The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

Today, Starr Sackstein @mssackstein shares 5 feedback strategies to supercharge your writing instruction and classroom culture. We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015. Listen Now.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

I’d like to propose using a creative strategy to free the teacher from needing to be “on” presenting information or orchestrating the lesson. For example, an elementary teacher may want to focus on a specific season or weather pattern while a secondary teacher might focus on cell division or energy sustainability.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In the last two blogs, I have focused on strategies teachers can use to 1) assess prior knowledge before a lesson and 2) check for understanding during a lesson. I’ve suggested that teachers build mechanisms into their lessons to collect formative assessment data. What strategies would they use? Sketchnotes.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 27, 2019

So, we developed a first-of-its-kind coaching model, based on Jennie Magiera’s work in Courageous Edventures , aimed at helping teachers tackle their challenges with personalized strategies and innovative tools. Head to the DLP Strategy Menu to take a tour of this new tool, or see below for step-by-step guide on how to get started.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Mixed ability groups, interest-based groups, and strengths in a group dynamics are alternative grouping strategies that you can add to the mix for variety. Click here for more on grouping strategies and organizing groups. 3) Decide on a strategy for transitions. This goes for secondary students too! 10) Mix it up!

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. This phase underscores the significance of critical evaluation, research skills, and reasoning.

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Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

It’s one of the best strategies to create a positive learning environment for all students. Graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education[2]. Analysis of Parental Involvement and Self-Esteem on Secondary School Students in Kieni West Sub-County, Nyeri County, Kenya.” Family Engagement = Student Success.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2018

However, there are several strategies they can use to create an effective rotation in a traditional school schedule. The teacher-led station provides valuable opportunities for small group instruction and coaching, but there are days when I want to do side-by-side assessments or work with individual students who are struggling.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

Students Perform on the Most Recent Assessments?” She has published articles in the Wisconsin English Journal and has spoken at state and national conferences on aspects of secondary literacy. . ” America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic: remote classes made things worse.”

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Insight Education Group

MARCH 30, 2022

Schools are realizing the very real presence of Secondary Trauma Stress (STS). Secondary Trauma Stress or compassion fatigue is defined by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network as the “emotional duress that results when an individual hears about the firsthand trauma experiences of another. Professional development opportunities.

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eSchool News

MAY 31, 2023

(CAE), a leader in designing innovative performance tasks for measurement and instruction of higher order skills, today announced the immediate availability of its College and Career Readiness Assessment (CCRA+) through a non-exclusive partnership with Pearson [FTSE: PSON.L], the world’s leading learning company.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. This helps students become aware of different strategies and their evolving problem-solving skills.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

For more than 30 years, California’s Outreach and Technical Assistance Network ( OTAN ) has been at the forefront of meeting the technology needs of adult education providers, including English as a Second Language (ESL), Adult Basic Education (ABE), Adult Secondary Education (ASE), and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 7, 2021

22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation. 22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation. Update: I just realized that discussion strategies don’t necessarily have to be grouping strategies. 22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation. 22 Strategies For Learning Through Conversation.

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Neo LMS

MAY 19, 2020

To quote a study on Evolllution , “60 percent of respondents said technology has fundamentally changed post-secondary teaching and learning. Rider University states , “Transformational leadership involves using communication and collaboration to motivate others toward reaching goals that align with an organization’s strategies.”

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 15, 2023

Thinking routines offer more than just a structured pathway for students to delve into their thinking and explore the content deeply; they also serve as a window into their cognitive processes, offering invaluable formative assessment data. playing soccer on sand vs. grass).

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Author of Teaching Mythology Exposed: Helping Teachers Create Visionary Classroom Perspective, Blogging for Educators, Teaching Students to Self Assess: How do I help students grow as learners?, She has made the Bammy Awards finals for Secondary High School Educator in 2014 and for blogging in 2015.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Then, discover a few strategies for improving parent empowerment in your school. 8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Strategies for Strong Parent and Family Engagement. State of Michigan.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

With 2025 barely in its infancy, educators are looking to new technologies and strategies to meet the needs of students. These technologies offer exciting possibilities, from personalized content to tailored assessments that adapt to each student’s pace and learning style.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Indeed, I think that the current situation demands a proactive strategy: training future teachers how to use technology. Demand for K-12 teachers, as well as High School and secondary teachers in the U.S. When we talk about integrating technology, there’s often the question of training current educators how to use it.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

While STEM topics seem a natural fit in high schools and post-secondary curriculum, education experts are promoting a focus on STEM subjects for younger and younger children. Together the STEM subjects represent some of the fastest-growing and most in-demand fields in the United States. Click to view slideshow. In Love with Space?

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Neo LMS

APRIL 8, 2021

Whether you’re a remote instruction beginner, a seasoned expert, a college professor, or a secondary education teacher, it’s critical that your students not only understand what plagiarism is, but also have the tools to build critical thinking skills to produce original work in a remote learning environment.

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Waterford

JULY 24, 2020

In this article, we’ll go over what differentiated instruction is and how using this learning strategy can provide your students with the resources they need to succeed. Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. What is Differentiated Instruction?

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

The team then decided to apply the strategies from the “Implementation” section of the edtech systems guide, focusing on clear communication with stakeholders (caregivers, teachers, admins) and providing ongoing support and training opportunities for staff.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2023

Metacognition, often referred to as “thinking about thinking,” is a cognitive skill that empowers learners to reflect on their thought processes, learning strategies, and understanding of a concept or subject. At its core, the routine starts with the fundamental act of “seeing.”

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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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EdNews Daily

JULY 18, 2017

A considerable portion of the courses that I delivered were internally assessed and coursework based. Assessment of these courses did not involve standardized testing, but they did involve standardized criteria to compare learners’ work against; the writing of coursework briefs also needed to comply with sets of standard criteria.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As more districts integrate SEL into their curricula and expand SEL practices into their secondary schools, the collection and management of such data play an essential role in measuring student progress and program efficacy. Visualizing data improves SEL strategies. SEL should not exist in a vacuum. It serves as a component of MTSS.

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ViewSonic Education

MAY 13, 2019

Primary and secondary schools are swiftly responding to the evidence in support of active learning. Active learning strategies include asking students to: Demonstrate a process. ” Short written responses are a great way to review materials and assess student understanding. To date, more than 200 U.S. Analyze an argument.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 12, 2016

This week I had the pleasure of training a group of elementary teachers on blended learning strategies. Assessment. One of the strategies we discussed with the potential to weave these three areas of focus together is a choice board. As a group, they wanted to focus on: Differentiation. Student choice.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2024

Personalized paths, oral histories, and local histories are strategies that resonate with the NCSS definition to bring the human experience into the K-12 classroom, because these strategies allow students to determine how their life fits into the story of history and to discover why the past matters to them.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

The company’s 700+ employees across the US and Canada—the majority of whom are former teachers—are passionate about partnering with educators in the implementation of effective, student-centered instructional strategies and supporting them in the classroom.

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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. Leaders from five League of Innovative Schools districts presented their strategies for addressing equity challenges in their school communities. (L

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Assessment For Learning. We walk you through the process of distinguishing between various assessment types, building goals, identifying best practices around your assessments and analyzing your data to make lasting instructional decisions throughout the year. Student Performance Improves on State Assessments.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 9, 2019

As part of the Reinvent the Classroom initiative, a collaboration between Digital Promise, HP, Microsoft, and Intel, Digital Promise is supporting innovative elementary and secondary school teachers through the HP Teaching Fellows. In 2019, 26 educators were chosen for the inaugural class. Inquisitive and Reflective.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 14, 2017

And you know as well as I do that when kids get hold of a misconception, if we wait until there’s an assessment and then we catch it, it’s already so deeply rooted that it takes that much more time to undo it. 08:47 Vicki: So remarkable teachers, we all have an important strategy to understand and that is thinking routines.

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eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

The first big myth, based on reading assessment measures, is that comprehension is the problem. The majority of reading assessments and standardized tests for older students focus on reading comprehension measures without determining gaps in the essential components that lead to comprehension: decoding, fluency, and vocabulary.

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