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  ONHAND NEWS updated: 6/1/2010       
 
Curriculum Mapping Institute 2010
OnHand Schools is extremely excited to be a sponsor at the 16th Annual Curriculum Mapping Institute conference taking place in Saratoga Springs, NY on July 13-18.  At the conference this year, we will demonstrate the OnHand Schools EdInsight Curriculum Management System which is fully compatible with the Dr. Heidi Hayes Jacobs' curriculum methodologies. Learn more about Dr. Jacobs and her groundbreaking curriculum methodologies here, and view the full brochure for CMI 2010 here.
 
Race to the Top
Breaking News:   Tennessee and Delaware announced as first-round winners of the Race to the Top program. Read More Here

Billions of dollars have recently been set aside by the US Government under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as an incentive for districts across America that are working hard to improve the quality of education in their schools. This program is being called Race to the Top. OnHand Schools has developed a detailed initiative to help districts everywhere focus on the 4 main goals of the Race to the Top program, and therefore increase their chances of receiving funding.
 
Race to the Top Focus Areas:
Adopting standards and assessments that prepare students to succeed in college and the workplace and to compete in the global economy;
Building data systems that measure student growth and success, and inform teachers and principals about how they can improve instruction;
Recruiting, developing, rewarding, and retaining effective teachers and principals, especially where they are needed most; and
Turning around our lowest-achieving schools.
 
 
Race to the Top Information
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  EDUCATION NEWS:    
 
EdInsight Customers
We are excited to announce that the newest version of EdInsight was recently released. As always, the support staff at OnHand Schools is ready to help you understand the changes that took place within the system over the last few weeks. We have created a detailed walkthrough of the new features that can be found in the EdInsight Help Center once you have logged into your system.

Some of the new features include:  student grouping for reports, spreadsheet reports in the Data Window, PSSA score history, Super User role in Curriculum. Visit the help page in EdInsight to learn more.
 
 
OHS NEWS ARCHIVE
April 21, 2010  
Technology is Essential
A Harvard University professor discusses finding each student's "price point" in order to have truly effective instruction methods. Price point in the context of a classroom refers to the particular type of information that a student is ready to learn at their age/performance level.  Professor Paul E. Peterson sees technology as an essential tool for being able to differentiate instruction.
v  Teaching to a Student's Price Point
April 25, 2010
Michigan Improves Curriculum
Students in Kalamazoo, Michigan have seen a great improvement in achievement over the past five years.  More are passing state assessments, less are dropping out before graduating, and enrollment in advanced courses is increasing.  What have teachers and administrators done to bring about this increase?  Districts in the area brought in an outside company to re-evaluate their curriculum and make sure that it was alligned to state standards.
v  How excactly did Kalamazoo accomplish this?
APRIL 27, 2010 
Text Messaging to Learn Poetry?
In one district, teachers are hoping that their students have their cell phones out during class.  Why?  Chester School District is using text messaging as an incentive to learn poetry. The students are using new media technology- their cell phones- to boil down poetry to the main point, and learn to communicate these ideas through a short message.  Here's the really shocking part about this story: kids using the new method answered twice as many poetry questions correctly on the state test.
v  Why texting works with poetry
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PSSA Anchor Report & 4Sight Item Analysis
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 4Sight Item Analysis
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   OnHand Schools is very excited to announce the addition of two new reports to the EdInsight Instructional Management System: The PSSA Student Report and the printable 4Sight Item Analysis Report. Both of these brand new reports are unique to EdInsight, and provide a level of student detail that is unmatched.

If you would like one (or both) of these reports to be available for your school and/or district, please e-mail us with your name, school district, building and mailing address. Please note that these reports are available at no charge whether or not you are a current EdInsight user.
Request your district reports today!
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v Print Request Form [pdf]
 
 
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