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EdTech
3 Tech Tools For the First Day of School
3 tools, individually or together, will help elementary students leverage technology in ways we couldn't imagine just a few short years ago.
Ed Policy
Achieve Releases State Framework For Competency-Based Education
Achieve, the leading advocate for college- and career-ready standards, posted an important policy resources this week: Advancing Competency-Based Pathways to College and Career Readiness: A State Policy Framework for Graduation Requirements, Assessment and Accountability. Competency-based education has been part of Achieve’s strategic plan for a few years, but this report is the most important action to date.
Leadership
Boosting Employability
In the US and Africa- 40% of recent grads are unemployed. So, who owns the problem? Is it a government problem, a higher ed problem, a consumer problem, or an employer problem?
Personalized Learning
Creating A Classroom Marketplace
A marketplace gets artifacts . . . “things” . . . into the hands of people who need them and rewards the people who create them. The Classroom Marketplace works the same way, and it prepares students to reap the benefits of real-world marketplaces.
Uncategorized
Considering Competency-Based Education
The shift from time to learning, from cohorts to competency, will be tough. It’s not easy or superficial--it’s a new and different way of organizing schools.
Personalized Learning
How to Create a Blended High School
Last week I visited a team planning a new high school, a team planning to reinvigorate a high school, and operators of a couple high performing networks.
Personalized Learning
K-12 Assessment and Teacher Evaluation: Lessons from Tim’s Fifth Grade Class
Matt Chapman authors the final installment of NWEA's three part educator evaluation series focusing on K-12 assessment and teacher evaluations.
Personalized Learning
K-12 Assessments and Teacher Evaluation: Using Data to Help Teachers Strengthen Their Practice
In the second addition to this three part guest series, Dr. Anne Udall of NWEA argues that there is real opportunity for schools and district leaders to use assessment data, particularly from interim assessments, to help educators grow their expertise.
Personalized Learning
Newsela: Read closely. Think critically. Be worldly.
A cool new news-as-literacy platform launched this week. Newsela “is an innovative way for students to build reading comprehension with nonfiction that's always relevant: daily news.”
Personalized Learning
K-12 Assessments and Teacher Evaluation: Putting Students First
In the first part of this three-part guest series, Dr. Raymond Yeagley of NWEA discuss putting students first when creating assessments for individual classrooms or at scale.