Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

They may conduct online research, talk to colleagues, join a Twitter chat, connect with experts on social media, and/or commit to a book study. When teachers take the time to produce artifacts of their own learning to share with an authentic audience, they tend to think more deeply about what they are learning (just like students!).

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Recently, a teacher posted a comment to my blog lamenting that direct instruction consumed much of the class period. Station 4: Online Station Students select a specific habitat to research and share their learning about the biodiversity in that habitat in writing, video, or a visual format (their choice). This is not unusual.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2020

As an educator, I struggled to find reliable information about edtech tools as nearly every product I looked at claimed that it was based on research. This claim felt vague—what does “based on research” even mean to this product?—and and baseless as products rarely shared the research that drove their design.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2020

We spoke with STEM researchers and educators Ximena Dominguez, Kevin McElhaney, and Nick Schiner about the importance of the home-school STEM connection in the context of COVID-19. Research suggests that parents’ math and science talk can help children develop robust mathematical understanding and scientific thinking.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

This blog post is the second in a series where participating districts share why they are committed to providing maker learning opportunities to their students. The walls and shelves of this 106-year-old building are covered with authentic student learning artifacts.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 7, 2019

Digital Promise’s Adult Learning initiative recently launched Community Impact Stories, a new series of blog posts to highlight adult learner stories across the nation. Re-design, or remix, literacy refers to the ability to construct new meanings, texts, or multimedia products with existing texts, images, and other artifacts.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?” series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2022

The equity audit consisted of five phases: Phase I : Research and develop a comprehensive evaluation rubric to assess micro-credentials against a rigorous equity and access standard. Does it reflect current best practices and research? Are there options for types of artifacts requested?

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Each graduate student brings their own specialized research focus to the table, enriching the legacy of the SWP. The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

This 3-part blog series , featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this third post, the author describes lessons learned while leading a cohort of diverse schools and districts through a process of strengthening their edtech systems.

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Edthena

JUNE 16, 2023

With these recorded video artifacts, teaching candidates reflected on their own teaching, as well as received feedback on their practices from peers and coaches. How are you connecting that to the research we’re learning? Check out our blog post: 12 Questions to Ask When Reflecting on Culturally Responsive Teaching

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

However, as educators produce evidence of competence through classroom artifacts in the micro-credential process, they are incentivized to apply their learning in their day-to-day work. Even with great professional development, the multiple demands on an educator make it challenging to transfer PD content into action in the classroom.

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Digital Promise

MAY 2, 2019

By analyzing the artifacts and narratives that educators presented in their submission, we sought to share specific strategies educators use to support each of their learners. While we had a purpose for the micro-credentials, we also wanted to understand the extent to which we were reaching those goals. The Friday Institute).

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

of the population, according to research from New American Economy, and are the fastest-growing ethnic minority group in the United States, according to Pew Research. Read our blog, Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month , to learn more about other Asian/Pacific historical figures you can spotlight.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2019

Inquisitive & Reflective : students ask questions, identify problems, investigate and create solutions, and reflect to iterate on their designs.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

Some of the Educators Rising micro-credentials’ submission requirements call for artifacts from classroom teaching, such as teaching videos. We continue to research and implement new ways for students and educators alike to show what they know while pursuing personal areas of interest that meet their professional learning needs and goals.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Heather describes how creating routines with coaching cycles can release the cognitive burden off of teachers and coaches, allowing them to have a rich and purposeful dialogue about the artifacts of teaching. Fun fact: She’s observed more math classrooms on video than any other researcher in the country!

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 22, 2019

Orr spent a semester digging into the research behind how learners vary and tried several strategies tied to self-regulation, a key learner variability concept, to support two of her students.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

In my last blog post, Using the Station Rotation Model in Math , I wrote about the benefits of shifting from a whole group, teacher-led lesson design to small-group differentiated instructional sessions. This approach draws from the research that shows writing is a powerful tool for learning.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

The tools educators can use to guide viewing of instructional practice videos are called Focusing Techniques, and they are synthesized from research on teacher learning, self-reflection, and accelerated improvement. Compare is a useful focusing technique for discussing the similarities and differences across multiple teaching artifacts.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

It’s a research-proven way to help teachers improve their practice. . Explorations enable all organizations to implement research-informed strategies for evidence-based learning within a professional development cycle. Share non-video artifacts. Really great. We think video self reflection is really great.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

Don’t be afraid to do some research here! Once I knew I wanted to incorporate music into my inquiry, I had to do some research to find the tension in music made during the Cold War. What do artifacts tell us about immigrant experience? First, start with something that you find interesting about the topic.

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C3 Teachers

MAY 8, 2024

Don’t be afraid to do some research here! Once I knew I wanted to incorporate music into my inquiry, I had to do some research to find the tension in music made during the Cold War. What do artifacts tell us about immigrant experience? First, start with something that you find interesting about the topic.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” Fashioned as progress narratives , students chronicle movement from research to incubation, prototyping to testing, and ultimately, to the finalized “proven” end product.

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Edthena

MAY 20, 2022

Since 2011, Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into a research-informed and patented platform used by schools, districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers. Steven Miletto: Adam Geller is the founder and CEO of Edthena. Louis, Missouri. So I think that’s cool.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

There’s actually research basis in the fact that teachers will actually improve by watching themselves on video. There’s actually research basis in the fact that teachers will actually improve by watching themselves on video. ” And then, we should absolutely justify why we’re doing it with the research.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 23, 2025

Likewise, Im assuming some familiarity with state classification systems, which I talk about a bit on my blog and for {peacesciencer}. My blog has other things for my students to read about merging data. As researchers, they should go to the three-character ISO codes. {peacesciencer} talks a little bit about this as well.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 30, 2025

Over the years, these questions became obsessions of mine, and nearly a decade ago I started a writing instruction-focused blog to seek out answers. In research circles, it is often contrasted with bounded framing , or learning that is only connected to a specific task (Engle et al, p. Engle, Randi A., Lam, Xenia S. Haussamen, B.

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