The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Relationship over reproach: Fostering resilience by embracing a trauma-informed approach to elementary education. Even when connecting at a distance instead of in person, we can all benefit from learning some skills to connect with students on an emotional level, even while delivering classroom instruction.

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 486

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

The second grader attends SpaRRk Academy, a virtual learning program for elementary students created in 2021 by the Rio Rancho School District in New Mexico. On days when SpaRRk Academy students are learning virtually, the classrooms are empty except for teachers and administrators, who come into the office just about every day.

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Elementary Online Learning Report Personalized Learning 93

edWeb.net

MAY 30, 2019

We, as edtech leaders and classroom teachers, must explore pathways where assessments support teaching and learning in the 21st century. Authentic assessments are always about the connections we make with students, each other, and the broader community as indicated in a Gallup poll. But What About Technology?

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Assessment ePortfolio Learning Secondary 51

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 20, 2019

The Learning Counsel, a leading education research institute and news media hub, announced this year’s National Digital Transition Survey Award winners at its 2019 National Gathering held in Dallas, TX. Four different categories of proficiency were celebrated in the National Digital Transition Survey Awards.

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Survey Elementary Software System 130

Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

The ACT Network brings together shared school leadership teams—teachers, principals, central office staff who serve the schools, and community advocates—to analyze a school’s data sources, including demographic data, perception and survey data, learning data, and program data.

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Digital Badges Professional Learning Data Elementary 217

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. In August 2020, they launched a “Tech Check” survey to collect that data. By May 2021, the campaign had accounted for roughly 70 percent of all Oakland public school students through the survey.

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Digital Divide Broadband Chromebook Survey 107

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary fourth-grade teacher Sudhir Vasal created math lesson pathways so each child can progress at their own pace. Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Philanthropists, state education officials, reform advocates — even charter school leaders — are examining personalized learning.

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Education Elementary 95

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2022

Close to 700 days after her youngest children last set foot in a school classroom, Monica Rodriguez faced a decision she dreaded: Should she let them return to in-person learning? Black and Latino parents were more likely than parents of other races and ethnicities to fear for their children’s health during in-person learning.

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Elementary Report Personalized Learning Trends 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2021

There’s no definitive count yet of how many students are enrolled this summer in a wide range of new options, from a push to close early learning gaps in Texas to a summer program in Oregon that helps kids learning English. A push to close early learning gaps in Texas. Playing catch-up in districts that were already struggling.

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Elementary Report Groups Personalized Learning 108

The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. Often, their intelligence masks their disability, so they are never assessed for special education or don’t receive the services best suited for them.

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Advocacy Elementary Training Report 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

Called the COVID-19 School Response Dashboard , it asks elementary and secondary schools and districts throughout the U.S. to report confirmed and suspected cases of COVID-19 among their students and staff who are learning and teaching in person this fall. That’s an option not all educators have had during the pandemic, though.

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Data Education Guidelines Secondary 154

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Related: Inside the middle school math crisis I sat through other new simulations at the summit as well, including Dreamscape Learn, something I’d heard and read about from a colleague who took a trip through its virtual Alien Zoo ) and YouTube Player for Education , which is creating virtual lessons, content and assessments.

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Training Report Online Learning Conference 116

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

School officials in the seaside town scrambled to purchase enough devices for all their students to learn online last year after the pandemic hurtled kids out of buildings. There’s a simmering sense of anticipation about how far educators have come with technology, and its potential to enhance student learning.

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Digital Divide Broadband Laptops Chromebook 143

MSEDTechie

NOVEMBER 5, 2015

I remember being that shy little girl in my elementary class who would sometimes know the answer, or had a question, but didn’t feel comfortable speaking out. Creative Formative Assessments Can Help: Save time assessing students. I began to think about the 15 years in education and my various experiences. So why not use it.

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Assessment Poll Everywhere EdTech Khan Academy 40

Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2017

I realized that lessons I used one year ago might not work for the group of learners in front of me today so I modified what I’d learned about user experience and applied it to the learner experience. I saw that I needed to move beyond formative assessment of skills. We’re not entirely sure what will work but we value experimentation.

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Classroom Company Blended Learning Assessment 148

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2019

When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school. But there, among Providence’s brightest, it wasn’t as easy to be at the top of the class, and her excitement about school – and learning – subsided. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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How To Learning Report Survey 112

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. An enthusiastic teacher who has mastered pedagogy, content, and reinforcement schedules and is passionate about student learning and success is the only true silver bullet.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

At the beginning of each semester, Jayla’s school sends every child a survey with photos of every adult in the building, asking the kids to name someone who they feel they can confide in, who cares for them as a person and who will find them the support they need. Sometimes the adults at home are the cause of the stress.

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Report Training Elementary Survey 132

MindShift

MAY 6, 2019

Before elementary school, the boy was diagnosed with autism, ADHD and anxiety, and in kindergarten he was placed in a small, self-contained class for kids with disabilities. Often, their intelligence masks their disability, so they are never assessed for special education or don’t receive the services best suited for them.

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Advocacy Elementary Training Assessment 53

techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

Coupled with zSpace’s proven applications, the laptop provides students with a real-world learning environment and a personalized learning experience that align to state and national standards. A recent survey of teachers using zSpace with their students demonstrated their belief in the power of AR/VR to transform learning.

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Laptops Survey Mobility Company 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

A: Our focus has really been on transforming educational models, really a focus on personalized learning. We basically took all the traditional assumptions about school – about how we spend our time, space, curriculum, assessment – and we just challenged every one of those assumptions. Technology has an important role.

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Blended Learning Survey Advocacy Meeting 80

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Boston: Eileen Rudden of LearnLaunch announced a new multi-sector partnership to scale personalized learning throughout Massachusetts, and discussed the funding approaches they have leveraged to support the expansion of the ed tech network in Boston. LearnLaunch has graduated 31 #edtech companies and has 120 mentors.

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Assessment Tools Blended Learning Exercises 120

iLearn Technology

JANUARY 12, 2021

Each day we were in remote learning, I sent a daily email with a video message for the community, links to all of our teacher’s daily plans, links to tech-support, and a daily check-in survey so parents could share how remote learning was going in their house. Obviously, 2020 wreaked havoc on that daily tradition.

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Video Libraries Survey Chromebook 50

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. In fact, in the book, Steve is quoted saying, "If I could put one computer in a school and one person would find that computer, it would change their life." I watched kids learn to read in that lab. Before school, recess, lunch, after school.’

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Education iPad Strategy Technology 80

The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 19, 2014

BoomWriter’s interactive collaborative writing platform lets teachers deliver a fun and engaging personalized learning experience, while elementary, middle, and high school age students work online to develop their reading, writing, and peer assessment skills.

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Common Core Tools Assessment Groups 78

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Though Robbins shares that AI has to potential of “bettering the world around us,” as mentioned above, he wonders whether it would render the teaching profession “obsolete”: “With more focus on personalized Learning, also known as old-school “Independent Study,” students take ownership of their learning without a teacher.

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IXL Learning Education Comparison Digital Learning 106

The Cornerstone for Teachers

APRIL 4, 2021

On the other hand, Alisa, an elementary school teacher from Massachusetts, says that building outdoor learning spaces in her school lead to a stronger community as everyone came together to make it happen for the kids. Case Study #2: Alissa, 1st Grade Teacher at Leverett Elementary School, Dorchester, Massachusetts.

How To 85

How To Laptops Elementary Case Study 85

MindShift

APRIL 12, 2017

Instead, she recommends building in time during the trajectory of the work to give feedback that students can immediately use to move them forward in their personal learning journey. Brookhart gave an example of an elementary class working on persuasive writing. EQUITY IN FEEDBACK.

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Assessment Examples Survey Elementary 77

EdTechTeam

JANUARY 7, 2020

One of my favorite uses of Google Drawings is to use them for manipulatives – and if you’re a middle or high school teacher and think manipulatives are mainly for elementary students, please hang with me. . Click here to learn more. Google’s survey tool, Google Forms, is an incredibly powerful tool. Tool #3: Forms .

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Google Tools ePortfolio Data 78

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

A national survey of parents and teachers conducted last fall by the Data Quality Campaign and the Harris Poll confirms the high regard that both parents and teachers have for the power of education data.

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Data Education Report Accessibility 64

iLearn Technology

JANUARY 11, 2021

Each day we were in remote learning, I sent a daily email with a video message for the community, links to all of our teacher’s daily plans, links to tech-support, and a daily check-in survey so parents could share how remote learning was going in their house. Obviously, 2020 wreaked havoc on that daily tradition.

Video 36

Video Libraries Survey Chromebook 36

MindShift

MARCH 27, 2019

When Destiny Reyes started elementary school, she felt highly motivated. Like most young children, she liked learning new things, and she excelled at school. But there, among Providence’s brightest, it wasn’t as easy to be at the top of the class, and her excitement about school – and learning – subsided. PROVIDENCE, R.I.

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Report Survey Study Assessment 47

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Amanda Amtmanis, an elementary physical education instructor in Middletown, Connecticut, handed out cards with QR codes to a class of third graders, and told them to start running. Amanda Amtmanis, the PE instructor at Macdonough Elementary, hands a fifth grader a card with a QR code for tracking her mileage. Whoa, look at Dominic!”

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Elementary Learning Report Exercises 140

User Generated Education

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Embracing Opportunities for Self-Directed Learning in Formal Learning Environments: Bernard Bull. Assessment as an Ongoing Act of Learning: A Heutagogical Approach: Melanie Booth. New Pathways to Knowledge and Learning: Rónán O’Beirne. Moving From Education 1.0 Through Education 2.0 Towards Education 3.0:

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Education Learning Resources Tools 268

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

It’s called personalized learning: What if each student had something like a private tutor, and more power over what and how they learned? It found that schools using some form of personalized learning were, on average, performing better ( there were some wrinkles we’ll talk about later on).

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2020

But equally unclear is how many students will show up: In a survey of New York families that triggered about 400,000 responses, more than 40 percent of families said they wouldn’t feel comfortable sending students to school unless a vaccine is available. (“I still don’t know how she does it all!”)

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Survey Trends Elementary Groups 151

Evelyn Learning

AUGUST 22, 2023

ASSESSING THE DOWNFALLS Declining Academic Performance: While the U.S. CRAFTING SOLUTIONS Personalized Learning Models : The one-size-fits-all approach in education is antiquated. Graph Highlight : A survey reveals that schools emphasizing holistic education witness a surge in student engagement and overall well-being.

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Assessment Education Digital Divide Survey 52