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K-12 Recent News Roundup: July 20, 2018

Stay up to date on the education issues that matter to you.

Julia Roch

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Student Analytics: Making the Most of Information From Summative Assessments

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The Data Promise: Turning Data into Actionable Insight, Part 3

Stevin Smith
Senior Vice President of Technical Services, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Metric Measurements, Magnitudes, and Mathematics Matter in the Science of Scale

Dr. Thomas O’Brien
Professor, Graduate School of Education at SUNY Binghamton

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HMH Honors Three Exceptional Students for Their Academic Excellence in Math

Tameka Mullins
Content Marketing Manager, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Bueller? Bueller? How to Create an Engaged, Psychologically Safe Classroom

Dustin Bindreiff, Ed.D.
Special Education Coordinator, Nevada County Superintendent of Schools; Former Consultant for Mindset Works

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How a Change in Teacher Mindset Brought Exceptional Student Results

Kourtney Ferrua
Principal of Wascher Elementary School

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Efficient Eye Tracking: A Learned Fine Motor Skill Essential to Reading

Dr. Alexandra Talaber
OD, FCOVD, FAAO

Dr. Danielle Leong
OD, PhD

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Answering Important Questions: How We Conduct Education Research

Francie Alexander
Senior Vice President, Efficacy & Consulting Research

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The Data Promise: Turning Data into Actionable Insight, Part 2

Stevin Smith
Senior Vice President of Technical Services, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Mindset and the Stories Our Students Tell Themselves

Emily Diehl
Education Consultant

Fall Literacy Leadership Talks Recap — 5 Takeaways from HMH Literacy Experts

Our fall Literacy Leadership Talks featured insightful takeaways from thought leaders Kate Kinsella, Shane Templeton, David and Yvonne Freeman, David Dockterman, and Sheila Valencia. Read them here, and access the recorded webinars.

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Join us at NCSS for student engagement, differentiation, assessment, and professional learning solutions

Conferences are a great way to meet thought leaders in your content area and experience new solutions firsthand. HMH will be hosting two popular authors at NCSS, along with Channel One reporter Azia Celestino. Find out what else we have in store.

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Getting Formative Assessment to Work

Thought leader Sheila Valencia continues our popular Lead the Way to Literacy series with some insight on formative assessment. Can it help close the achievement gap? Find out here.

Dr. Sheila W. Valencia
Professor, Language, Literacy, and Culture, University of Washington; Journeys Program Consultant

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Navigating the Every Student Succeeds Act: With ESSA, More Equitable Assessment Brings Hope for Parity

Wondering about ESSA’s effect on assessments? Dr. Malbert Smith weighs in on three areas where he sees hope for improvement.

Dr. Malbert Smith
CEO, President, and Co-Founder of MetaMetrics

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Claims, Evidence, and Reasoning: What You’re Already Doing in Science Class—and in Everyday Life

New education standards can bring new language to describe teaching strategies that are already in place. Here, author Marjorie Frank illustrates the Claims-Evidence-Reasoning language of NGSS with some everyday examples.

Marjorie Frank
Author, ELD Specialist

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Use Reading Data to Encourage Students’ Independent Reading

As you assess students’ reading levels at the start of the school year, here are some strategies for supporting students in taking risks, expanding their reading choices, building skills—and becoming engaged independent readers.

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Do All Reading Comprehension Tests Assess Equally?

Dr. Laurie Cutting, a leading expert in cognitive neuroscience, explains the importance of using a multiple assessment formats to get a complete picture of a student’s reading comprehension level.

Dr. Laurie E. Cutting
Professor, Vanderbilt University

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