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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Unlike summative assessment, which typically occurs at the end of a learning cycle to evaluate students’ overall progress toward the unit’s desired results, formative assessment is ongoing and designed to inform instruction, indicate areas where additional differentiation is needed, and guide learning. Check for understanding.

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Data shows growing GenAI adoption in K-12

eSchool News

textbook readings) (30 percent) and visuals (e.g., images included in textbooks and digital content) (29 percent). This edition, which surveyed over 3,000 higher-ed students and instructors and over 1,000 K-12 teachers and administrators, found similarities among higher-ed instructors and K-12 teachers optimism for GenAI specifically.

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New Teacher-Focused Program Launched to Drive Literacy Results for Alaska Students

eSchool News

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif., CORE is a subsidiary of Pivot Learning.

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AEF Schools: Empowering Students with Individualized Learning, Social Growth, and Real-World Skills

k12 Digest

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. To address this, AEF integrates executive functioning coaching into daily instruction.

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Minneapolis’ Aim Academy of Science and Technology Selects Discovery Education to Support Science and Social Studies

eSchool News

Featuring standards-aligned, core-curricular resources that use an inquiry-based approach to enhance literacy and critical thinking skills, Discovery Education’s Social Studies Techbook aids teachers and students as they approach inquiry through the 5Es Framework: Engage, Explore, Explain, Extend, and Evaluate.

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Checking Your Edtech Assumptions

Edsurge

Not surprisingly, the principals, technology coaches, curriculum directors, and superintendents across the Austin area are no strangers to using edtech. I am familiar with some assumptions developers make. I am familiar with some assumptions and how they affect instruction. You Can’t Spell Assumptions without Austin.

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How to Demonstrate Confidence in Your Teaching

Edsurge

As I began my first night of teaching in a university setting, I asked the students to take out their textbooks for the class and turn to a particular page. Dave Stachowiak is the host of the Coaching for Leaders podcast most recently an audio production project called Dave’s Journal. He also happens to be my husband.

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