quality assessments aligned to the curriculum already being used in their classrooms. CenterPoint welcomes this opportunity to expand student and teacher access to our one-of-a-kind assessments,” said LJ Sylvester, Vice President of Growth at CenterPoint.

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eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2023

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. This is especially true when exploring Next Generation Science Standards.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

TeachAI , an initiative led by Code.org, ETS, the International Society of Technology in Education, Khan Academy, and the World Economic Forum, announced the launch of a groundbreaking resource for education leaders and policymakers around the world – Foundational Policy Ideas for AI in Education.

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Industry Google EdTech Policies 105

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Still, teachers are tirelessly putting in their best effort to make distance learning work for their students. In many cases, parent involvement understandably extends to supporting students in taking online assessments. For many adults, assessment was for your grade [when they were in school]. Now it drives instruction.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2022

The strategy relies on what economists call “efficiency wage theory,” which posits that increasing wages based on performance leads to greater output and lower employee turnover, says Emma García, a senior researcher at the Learning Policy Institute. There are three main ways that teacher pay impacts student outcomes, García says.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cyberbullying in particular is fueled by a lack of proper policies and wide access to smartphones and other devices. Teachers noted observing a positive impact from the protocol on students’ reading abilities, specifically for those students who previously performed below the grade-level expectations for reading.

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Data EdTech Smartphone Elementary 122

Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2020

According to Rocky Bragg, a high school English teacher in the district, this policy has created some havoc. Many teachers watched their students brush off assignments and disappear from class. Nurturing students’ abilities to contribute and lead can have big payoffs as schools face ongoing uncertainty.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Its recommendations for developing AI policies include keeping humans in the loop, designing AI systems using modern learning principles, and developing a shared vision that can strengthen trust. The paper also recommends developing education-specific guidelines and guardrails for AI.

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System Guidelines Professional Learning Training 122

Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2022

I realize that seeking student input is nothing new or earth-shattering. Thankfully, early course questionnaires and intermittent, instructor-created feedback and formative assessment tools (including Angelo’s and Cross’s oft-cited CATS) are routine for many instructors. When adjustments are made to the course (pacing, policies, etc.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2022

Early in my career, I taught at a school with a very progressive inclusion policy. Core to the spirit of an IEP is each student having a sense of belonging, being known in an affirmative way and supported to succeed at school. Supporting student success in Alberta, Canada. Recommended Resources.

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OER Data Personalized Learning Assessment 163

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

For anyone involved in education, the importance of engagement is clear. And the need for both student engagement and buy-in cannot be overstated when it comes to device rollout. The more aligned students are with teachers, and the more aligned students are with one another, the more effective any implementation will be.

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Digital Citizenship Gamification Student Engagement Case Study 162

Shake Up Learning

MARCH 28, 2023

If it doesn’t assess what you need it to assess, it is a waste of time. If you download a template or lesson online, please be sure to revise and tweak this to fit the needs of your students and learning goals. Assessment Is this assessment OF (summative) or FOR (formative) learning? See: Copyright Policy.

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Assessment Differentiated Instruction eBook Outcomes 96

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

From creating realistic images and art to producing music and writing, generative AI's potential to help students learn and demonstrate their creative thinking skills in fundamentally new ways is truly awe-inspiring. Will generative AI tools like ChatGPT enable plagiarism or complicate assessment?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

But for many educators, content providers, and policymakers, self-evaluation means self-assessment, and assessment means different things to different people. For some, it is part of a formative assessment process that provides multiple sources of data. For others, assessment equates solely to tests or diagnostic screenings.

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Data Secondary Learning Assessment 158

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Conversely, a 2020 report by the National Education Policy Center found that online charter schools generally underperformed traditional schools in terms of student academic growth. Are students more successful through online learning? According to in-person vs. online learning statistics, research findings have been mixed.

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Classroom Online Learning Learning Outcomes 98

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2022

All demographic groups saw grade inflation, but when broken down further, ACT’s researchers found that female, Black and low income students saw the biggest GPA gains. We have to think about the change in grading policies that took place in conjunction with COVID-19,” says Edgar I. Sanchez, an ACT researcher who co-authored the report.

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Policies STEM Report Course 154

Lightspeed Systems

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Empower teachers, curriculum, and IT staff to collaborate more effectively with a digital workflow that enables curriculum teams to request apps and IT teams to review requests, assess their data privacy compliance, and approve them for district use. Collect feedback from teachers and students to make informed decisions.

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Student Data Privacy Data EdTech Assessment 59

Kitaboo on EdTech

MAY 21, 2024

Align with School Policies and Regulations When collaborating with an educational content platform , you must ensure compliance with government regulations and school policies. This will help you protect students’ personal information and ensure the safe use of mobile devices and online resources.

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ViewSonic Education

MARCH 7, 2023

Lesson creation is an important part of teaching because it helps teachers plan out objectives, activities, and assessments that will ensure their students are engaged, learning, and achieving the desired outcomes. It also allows teachers to measure progress and ensure that their instructions meet the needs of their students.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. Next, teachers work collaboratively to plan both instruction and assessment using the curriculum maps. Who Are the Not-So-Common Learners?

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Common Core Assessment Strategy Advocacy 258

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. That’s why we need to fix No Child Left Behind.”.

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Doug Levin

MAY 27, 2015

It is for all these reasons that I was so struck by an empirical research finding presented by Ellen Wartella about parents’ views on games and learning presented at a May 19 Capitol Hill briefing sponsored by Northwestern University’s Institute for Policy Research on “ Education in the Digital Age.”

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Learning Mobility Survey Smartphone 310

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2021

The pandemic really changed the policy conversation to more systemic shifts.” Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. The pandemic really changed the policy conversation to more systemic shifts.”. The vehicle that drives this is student engagement, not ‘Learn or I’ll hurt you,’ ” he added.

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Competency Based Learning Personalized Learning Report Advocacy 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

percentage points lower among students who had more art exposure, according to the study, Investigating the Causal Effects of Arts Education , which published online in the Journal of Policy Analysis and Management in November 2022. percent of students were disciplined compared to only 10.9 Disciplinary infractions were 3.6

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Survey Study Elementary Analysis 145

edWeb.net

MARCH 4, 2021

First, the district formed a Student Discipline Task Force, charged with looking at the research and taking a deep dive into policies and practices that disproportionately affected specific student populations, especially African American males. Engage those closest to the data in the conversations.

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Policies Professional Learning Elementary Assessment 97

Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in. See: Copyright Policy.

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Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment Training 92

Neo LMS

MAY 24, 2022

Learn why student collaboration should be at the heart of the teaching experience and what edtech tools you can rely on to foster it. . Why student collaboration in the classroom matters. Learning together in the classroom helps boost student engagement. Class groups are accessible to the members of a specific class.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In fact, according to a report from the Learning Policy Institute , “(School leadership) and administrative support is often the top reason teachers identify for leaving or staying in the profession, or in a given school, outweighing even salary considerations for some teachers.” For every new teacher, the stakes are high. Emotional Support.

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Strategy Professional Learning Policies Report 64

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Unfortunately, our education system often struggles to provide adequate support for these students if they don’t know English. However, I am hopeful that this year we will witness a renewed commitment towards providing resources, policies, and initiatives that cater to English Language Learners and promote multilingualism in schools.

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Robotics Industry Elementary Training 98

eSchool News

MARCH 12, 2024

Most of them aren’t starting from zero, so I suggest a nuanced approach to thinking about the strengths students bring with them. How can we assess and understand those strengths across languages to teach more effectively? What is their full linguistic repertoire?

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Libraries Outcomes Policies Accessibility 105

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Having a philosophical basis for grading helps instructors explain grades, their meaning, and their value to students, who may then see the grade as less arbitrary.Two common approaches to further mitigate this arbitrary nature include normative-based grading and criterion- or standards-based grading.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Through school visits and panel discussions with TDSB officials, district leaders explored local policies and systems, the use of data for equity, and professional development and training for teachers and leaders, keeping an eye and ear toward what they could bring back to their own school communities.

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Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

It is a process that respects both the teacher and students. In order to increase trust in the instructional walk process, I had our faculty participate in an article study in order to develop the tenets of student engagement. Assess whether we are learning more and getting better. Routman, p.

Student Engagement 28

Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

Reading By Example

MAY 3, 2016

It is a process that respects both the teacher and students. In order to increase trust in the instructional walk process, I had our faculty participate in an article study in order to develop the tenets of student engagement. Assess whether we are learning more and getting better. Routman, p.

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Student Engagement Assessment Survey STEM 28

Reading By Example

MAY 2, 2016

She believes that if students do not have a voice and choice in their learning, then all of the focus on the core academics will not amount to much. Education policy should not prescribe children’s access to institutions at the expense of access to personal development, growth, capability, or happiness.

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Student Engagement Collaborative Learning Meeting Assessment 28

Reading By Example

MAY 2, 2016

She believes that if students do not have a voice and choice in their learning, then all of the focus on the core academics will not amount to much. Education policy should not prescribe children’s access to institutions at the expense of access to personal development, growth, capability, or happiness.

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Student Engagement Collaborative Learning Meeting Assessment 28