Sentences with phrase «from classroom innovation»

The irony of Finnish educational success is that it derives heavily from classroom innovation and school improvement research in the United States.

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Eleven entrepreneurs, all from founding teams including women or people of color, made their cases for innovations that would help bring more real - world experience into classrooms, help teachers track the progress of special - needs students, or help underserved people find jobs, among others.

As Heather Staker and I have written, the models of blended learning most likely to scale into the core academic subjects at all levels of schooling in the near term are sustaining innovations, in which online learning is essentially an augmentation to the traditional classroom, but there is still a fundamental shift in the learning model from the student's perspective.

The Learning Innovation Hub program, or iHub, allows digital providers to test and get feedback on their products from classroom teachers, in a process meant to nurture improvement and innovation.

If Korea uses its famed skill of rapidly adopting new trends and ideas to scale innovations like the flipped classrooms in Busan about which I have written and other forms of blended learning that escape the factory - model of education, then perhaps some praise from President Obama would be well deserved.

Giving the teachers the go - ahead — even when it results in more paperwork, going to battle for reprieve from a district mandate, or finding a few more funds or additional evenings — is always the right thing to do when it's in the best interest of students and innovation in the classroom.

Recent research by McKinsey on what makes successful school systems has shown that innovation makes a large impact on moving schools from «good» to «great» — so the question is, will schools remember the value of ICT in the classroom — we certainly hope so?

Participants will: ● Get an overview of the Google for Education solution, ● Discover how this solution can be used to improve student learning, collaboration, and innovation, ● Hear firsthand experience from a district using Google Apps, Chromebooks, and tablets, and ● Learn how the district provided professional development to help ensure the devices & tools would enhance classroom learning.

Coverage of trends in K - 12 innovation and efforts to put these new ideas and approaches into practice in schools, districts, and classrooms is supported in part by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York at www.carnegie.org.

Participants will: • Receive an overview of the Google for Education solution, • Hear the story of CCSD 59 from the perspective of both students and educator, and • Learn how Google tools are being used in the classroom and how this is improving student learning, collaboration, and innovation.

This report details findings from the survey, which provides critical insights into the role of innovation and change in the classroom.

This volume published by BSCP Center introduces the «productivity infrastructure» the building blocks for an SEA committed to supporting productivity, innovation, and performance — from the state chief to the classroom.

An entire classroom has a chance to win iPads, Kinkdles, Nooks or Chrombooks from the CK - 12 Foundation by demonstrating educational innovation and creativity in the «Get - Real» competition.

Capturing bold ideas from teachers and classrooms across America, What School Could Be provides a realistic and profoundly optimistic roadmap for creating cultures of innovation and real learning in all our schools.

After fifteen years of public school teaching, both in regular education and special education classrooms, Stephanie worked for twelve years as a staff developer for the Denver based Public Education and Business Coalition (PEBC), a partnership of leaders from education and business, who support innovation in public schools.

From global models to local classrooms, collaborative inquiry is driving innovation and equity in public education.

I'd like to tell you my paperless classroom stems from a deep belief in using technology to empower students, or to attempt innovation in my classroom and practice.

«Teachers work largely in isolation, so innovation doesn't spread from classroom to classroom,» says Les Foltos.

Results from Arizona demonstrate the benefits of innovation in the classroom.

With the support of a $ 1 million grant from the Microsoft Corporation, the Fellowship has served 54 Fellows in the first three cohorts, offering them opportunities to pilot personalized learning models in their schools and fostering classroom innovation in dozens of Washington, D.C. schools.

By tending to their relationships with teachers, anticipating areas of resistance, and identifying themselves as resources, instructional coaches are poised to lead innovation from the classroom up.

President Obama has just signed into law an act that will replace the widely despised No Child Left Behind, but whether it'll succeed in its goals — boosting the attainment of disadvantaged students, reducing the amount of testing taking place in schools, promoting classroom innovation, and so on — is far from guaranteed.

We serve millions of students with i - Ready ® (adaptive diagnostic, online instruction, and practice apps for math and reading); Ready ® (standards - based instruction build from scratch for the Common Core); BRIGANCE ® (assessment and instruction for special education, early childhood, and Head Start); and other programs because of our laser focus on educators» needs over our own bottom line and a belief that thoughtful and continuous innovation leads to a positive impact on classrooms and measureable growth for students.

There were also a host of seminars on topics ranging from leadership, innovation, and the future of the digital classroom.

The LEAP Innovations Pilot Network brings together forward - thinking principals and teachers from across the Chicago region to design, implement and evaluate personalized learning practices and edtech tools in their classrooms.

Real innovation in a classroom comes from human beings working with human beings, from teachers engaged in the countless, minute - to - minute adjustments that teaching requires, teachers adapting their styles and methods to the moment, as they can in small classes — this is what innovation looks like, what personalized education looks like.

Now, we almost universally understand that silos — of classroom, subject, grade level, job title — prevent us from connecting with others in diverse communities that foster innovation.

The team adapted items from instruments used on some prior research projects that also examined impacts of curricular innovations on teacher attitudes and classroom practices.

My classroom had more than 200 ebooks for the students to choose from, and it was a nightmare trying to make that innovation work.

He listed a slate of proposals, many reflected in his proposed budget, aimed at invigorating the country's innovation pipeline, from the classroom to the corporate and academic laboratory to the global marketplace for non-polluting energy sources and medical advances.

The world benefits from this innovation while higher education institutions get access to academic research and classroom learning.

Teaching Young Children (TYC), our award - winning magazine for classroom educators, highlights current thinking on best practices in early childhood education, innovations in the field, research and its implications, and interesting ideas for and from preschool teachers.