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Instructionally Useful Assessments for Ambitious Teaching

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Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Educators want assessments to be instructionally useful and provide data they can use to help students learn, but not all assessments do that. While they are not necessarily instructionally useful, they are useful for program evaluation. So, what is instructional usefulness?

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MTSS: Where to Begin?

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Create a matrix of what programs and supports you already have, which populations they support, and who is leading the programs. Evaluate the efficacy of current programs. Look at the data and talk with teachers, staff, administrators, students, parents, etc. Collect data.

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Edtech Data Improves Purchases and Student Performance

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Rather than rely solely on randomized controlled trials, generally considered the “gold standard” for medical treatments, the MIND approach emphasizes the use of publicly available schoolwide performance data that can be matched to specific schools and types of students. Evaluating the Evaluation Process.

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Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Quality, Learning-Focused 1to1 Initiative

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Managing Change: Knowing how to define success and if “it” is working (smart use of data for planning, formative feedback, and program evaluation). Deliberately and proactively defining success (more in terms of learning than of technology). Metrics primarily focused on Learning-centered outcomes (e.g.

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Leadership Coaching and How Students and Teachers Benefit

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Establishing Goals and Program Evaluation. Personalized Professional Learning. Data Use and Security. Leadership and Organizational Design. Messaging and Effective Communication. Budget and Resources. Technology Infrastructure. Digital Curriculum and Assessment. Family and Community Engagement.

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Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

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Work on developing culturally proficient communities during the previous decade has now led to the creation of a professional learning program designed to increase equity and inclusion during the 2020s, in collaboration with the Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators. The Path Forward. About the Presenters.

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Bring Science to Life: The Impact of Video Game Simulations

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The simulations have interactive elements, data sources that respond to ecosystem changes, and tools that provide details about the various species in the virtual environment (how much food an animal needs, survival rates, etc.). In the game, they apply all three learning dimensions: Practices: analyzing data, creating environments.

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