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Leadership Strategies: Effective Tech Integration
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Sponsor: Atomic Learning Posted: June 1, 2013 |
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Understanding what prevents initiatives from succeeding is a vital part to any implementation plan. This eBook will highlight why, as an administrator, your planning must go beyond buying the hardware. It’s not about the software or apps used, or even the type of device. It’s about understanding how the technology can help educators advance students to reach their fullest potential.
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Improving Student Outcomes with Advanced Analytics
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Sponsor: SAS Posted: May 1, 2013 |
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Perhaps the most influential factor in the future of our economy is public education. Empowering educators through more effective analysis of data will ensure that students are better prepared for college, the workplace and the global marketplace.
Read about some of the key benefits of using data analysis, including the ability to truly differentiate instruction and provide an earlier response to intervention. Data analysis can also give teachers the ability to tailor their own professional growth plans, which ultimately cultivates student success.
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Tips for Sharing Digital Curriculum & Learning Resources
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Sponsor: Moodlerooms Posted: April 15, 2013 |
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Today, teachers are moving their learning materials online faster than ever. While many are using an LMS like Moodle to create rich, interactive learning environments, they consistently run into barriers that prevent them from finding and using content that’s most relevant to them. Our teachers need the tools that give them freedom to share new content they create or use content that others have created, shared, and/or found useful. Discover some of the recent advances in edtech that break down barriers for teachers and help them create a better learning experience for their students.
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Most Effective Way to Transition to the Common Core
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Sponsor: Think Through Math Posted: April 15, 2013 |
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One of the primary goals of the Common Core State Standards is to deepen student understanding. Teaching understanding is not new to Think Through Math—it’s what we do! Our common sense approach, supported by research and years of quality online instruction, makes Think Through Math the most effective way to step up to the Common Core challenge.
With focused and coherent instruction, Think Through Math is designed to meet the rigors of the Common Core and accelerate students to grade level and beyond.
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Overcoming the Odds: Getting Every Student to College YES Prep Shares Its Success Story
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Sponsor: The Broad Foundation Posted: April 1, 2013 |
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This report illustrates the successful college preparatory practices of YES Prep Public Schools, a network of 11 public charter schools in Houston that serves nearly 7,000 poor and minority students. During the 2012 Broad Prize for Public Charter Schools review process, a panel of national education experts chose YES Prep as the best among the nation’s 20 largest urban charter management organizations in closing achievement gaps, graduating its students and preparing them for college. Since YES Prep’s inception in 1998, 100 percent of its seniors have graduated from high school and been accepted to four-year colleges and universities. The policies and practices highlighted in this report were collected during a week-long site visit to YES Prep conducted by RMC Research Corporation in November 2012 and a review of YES Prep’s quantitative student achievement data over the past four years.
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Taming the wild west: How America’s third largest school district manages PCs, Macs, and iPads
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Sponsor: Absolute Software Posted: April 1, 2013 |
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When Chicago Public Schools embarked on a review of their endpoint management processes, they were determined to find a solution that could manage multiple operating systems and form factors to support their large PC and Apple deployment. With 40,000+ Mac laptops, 10,000 Apple® computers, and more than 5,000 iPads, cross-platform capabilities were imperative.
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Applying Motivational Research to Math Instruction
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Sponsor: Carnegie Learning Posted: April 1, 2013 |
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As students enter middle school, many start to lose interest in academic success. This loss of interest can be attributed to students’ alienation, resulting from a feeling that the school environment is unwelcoming to them. Recent research identifies several elements of this alienation, as well as practices that can re-focus students on academic achievement. Effective math instruction should be strongly influenced by research into how students learn and how to best motivate students to succeed academically. This whitepaper provides an overview of the research around motivating students to learn and how that research has been applied to the Carnegie Learning Math Series.
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How to Use Big Data to Improve Student Outcomes
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Sponsor: Center for Digital Education Posted: June 1, 2013 |
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Learn how to turn huge amounts of collected data into powerful and actionable insights to improve student outcomes on your campus in this FREE Special Report from the Center for Digital Education. With research findings from a national survey of top K-12 and higher education leaders and interviews with dozens of private- and public-sector big data innovators, Big Data, Big Expectations gives specific guidance on smart strategies for managing and using large amounts of data effectively and efficiently.
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Best Practices in Information Management, Reporting and Analytics for Education
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Sponsor: SAS Posted: May 1, 2013 |
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The use of reporting and analytics is on the rise in education. This paper focuses on how to get the most from SAS® software investments to improve programs, curriculums and student outcomes. Ten customer-proven best practices are discussed – based on the insights and proven successes of SAS customers working in K-12 and higher education.
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Great Books Programs: The Cure for the Common Core
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Sponsor: Great Books Foundation Posted: May 1, 2013 |
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Great Books programs are a great match for the Common Core State Standards. Great Books programs provide text complexity; demand multiple, close readings of texts; and feature text-dependent, text-specific questions requiring responses with specific and relevant evidence. Teachers who lead our programs use a questioning stance that extends and scaffolds critical thinking, while students are asked to write for argument in response to important questions. Find out why Great Books K–12 programs are the Cure for the Common Core!
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