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Where did BlueHarvest come from? BlueHarvest is the experiment of a high school teacher in Iowa who was fed up with students valuing points and grades above learning. What does BlueHarvest do? BlueHarvest is a website that organizes the feedback that teachers give to students. BlueHarvest then keeps it organized by idea for future reference as the student progresses.

ODE third grade guarantee

"This is an awesome example of what kids can do when they are properly motivated by a skilled teacher. This is an excellent interactive book! Great job and congratulations to all the seventh grade authors and their teacher!!!"

"In this new video podcast-one of many free resources that support his best-selling book, Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessment & Grading in the Differentiated Classroom (Stenhouse, 2006)-Rick Wormeli discusses strategies school leaders can use to unite faculty members around common goals. "

"This app allows teachers to easily and quickly grade multiple choice questions by simply taking a picture of it with your iPhone or iPad."

"What he found was a pattern of districts taking a big hit in grades when they had students take tests online, while also having great success when students took them with paper and pencil."

"The Google Drive iPad app is not yet all that we might want it to be, but it is definitely moving in the right direction. A recent update included the ability to create and edit spreadsheets, but it also added something equally useful - the ability to upload files from other apps to Google Drive via the "Open in" function. This creates some useful workflow options for teachers who want to assign, receive and grade student work on the iPad."

"Teaching Channel - high quality videos on Math, ELA and much more! I just re-discovered the Teaching Channel, which has about 650 videos on a variety of topics, including 150 on Common Core. Search by subject, grade or topic (including CC but also Planning, Behavior, Engagement, Class Culture, How To's, other professional development...) and get a list of excellent videos with some innovative and effective teaching practices. The videos are usually 2 to 15 minutes long"

"At Challenge Success, we believe that our society has become too focused on grades, test scores and performance, leaving little time and energy for our kids to become resilient, successful, meaningful contributors for the 21st century. Every day, we provide families and schools with the practical, research-based tools they need to raise healthy, motivated kids. Success, after all, is measured not at the end of the semester, but over the course of a lifetime."

"The district's key strategy for improving student outcomes is the use of "professional learning communities." A PLC is  basically a team of teachers assigned to a given grade level. As Putnam explains it, they test all the kids on a certain subject. Based on the results, they group the kids by educational need. Then they work on the students' skills and test them again."

"I've been stewing on SLOs since January when legislation dictated that value-added teachers (reading and math grades 4-8) would now be required (as of 2014-2015) to have 50% of their evaluation based on value-added."

A Boston Public School, serving children K1 - Grade 5, and their families. Haley Pilot School Core Values~       Engagement: For every student to be motivated to learn through memorable experiences and connections to community.       Community:  For every student and their family to be understood, respected and engaged.      Equity:  For our instruction to be inclusive yet different based on students' individual strengths and needs.

        The Dr. William W. Henderson Inclusion School is a small elementary school serving children from early childhood through Grade 5.  Our students are from diverse ethnic, linguistic, and ability backgrounds.  We are an inclusive school.  Students who have disabilities learn in general education classrooms with their nondisabled peers.  Teachers and support staff collaborate to help all children learn and succeed at high levels.

"But a Plain Dealer/StateImpact Ohio analysis raises questions about how much of an equalizer it truly is, even as the state ramps up its use. The 2011-12 value-added results show that districts, schools and teachers with large numbers of poor students tend to have lower value-added results than those that serve more-affluent ones."

I am a 2nd grade teacher from OHIO who is WILD about technology! This fall will be my 17th year of teaching! I have enjoyed sharing my ideas and supporting teachers who have attended my technology sessions. We have traded many ideas and given support to each other over the years through email and Facebook. This blog is a new adventure to share ideas and to learn from a new community! I hope to inspire teachers to use technology in their classrooms. I hope to motivate parents/community members to use technology in their homes and in their daily lives!

"The Game is not a program that involves lessons that take up valuable curriculum time. Rather the Game is a "behavioral vaccine" or routine that is used every day-like brushing your teeth, buckling your seatbelt, or wash your hands after going to the bathroom to protect or promote one's health, safety or wellbeing. Every day, thousands of the students from pre-K through even high school are playing the PAX Game. Students have learned that PAX means a wonderful school or classroom, filled with productivity, peace, health and happiness. Everyday, students create more PAX by sweeping away "Spleems" by their teams in the classroom or even whole grade or school."

from the National Forum to Accelerate Middle-Grades Reform

Good article on Hattie's research "Can you guess the next two items on the rank order list? "Home environment" and "socio-economic status." In other words, everything on the list has a greater effect on student achievement than the student's background - despite the endless fatalism of so many teachers on this point (especially in the upper grades)."

"There are lots of changes that are occurring in education that will have an impact on students currently enrolled in the Hamilton City School District, around the State, and across the Nation. The information on this site is designed to provide you with more information about what students will be expected to know and do at each grade level in this era of increasing standards. The District is committed to working with parents to provide a world class education that will enable all students to be college and career ready upon graduation from Hamilton High School."

"The video library is an innovative and differentiated resource that brings the Common Core instructional shifts, teacher and leadership evaluation and data driven instruction to life. The library, which will house hundreds of videos from around New York state, captures teaching and evaluation along a developmental arc and tags for characteristics like grade level, subject area, Common Core Standards and instructional shifts and teacher and leader evaluation rubric indicators."