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Instructionally Useful Assessments for Ambitious Teaching

edWeb.net

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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Look Who’s Talking: Dr. Mahnaz CharaniaChief Transformation Officer, The New Teacher Project

eSchool News

HBGCC – Mainstage Think Big Series: The Invisible Currency: Social Capital and the Future of Career-Connected Learning What if the most valuable outcome of career-connected learning isn’t just a credential, but a network? When—Tuesday, July 1, 12:30 – 1:30 p.m.

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Lexia Announces 2025 Science of Reading Week: Advancing Literacy, Together

ET Magazine

Monday, March 3 Opening Keynote: A Conversation With Zaretta Hammond Dr. Liz Brooke, Chief Learning Officer at Lexia, will speak with Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain.

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A lot of hope was pinned on after-school programs — now they’re shutting their doors

The Hechinger Report

But it wasnt until 1998 that the federal government offered targeted support to after-school programs, in the form of competitive grants awarded by the states through the newly created 21st Century Community Learning Centers Program. That works out to just 30 days for a three-hour program. At Clara E.

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Assessment and Grading in Distance Learning – How to Get Better

The CoolCatTeacher

Thomas Guskey shares insight on assessments From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Assessment expert Dr. Thomas Guskey reflects on the positives and negatives of assessments during distance learning. Guskey, T. Get Set, Go! Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems.

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How Blockchain Can Encourage Learning

Edsurge

A group of blockchain projects called “learn-to-earn” (also sometimes called “earn-to-learn”) aims to incentivize learners to engage with educational content and, just as importantly, stick with it. Other emerging programs in the K12 space focus on the unique needs of hard-to-reach students. In SuperSkills!,

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Empowering Community Perspectives in Evaluation Research

Digital Promise

What is equitable evaluation? As funders, government agencies, and service providers become increasingly focused on program evaluation results to make evidence-based decisions, evaluators and other researchers seek to answer this question. Why does equitable evaluation matter? .