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Who's still testing with PARCC and Smarter Balanced?

Adam Rogers | July 14, 2016

Another group of states in 2015-16 deployed their own Common Core-aligned assessments, adding greater momentum to a national shift away from the PARCC and Smarter Balanced testing consortia. Who's still testing with PARCC and Smarter Balanced? Another group of states in 2015-16 deployed their own Common Core-aligned assessments, adding greater momentum to a national shift […]

Optimizing Word Study with VocabularySpellingCity® and Words Their Way®

July 14, 2016

The Affordances of VocabularySpellingCity Technology: Meeting Research Based Practices for Word Study Instruction.

Five years in, results paint complex picture of Common Core

Adam Rogers | July 13, 2016

More than five years after many states implemented Common Core, the impact on student achievement remains unclear—though some states show small academic gains, with persistent achievement gaps. "Common Core is alive and well" says Adam Ezring, policy director of the Collaborative For Student Success, a nonprofit that supports use of the standards. "While it's still […]

New environmental tool empowers high school scientists

Ray Bendici | June 26, 2016

Biology students in 13 Howard County public high schools have a new tool to study the Chesapeake Bay watershed. By using the survey tool, students help environmental scientists keep an eye on pollution and other factors that might harm the bay or its creatures, including Maryland's renowned blue crabs. Howard County sits southwest of Baltimore, […]

Microcredentials provide highly personalized PD

Adam Galvan | June 26, 2016

Few teachers receive individualized professional development, though many are expected to personalize learning for students. Microcredentials—digital badges that teachers earn by learning a skill and demonstrating mastery through student results—offer a PD pathway designed to be highly differentiated and engaging. The microcredentialing process starts with teachers choosing a skill they want to develop. They take […]

Zoology and botany magnet school comes to Miami-Dade County

Ariana Fine | June 21, 2016

Invasive fish species can harm Florida's waterways. And now students from Miami-Dade County's BioTECH @ Richmond Heights work with Zoo Miami scientists to monitor the invaders and their effects on local lakes. The conservation-biology-focused STEM high school—which opened in 2014-15 with help from an $11 million federal grant—focuses on zoology, botany, genetics, ecology, chemistry and […]

Taking the pulse of the teaching profession

JD Solomon | June 21, 2016

What do teachers think of their profession? How do they feel about government intrusion into what they teach and how they conduct themselves in the classroom? A report by the Washington, D.C.-based Center on Education Policy is meant to put a spotlight on their opinions. Titled, "Listen to Us: Teacher Views and Voices" the survey […]

Using 'House Hunters' TV show to boost Spanish

Ray Bendici | June 19, 2016

Students in a Spanish 3 class at Bethlehem Central High School may live in upstate New York, but they look for new homes in Spanish-speaking countries around the globe. After discovering her students were fans of HGTV's 'House Hunters International,' Bethlehem Central School District Spanish teacher Jessica Westervelt developed a lesson in which her class […]

Gail Pletnick elected president of AASA

Ray Bendici | June 16, 2016

Gail Pletnick, superintendent of Dysart Unified School District 89 in Surprise, Arizona, was elected president of AASA for 2016-17. The 2016 Arizona Superintendent of the Year and a member of AASA's digital and personal learning consortia, Pletnick will focus on reshaping the national public education agenda and empowering district leaders through advocacy, networking and PD. […]

Transgender rights: What administrators need to know

Adam Rogers | June 15, 2016

The rights of transgender students in K12 schools became explicitly clear in a directive issued by the U.S. Department of Education and Department of Justice in May. Schools must let transgender students use the restrooms and locker rooms that correspond to their gender identity, not what's listed on birth certificates, the Obama administration says. "This […]

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