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5 resources to build stronger classrooms through PLCs

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Research underscores that schools with strong PLCs show significant gains in student achievement and teacher retention. TeachFX gives teachers real evidence to reflect on their instructional language, making it easier to bring authentic data to PLC meetings. How to use it: Use TeachFX with your PLC to analyze classroom discussions.

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5 strategies to get your students talking

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Students review the same current events across different outlets to evaluate tone and language, the central focus, how information is shared, and how the information/story is represented. Student agency boosts achievement: Ensure there is choice built into the learning experience.

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Students Using Lexia Core5 Reading Outperformed Their Peers On the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy Assessment

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The schools were highlighted in a recently released report which compared the students’ performance on the Smarter Balanced English Language Arts/Literacy (SBAC ELA) assessment. Our study evaluated Core5’s impact on more than one million California elementary students’ ELA achievement during the 2022-23 school year. points and 3.04

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What I learned building an AI tool for my own kids (and millions more worldwide)

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Throw out the traditional app playbook When my family and I moved from Siberia to California in 2014, my daughter Sofia had to adjust to a whole new language at preschool. Watching her struggle, I realized language-learning tools just werent designed for kids.

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How our district turned a sea of data into a compass for change

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Specifically, this has allowed us to improve in closing the achievement gap for students with disabilities over the last several years and to provide our teachers with more tailored professional learning for support. This has brought tremendous gains in student achievement.

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AI can personalize learning–it can’t make students care

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What if the missing ingredient in student achievement isn’t better curriculum, tech, or teachers, but better motivation? Researchers have offered a range of explanations for this gap, from inconsistent implementation by schools to the possibility that higher-achieving students are simply more likely to stick with the programs.

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The dangers of attempting to ‘Instant Pot’ educational progress

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That means students this year did not need to achieve the same mastery of knowledge and skills as kids in previous years. Florida is actively looking at removing graduation requirements which include passing a 10th grade English Language Arts assessment and a statewide algebra test.

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