Teaching software, lesson plans, professional development, and more for evidenced based learning
Jackie Hardiesty
In a recent article an administrator said, “We are not doing remote learning because not every kid has a laptop and internet access. It’s about equity.” So let me try to understand this. During the regular school year, when teachers took attendance and some students were marked absent, school shut down and sent all of … Read more
Mastery Tracker Edify Consulting creates software, tools, and other resources to support educators in their efforts to raise student achievement. Its Mastery Tracker software is already being celebrated by educators across the globe as a one-of-a-kind application that creates actual student level data for improved student learning and data driven decision making. The Mastery Tracker … Read more
Are your annual Academic Improvement Plans copied and pasted from year to year? Do principals simply tweak the percentages for math and ELA? Can they explicitly describe how they will move 4th grade Math from 42% – 70% this year? If we are being honest, we will have to admit that our efforts to improve … Read more
Are you challenged with moving the needle on student achievement? If we aspire to real growth, data-driven instruction will need to be more than a catch phrase. Schools currently use quarterly benchmarks and outcomes from the annual state assessment to evaluate overall school health and achievement. The challenges with these current data sources lie in their … Read more
The Common Core Standards: The Chatter vs. The Truth The Chatter Recent soundbytes have offered continued opposition to the use of the common core standards in public schools. Everyone from President Trump to the cashier at the local grocery store has managed to form an opinion about why we should or should not be using … Read more
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