Teach For America Partners with Quick Key
Teach For America chooses Quick Key as perfect solution for national student survey initiativeActionable results allow teachers to continuously improve classroom practice and student learning experiences CAMBRIDGE, MASS. (August 08, [...]
Best Blogs: Maureen Davis's Engage Students
What's not to love about Maureen Davis's "Engage Students" blog? Davis is an instructional technology specialist, and her blog contains a wealth of technology reviews as well as "Live Binders" [...]
EZ Grader for Mobile Devices
EZ Graders go mobileEZ grader is how Teresa Boulnois - a seventh grade ELA teacher in Charlotte, NC - describes Quick Key's mobile grading app platform. According to Boulnois, "When other teachers in the [...]
Teacher Appreciation Week $560 Giveaway
Quick Key is giving away $560 of school supplies, toys, and games for Teacher Appreciation Week.How to Win:All you need to do is use Quick Key between Monday May 08, [...]
10 Easy Ways to Include Formative Assessment In Your Classroom
MasteryConnect recently published a blog with some great ideas for using formative assessment in the classroom. As the blog suggests, assessing learning while its happening is an opportunity for teachers [...]
Are You Using the Right Tests?
James Popham's recent commentary in EdWeek is a clear reminder for educators to give serious thought to the purpose behind the kinds of formative evaluation they are administering to students. Popham argues [...]
What Should Assessments "Do"?
All the recent talk of assessments can leave teachers reeling. In her recent article, The Most Important Question Every Assessment Should Answer, Terry Heick clearly reveals a path for teachers [...]
Five Strategies for Effective Teaching
Most educators are eager to embrace best teaching strategies. However, with all the noise in the field of education today, it isn't always easy to figure out which teaching strategies are [...]
Striking the Right Balance: High-Stakes Testing and Formative Assessment
In a recent Hometownlife column for USA Today, Ed Okuniewski, deputy superintendent for the Huron Valley Schools, reminds us not to throw out the baby with the bath water when [...]
Teachers Seek Ways to Make Data More Useful
A recent Edweek Market Brief written by Sean Cavanagh illustrates the continuing debate over data collection and use in today's classrooms. In his article, Make Classroom Data More Useful, Teachers [...]
Time on Task and Positive Learning Environment More Effective Than High-Stakes Testing
In a recent blog post for Oxford University Press, Jaekung Lee reiterates what many educators have already concluded: the educational gains from high-stakes are marginal and have unintended negative consequences [...]
UK Teachers: Visit Sam McKavanagh's site for tools and resources
Today we came across a great Website / Blog hosted by UK teacher Sam McKavanagh. The site is http://www.myteachinglife.co.uk and it offers articles and resources in a number of subject areas [...]