Though I am working with with Data Analytics for past 8 years, I found out the work - effort - time consumed for an Administrator or teacher or parent in analyzing the performance apart from the final numbers is really huge.

With the right implementation of analytics tool the organization can pin-point its flaws.

Take for instance, a student who performs low in mathematics but a genius in language could be looked down by the society, and the same person will be adored…

The contemporary educational system has imposed many changes in the way teachers share knowledge. It seems that you cannot be a successful teacher without being an EdTech enthusiast at the same time. There are many tools that can leverage the interest of your students in different aspects of the curriculum, including essay writing.

If you are looking for a way…

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An April Fool

On April 1, I learned that 50% of my evaluation this year would hinge on my students’ performance based on three days of standardized testing—the NYS ELA Assessment in mid-April. My remaining 50% falls to my local APPR contract, which in essence is a bastardized version of Danielson’s evaluation rubrics.

What does this really mean? If you are not an…

It is not likely that the structure and standards for schools will ever again become a local design.  Nor should it be. The degree of interconnectivity across the country throughout the segments of economy, politics and society are too great. Technology is rendering the notion of local obsolete, except in farm products. Yet, there still remains the opportunity for local decisions and values to coexist with national standards. Schools and school districts that are pushing away from…

Passing the HP HPE0-J77—great advantages for the IT professionals

Understanding the nature of HPE0-J77 Designing HPE Backup Solutions

The HP Designing HPE Backup Solutions is a well-known HP certification exam, which is associated with  numerous promising job roles. The HP HPE0-J77 questions has designed the core areas of HP Designing HPE Backup Solutions in a technical way and in the wake of advanced HP sector marketplace, the HPE0-J77…

Improved practice and achievement involves feedback, motivation, coaching, support and belief in the impact principals can have on teachers and teachers on their students.  It involves questioning the manner in which evaluations, all of them, are accomplished. If we want teachers to develop students, modeling it in the assessment of teachers by principals, and of principals by superintendents is key.  When principals, teachers, and students are being coached, supported, encouraged, and…

Testing in Medicine, Testing in Schools (Abigail Zuger, M.D.)…

A Title Doesn't Make You a Leader…

Educators are simultaneously creative (as they develop activities for learning and for extra-curricular opportunities) and stuck in the confines of a structure that is now centuries old. They continue to seek new ways to engage their students in learning while students are more and more distracted and uninterested. The paradox remains because the structure does not change. Schools are locked into time requirements, regulatory barriers, and contract limitations. Educators know what…

There is so much bad science in education. There is so much money in education. There also seems to be a lot of hostility and perversity in education. All this stuff is slopping around but in general tending toward mediocrity and malaise.

 Now Common Core wants to pile on. Lock everything in by legislation. Centralize authority in Washington DC. Where does all this end up? Arne Duncan sends out a memo at 9…

Attention to the success of ALL students focuses on curriculum and standards, differentiation and intervention, assessment and evaluation. All of that stands on the shoulders of the social emotional health of each child and adult. Whether we can take full responsibility for social emotional health of our students, and the people who work in our organizations or not, we must pursue it in earnest.  No one, child or adult, can bring their best selves to any task, if…

Expand learning time

Educating students in poverty requires more time than is provided in the traditional school calendar, writes Jennifer Davis of the National Center on Time and Learning in The Hechinger Report. To address socioeconomic disparity, all the research indicates schools must offer more and better in-school learning and enrichment. High-needs students both require and want additional opportunities and supports to flourish. Expanded-time schools…

A better vehicle for reformist passions

K-12 education reform is an "exhausted, blood-soaked battlefield," writes Nicholas Kristof in The New York Times. Yet something everyone can agree on, and surely a better place to channel reformist passions, is early childhood education. Abundant evidence shows that education early in life can break the poverty cycle. Interventions typically produce cognitive gains that last at least a few years, and produce better life outcomes…