eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2024

For a year, our leadership team crunched numbers and performed a comprehensive facilities study before determining to close one elementary school and reorganize grades by building. As school leaders, we have an inherent drive to innovate so that we may better our students’ learning experiences. Until it wasn’t. Leaders freeze.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

–James Hood, Principal, Rodburn Elementary School , Rowan County Schools The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are transforming the educational landscape, ushering in a more integrated and dynamic approach to teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2020

The new “COVID-friendly” algorithm saves time and evaluates factors such as social groups, extracurricular activities, bus routes and household dynamics to determine the impact of interactions at school. Class Solver integrates seamlessly with many student management systems. It was a huge life saver!”.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2021

In addition, each school district superintendent nominated a classroom teacher or district-level content supervisor to perform independent reviews. Finally, the Commissioner of Education assessed the state and district reviewer evaluations, public feedback and cost of the materials before giving approval.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. If you’re a computer science educator, you go teach in high school or university. 00:04:29 Speaker 2 OK.

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eSchool News

MAY 3, 2016

Based on the programs I was using, I could evaluate how to differentiate instruction for my students,” she said. But tracking how well her students were meeting specific grade-level standards at any moment during the year wasn’t an option for her at that time, nor was looking at larger trends until after the school year had ended.

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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2023

The company’s equity framework ensures that a solid structure exists from which to test, address, and mitigate bias in all areas, from data processing and model building to product design and evaluation activities. Amelia Kelly, SoapBox’s chief technology officer.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. We need to re-evaluate our goals and how we meet them. I think we need to do some serious instructional reflection.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Even as Anderson excelled in his coursework at Jackson State University, he struggled to pass one of the licensure tests required in Mississippi to gain full admittance into the teacher preparation program at his school. In 2015, 25 states required teacher candidates to pass a basic skills test for admission into a preparation program.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Romano-Arribito is an EdSurge columnist and has spent about 27 years in the classroom teaching everything from first grade to middle school in her home state of New Jersey. But while teaching middle school a few years ago, she began to feel the squeeze from high stakes testing, administrator turnover and battles over curriculum scripting.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

Diversity in Students’ Assessment Where American teachers have to deal with punitive high-stakes testing, the new Finnish curriculum emphasizes diversity in assessment methods as well as assessment that guides and promotes learning. Self-assessment and peer assessment play an important role in evaluating and “learning to learn” skills.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

The family engagement room at Belleaire Elementary School in the suburbs of Omaha is bustling on a late October morning. Kindergarten teacher Kelsea Heesacker comes in to chat with the school counselor and to grab a winter coat for a little girl who came to school without one. BELLEVUE, Neb.—The

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan provided strategies and resources for teachers to use in their classrooms, and through this assignment, he learned a variety of skills including how to design compelling professional learning opportunities, how to find and evaluate sources and how to communicate his findings clearly to an audience.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

It focused on absences in early elementary school, between kindergarten and second grade. When a student misses school, he says, that has a ripple effect on everyone else in the classroom. Regardless, for the researchers, the study adds to a knowledge base about larger classroom dynamics.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Teachers tested prompt after prompt, and while the essays ChatGPT spit out weren’t exemplary, it was human enough for students to pass the work off as their own. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against. Look,” a student pointed out in one seminar. “It

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2021

In her remarks, Chan mentioned Nottingham Elementary School , which closed for nearly four weeks after Hurricane Harvey in 2017, but invested in mental wellness and belonging in its recovery, and later saw test scores rise.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2020

Partnership offers automated assessment of students’ oral reading fluency — for testing at school or at home . For the start of the new school year, Savvas is pairing myView Literacy ©, its leading core K-5 literacy program, and Reading Spot , a digital library, with AMI’s Moby.Read.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Preliminary research suggests digital platforms can improve student testing outcomes. When the Maricopa Unified School District in Arizona introduced blended learning classrooms, students using the program scored higher than the district average on all six of the statewide achievement tests. .

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

District leaders formed the Jones Curriculum Council (JCC), a committee of teachers tasked with researching and evaluating top-tier curriculum solutions. Nominee: Mark Hess , Mary Helen Guest Elementary School Nominated by: Epson. Nominee: Neal Kellogg , Oklahoma City Public Schools Nominated by: TutorMe.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

When students can bring models to life and test them in real world situations, they are expanding beyond paper and screen into the world around them. Finally, I predict data security to be a continued focus for schools in 2024. Looking ahead to 2024, the industry is poised to transition to an offensive stance.

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eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2020

Carolina’s new three-dimensional science kit series turns students into inquiring scientists during short investigations that easily fit into the busy elementary school day or informal settings, such as science clubs, afterschool sessions, or summer camps. The kit topics include: Why Can a Sloth’s Fur Be a Habitat?

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

“That means services for medically fragile students and other vulnerable children, an emergency support plan for all first responders and healthcare workers to support child care and other needs, access to appropriate testing and care, feeding programs, and learning packets and specific guidance for online learning.” What about AP tests?

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eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Key points: About two-thirds of American students fail to meet reading standards every year when tested in 4 th , 8 th , and 12 th grades. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them. Worse, some screeners do not even test students’ skills.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

Choice can be a powerful thing —provided you can evaluate, and act on, the options available to you. For decades, Chicago parents have been able to apply to send their kids to their school of choice—and they can put as many as 20 schools on their wish list. Does she want parent activities?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2017

I quickly figured out that my administration and the other teachers didn’t care if my students were learning—they wanted my students to stay out of the hallways, off administration’s radar and to appear somewhat engaged when it was time to be evaluated through standardized testing. That’s when the email came.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

— Nicollette LeTellier, STEM Specialist for K-5, Swift Water Elementary School. After the pandemic, schools will need to find a way to measure where their students are academically, developmentally, and socially to make their best efforts to remediate learning loss of all kinds. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

MAY 15, 2018

Utica Community Schools is situated is in the heart of the automotive, defense and healthcare industries, and our community has a heavy manufacturing base. Many of the businesses are already using virtual reality—whether it’s doctors performing surgery, designers building cars or the defense industry testing products in virtual environments.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Brook Avenue Elementary School in Waco, Texas has been in the papers before, but not for shiny new laptops or flexible classrooms. The school has served as the model for poor performance in the area—listed in both Waco Tribune-Herald and on KCEN-TV for falling below state standards for the last six years.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

This distributed model of learning took off and has grown over the years to a network of nearly 300 Fulton County educators who are pioneering new approaches to education technology use, testing new tools and helping others in their schools and communities do the same. They LOVED sharing what they learned using Adobe Spark!

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

We had three schools performing academically in the bottom five percent in the state—they were the lowest of the lowest. And this past year two of those schools came off the list! Our middle school and elementary school are no longer priority schools. We’re going to go from the bottom to the top.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

Here are guidelines, culled from top education sites like Edutopia, Google Education, Educational Technology, and EdWeek that are valuable when evaluating any website: free or small fee. stand the test of time–do students stay engaged even after playing it over and over. How do you decide what is best for your class?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

If you’re evaluating math programs at your school, a good option to consider is ORIGO Education’s Stepping Stones. school systems, the Magnolia Independent School District in Texas serves a diverse student population. Sandy Szako is a math instructional coach at Nichols Sawmill Elementary School in Magnolia.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

— Nicollette LeTellier, STEM Specialist for K-5, Swift Water Elementary School. After the pandemic, schools will need to find a way to measure where their students are academically, developmentally, and socially to make their best efforts to remediate learning loss of all kinds. — Keith Look, Ed.D.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2017

Middle school teachers achieve this through the Summit Learning Platform and elementary school teachers leverage the Google Suite and Google Classroom. Teacher created playlists with a variety of activities give students the power of choice in determining how they want to practice or learn.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2016

I begin to ponder: Have the rigorous demands of the Nevada Academic Content Standards and my extensive evaluation system decimated my learners joy of reading? Because I gave them choices, I helped them develop confidence, and I gave them a chance to express themselves in ways no test can measure. What a summer.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I wouldn’t point blame or send him to the office; instead, I would allow him to talk out what he was feeling, re-evaluate how he reacted, and create a plan for the next time he felt upset. He could use a calculator during tests, but he had to learn a strategy for tracking those negative signs. you’re awesome.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 3, 2016

Many years before formally learning about how gears work, playing with gears “did more mathematical development than anything I was taught in elementary school,” he wrote, noting that he later created mental gear-driven multiplication tables and equations with variables.

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