As educators seek ways to improve student learning and decrease the dropout rate, individualized learning or what many now call personalized learning is taking the stage in the mainstream classroom. If used correctly, personalized learning may provide students with the specific instruction that meets their needs and thus improves their achievement. In the ASCD INFObrief, “The Building Blocks of High …
In this morning’s New York Times, Quentin Hardy reports in the Bits blog on a push by the non-profit group EductaionSuperHighway to change the way the Federal Communications Commission provides broadband to schools. With the support of 40 executives, including the CEOs of American Express, Dell, Ebay, and Facebook, EducationSuperHighway has written a letter to the FCC demanding greater transparency …
Increasingly, policy groups and thought leaders are pointing to the need for a resource, such as Learning List, that provides objective reviews of instructional materials. They assert that the need for independent, objective reviews has increased (1) as new instructional materials are introduced to support Common Core implementation, and (2) as more states deregulate their instructional materials markets and allow …
Learning List doubles/triples/quadruples the capacity of your district’s curriculum staff. Tools on LearningList.com make it easy for curriculum directors to identify products (state-adopted, non-adopted, open-source) that address 100% of the TEKS. Learning List helps superintendents and board presidents comply with the 100% Rule. Campus Leadership Teams can use Learning List’s alignment reports to design TEKS-aligned curriculum maps and lesson plans for each instructional material …
With the beginning of spring semester comes many decisions regarding ways to help struggling students grasp the required standards before state assessments. Teachers often turn to online instructional materials to help reinforce the concepts and skills for these students. Many online materials offer formative assessments, individualized learning paths, reteach lessons, and various reports on student learning. If used correctly, these …
Siemens STEM Academy is accepting applications for its Siemens STEM Institute and Siemens Teachers as Researchers (STARS) programs through February 4, 2014. Both programs are opportunities for middle school and high school STEM teachers to participate in all-expense-paid professional development activities in summer 2014. The Siemens STEM Institute accepts fifty educators, or STEM Fellows, to attend a week-long institute hosted …
Over the past few months, Learning List staff have attended quite a few vendor conferences for products under consideration for state adoption in Texas. These conferences have been hosted by Texas’ regional Educational Service Centers and have given vendors an opportunity to present their products and educators an opportunity to preview the new science, math, and technology applications materials that …
As discussed in our previous post on student engagement, educators hold different views of what it means for students to be engaged in learning. Not surprisingly, research has identified several dimensions of student engagement. These include behavioral engagement, emotional or psychological engagement, and cognitive engagement. When students are behaviorally engaged, they participate in the academic as well as the social …
Lowe’s is accepting online applications for its 2013-14 Toolbox for Education Grants through February 15, 2014. However, once 1,500 applications have been received, no further applications will be accepted. Toolbox grants provide between $2,000 and $5,000 to public K-12 schools to undertake projects that lead to permanent enhancement of school facilities and may be completed within one year. Examples of …
Yesterday afternoon, KERA broadcast Trey Kay’s radio documentary about the culture wars surrounding Texas’ public school curriculum. The Long Game: Texas’ Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom provides a rigorous and balanced exploration of the controversies surrounding what is taught in Texas public schools. As Kay reports: For more than a half a century, citizens of the Lone …
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