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OPINION: New leadership at the top should mean big changes for English language learners

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MAY 20, 2021

This required extra time to create my own lesson plans, adapt our school curriculum and find supplemental materials to help my students connect with the grade-level content. For example, math departments can collaborate with EL departments to build activities and lesson plans that ELs can relate to.

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Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

The Global Online Academy will host a free course about designing online lessons starting March 16 (added because of popular demand for its first course, which is running this week). The Brown Center on Education Policy at Brookings has a webinar scheduled for 3 p.m.

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

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OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute , an education policy think tank, which directly linked minutes of social studies instruction to higher reading scores. It also plans to analyze lesson plans created by the 1619 Project , which grew out of a series of New York Times stories that reframe American history around slavery and its consequences.

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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

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JULY 19, 2024

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. On the Hook Accessibility has become a major focus area in education policy. The revised national edtech plan from the U.S.

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Using Micro-credentials to Recognize the Skills of New and Experienced Teachers

Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ). Performance assessments like the edTPA have been found to predict teaching effectiveness.

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Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Then, as teachers had time to develop lesson plans and adjust to new curricula, student performance began to improve. Back in 2013, when New York was one of the first states in the nation to adopt Common Core standards and administer tougher tests, children’s test scores initially plummeted.

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Experience and the educational ecosystem: why retention of experienced colleagues matters for beginning teachers

Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They understood the need to prioritise and advocate for lesson planning as an important aspect of beginning teacher’s training despite it being in conflict with wider school developments. Consequently, they are often better positioned to provide space for their beginning/ early career teacher mentees to make mistakes (Beutel et al.

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Making ‘Big Data’ useful rather than scary for teachers

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OCTOBER 27, 2017

Miriam Greenberg, director of education and communications at Harvard’s Center for Education Policy Research. Instead of showing educators spreadsheets full of numbers, they create color-coded charts that can quickly reveal achievement gaps or widespread strengths and weaknesses. Also, there’s a psychological factor.

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Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Let their dreams and longings be the starting point for lesson plans, not something that’s cordoned off or relegated to 20-minute enrichment. University research and policy in an era of advocacy philanthropists and agenda-setting organizations. Bring out the beauty that’s in their souls. Complete College America).

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Using Micro-credentials to Recognize the Skills of New and Experienced Teachers

Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. see this 2002 Education Week report ). Performance assessments like the edTPA have been found to predict teaching effectiveness.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Teachers project lesson plans onto interactive screens, and little hands reach for black Chromebook laptops, which are stacked like cafeteria trays in a large box called a Chromecart. Today, nearly every DelSesto lesson plan unspools from a Summit-brand “playlist,” a menu of personalized activities.

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As More AI Tools Emerge in Education, so Does Concern Among Teachers About Being Replaced

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JULY 2, 2024

And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue. In the meantime, many new features and products released in recent weeks focus on helping educators with administrative tasks or responsibilities like creating lesson plans and other classroom materials.

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Related: Inside Florida’s ‘underground lab’ for far-right education policies By November, when a slate of Republican school board candidates who’d campaigned against DEI was elected , the changes started to come hard and fast. The new DEI committee was disbanded in early 2022, as students continued to report racial hostility.

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OPINION: New leadership at the top should mean big changes for English language learners

Coronavirus is poised to inflame inequality in schools

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PROOF POINTS: Slightly higher reading scores when students delve into social studies, study finds

Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

Using Micro-credentials to Recognize the Skills of New and Experienced Teachers

Five years after Common Core, a mysterious spike in failure rate among NY high school students

Experience and the educational ecosystem: why retention of experienced colleagues matters for beginning teachers

Making ‘Big Data’ useful rather than scary for teachers

Notes from the UNI Education Summit

Using Micro-credentials to Recognize the Skills of New and Experienced Teachers

Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The messy reality of personalized learning

As More AI Tools Emerge in Education, so Does Concern Among Teachers About Being Replaced

One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

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