Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

When you enter Parker-Varney Elementary School, you are immediately struck by the relaxed atmosphere. Our second grade students in our 2/3 Band went from 29% proficient in September 2016 to 77% proficient in June 2017 on i-Ready reading assessments. Multi-age classrooms also help boost students academic performance.

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Elementary Survey Assessment Data 140

Waterford

JULY 7, 2022

Family partnerships formed during elementary school years build a strong foundation for future student success and continued engagement.[6] Journal of Education and Practice, November 2016, 7, 82-98. Parent Involvement and Children’s Academic and Social Development in Elementary School.” Sheldon, S. B., & Jung, S.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) are down after the pandemic. Indeed, it’s so aspirational that most states are not trying to reach that level with their annual assessments. Loveless noted in 2016 that: Equating NAEP proficiency with grade level is bogus. It’s significantly above that. ”

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Assessment Report Comparison Outcomes 363

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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Elementary Education Survey Report 86

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2018

Over the past three years, a group of elementary school students from Southeast Washington, D.C., These students are all participants in The Creative School (formerly The Boys Institute) at Stanton Elementary School, an initiative designed to promote wellness and creativity—and to flip the narrative around young boys of color.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2021

Monica is the author of Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality: A Scannable Solution for Your Classroom (Corwin Press, 2016) and #FormativeTech: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scannable Formative Assessment with Technology (Corwin Press, 2017). She is a webinar host for SimpleK12 and a regular contributor to Edutopia.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2017

At the beginning of the 2016-17 school year, 82 percent of Morgen Owings Elementary School’s students were working below grade level. We have work to do, but shifting our mindset regarding assessment has made a huge impact. With only so many hours in a day, and days in a week how do we decide which assessments we need?

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Assessment Elementary Analysis Data 74

EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Like all districts in Texas, we live and die through accountability ratings based on how our students perform on the state’s STAAR (State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness) tests. To this end, we began using Renaissance Star Assessments districtwide in the 2015–2016 school year.

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2017

When a competency-based approach to assessment is in place, students must show what they know as well as what they can do. According to a 2016 report by iNACOL, 36 states are currently investigating policy surrounding competency-based education. Below are five ways to approach competency-based learning assessment.

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Competency Based Learning Assessment Game-Based Learning Learning 86

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

Jennifer Burgin (@ MrsJBurgin ) teaches amazing 2nd graders at Oakridge Elementary in Arlington, Virginia. She was named Oakridge Teacher of the Year and Arlington Public Schools Teacher of the Year in 2016. Fantastic Formative Assessment Tools ( https://www.edutopia.org/blog/5-fast-formative-assessment-tools-vicki-davis ).

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Classroom Elementary Twitter Assessment 150

techlearning

MARCH 14, 2018

An analysis of more than 22,600 K–5 students within the Charter Schools USA (CSUSA) network found that incorporating recommended use levels of the Lexia Reading Core5® program into instruction resulted in growth in reading skills during the 2016/17 school year, over and above that achieved with non-Core5 instruction.

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Elementary Analysis Assessment Tools 40

eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2017

In 2015, the PISA financial literacy assessment found that 15-year-olds in the U.S. Clearly, education should be doing more to ensure that students are graduating with financial literacy skills, and while most K-12 teachers understand the importance of teaching financial literacy, as shown in a 2016 survey , only 12 percent teach it.

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Survey Elementary Assessment Data 212

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2018

I’ve worked as an elementary and primary school teacher here in Finland for more than a decade, and spent five years as a vice principal as well. The students set goals, solve problems and assess their learning based on set targets. In elementary schools, we don’t have templates for evaluation.

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Education Assessment Elementary System 167

MindShift

JULY 10, 2018

Science could be considered the perfect elementary school subject. Most elementary school teachers have little scientific background and many say they feel unprepared to teach the subject well, according to a national survey of science and mathematics education conducted by a North Carolina research firm in 2012.

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Elementary Education Survey Report 39

Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

Realizing this, during the 2015-2016 school year, the Elizabeth Forward elementary teachers and administrative staff began to discuss the possibility of using micro-credentials and badging for their youngest students. Vernon Elementary Schools, Central Elementary School and William Penn Elementary School respectively.

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Elementary Report Assessment System 156

The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

ACT’s researchers calculated that the number of test takers with an A average surpassed the number of B students after 2016. Today, A students make up a majority of ACT test takers, some of whom are not college bound and take the test as a required high school assessment. Something interesting is happening in 2016.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2018

At Slackwood Elementary School in New Jersey, AI assistants helped bolster first-grade students, a majority of whom were struggling to achieve high test scores in science, technology, engineering and math courses. percent by 2016. SIGN UP: Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks!

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Kaplan Robotics Data Report 364

techlearning

AUGUST 2, 2018

. – August 1, 2018 – Learning.com, a leader in providing digital literacy curriculum for elementary and middle school students, today announced registration is open for its free Tech Readiness Quiz. To register for the Tech Readiness Quiz, visit www.learning.com/tech-readiness-quiz.

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Waterford

JANUARY 14, 2020

Anxiety about grades and assessments is one of the major causes (outside of ACEs) of student stress.[12] Voices in Urban Education, 2016, 43, pp. Advances in Pediatrics, 2016, 63(1), pp. The link between classroom teacher burnout and morning cortisol in elementary school students. Inability to control their emotions.

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Classroom E-rate Advocacy Report 239

Edsurge

OCTOBER 8, 2019

When the 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders at Golden Grove Elementary School in Palm Beach County, FL pad around the classroom in their (possibly) smelly socks, everyone cheers. Linda Edgecomb is the principal of Golden Grove Elementary and a huge fan of Stinky Feet Day. Flashlight reading at Golden Grove Elementary School.

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Elementary Assessment Study Instructional Materials 139

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2016

Middle school points down to elementary. Elementary points to kindergarten. Even assessment changes with competency-based learning. Recent #nhedchat Twitter Chat on Competency Based Learning [January 26, 2016 Twitter Chat]. And kindergarten blames the parents. Who is responsible ? But, wow, are there some challenges !

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Competency Based Learning Learning Elementary Twitter 150

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

eSchool News, in partnership with Xirrus , provider of next generation, cloud-enabled Wi-Fi networks, invites K-12 schools and districts nationwide to participate in the first ever Innovate to Educate Awards program, kicking off June 27 at the ISTE 2016 conference at Xirrus Booth No. Video submissions require a You Tube or Instagram link.

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Education Secondary Conference Facebook 48

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2022

Back in 2016, Ben Herold of Education Week reported that grade-school students who took the computerized version of a different test, the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), in 2014-15 scored lower than students taking the paper-and-pencil version. Research has shown mixed results.

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Study Analysis Report Assessment 96

Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

Without a national standard or requirement, foreign language enrollment and assessment varies widely by state, but Edweek reported in 2017 that one in five K-12 students in the U.S. were studying a world language or American Sign Language. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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Education Study Course Elementary 159

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

14-18, 2016 to provide an introduction to coding skills for elementary and middle school students. “There is a growing recognition that it is important for students to begin to develop computational thinking skills and coding proficiency, even as early as elementary school,” said Learning.com CEO Keith Oelrich. 4 to Nov.

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Elementary Social Media Online Assessments Assessment 101

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Mackenzie Woll, a second-grade teacher at Abby Kelley Foster Charter Public Elementary School in Worcester, Massachusetts, said diagnostic tests at the start of the year revealed that most of her students were reading at a kindergarten or a first grade level. “But In 2016, U.S. In 2016, U.S. READ THE SERIES.

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Elementary Analysis Libraries Report 145

techlearning

MARCH 19, 2018

During the 2016-2017 school year, five public school districts in Rhode Island used STEMscopes NGSS in their elementary schools. So, students historically did poorly on the portion of the NECAP Science Assessment that required them to perform short experiments and answer questions based on the data collected,” said Don E.

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Assessment E-rate Elementary Data 40

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

As a bonus, these sessions can allow educators more opportunities to measure student achievement through informal assessments, potentially providing new holistic accountability measures. 15 These increases in achievement show great potential for using high-dosage tutoring as a school improvement strategy.

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Survey Data Report Assessment 101

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

A majority of states have passed laws that mandate screening early elementary students for the most common reading disability, dyslexia, and countless districts train teachers how to recognize and teach struggling readers. Experts say early educators are key to developing early math knowledge and noticing potential delays in math.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 135

Graphite Blog

DECEMBER 21, 2016

In 2016 the Common Sense Education editorial staff evaluated close to 170 apps, games, and websites for learning potential and classroom implementation. Zearn has two big strengths that set it apart from other elementary digital math curricula. This year (as in years past) there are some very innovative tools on this list.

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Marketplace K-12

NOVEMBER 6, 2015

This will be the first school year in which most elementary and middle-school students take state-required tests online.

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Assessment Elementary Common Core Pearson 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

Since then, scholars have been trying to figure out why their scores dropped so much between 2017 and 2019 on a highly regarded national test known as the National Assessment of Educational Progress or NAEP. In this survey of elementary school children, parents had even more negative attitudes toward reading than their children.

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Survey Data Report Social Media 142

eSpark

JULY 1, 2021

These elements are: differentiation, adaptivity, student engagement, direct instruction, practice, formative assessment with immediate feedback and student explanation of learning. Though the students are continually assessed throughout the program to adjust to their skills, this initial reading sets them on a path tailored to their needs.

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Learning E-rate Elementary Outcomes 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

From 1992 until 2007, the state’s average score for fourth-graders remained below the “basic” level of achievement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. A 2016 report found that Mississippi’s teacher preparation programs failed to provide the skills needed to teach reading successfully.

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Strategy Training Assessment Report 111