Tag: eWalk
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Walk-throughs help us make informed decisions
Visiting classrooms and conducting walk-throughs is only the beginning of our eWalk process. The real work comes when we sit down and analyze the data the process has provided. There are a variety of reports offered through eWalk that provide valuable information regarding our school initiatives. eWalk provides us with a comprehensive platform to gather…
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Monitoring Implementation of Common Core State Standards
Many new initiatives come and go or do not garner the results once hoped for at inception. This failure to mature into the productive educational programs creators once hoped for can be attributable to many things. Often that critical component of planning and implementation that is overlooked or not emphasized enough is the monitoring piece.…
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Media-X moving forward
Web design; keeping up with modern design standards, whether you’re a one-man operation running a personal blog or multi-million dollar enterprise churning out the latest web applications, can prove to be a considerable challenge. Like just about everything else in the world of technology these days, keeping up with what is modern and tasteful in…
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eWalk Creates Opportunities for Dialogue Among Professionals
Over the years I have had many opportunities to discuss with my colleagues the benefits of using eWalk to gather data during classroom visits. The amount of authentic data we collect and the information it provides us is immeasurable. If you have been reading my previous blog articles you have read it several times: virtually…
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Media-X at FETC 2013
This week I am in Orlando, Florida with fellow Media-Xer’s Robert McGregor and Marc Moretti at the FETC 2013 show. We are in booth 506, right near the front of the hall behind the Global Scholar booth. We’ve had folks drop by the booth from Broward and Brevard Counties in Florida, along with out of…
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Improving the eWalk Process by Listening to Teachers
In the beginning, our eWalk process was all about checkboxes and the number of completed eWalks we could do in a week. We operated this way for a while thinking that the feedback we were providing to teachers was beneficial. Little did we know that teachers had a very different opinion of our “eWalks”. It…
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Taking eWalk outside of education
I know that the word “passion†as it applies to work may be becoming cliché and over worn. It has, in fact, made the Word Ban list of 2013, but sometimes it just fits. I’m not the only one who thinks so. You never achieve success unless you like what you are doing. - Dale…
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eWalk Secrets
One of the best kept secrets and most powerful features of eWalk is the amazing ways that you can use it as a way to communicate with and work with others.
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Pineville ISD Uses eWalk to Close the Achievement Gap
Providing precise, immediate feedback to a teacher following a classroom visit is something most school administrators strive to do. Unfortunately, many principals hand write observations on paper and can’t share these notes with teachers in a timely manner. Such was the case at Pineville Independent School District in Kentucky before they adopted eWalk as their…
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Adding a comment library in MXWEB
Have you ever found yourself completing your report cards, summative forms or walkthrough records or IEPs and typing the same thing over and over and over again? After typing “she has great classroom management skills†or “he shows great initiative in looking for ways to improve†for the 5th or 50th time, you should consider…