My eCoach News, Updates, and Tips

Featured Projects Examples from 2012
By Barbara Bray December 22, 2012 -- 11:30 AM
Teachers are amazing. We continue to be surprised by the quality of projects teachers create in My eCoach. Here are a few examples of projects we featured over the last few months. FAST - Fusing Art, Science, and Technology by Melissa Taylor-Salvador, Susan Mitchell, and Michelle Steever ArtCentral@GWHS by Lawrence Montgomery Popping Poetry by Angela Johnson-Drummond and Cynthia Melendez Why is the U.S. Falling Behind in the Education Race? by Ann Wolfe The 21st Century Kindergarten Classroom by Michael Tillyer Cloud Storage and File Sharing by Khaled Ghaben Heavy Breathing, Pounding Heart, Copious Sweating and Stinky Bathrooms... more...

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Common Core Standards Available in My eCoach
By Barbara Bray October 18, 2010 -- 01:09 PM
The Common Core Standards (English/Language Arts and Mathematics) are available in the My eCoach standards alignment tool. We encourage you to add the standard that meets the learning objective or target with your lesson or project. There are a few projects matched to the standards. Add The Common Core Standards to your Standards List. Go to Toolkit > Standards. Choose Common Core Standards and any other standards you want in your Standards List. Then click Save. Go to My Locker > My Standards and ... more...

Comments: 1 Last Comment By Rebecca Jones December 28, 2010 -- 12:34 AM

ePortfolios and Assessment
By Barbara Bray January 29, 2010 -- 01:19 PM
We are gearing up our focus on authentic assessment strategies with ePortfolios. We are in the process of building a team with steps for you to create ePortfolios based on your individual learning plans. Our dream is that you and your students have ongoing support and access to the tools you need to demonstrate evidence of learning and reflect on your progress in meeting your learning goals. We found that if we design a generic scope and sequence ... more...

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Standards Added and Updated in eCoach
By Barbara Bray January 18, 2008 -- 08:20 AM
We have been busy adding standards based on requests by our eCoaches and what they need for their communities. Keep checking in, click on My Standards and edit them to add more standards to your list. We will be moving My Standards from your profile to where there already is My Standards on your left sidebar. We will also be reworking how you update your standards and the look of the page where you choose your standards, so keep checking in. We have over 45 states content standards listed and adding the rest soon. We also input professional standards for eCoaches states and local curriculum ... more...

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