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PARCC Will Replace MCAS For Most BPS Students
In case you missed it in the news last week, the Massachusetts Board of Education voted to accept a two-year transition plan to the PARCC assessment. The original plan to implement PARCC testing called for all Massachusetts students begin taking the new assessment in 2015, but MA Commissioner of Education Mitchell Chester has been listening to […]
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Simplifying the Hunt
Our students need to see themselves as readers. Reading needs to be part of who they are and, fortunately, our ever-changing digital world makes this endeavor both possible and more interesting with each passing year. As more electronic resources dedicated to books and reading pop up, we are presented with increasingly impressive user experiences. Information […]
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Trying Something New
We summer staff watch the annual building renovations with excitement and apprehension. Will all of these new “improvements” work like we hope they will? Will they be finished in time? Will our staff like them? As we enter the last two weeks before school starts, we find ourselves wondering the same things about our new […]
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Visit LearnLaunch at our fall MassCUE/M.A.S.S. Conference
October 23 and 24, 2014 Welcome back to another school year. Most of us start the year with recounting a summer experience. I would like to tell you about the MassCUE/LearnLaunch Beta Teacher event that was held on July 23, 2013 at the Hoag Center in Waltham in partnership with LearnLaunch. Let me give you […]
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Solid State of Mind
Solid-state storage technologies have greatly elevated our computing devices in the past few years. From flash memory storage found in iPads and other tablets to solid-state drives (SSD) found more commonly in laptops, Ultrabooks, and now even desktops, SSD technologies provide tremendous speed advantages to their spinning hard disk drive (HDD) counterparts. For educators, computing […]
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