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Kathleen Grainger

StudyJams - 118 views

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  • Kelly Neal on 24 Oct 10
     
    I LOVE this site and use it often with my third graders as well as the fourth graders I tutor. So much information and so creatively explained!
  • Beth Panitz on 14 Aug 11
     
    Videos, slide shows, karaoke, and practice quizzes
  • Kathleen Grainger on 27 Apr 12
     
    Math and Science fun mini lessons to put on Smartboard.  Some of the lessons have songs to go with the concept.
ronhustvedt

Charters of Freedom - The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Ri... - 44 views

www.archives.gov/...charters

8thgrade civics historyday primarysources secondarysources photos database documents constitution

shared by ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10 - Cached
  • ronhustvedt on 22 Nov 10
     
    A mandatory website for 8th graders but a good one for any topic related to Constitutional debate/diplomacy as well as any connection to the foundation of our nation.
Dennis OConnor

6-Traits - 0 views

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writing writing books 6-traits teaching review

shared by Dennis OConnor on 24 Nov 08 - Cached
  • Dennis OConnor on 24 Nov 08
     
    KMSoul is a student publication of personal narratives from 7th and 8th Graders. These pieces can be used as practice pieces for 6-traits assessments.
Javier E

Few Students Show Proficiency in Science, Tests Show - NYTimes.com - 18 views

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shared by Javier E on 25 Jan 11 - No Cached
  • Only one or two students out of every 100 displayed the level of science mastery that the department defines as advanced
  • a smaller proportion of American 12th graders demonstrated proficiency in science than in any other subject that the federal government has tested since 2005 — except history
  • Twenty-one percent of the nation’s 12th graders scored at or above the proficient level in science on the 2009 tests, compared with 42 percent who demonstrated proficiency on the most recent economics exam, and 38 percent and 26 percent, respectively, on the most recent nationwide reading and math tests.
anonymous

Technology in Schools Faces Questions on Value - NYTimes.com - 70 views

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technology schools change critique measurement effectiveness integration

shared by anonymous on 04 Sep 11 - No Cached
  • When it comes to showing results, he said, “We better put up or shut up.”
  • Critics counter that, absent clear proof, schools are being motivated by a blind faith in technology and an overemphasis on digital skills — like using PowerPoint and multimedia tools — at the expense of math, reading and writing fundamentals. They say the technology advocates have it backward when they press to upgrade first and ask questions later.
  • how the district was innovating.
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  • district was innovating
  • there is no good way to quantify those achievements — putting them in a tough spot with voters deciding whether to bankroll this approach again
  • “We’ve jumped on bandwagons for different eras without knowing fully what we’re doing. This might just be the new bandwagon,” he said. “I hope not.”
  • $46.3 million for laptops, classroom projectors, networking gear and other technology for teachers and administrators.
  • If we know something works
  • it is hard to separate the effect of the laptops from the effect of the teacher training
  • The high-level analyses that sum up these various studies, not surprisingly, give researchers pause about whether big investments in technology make sense.
  • Good teachers, he said, can make good use of computers, while bad teachers won’t, and they and their students could wind up becoming distracted by the technology.
    • anonymous
      anonymous on 07 Dec 11
       
      yep - so where does leadership come in?
  • “It’s not the stuff that counts — it’s what you do with it that matters.”
  • “Test scores are the same, but look at all the other things students are doing: learning to use the Internet to research, learning to organize their work, learning to use professional writing tools, learning to collaborate with others.”
  • that computers can distract and not instruct.
  • “They’re inundated with 24/7 media, so they expect it,”
  • The 30 students in the classroom held wireless clickers into which they punched their answers. Seconds later, a pie chart appeared on the screen: 23 percent answered “True,” 70 percent “False,” and 6 percent didn’t know.
  • rofessor Cuban at Stanford argues that keeping children engaged requires an environment of constant novelty, which cannot be sustained.
  • engagement is a “fluffy
  • term” that can slide past critical analysis.
  • creating an impetus to rethink education entirely
    • Steve Ransom
      Steve Ransom on 04 Sep 11
       
      Like teaching powerpoint is "rethinking education". Right.
  • guide on the side.
  • Professor Cuban at Stanford
  • But she loves the fact that her two children, a fourth-grader and first-grader, are learning technology, including PowerPoint
  • “There is a connection between the physical hand on the paper and the words on the page,” she said. “It’s intimate.”
  • Mr. Share bases his buying decisions on two main factors: what his teachers tell him they need, and his experience. For instance, he said he resisted getting the interactive whiteboards sold as Smart Boards until, one day in 2008, he saw a teacher trying to mimic the product with a jury-rigged projector setup. “It was an ‘Aha!’ moment,” he said, leading him to buy Smart Boards, made by a company called Smart Technologies.
  • This is big business.
  • “Do we really need technology to learn?” she said. “It’s a very valid time to ask the question, right before this goes on the ballot.”
  • anonymous on 07 Dec 11
     
    Shallow (still important) analysis of the major issues regarding technology integration in schools.
Tony Baldasaro

Virtual kids: Actually they're real, but they go to school online - Kansas City Star - 16 views

www.kansascity.com/...1499852.html

teaching education virtual online vlacs

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  • Tony Baldasaro on 14 Oct 09
     
    "Eleventh-grader Philip Marten's second-hour class is orchestra. But first hour, third hour, fourth hour and the rest of his school day are spent not at school but at home in Shawnee. Philip may look like any other high school kid, but in fact he's a "virtual" student. For him and others enrolled in virtual schools online, getting an education involves no bells, no lockers, no school plays, no marching band, no snow days and no cafeteria food."
Marsha Ratzel

Maybelle the Cockroach Sparks Digital Learning Adventures - 61 views

www.convergemag.com/...gital-Learning-Adventures.html

learning digital digitalstorytelling

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  • Marsha Ratzel on 21 Jun 11
     
    Excellent example of how 2nd graders took a traditional lesson of Flat Stanley and turned it into a technology rich project.
Michelle Kassorla

How Shadowing my 2nd Grader led to a new view of Tech in the Classroom - 68 views

www.hybridpedagogy.com/...shadowing-my-2nd-grader.html

technology edtech education k-12 schools integration

shared by Michelle Kassorla on 02 Dec 13 - No Cached
  • Michelle Kassorla on 02 Dec 13
     
    An essay that presents the difficulty of technology integration in the classroom and why we should do it anyway.
solisg58

Favorite 2nd grade books - 4 views

www.greatschools.org/...orite-books-for-second-graders

Favorite books for 2nd graders

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  • llows children to imagine the things they would do if they co
  • uld. This is a story everyone can relate to, no matter his or her background
  • climb into a tree and read” summer days.
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  • read-aloud
  • Poetry
  • Themes of racial or ethnic identity and pride are incorporated in the plot.
  • Friends
Mary Blow

QuickGrade | The easiest FREE grade calculator for teachers! - 115 views

quickgra.de

grading grade grade conversion tool grade slider Quick Grade

shared by Mary Blow on 28 Nov 11 - Cached
  • Mary Blow on 28 Nov 11
     
    Put away your EZ-graders, teachers, QuickGrade is the easiest grade calculator around! Use this tool to make grading stacks of tests a snap. Made with love and totally free to use!
Martin Burrett

School-based yoga can help children better manage stress and anxiety - 15 views

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yoga fitness research

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  • Martin Burrett on 11 Apr 18
     
    "Participating in yoga and mindfulness activities at school helps third-graders exhibiting anxiety improve their wellbeing and emotional health, according to a new Tulane University study published in the journal Psychology Research and Behavior Management."
Michele Brown

12 Awesome Poetry Project ideas with Haiku Deck - 66 views

blog.haikudeck.com/poetry-projects

poetry language arts

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  • Michele Brown on 07 Apr 14
     
    Showcasing twelve terrific poetry projects from our incredibly creative community of educators. You'll find projects for first graders and high schoolers, and everything from sensory poems to color explorations to poems about polliwogs. (We also think any of these would be just as fun for adults to try - a little creative expression is always good for the soul!)"
Joanna Gerakios

Why Kids Need Goodreads - The Tempered Radical - 67 views

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goodreads school library

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  • Joanna Gerakios on 15 Nov 12
     
    Good article making the case for using Destiny Quest's social features.
  • Bonnie Grover on 15 Nov 12
     
    Thank you for info on Destiny Quest. I am looking to see what software our library uses. I teach 5th graders and I have been in contact with GoodReads. They feel their site is not age appropriate for our students, so we have chosen to blog and rate our books on our own. But, it really isn't the same as having access to thousands of other people's opinions. Thanks again for your insight.
Steve Ransom

Principal: 'I was naïve about Common Core' - 4 views

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commoncore testing standardizedtesting highstakestesting accountability critique

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  • The promise of the Common Core is dying and teaching and learning are being distorted.  The well that should sustain the Core has been poisoned.
  • Whether or not learning the word ‘commission’ is appropriate for second graders could be debated—I personally think it is a bit over the top.  What is of deeper concern, however, is that during a time when 7 year olds should be listening to and making music, they are instead taking a vocabulary quiz.
  • Real learning occurs in the mind of the learner when she makes connections with prior learning, makes meaning, and retains that knowledge in order to create additional meaning from new information.  In short, with tests we see traces of learning, not learning itself.
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  • Teachers are engaged in practices like these because they are pressured and afraid, not because they think the assessments are educationally sound. Their principals are pressured and nervous about their own scores and the school’s scores. Guaranteed, every child in the class feels that pressure and trepidation as well.
  • I am troubled that a company that has a multi-million dollar contract to create tests for the state should also be able to profit from producing test prep materials. I am even more deeply troubled that this wonderful little girl, whom I have known since she was born, is being subject to this distortion of what her primary education should be.
  • The Common Core places an extraordinary emphasis on vocabulary development
  • Parents can expect that the other three will be neglected as teachers frantically try to prepare students for the difficult and high-stakes tests.
  • They see data, not children. 
  • Data should be used as a strategy for improvement, not for accountability
  • A fool with a tool is still a fool.  A fool with a powerful tool is a dangerous fool.
Marc Patton

Second Grader Shows How She Uses Evernote For Fluency - Edudemic - 77 views

edudemic.com/...evernote-for-fluency

iPad_iPod_iTouch Language_Arts Teaching_Ideas Teaching_Tools

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  • Marc Patton on 21 Mar 13
     
    Nicole Gleason shows one student explaining the benefits of Evernote, how she's using it to improve fluency, language learning, keeping track of her studies, and leveraging all the iPad and Evernote have to offer.
Matt Renwick

Educational Leadership:Faces of Poverty:Boosting Achievement by Pursuing Diversity - 19 views

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poverty

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    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      This is a critical point. Allowing middle class families to pick and choose where there kids should go without valid reasons (i.e. work) can hurt high poverty schools.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      Have we?
  • Residential poverty tends to be concentrated, and successful school integration requires either a district with enough socioeconomic diversity within its boundaries or a group of neighboring districts which, when combined, have enough diversity to facilitate an interdistrict integration plan.
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  • A weighted lottery is the simplest way for schools to ensure that they enroll a diverse student body while still relying on choice-based enrollment.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      A possible solution?
  • ndividual success stories and a review of research suggest that it is possible, by offering all students a single challenging curriculum, to reduce the achievement gap without harming the highest achievers (Burris, Wiley, Welner, & Murphy, 2008; Rui, 2009).
  • In the middle grades, students at City Neighbors start their day with half an hour of highly specialized, small-group instruction called intensive. Intensive provides an opportunity for extra support or enrichment in different subjects, allowing teachers to meet different students' needs while still teaching most of the academic time in mixed-ability classrooms.
    • Matt Renwick
      Matt Renwick on 02 May 13
       
      Sounds like an intervention block, something many buildings have or are looking at.
  • small but growing number of schools are attempting to boost the achievement of low-income students by shifting enrollment to place more low-income students in mixed-income schools. Socioeconomic integration is an effective way to tap into the academic benefits of having high-achieving peers, an engaged community of parents, and high-quality teachers.
  • A 2010 meta-analysis found that students of all socioeconomic statuses, races, ethnicities, and grade levels were likely to have higher mathematics performance if they attended socioeconomically and racially integrated schools (Mickelson & Bottia, 2010).
  • Research supporting socioeconomic integration goes back to the famous Coleman Report, which found that the strongest school-related predictor of student achievement was the socioeconomic composition of the student body (Coleman et al., 1966).
  • nd results of the 2011 National Assessment of Educational Progress in mathematics show steady increases in low-income 4th graders' average scores as the percentage of poor students in their school decreases (U.S. Department of Education, 2011).
  • a number of studies have found that the relationship between student outcomes and the socioeconomic composition of schools is strong even after controlling for some of these factors, using more nuanced measures of socioeconomic status, or comparing outcomes for students randomly assigned to schools (Reid, 2012; Schwartz, 2012).
  • Rumberger and Palardy (2005) found that the socioeconomic composition of the school was as strong a predictor of student outcomes as students' own socioeconomic status.
  • Socioeconomic integration is a win-win situation: Low-income students' performance rises; all students receive the cognitive benefits of a diverse learning environment (Antonio et al., 2004; Phillips, Rodosky, Muñoz, & Larsen, 2009); and middle-class students' performance seems to be unaffected up to a certain level of integration.
  • A recent meta-analysis found "growing but still inconclusive evidence" that the achievement of more advantaged students was not harmed by desegregation policies (Harris, 2008, p. 563).
  • he findings suggested that, more than a precise threshold, what mattered in these schools was maintaining a critical mass of middle-class families, which promoted a culture of high expectations, safety, and community support.
  • istricts have chosen to let school boundaries reflect or even amplify residential segregation.
mollyfanning

Student-created Public Service Announcement Videos - 54 views

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shared by mollyfanning on 24 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • mollyfanning on 24 Jan 16
     
    This is the end result of one of my favorite units I do with my 7th graders. This year students brainstormed various positive messages they thought would make our school community a better place or would reinforce some of the positivity that already exists. Our school TV news will broadcast these to our entire school over the next few months (one per day). Enjoy!
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