Alternative grading and competency-based learning are two key shifts superintendents might consider as they lead COVID recovery in their school districts.
A new U.S. Department of Education fact sheet outlines responsibilities for providing services to English language learners during COVID-19 school closures.
"Relationships before rigor, grace before grades, patience before programs, love before lessons." —Dr. Brad Johnson. Learn More About Acadience Learning Months ago, when I was tasked with writing a blog about using student data to improve outcomes, our lives were very different from where they are now. I had some ideas about what I wanted to […]
Transcript Guest Roland H. Good, III, Ph.D., is president, director of Research Analysis, and associate director of Research and Development for Acadience® Learning, and co-author of Acadience® Reading (also published under the name DIBELS® Next), as well as earlier versions of the DIBELS® assessment. He earned his doctorate from Pennsylvania State University in School Psychology and served two years as a school psychologist. […]
From student assessment changes and innovative science teaching awards to board appointments and leadership training, here's what K-12 educators need to know about what's happening at ACTFL, ACTE, NCSS, NCTM and NSTA.
Nearly two-thirds of 4th- and 8th-grade students in our nation's schools are reading at a basic or below-basic grade level.* What can you do to support striving readers and help bridge the achievement gap? Several schools are turning to large print books. New research conducted by Project Tomorrow®, and sponsored by Thorndike from Gale, a […]
American learners have a persistent reading problem, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Only 35% of students tested read at or above proficient levels. Yet a closer look at the data finds that most white and Asian students, as well as learners in the suburbs, routinely score at least near proficient. Poorer students, […]
This web seminar addressed how administrators can facilitate discussions about the effective use of data and how to improve teachers' relationship with data. Sponsored content by Istation.
