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The Time and Cost of Over-Assessing Our Students
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Sponsor: Lexia Learning Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 |
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In a recent survey conducted by Lexia Learning, data shows educators spend an average of four weeks per year assessing student reading skills—the equivalent of 156 hours that could be used as instructional time. A more efficient model called "embedded assessment" enables schools to reduce the time spent on testing, lower costs, and tie data to instruction so teachers can adjust instruction accordingly. This white paper details the results of the survey and how embedded assessment can help schools lower dependence on traditional testing methods and reclaim weeks of instructional time.
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How to Launch District Virtual Learning
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Sponsor: Blackboard Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 |
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Learn how budget-constrained districts are turning to virtual learning to improve student performance, save money and empower teachers to enrich instruction and maintain their teaching credentials. This whitepaper enables readers to learn from those who have gone before. Using effective practices, new learning and case studies from the field, your district will be poised to capitalize on one of the fastest growing trends in K-12 education.
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Boost Literacy via High-Interest Reading Materials
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Sponsor: Evan-Moor Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 |
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Although many empirical studies showing the positive impacts of interest on learning have been carried out with college students and preschool children, this white paper emphasizes the research conducted for students, grades 4-8 and the studies and writings that are most applicable to the classroom teaching setting.
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11 Steps to Optimize District Communications
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Sponsor: SchoolWires Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 |
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Districts face unprecedented pressure to be increasingly accountable and transparent to more constituents that include not just faculty, students and their families. Districts must share their successes to foster community support and dispel misperceptions that can act as barriers to progress. This paper details 11 strategic steps to help districts optimize online communications. Applying these proven strategies will help your district successfully and efficiently connect and communicate with your constituencies in support of your district's success.
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Improve Outcomes Via 1-to-1 Online Speech Therapy
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Sponsor: PresenceLearning Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 |
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Live online speech therapy can improve access to speech services, relieve staffing shortages and high case loads, increase students' engagement and progress on IEP goals, and save districts money. It's practical, affordable and effective. Find out if it is right for your district and your students.
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Data Systems That Help Schools Make a Difference
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Sponsor: SAS Posted: Feb. 1, 2012 |
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Learn how Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools in North Carolina advanced from storing district data in two-inch binders to running 21st century data systems that provide a holistic view of their district. Examine the intermediate steps the district took to improve information access and sharing. Then, take a detailed look at the various activities the data team undertook while implementing its new full-scale solutions, including cleansing and validating data and creating repeatable data integration routines.
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The Five Dimensions of Differentiated Learning
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Sponsor: CompassLearning Posted: Jan. 1, 2012 |
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Defined simply, differentiation is matching a required curriculum with the learning styles, expression styles, interests, and abilities of students. The three components that are most often associated with successful differentiation are curriculum/content (what is being taught), instructional pace (how quickly or slowly it is being taught), and student product (tangible results based on students’ levels of comprehension). In recent years, Dr. Joseph Renzulli and Dr. Sally Reis have expanded these components in their work, “Five Dimensions of Differentiation”, which defines differentiation across five dimensions of learning, putting the educator in the center of academic success.
Register today to read their latest white paper on differentiation, including practical suggestions and proven techniques for implementation.
About the authors: For over 30 years, Renzulli and Reis have been at the forefront of researching, studying and developing teaching methods that unlock the gifts and talents of all students. Their work demonstrates that differentiating curriculum and instructional style leads directly to improvements in student achievement, creativity, engagement, attitudes toward school, promoting a lifetime of learning.
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NY School District Extends Life Cycle Of PCs
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Sponsor: Faronics Posted: Jan. 1, 2012 |
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As a district, Beekmantown faced an overwhelming number of support calls to manage the 2400 user accounts. The majority of the support tickets were placed to resolve changes to the basic system configurations for the student users. Sometimes the changes were accidental, but for the most part, students enjoyed the challenge of changing system configurations. After installing Deep Freeze on all if its 700 workstations, it dramatically reduced the number of support tickets. They also installed Faronics Anti-Virus solution on all computers so that they could control everything centrally and in one place using Faronics Core Console.
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Effective Reading Programs for Title I Schools
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Sponsor: Success For All Posted: Nov. 1, 2011 |
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This paper reviews research on the most effective reading programs for struggling and nonstruggling readers in elementary schools, in an attempt to identify proven strategies for Title I schools. The first section reviews achievement outcomes of four types of approaches to improving the reading success of nonstruggling readers in the elementary grades: Reading curricula, instructional technology, instructional process programs, and combinations of curricula and instructional process. Study inclusion criteria included use of randomized or matched control groups, a study duration of at least 12 weeks, valid achievement measures independent of the experimental treatments, and a finalassessment at the end of grade 1 or later. A total of 63 beginning reading (starting in K or 1) and 80 upper elementary (2-5) reading studies met these criteria. The review concludes that instructional process programs designed to change daily teaching practices have substantially greater research support than programs that focus on curriculum or technology alone.
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Great Books Programs Fit the CCSS
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Sponsor: Great Books Foundation Posted: Sept. 1, 2011 |
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The Great Books Foundation provides classroom programs that strongly align with the Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts. This white paper shows exactly how. Great Books K-12 programs improve students' achievement in reading comprehension, critical thinking, writing, and speaking and listening.
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