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Category Archives: K12
2015 MACUL Tech Conference
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The annual 2015 MACUL Tech Conference will be this March 18-20th in Detroit ––expecting over 4,500 attendees. Packed with innovative technology, you should look for all kinds of educational tools, including updates from NAIKU, CrisisGo, Brainchild and more.
Standardized Scores
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Most all students in Michigan are required to take a formal, summative assessment called the MEAP Test. In 2015 (or thereabouts) we will start to see a transition to the Smarter Balanced Assessment. This will run in parallel with MEAP for a few years. In states like Illinois and Indiana, there are similar initiatives underway. As a result, all students will be measured using a similar tool. This makes data analysis and comparisons more direct.
Urgency to Improve?
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During the last several weeks, statewide testing results for individual districts have been released. These are the annual MEAP scores in Michigan. There were definitely some bright spots to boost hopefulness about education in our public schools.
But as I visit a number of districts with greater “pain points” in Math and ELA, I get a sense that there is no immediacy to solving the problems of poor student performance. One administrator told me that they are leaving these decisions up to individual buildings to decide their course of action to improve. Isn’t that odd?
What are you doing with 1:1?
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About a decade ago, Michigan Schools were the envy of the country. Programs like “Freedom to Learn” and the “Teacher Technology Initiative” had our neighbors in the Midwest asking themselves how we did it. Are we still leading the new revolution with Laptops, iPads and Androids in the 21st Century?