The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? Plus, evidence-based assessments could improve the overall quality of project-based learning by helping educators tailor projects to specific skills and vet a lesson’s overall effectiveness.

Assessment 111

Assessment Education Academic Standards Report 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2019

Teachers monitor individual progress, see what each student completed on their last visit as well as when that was and how long it lasted, view students’ self-described moods, assess their pre- and post-quiz scores, and view their summative synthesis videos that provide evidence of their knowledge as they teach others what they just learned.

Learning 172

Learning Chromebook Common Core iPad 172

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. But assessing non-academic skills, it turns out, is no easy task. At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king.

Survey 105

Survey Assessment Report Academic Standards 105

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

In the interest of helping other companies and school districts enable extraordinary teaching and learning at scale, we’ve highlighted the three main findings—and some solutions—that have come from these conversations: 1. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

EdTech 156

EdTech Academic Standards Social Media Technology 156

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. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

EdTech 120

EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Now, with learning back in person in many places in the country, Lindsay’s experience keeping kids mostly on track, even during the most chaotic of times, offers lessons to other districts. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Students on a break at Lindsay High School.

Online Learning 133

Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 133

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 1, 2015

The process of mastering mathematics, for example, is served as much by a consistent process of practice as it is the practice itself. If learning is the result of acquiring “new data” and organically folding it into “old data,” how students come to that new data is incredibly important. The Tone of Learning.

Academic Standards 40

Academic Standards Assessment Social Media Data 40