CAASPP ELA Practice: Addressing the ELA Gap
Each spring, students in California face the high-stakes challenge of the CAASPP ELA assessment. While the test measures a wide range of academic skills, from reading and writing to speaking,...
CAASPP Results: Why Students Struggle to Meet Standards
The CAASPP exam poses unique challenges that contribute to students' struggle to meet academic standards, ultimately causing many districts to see low CAASPP results. Unlike traditional standardized...
CAASPP Test Scores: How to Analyze CAASPP Scores and Take Action for Improvement
As an educator, you are most likely aware of the CAASPP tests, which are administered annually to students in California and are designed to measure student proficiency in math and English language...
CAASPP Practice Tests: Addressing the Most Common CAASPP Mistakes
Many CAASPP practice tests aim to prepare students for the complexity of the exam, but they often fail to address the diverse skills needed to tackle each question. As a result, while students may be...
CAASPP California Professional Development
The CAASPP presents more complex challenges for students and educators compared to the previous California Standards Test (CST). To help students succeed, teachers need to identify and articulate the...
6 Activities for Executive Functioning Skills with Pickerington Local School District
While the pandemic may be coming to an end, the long-lasting effects on students around the globe remain. Due to the break from the classroom, districts are noticing a rise in behavioral issues and...
The Importance of Digital Citizenship with Matthew Hiefield
What is Digital Citizenship? Over the past few years, the impact of the pandemic has created a massive need to digitalize the classroom. With technology becoming an integral part of the lives...
3 Ways Orange Unified School District uses Classtime to Identify Learning Gaps
Orange Unified School District educator, Ray Melchor, has been using Classtime since 2020 to effectively track student progress and identify learning gaps. He says that his students are very engaged...
How Rochester City School District Educators Analyze Student Performance with Real-time Data
Educator Lisa Piccione from Rochester City School District was looking for a solution that would give her real-time insight into her students’ performance. She knew that having access to real-time...
How Dillon School District Four Educators Save Time Grading
Classtime has been working with Dillon School District Four since 2018 by supporting their schools with formative and summative assessments. Dillon educator Ramona McKoy-Cummings has been using...
How to Incorporate Social-Emotional Learning Data in the Classroom
Demands for Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) resources have been on the rise post-pandemic. According to Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s 7th Annual Educator Confidence Report, 56% of educators ranked...
How Allegiance STEAM Academy Improves Teaching Quality
Classtime has been working with Allegiance STEAM Academy (ASA Thrive) in Chino CA since 2019 to help educators improve teaching quality and boost overall performance on assessments. ASA Thrive...
3 Ways Okemos High School Enhances Formative Assessments
Educator Amy Huntley from Okemos High School in Ohio says that at first glance Classtime seemed like “a traditional assessment tool with some extra question types”, but she quickly realized...
4 Ways Lynwood USD Teachers Improved Student Engagement
Lynwood Unified School District has been working with Classtime since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020, serving their 13 elementary and middle schools (including an online virtual...
Learning Disabilities in the Classroom
What are learning disabilities? Learning disabilities are neurological disorders; they are parts of the brain that cause the way a person thinks, reads, processes, and problem-solves to be different...
How Sierra Canyon School Enhances Teacher Creativity and Student Engagement
“With Classtime, my students instantly know why they got a question wrong and why the correct answer is right. I can immediately identify if the majority of the class is struggling in a...
The Benefits of Classtime’s School License
Classtime’s School License offers unique features that can bring your teaching to the next level. In this article, we will discuss how you can have complete control over your class with the...
Create Safe Exams During Remote Learning
With millions of teachers around the world conducting online assessments, schools are now more worried about how to create safe exams online that will help combat cheating and inappropriate...
Better Organize Your Classes Using Google Classroom
Last month, Classtime announced our exciting new integration with Google Classroom. This Premium feature allows educators to easily import their classes from Google Classroom to Classtime, manage...
Enhance Your Online Lessons with Audio
An impactful way you can enhance your online lessons today is by incorporating audio clips. Using audio and video tools in teaching is proven to have several advantages for both English language...
Supporting Diversity Through Classroom Curriculum
As Black Lives Matter protests have erupted across the country, many long-standing institutions are looking to try to better understand and combat racial issues. Among this fight for justice is the...
How to Use the Fast and the Curious EduProtocol
EduProtocols have risen in popularity in the past few years. Developed by veteran educators Marlena Hebern and Jon Corippo, EduProtocols aim to foster a supportive and close-knit environment between...
Help Prevent Student Cheating in Online Assessments
In this article, we will explain how to help prevent student cheating in online assessments along with better organizing your Classtime Sessions. With distanced learning, it's easier than ever for...
Why Classtime is the Ideal Remote Learning Platform
Remote learning felt like it came with so many things to unpack: how to deliver content quickly and efficiently, how to ensure equitable learning possibilities for all students and how to check-in...
Formative assessment research: how digital platforms improve learning
Back in 2017, Edtech Magazine reported that about 63 percent of K-12 teachers utilize technology in their classrooms daily. However, with the new reality of distance learning in 2020, it wouldn’t...
Classtime Best Practices for Online Teaching
We created Classtime as an educational tool that is convenient for teachers with students of all ages. Using Classtime, thousands of teachers have already conquered distanced online learning. This...
5 Tips for Remote Learning: Teacher Survey Results
We asked educators about their biggest challenges during remote learning and what would make their lives easier, and here are the results! In this article, we'll share tips on how Classtime can help...
How to use Video Conferencing with Classtime
Use your favorite video conferencing tool with your students and enhance engagement with Classtime. Due to the Coronavirus closures, popular conferencing tools are now also offering FREE access to...
6 Reasons to Conduct Online Assessments
Assessments are part of everyday school life for most teachers and students, and often associated with night-long correction work or a long worry about the results. However, conducting online...
4 Ideas to effectively teach with distance learning
Student & Teacher Requirements - Both students and teachers can use any device that supports an internet browser (smartphones, tablets, computers, Chromebooks) (Learn more). - Both students and...
Teaching Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
What are the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? There are many global challenges the world faces in the 21st century. In 2015, the 193 members of the United Nations agreed to achieve 17...
Improving CAASPP Scores: The Missing Key
As reported in the Los Angeles Times (2016), many schools have been struggling with the math and ELA assessments coming out of the CAASPP design. Only 33% of students in the United States meet or...
Don’t Ditch That Tech: Personalizing Content & Promoting Metacognition
All teachers want to meet their students' needs, but some tasks can seem pretty daunting for beginners and experts alike. In this webinar, "Don't Ditch That Tech," we tackled two scary ones: creating...
Supporting Evidence in Questions for Reading Assessments
My teaching career started in 2014 as a special education teacher for middle schoolers (~ages 12-15). Since then, I’ve moved on to teaching history at the high school level with some much older...
Teaching with Limited Devices
Teaching with technology can be frustrating. On one day, you show up to a computer lab with your class and all of the desktops have to run mandatory updates. Trying to avoid that problem in the...
Promoting Metacognition in Classtime
No matter the subject area, all teachers want their students to be thinkers. We want them to be reflective, pursue topics in-depth, attack problems from multiple angles, and draw complex...
Digital Escape Rooms in your Classroom
If you’re not familiar with the “Escape Room” (and increasingly digital escape rooms) phenomenon found across the U.S., you’re definitely missing out! Escape rooms have made their way...
Flip your classroom with digital assessments
As teachers in an ever-more demanding profession, the one resource that we all wish we had more of is time. Over the past couple of years, I’ve had the chance--with some help from Classtime--to...
Why children should learn to code
Learning how to code is akin to learning a new language. In a study on bilingualism published on NCBI, it was discovered that learning another language has cognitive benefits. These benefits begin...
Easy ways to collect and review assessment data
Here, you’ll find the same steps to creating “Rapidfire Classtime Assessments” that were mentioned in the video, as well as the resources mentioned in it. At the very end, you’ll find...
Create controversy with Classtime
Learn how to create controversy with Classtime, and find all of the resources that were mentioned at the end of the video. Keys to Setting Up A Good Prompt for Controversy1. Make sure that your...
4 Blended Learning Models to Help Reach Students’ Goals
A couple decades ago, the idea of blending electronic technology and traditional classroom teaching would not have been possible. Not every student had a computer in their home and reliable internet...
How teaching analytics improves your students’ learning
Previously, we discussed how Learning Analytics collects and measures student data during and after your lessons to help you refine your teaching towards creating a more effective learning experience...
3 strategies for dynamic professional learning
Challenge. Over the years, schools, districts, and educational organizations have been criticized for the traditional ways they offer professional learning for teachers. Typically, they schedule...
Using gamification for critical thinking and test preparation
We recently had an interview with Scott Houston, an education consultant at Educators Cooperative. Scott has played a part in the evolution of Classtime's gamification solution (Collaborative...
How to prepare lessons for data-driven teaching
In our last post on differentiated instruction, one of the tips focused on preparing thoughtful, data-backed lessons. The strategies you use to differentiate the learning experience in your classroom...
4 ways to implement Differentiated Instruction strategies in the classroom
When it comes to engaging all of your students, you’ve probably realized that students learn in different ways. Some may work best when engaged in group work, while you may find others that perform...
4 tips for making Professional Learning Communities successful in your school
More schools are adopting the Professional Learning Communities (PLC; learn more) process as the way to work together and reach students more effectively. PLC works. It isn’t a program or...
7 Ways Classtime Helps Save Time and Make a Great Impact on Students
Inspired by an article written by Osvitoria, we’ve outlined seven ways that educators around the world use Classtime to quickly analyze their lessons, engage students with collaboration, and make a...
4 ways EdTech tools can help you prepare your students for standardized tests
Standardized testing has long been a controversial topic among education enthusiasts. In theory, standardized tests are intended to unbiasedly measure a student’s academic performance in order to...
How learning analytics can make your teaching more effective
As technology continues to evolve and become an integral part of our everyday lives, it’s only natural that we utilize it to improve education as well. One aspect of technology that promises to...
3 Approaches to foster Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in the classroom
We see the importance of working together now more than ever. Not surprisingly, this has been a major topic in the educational world as well. The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional...
5 Tips for protecting student data
In the age of the internet, tech tools and apps make it easier for teachers to engage their students and introduce new modes of collaboration and learning into their lesson plans. With the use of...
Collaborative Challenges
Living in a world where Google seems to answer all of our questions without having to even think about it, it’s often hard for students to understand how the knowledge they’re learning in the...
How to create great multiple choice questions in 3 simple steps
Well-crafted multiple choice questions are like a clean window. If the question is articulated clearly and concisely, it allows you to see what the student does and doesn’t know. These fixed choice...
4 Scaffolding strategies that lead to greater student independence
Every student has their own individual knowledge and experience, and your job as a teacher is to support each one of them in their educational goals by providing them with the tools and motivation...
Turning your classroom into a collaborative learning community
No matter what grade level you teach, creating a productive and engaging class environment is essential for student success. While it can be difficult to gain the trust and respect of your students,...
ESL teaching methods to actively engage your language class
In today’s globalized world, speaking multiple languages can be useful in many ways. The problem with becoming multilingual is the arduous task of learning a foreign language in the first place....