Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2017

We also heard that learning guardians of all types—coaches, teachers, tutors, and parents—need more actionable insights about how children learn. Artificial intelligence is not going to be education’s “silver bullet” any more than radio, TV, the internet or the iPad have been. To innovate is to question; to question is to learn.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

And we did not teach to the test. In fact, she continues, “There were a couple of kids who said they had never passed the math SBAC test in the history of their schooling, and that 6th grade was the first time.” The students who exceeded on the state test were from diverse backgrounds. We just used Carnegie Learning Math.”

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Sessions, keynotes, discussions, and the expo hall will connect attendees with need-to-know details on the latest edtech innovations shaping the education landscape. Plus, they’ll learn best practices and current trends to best leverage educational technology resources. 23, 2024 in Orlando.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2023

Stamford, for instance, has created two types of seminars for the teachers in the Allegheny school districts he services — a general introduction, and a subject-specific one, where he brings together educators from the same discipline to share activities they use AI tools for.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Our third graders take state standardized tests, and our scores used to be pretty good,” explained Connie Hibbitts, Instructional Coach for all four elementary-middle schools in the county and an educator with 34 years of experience. After just a few months in, students’ hard work started paying off. And this program was it.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. Author and educator Katie White, who’s something of an expert on the creative process, may have a practical solution.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (Office of Edtech, for short) issued a Request for Proposal for a better way to help schools evaluate edtech tools before making a purchase and. “[We Anyone interested in giving it a test run and leave feedback can do so TKTK.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2023

Teachers, parents, counselors, administrators, coaches, and other loved ones have faced an unprecedented challenge in this regard. Districts will see the value in data-driven instructional coaching. One practice that we will see gaining popularity is instructional coaching. –Patty Hagan, Teaching and Learning Coach, St.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

The district was among the first in the country to test the chatbot called Khanmigo, an AI program developed by online learning giant Khan Academy that is designed for classrooms and acts as a tutor for students and an assistant for teachers. Reid studies educational technology products and reviews their efficacy in classroom instruction.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

If a college baseball coach wants to improve the hitting average of his team, what should he do in batting practice? Some of my most brilliant students have grappled to comprehend concepts, to remember processes and to perform well on tests. Every spring, I start gauging the amount of time I have remaining until the tests arrive.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Create true coaching cycles that allow them to bring a challenge, and get support in designing a strategy to overcome it. At BetterLesson, we practice the Try, Measure, Learn framework, which empowers teachers to identify a new strategy to try, test it out, and measure its impact against a goal set with a coach.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

To support their professional growth, teachers will also have continued access to the AI Coach platform , which enables them to watch and reflect on videos of their classroom instruction, set professional goals, and receive personalized observation tips, coaching, and resources from a virtual, computerized AI coach.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2021

In addition to this research, BTS Spark, the global not-for-profit education arm of BTS where we work, reviewed its coaching data of over 1,000 school leaders who had been coached during 2020 in the peak of the pandemic. Sensing the Future – being open to new ideas, solutions, and processes, and testing them quickly.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

With price packages that range from from 499 rupees (about $7) a month to 1,499 rupees (about $20) for two years, EduRev offers videos, notes and practice tests on subjects that range from business and programming to engineering and economics. The platform hosts more than 500 courses and 100,000 videos, documents and tests.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2025

An instructional coach for K-5 math teachers in Milwaukee Public Schools in Wisconsin, Robinson can find herself zipping around several of the schools she works with in the city to assist teachers, give workshops or try to help vice principals grasp the nuances of math instruction. Thats why Robinson says she feels like a math therapist.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This journey requires collaboration among technology teams, instructional coaches and educators. Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology to enrich classroom environments.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

Across the massive, brightly colored expo hall at ISTE 2019 , the annual education technology conference where companies display and demo their latest gadgets, upgrades and software, several vendors showcased the new skills they have developed for Alexa-enabled devices. Alexa, when is the next ACT test date? It’s beautiful.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Tutoring (for academic subjects & standardized tests). ? Interview coaching. ? Neuropsychological evaluations to assist students in need of testing accommodations. Organization / executive function skill building. ? Deadline management. ? Research and analysis. ? College list creation. ? Personal story development. ?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

Necessity begets ingenuity, and for many businesses no test of survival has been tougher than the current one wrought by a global pandemic. Duolingo Passes Its English Test Don’t worry, the pandemic hasn’t shuttered Duolingo’s popular gamified language learning app. to accept its test scores. Denny’s is selling groceries.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

And the action is everywhere: an indoor plastic pool awaits student design teams testing their ship prototypes, while in the courtyard, groups of students engage in a game that both explores and challenges their perception of themselves as mathematicians.

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Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2020

One-on-one coaching will continue over the phone, he explains, as we are still waiting for his mentee to call. As some states cancel standardized tests, more schools may adopt a coaching versus assessment-based teaching approach. How do you do that in absence of in-person interaction?

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Although students identified with their peer-coaches, the service placed a big burden on the coaches. “We We learned from first-generation students that asking them to take on the load of being the coach was onerous” on top of everything else they were doing, she recalls. They started with coaches, we started with tech.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2021

For educators and parents navigating the world of education technology, international players such as Byju’s may not yet be household names. Rapid Growth Byju’s got its start by delivering what students and their families would readily pay for: Test prep. But they will. His classes grew in size and number. But they will.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The SAT test weighs heavily on our collective imagination—and most everyone can picture the nerve-wracking scene of students sitting at desks, bubbling in Scantron forms with a No. I have witnessed meltdowns in the hallways when students get their test scores,” he said. “I Sure, they're happy, [if they say] I got a 1250.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

Southeast Lauderdale High School also knows the importance of testing different platforms before investing. By bringing in the new technology to be tested by a variety of stakeholders, the team was able to better find the right solution for their needs. Once you’ve found the right tech, the real fun begins.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What I have learned from coaching hundreds of students over two decades is that while some students need intensive support, others just need me to get out of their way. Lecturing and quizzing on content is more efficient than coaching and mentoring groups of students through real-world problems.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Together, we committed to an iterative process of examining existing and emerging MBE research and continually learning, testing, reflecting and revising our practices to make sure they’re reflective of the findings. But we took it one step at a time. It started with coffee.

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

One is a cohort of coaches and pros who create content and do one-on-one training. We have more than 500 coaches. On average, these coaches tend to be expert players based in North America, Latin America and Europe. What other resources do clients get outside of the coaching sessions?

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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. His impact on the Sayreville Public School District and the broader educational community is immeasurable.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

Ten years ago, when we began building equitable, offline-first education technology for the 2/3 of the world who didn’t have internet access, many people told us to just wait and the gap would close naturally. One thing that cannot be denied is the disconnect in today’s education technology between AV and IT and various domains.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2021

Our core value at EmpowerU is to ensure that all students feel seen, heard, valued and respected by our virtual coaches every day. By the time we started the fundraising process, we had already spent four years conducting research, pouring over best practices and beta-testing products with students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

For example, features like Reading Progress and Reading Coach, built directly into Microsoft Teams, allow teachers to assign students self-directed exercises to boost reading fluency, whatever the skill level. This is why we’ve developed the Microsoft Learn Educator Center. Yet, this is only a starting point.

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Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2020

What if he could make a difference by ensuring that kids had reliable adults—parents, teachers, coaches—to count on? Today, he spends the bulk of his time teaching and supporting educators as a coach, speaker, author and senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

As I learned more about the attributes of the youngest generation, I began to think about the implications for educators. I’ve spent two decades as a literacy specialist coaching teachers and providing professional development and I’ve seen a lot of transition in the field. I had questions and I wanted to know more.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Additionally, students can complete the program sooner by transferring previously earned high school credits or credits from any of the four GED subject areas tests that were passed at a Performance Level 2 or above (145+). Be supported by an academic coach and certified instructors who care about their success.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2019

In the past year alone we coached over 300 teachers across 99 schools, and conducted walkthroughs in over 700 classrooms. Their subsequent observations and tests were centered on demystifying this problem. In education, teachers are often required to balance multiple—and often opposing—challenges simultaneously.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

This is perhaps the greatest misconception about my goals as a teacher coach and, after speaking with colleagues in similar roles at schools around the country, I know I’m not the only one who wants to debunk this assumption. Improving teaching and learning practices with technology is not about replacing traditional teaching.

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