Edsurge

AUGUST 30, 2020

It is rooted in a testing paradigm that reflects the now defunct concept that students fall along a Bell Curve—that some will always be behind—rather than a belief that all students can reach proficiency. Replacing grade-level achievement goals with relative growth goals undermine the mission of equity that our schools promise to uphold.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2017

It’s a well-worn idiom, which shapes the belief systems of too many schools and districts across the country. If the district’s goal was to be high achieving, then what was the point of tinkering with a formula that was working? We’ve all heard the old cliche, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2018

Decades of attempts at closing the persistent (and perhaps even widening) achievement gap, along with the knowledge that this is an immense and deeply historical issue to address, make it feel as if the task may be impossible. And for some time now we’ve seen school improvement plans focused on “closing the achievement gap.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2020

Based on his work, CASEL says that developing self-awareness with an equity lens can help students and adults “examine what it means to belong to a group or community, including how ethnicity and race impacts one’s sense of self and beliefs,” and “recognize biases and understand how thoughts, feelings, and actions are interconnected.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It’s common to hear well educated adults declare themselves “not a math person,” sometimes proudly. This belief is wrong. Change the belief that mathematical ability is inborn, focusing on parents’ attitudes and how they are communicated to children.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

Our approach is rooted in the belief that all families, regardless of circumstance, can benefit from coaching. We are—thankfully—not alone in this belief. For example, EmPath ’s comprehensive coaching program builds adult capacity to achieve long-term financial sustainability. Promotores , an initiative led by the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2024

School culture is the set of implicit assumptions, beliefs and expectations that drive the activities and behaviors within a school. This includes the unwritten rules about decision-making and the types of achievements that are valued and celebrated.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Unfortunately, DPS follows a nationwide trend where Black students are overrepresented in discipline and underrepresented in academic achievement. Educators and the educational system often harbor implicit biases that result in lower expectations for Black students, particularly in mathematics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e., be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity. the Board of Education.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Student success is more often defined by whether a learner demonstrates achievement on what my grandmother called the “3 R's: Reading, Writing and Arithmetic” — the core academic skills needed to illustrate mastery on standardized assessments. This is a dilemma. Is it marked by enthusiasm, love and care, and purposeful focus?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. Joey empowers students and teachers to achieve great success in the classroom and in the future.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

"[We] break down data by ELLs versus non-ELLs, special education students versus non-SPED students, and students receiving particular interventions.". But Firman expresses a firm belief that the scores from these types of testing are far from the only types of data schools and/or teachers should be collecting.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The partnership enables device-agnostic access to educators and students, increasing accessibility to help close the achievement gap across the nation. Our new partnership with FocalPointK12 is consistent with our deeply held belief that this multi-layered challenge must be met with innovative partnerships. About FocalPointK12.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Q&A: Rachel Gorton On How K–12 Schools Envision the Future of Education. When making the switch to a modern learning environment, it can be easy for K–12 schools to get distracted by the impressive array of new education technology and lose sight of the reason to adopt these tools in the first place: to improve student outcomes.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

With thoughtfully developed tools, we can make great teaching more effective and empower teachers to create educational experiences that inspire students. At GoGuardian , our philosophical belief is that students are inherently curious, and it’s a matter of supporting teachers and schools to enable the right set of educational experiences.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2018

In an age when acronyms and educational programs are continually tossed at teachers—only to be discarded a few years later—it’s difficult to determine what will actually move the needle on student achievement. In Pennsylvania’s Elizabeth Forward School District, classroom iPads are closing the achievement gap.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. In a particularly jarring study by Sian Beilock, girls in first and second grade classrooms with female teachers high in math anxiety had lower achievement in math and held more stereotyped beliefs about girls' abilities.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

The findings come out of the Achieving the Dream OER Degree Initiative , which provided grant money to 38 community colleges across 13 states to create degree pathways of courses that use OER materials instead of commercial textbooks. Students saved an average of $65 per OER course at colleges participating in the study.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. Equally important, they’re never using “technology for technology’s sake.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2019

It recently released a survey of 1,880 adults that seeks to understand how teachers, parents and the public view learner variability, students’ ability to reach high levels of academic achievement, and the use of education technology. Using technology effectively in the classroom has been the focus of decades of research.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

And interestingly, in both studies what we found was the real drivers of this are for students at the lower levels of achievement. Both times the kids at the lower levels of achievement really rocked it in terms of what they remembered in arts versus what they remembered in traditional instruction. How do teachers respond to this?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

In education, this is particularly harmful to students because it affects pacing guides, textbooks and how states measure who achieves—and who fails. Our current industrial model is rooted on the belief that there is an average student,” Rose said. “In It’s that very mindset, that continued belief in the myth of average.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. Ultimately, I realized I was complicit in supporting educational mandates that were not beneficial to all students. As I sat with the quote, I began to wonder: What contradictions did I embody? What was I negotiating?

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2024

The 2024 CODiE Awards honored 40 education technology products across 35 categories, with an additional eight companies receiving recognition in the education technology leadership categories. The SIIA Innovation Showcase highlights innovators and startups with less than $1 million in revenue.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2020

As more colleges face the reality of a declining traditional student population, there’s a common belief that adult students are where the growth is. There are plenty of reasons why higher education needs to get better at serving adult students in order to achieve the kind of inclusive prosperity called for in our mission statements.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

(Courtesy: Hello World) Various studies prove that female and underrepresented minority students are more likely than others to experience a lack of confidence in their abilities and imposter syndrome , meaning they believe that they have somehow not earned their achievements as a result of their own efforts or skills.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2023

One of the most insidious causes for the difference in achievement is a stubborn culture of low expectations by the adults in their schools. Another cause for the achievement gap is that Black and Latino students experiencing poverty are more likely to have teachers with weaker mathematical backgrounds.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The limited but growing body of research on experiential learning suggests it can deliver superior educational outcomes by facilitating practice and feedback, increasing student motivation and helping students achieve higher rates of employment and wages.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The incredible research by Carol Dweck and her colleagues on the power of mindset in learning has become pervasive in education. The concept of growth mindset shows that contrary to popular belief, people aren’t born smart. Instead, we become smart as a result of hard work, productive effort, and feedback.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2016

In the piece, he challenged the common belief that big, sexy ideas are always best. I believe we do so by starting with a simple concept: Connect the dots to create a more accurate picture of student learning and achievement. That’s where our diverse community of education and technology leaders from across the country comes in.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

For some, this may be a struggle to embrace due lack of access or belief that paper is better. –Rhonda Evatt, Health Science Educator, Anderson Institute of Technology Our education system is still grappling with the ongoing challenges of incomplete learning and lower student achievement.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The positive impact of teachers has been extensively substantiated through years of research highlighting that teacher effectiveness is the most important school-based factor related to student achievement and outcomes. From PLTW research, 67 percent of teachers felt PLTW made them more satisfied with their careers.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Using her own experiences as a struggling student in her early high school years, her talk centered on the achievement gap and her belief that educators’ lack of empathy is a major factor in perpetuating it. Yasmin delivered her speech at one of our school-based professional development sessions.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2019

When I began my teaching career, policymakers were enthralled by the second frame, reasoning that if we achieve “equity,” all kids are able to see over the fence. We’ve perpetuated the belief that we can achieve equity by simply “doing” school better—and have little to show for it.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

This confidence is important, not just for the well-being of the educator, but for what education researcher John Hattie described as collective teacher efficacy: “the collective belief of teachers in their ability to positively affect students.” Hattie noted that this has the greatest influence on student achievement.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. What to Do Next The two largest contributing factors to student achievement are well researched. Here are three ways to jumpstart learning for students of poverty.

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