Spotlight on Formative Assessment - Education Week

Formative assessment is playing a key role in efforts to improve classroom instruction. In this Spotlight, learn about varying definitions of formative assessment, how schools are giving students opportunities to self-assess, and how school districts are building teachers' formative assessment skills.

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Resource Watch: National Novel Writing Month Has a New Website for Educators - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

NaNoWriMo's Young Writers Program has a beta version of a new website for teachers and students, complete with a variety of new educational resources.

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Spotlight on Personalized Learning - Education Week

Schools are turning to personalized learning to meet the demands of a diverse student population. In this Spotlight, discover how schools are using technology to customize student learning, how educators are personalizing literacy instruction, and learn about the successes and challenges of personalized learning efforts to date.

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Keeping it Real: Learning STEM in the Middle of a Lake - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

A nonprofit in Vermont uses sailing to help schools teach students about STEM.

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Tracing Personalized Learning Research Back to the 1970s - Digital Education - Education Week

What can decades-old research into "mastery learning" and the "Personalized System of Instruction" tell schools about contemporary approaches to personalized learning?

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The Second Dementor of Teacher Leadership: Saying "Yes" - An Edugeek’s Guide to K-12 Practice and Policy - Education Week Teacher

Strategies to prevent getting crispy around the edges from stretching ourselves too thin

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How to Create Culturally Responsive Assessments - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

Not all students are natural-born test takers. Any educator who has spent even a small amount of time in classrooms knows this - much in the way that different students have different learning styles. Most times, teachers can account for this in their classrooms based on the students they serve.

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Smart Machines Will Eat Jobs--Except Where Smart People Create Them - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week

Cities and schools need leaders willing to #AskAboutAI--to launch local conversations that result in proactive plans to build infrastructure and skills that result in employment gains, privacy protection, and social benefit.

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Latino Vote Bad News for Trump and GOP - On California - Education Week

Californians are expected to reinstate bilingual education. The vote is likely to be a milestone in the rise of Latino voting power. Bad news for Donald Trump; worse news for the GOP.

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Response: 'Fear' Should not Stop us From Exploring 'Controversial' Topics in School - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Gabriella Corales, Tom Rademacher, Martha Caldwell, Oman Frame, Danny Woo, Paul Barnwell, Kathleen Neagle Sokolowski share their responses to the question: "How do you handle controversial issues in the classroom?"

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4 Lessons Principals Can Learn From Their Staff - Finding Common Ground - Education Week

If you want a hard hitting blog post about how schools need to change, this is not the one for you. However, if you want to read some ways I learned from my staff when I was a principal, give this one a click.

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Rejuvenating Leaders - Leadership 360 - Education Week

Without a centered, recharged, clear, and thoughtful leader who has attended to mind and spirit as a habit for life, the likelihood of wearing down and emptying a leader to a point of burn-out is likely.

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Tips for Balancing School, Outside Career Ventures and Family - Work in Progress - Education Week Teacher

Changing the world is big job and no one person can do it alone. Always remember that there are people who will help if you reach out. Building those networks for work and family are huge. Who will be your go to person in a pinch if you need help with work? or someone to watch your children when you're stuck in traffic? The people we surround ourselves with are essential to a happy life, so always take time to maintain the important relationships.

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Teacher Leadership vs. Teacher Professionalism - Teacher in a Strange Land - Education Week Teacher

Teacher leaders are everywhere. Often, they're doing precisely what the established system wants them to do--accepting leadership roles and tasks pre-defined by that same system, for the distinction of being named a leader in a flat profession. Sometimes, they even get compensation or perks. But are they acting as professionals?

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Scaling Down to Help Teachers Communicate - Capturing the Spark: Energizing Teaching and Schools - Education Week Teacher

How can large secondary schools ensure teachers confer regarding shared students?

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Are They Ready?: Questioning When to Have Difficult Discussions - The Intersection: Culture and Race in Schools - Education Week Teacher

What is the line between preparing kids for the real world and unnecessarily shattering their innocence? Does that line even really exist?

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Spotlight on Social-Emotional Learning - Education Week

Social-emotional learning is becoming a key indicator of success as schools refocus their improvement efforts. In this Spotlight, see how states are partnering on social-emotional learning standards, how ed-tech is developing important character traits in students, and how noncognitive skills can help combat discrimination in schools.

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Math Teachers: Open Resources Come With Risks - Curriculum Matters - Education Week

The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics is advocating for caution when it comes to open educational resources.

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Special Ed. Policies for Online Schools are Inconsistent, Unclear, Says Report - Charters & Choice - Education Week

State and local policies around serving special-education students in virtual schools are highly inconsistent-and in many cases it's largely unknown whether the online programs are complying with federal disabilities law, a new report finds.

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Chronic Absenteeism Could Be Low-Hanging Fruit for ESSA Indicator - Inside School Research - Education Week

ESSA calls for states to adopt another indicator for school accountability, in addition to students' academic achievement in math and language arts. Chronic absenteeism may be a good fit, finds a new policy analysis.

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K-12 Digital Citizenship Initiative Targets States - Education Week

The goal is to spur adoption of legislation requiring the formation of advisory committees charged with finding ways to improve the safe and ethical use of technology.

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Refocusing Special Needs: Child-Centered Special Education - Learning Deeply - Education Week

Human-centered design principles turn the IEP process from confrontation to collaboration, and indeed, fun.

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Response: Teachers Lose 'Credibility' if we Don't Address 'Controversial' Topics - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

Lorena Germán, Adeyemi Stembridge, Stephen Lazar, Jen Schwanke and Aubrie Rojee share their ideas on how to handle so-called "controversial" topics in the classroom.

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David Tyack, Education Historian, Remembered - Inside School Research - Education Week

David B. Tyack, an influential education historian, died this morning at age 85.

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Building a Multitiered System of Supports From the Ground Up - On Special Education - Education Week

At 2 p.m., Nov. 3, Education Week is hosting a web chat with a Georgia school district administrator on how he helped his district implement a multitiered system of supports.

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How Can Schools Get Quality STEM Teachers in All Classrooms? Essays Offer Advice - Teaching Now - Education Week Teacher

An Education Week Commentary package shares tips, advice, and insights on improving science instruction and making sure there is parity across all school districts.

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How Technology Can Personalize Science Learning - OpEducation - Education Week Teacher

The use of technology in the classroom can personalize science learning for students, writes Vikas Gupta.

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Working Memory Is the Path to Expertise - Rick Hess Straight Up - Education Week

Ultimately, expertise is about using working memory to deliberately practice skills and decisions in order to build long-term memory fluency.

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Separate But Equal: It Wasn't Then, It Isn't Now - Top Performers - Education Week

Marc Tucker looks at how, despite various efforts to thwart it, racial and economic segregation in education, and society, are on the rise.

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Modest gains, but US students still lag in science learning - Education Week

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Are Students Getting the Education They Need? - Leadership 360 - Education Week

Elementary and middle schools can narrow the gap so that more students who arrive at STEM shifted high schools can already have developed skills in problem solving, collaborating with other students and professionals, critical thinking, and communicating.

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When That Last Name Appears On Our Class List - Finding Common Ground - Education Week

Christopher Emdin says,"Our unwillingness to engage young people in trouble is an indictment on us, not them." And it starts with what we do when we read their names on our class list.

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Focus on What Can Be Done - Work in Progress - Education Week Teacher

In education today, educators are trapped in the muck and mire of red tape that can easily lead to burn out or loss of purpose. It is easy to get wrapped up in all of the things that make teaching untenable and sadly, many do. Because this is the reality of the current educational environment, it is important for educators to focus on what can be done and try their best to live in those moments that connect us to why we decided to teach in the first place. Here's what you can focus on, even when the going gets...

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Science Scores Rise for 4th and 8th Grades - Education Week

Rising test scores and shrinking achievement gaps are among the bright spots in the latest science results from the 2015 National Assessment of Educational Progress.

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Should We Differentiate "Discipline?" - Prove It: Math and Education Policy - Education Week Teacher

Guest blogger Amber Chandler writes: I came to realize that there was a layer of Differentiation that doesn't seem to be occurring, and that is in the realm of social emotional learning. Why would I think that meeting kids where they were was a good thing academically without logically knowing that the whole child requires more than academic Differentiation, the whole child requires flexibility?

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How Should Teachers Handle 'Controversial' Topics? - Classroom Q&A With Larry Ferlazzo - Education Week Teacher

The new "question-of-the-week" is: What are good strategies teachers can use when exploring "controversial" topics?

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Follow-Up to Tennessee Pre-K Study Raises Questions About Program's Effects - Early Years - Education Week

A Vanderbilt University researcher shares some sobering, if preliminary, findings about long-term effectiveness during a panel sponsored by a Washington think tank.

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Absenteeism Connects School Climate and Student Achievement - Inside School Research - Education Week

It seems like common sense: Students who feel unsafe at school stay home.

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Share-Outs: Critiquing & Revising Models (Video) - Inspired Instruction: Videos From the Teaching Channel - Education Week Teacher

Fallon King, a 2nd grade teacher at Cedarhurst Elementary in Burien, Wash., and Kaia Tomokiyo, a kindergarten teacher at Southern Heights Elementary in Seattle, have students share their scientific ideas in whole-class discussions. Students can add on to each other's ideas and or present new ideas to share different thinking models.

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Performance Assessment Resource Bank: Resources for Deeper Learning - Learning Deeply - Education Week

The Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education (SCOPE) and the Council of Chief State School Officers have developed a tool to help educators implement performance assessments.

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Black Boys in Crisis: How to Get Them to Read - Education Futures: Emerging Trends in K-12 - Education Week

The statistics point to a startling, yet simple, truth: black boys who cannot read are already in trouble. So if we know that black boys aren't reading the level they should, what can we do to improve that? It starts with awareness and extends to...

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Education Groups Call for FCC Action on Huge Tech Resource - Education Week

Possibly billions of dollars worth of a public educational telecommunications resource has languished unused and unlicensed within the federal government, estimates show.

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Calif. Community Builds Homegrown Internet Network for Schools - Education Week

The network was built with the help of an FCC program called the Educational Broadband Service, which needs to be opened up to more schools, critics say.

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Focusing In on Science Learning - Education Week

The numbers don't lie: Highly qualified science teachers are in short supply in the United States.

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Minority Boys to Get Free Internet Access - Education Week

One million high school students from low-income families will receive free internet access under President Barack Obama's My Brother's Keeper initiative for boys of color. The Sprint Corp. and partners will provide tablets, smartphones, laptops, other mobile devices, and four years of service to s...

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Computer Science - Education Week

Lack of access to computers and computer science classes contribute to the continuing racial and gender gaps in K-12 computer science education, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Gallup organization for Google.

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Early Childhood - Education Week

In a marked shift from recommendations first adopted in 1999, the American Academy of Pediatrics has lifted its recommendation discouraging all electronic media use in children under the age of 2.

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Focusing In on Science Learning - Education Week

Teachers, teacher-educators, and researchers from across the country explore how to ensure all students have access to high-quality science instruction in this special collection of opinion essays.

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A Bigger, Better STEM Field Begins With Teachers - Education Week

As we develop a clearer blueprint for good science education, more teacher professional development is needed, writes educator Jen Gutierrez.

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Is STEM Education in Permanent Crisis? - Education Week

Perpetual and wide-spread STEM teacher shortages in the Unites States are holding students back, writes UTeach’s Michael Marder.

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