Featured: 3/6/2013 YouAndI School [Tutors]

YouAndI School is a social private tutoring service on Facebook connecting experienced tutors with students looking for help.



YouAndI School offers students in-person and/or online tutoring in a variety of formats: one-on-one sessions, group lessons, and online classes. Students can choose what is best for their individual needs. Tutoring is available in many subjects such as academics and test prep, foreign languages, technology, art and music, sports, lifestyle  and business.



As for tutors, YouAndI School provides an opportunity to reach students worldwide. Many tools are available that can help you succeed and grow your tutoring business.

Features for tutors are:

• Easily manage classes and lessons.
• Expand your professional network to search for prospective students.
• Online and offline marketing solutions.
• Safe and simple payment process.
• Efficient student management.

Watch a video: Social and Private tutoring, YouAndI Schoooooool!!!!

Tutors set their own rates. YouAndI School takes a 15% commission on what you are paid by students.

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Featured: 3/5/2013 Crase [Assessment]

CRASE is an automated scoring system created to provide immediate, accurate, and low-cost scoring of short-answer and essay items.



CRASE is meant to be a reliable, cost-effective alternative to hand scoring student responses and is currently utilized in both classroom and summative assessment environments. Automated scoring can greatly reduce the time required to get scores and data for classroom-based assessments. It can provide feedback to students in seconds. CRASE can also minimize the time teachers have to spend on grading.

CRASE utilizes information technology, combined with natural language processing and statistical modeling, to easily and accurately score open-ended test questions, including writing prompts. Studies have shown that that the scores delivered by Automated Scoring are as accurate as those provided by human raters.

View the CRASE data sheet (PDF)

CRASE, a product of Pacific Metrics Corporation, is a Web service that integrates easily with testing platforms using a standardized API. It can be configured to score the wide variety of items already used in state-level and classroom assessments.

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Featured: 3/4/2013 CTE Online [CTE]

CTE Online is an online source for Career and Technical Education model curriculum, resources, tools, and community.



CTE Online was established to help CTE educators express a clear and purposeful relationship between academic achievement and Career and Technical Education through access to:

• Professional curriculum development tools.
• Professional alignment and instructional strategies resources.
• Standards databases.

CTE Online is designed to bring CTE educators and leaders quality professional development tools that help "establish the role rigorous academic skills play in pursuit of industry and career related coursework."



Here you can find the tools necessary to help teachers identify and align career and technical curricula with the academic skills commonly measured on state assessments. CTE Online allows skilled  CTE educators to share the work they are doing to equally support both current academic challenges and future career interests.

Nearly 1500 teachers a day access and use CTE Online as part of their professional experience with thousands of lesson plans containing ready-to-use classroom materials, videos, resources, and activities.

CTE Online was developed by the Butte County Office of Education's Center for the Advancement of Digital Resources in Education under contract with the California Department of Education.

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The Rearview Mirror 3/2/2013

For those of you who may have missed an EDge21 featured post or who didn't have the opportunity to look at some of them during this past week, here's a second chance.


Monday

JumpRope is a tool designed to help teachers, schools, and districts move from traditional grades towards standards-based assessment.

Tuesday

YourTeacher is a leading digital publisher specializing in middle school, high school, and college-level math. YourTeacher's subscription website and their extensive line of math videos, have provided hundreds of thousands of students with math tutoring, standardized test prep, and homeschooling.

Wednesday

Common Curriculum is meant to streamline the lesson planning process so you can stop wasting time and go teach. Common Curriculum makes it easy to build, organize, and share your lesson plans.

Thursday

KnoAdvance is an interactive learning platform for publishers. Advance makes it possible to transform a print title into an eBook instantly, literally at no cost to the publisher or author.

One Special Math Problem

Robin Krosinsky is a City Year New York Corps member serving at PS 154x in New York city. City Year New York corps members provide critically needed services to some of New York’s most underserved children and youth.

I recently came across a good Web post by her titled A City Education: How One Special Math Problem Each Week Boosts Achievement.

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She and her colleagues decided they wanted to take action themselves to provide entertaining and challenging math activities. In January, one of Robin's teammates, Sam, started a school-wide math initiative called the Problem of the Week.

Every week, each grade (K-5) is given a new math problem to solve. The problems are based on the math curriculum  for that grade.  They decided to make most of them word problems.

Read Robin's full post here.