Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2019

Confluence and Influence – Inquiry Hub Secondary School. Background: The 2018-2019 school year is Inquiry Hub Secondary’s 7th year since it was founded. In 2015 Riverside Secondary School started delivering Digital Learning 10 to their Grade 9 students (which is also the grade we deliver it at for Inquiry Hub students).

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Secondary Course Digital Learning Digital Citizenship 113

Neo LMS

MAY 28, 2019

In 2000 the OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) released its first PISA results (Program for International Student Assessment), and Finland has never been the same again. Teacher training and teacher-led governance. Learning has been a national priority since the Finns achieved independence from Russia in 1917.

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Education Secondary EdTech Outcomes 227

ViewSonic Education

MAY 13, 2019

” 3 For teachers themselves trained in old-school methods, implementing active learning tactics requires a shift in perspective. Many, like Stanford and the University of Minnesota , have initiatives to train instructors in active learning practices. Active learning doesn’t just happen. To date, more than 200 U.S.

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Learning Groups Comparison Outcomes 359

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

These technologies offer exciting possibilities, from personalized content to tailored assessments that adapt to each student’s pace and learning style. As the NGSS continues to gain traction, we can expect a shift in how student learning is assessed.

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Education Learning Future Ready Assessment 110

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Secondary trends, found in only a few of the reviewed resources, included: blended learning, dashboards and learning analytics, virtual reality, and artificial intelligence. But content is not top on your list.”

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Trends Digital Learning Learning Secondary 218

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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EdTech Learning System Groups 294

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. Dr. Baron Davis.

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Study Training Differentiated Instruction Trends 257

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2021

This “blurring” of secondary and postsecondary education could point to a new way forward: a model that is neither high school nor community college but a combination of the two that saves students time and money, while offering them new kinds of guided support and preparation for careers.

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Industry Secondary Examples Training 211

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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Secondary Training Elementary Report 145

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 12, 2016

This week I had the pleasure of training a group of elementary teachers on blended learning strategies. Assessment. On the other hand, a secondary teacher might design a board focused on one aspect of their curriculum, like reading or writing. As a group, they wanted to focus on: Differentiation. Student choice.

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Blended Learning Assessment Secondary Elementary 150

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 26, 2017

We are also hosting a giveaway contest with her book on assessment. Books Starr has authored: 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? , Listen Now. Listen on iTunes. Stream by clicking here.

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Strategy Classroom Assessment BYOD 305

Edsurge

MAY 22, 2023

Cooney is a licensed social worker who provides on-the-ground training to school-based counselors and other mental health professionals. Then after we work to get a community stabilized, that's when we can go in and do an assessment of who may need some additional support, like our mental health interventions.

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Secondary Training System Elementary 205

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. Teachers might not feel comfortable using the tool with students yet, or it could be that they haven’t had enough training.

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EdTech Assessment Policies Data 121

EdTechTeacher

MAY 1, 2020

Leading Innovation: Ray Nashar’s Three Car Train Model, Point of Reflection during Covid-19. When reflecting upon the impact of Remote Learning and teacher practice, I often think of Rogers’ Law of Diffusion of Innovation, and the Three Car Train Concept of Ray Nashar. Remote Learning AP Culture of Assessment.

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Assessment Training Twitter Course 160

eSchool News

DECEMBER 24, 2024

How do we go about training our students to realize that where we come from is important? Theres not a single subject you cannot teach within Minecraft, not a single assessment you cannot do within Minecraft. The emphasis in education is not on educators becoming active users of technology; teachers dont receive that training.

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Chromebook EdTech Robotics Elementary 113

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Make sure you train them on what to do to avoid causing data privacy problems. Do you have a secondary network connection? Do you have secondary switches and access to the internet to retrieve information? Six years later, CDW has more people who can help with a free threat assessment and a plan to address any vulnerabilities.

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Secondary Data EdTech System 186

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

We wondered about the role of AI in one specific teaching practice: assessing student learning. This yielded a total of 160 teacher-assessed essays, which we could compare directly to the AI-given scores and feedback on those same essays. How were teachers’ scores similar to or different from scores given by the AI?

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Assessment Secondary Training STEM 176

eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

When those sixth grade students finally sat down for a reading assessment, their ability to decode print text was at a first or second grade level. I also got trained in Wilson Reading Systems, an Orton-Gillingham and multisensory approach to teaching the basic phonics instruction many of my middle school students never received.

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Secondary Training Elementary System 137

Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

So Boyle, who is a secondary school principal at Dalian American International School, located on China’s northeastern coast, let teachers email assignments during the first few weeks out and skip most instruction. By far, the biggest question Boyle’s teachers have had is about assessments. So we’re trying to fill that void.”

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Khan Academy Secondary Blended Learning Facebook 218

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2024

The participation of HBCUs is notable in part because they play a key role in training future K-12 science teachers. They administered surveys to teachers and students and developed assessments that were given when the program started and after it ended. They observed classrooms.

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STEM Education Training Secondary 199

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Students at the Secondary School for Journalism in Brooklyn had become increasingly frustrated with Summit Learning. The Secondary School for Journalism is one of about 380 schools nationwide using Summit Learning, a personalized learning program that involves the use of an online instructional software, called the Summit Platform.

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Facebook Secondary Learning Software 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2019

In fact, the grades earned are secondary to how students understand what happened in the lesson. Teacher Role: To schedule the conference, guide portfolio collection, provide students with a checklist of what they will cover, and train students. They are less about grading than measuring learning.

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Conference How To Digital Citizenship LMS 274

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2020

The difference two years ago was that we trained 100 percent of the teachers from PreK to grade 12 at St. We knew that gaining insights into what students did and did not currently know would be harder, so we included more low- or no-stakes formative assessments, and used them to guide the teaching we did and the assignments we set.

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Learning Elementary Secondary Assessment 218

eSchool News

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Recognizing the challenges students face navigating today’s complex job market, Hats & Ladders has developed a personalized career readiness platform that moves beyond traditional career assessments. “Of course, we understand that career paths evolve,” adds Potter.

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Secondary Industry Assessment Company 106

eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

CAE), a leader in designing innovative performance tasks for measurement and instruction of higher order skills and for subject area assessments, today announced a multiyear collaboration with Project Lead The Way (PLTW), the nation’s leading provider of PreK-12 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) curricula.

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Secondary Assessment STEM Outcomes 98

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In my role as a secondary interventionist and curriculum specialist, I’ve witnessed these consequences firsthand. I created professional learning for the summer literacy session and in-service day; I pulled together a training session where 25 teachers understood why we do what we do at the secondary level.

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Secondary Professional Learning Elementary Data 116

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Instead, like an athlete training for a big game, practice is seen as what it takes to get ready for the final match, and what happens on game day is what matters. It’s teaching to the test — the assessment is all that matters,” Whitehouse said. And there’s a lack of, or not sufficient training on, what this is all about.”

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System Meeting Training Policies 214

MindShift

OCTOBER 7, 2018

The condition has numerous names: secondary traumatic stress (STS), vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue. How Schools Can Acknowledge Secondary Trauma. To do this, trauma-informed schools focus on fostering a supportive caring culture, training their entire staff to recognize and support students suffering trauma.

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Secondary Education Strategy Assessment 53

Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2017

When schools find ways to welcome student opinions — to partner with students “as stakeholders in their own learning,” especially at the secondary level — they do more than equip students with tools for lifelong success. Engage students in studying and assessing their school.

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Handbook Policies Secondary Meeting 178

eSchool News

JUNE 3, 2021

Experts in performance-based assessment share research on student engagement and effort. According to Beyond Multiple Choice, assessments have come increasingly under fire over the past decade, with critics claiming they are overused, inequitably applied, and not aligned with optimal outcomes for training and education.

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Outcomes Assessment Secondary Training 59

Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2018

That's an interesting dynamic where so much of this is at this intersection of not just higher ed or post-secondary education world, but it's also what's happening in terms of employer training. There's a lot more competition and the boundaries between academic credit and noncredit training are blurring.

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Coursera Trends MOOC Training 132

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

Administrators were a bit more tempered in their responses, expressing hesitation about whether live observation is the be-all, end-all in assessing edtech impact. Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District, felt the same. Trends change. Trends change.

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Technology Classroom EdTech Secondary 121

eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2017

Students of teachers who participated in the Pathway Project, which includes 46 hours of training in the “cognitive strategies” instructional approach, scored higher on an academic writing assessment and had higher pass rates on the California High School Exit Exam than students whose teachers did not receive the training.

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Secondary Training Assessment Study 83

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 23, 2017

A secondary focus (but of significant interest with educators I polled) is technology as change agent in achieving Standards, enabling teachers to fulfill Common Core requirements without adding that ‘extra layer’ many teachers fear will take more time/knowledge/effort than they have available. Also, teachers will embed web tools (i.e.,

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Wiki Flipped Classroom Learning Common Core 174

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

The federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act, for example, limits the use of school-improvement funds to interventions that benefit student learning as documented by at least one well-designed and well-implemented research study. This is especially true for families with few resources.

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Policies EdTech Program Evaluation Outcomes 175

Edsurge

APRIL 15, 2020

It just so happened that a group of about 50 biology students were testing products from Hands-On Labs, a company that offers at-home lab kits coupled with online instruction and assessments. To support the wave of new users, the team has produced live and recorded training demonstrations.

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Company System Smartphone Secondary 187

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

K-12 assessment and research organization NWEA recently released results of a yearlong study examining the effectiveness of a reading fluency intervention targeting struggling middle school readers from historically marginalized populations or those living in poverty. school district in 2022-23.

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