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Westchester Wrap-up: Summer 2019
by Nicole Tomassi, Marketing & Conference Manager In the summer months, the pace typically slows down, allowing an opportunity to relax and enjoy the longer, warmer days summertime offers up. While all of us at Westchester made sure to take some time to spend with friends and family, we were still working hard to make…
Read MoreIn the Community: Carondelet Leadership Academy, St. Louis, MO
Every month, one member of the Westchester K-12 team has the opportunity to make a positive difference by contributing to a classroom project on DonorsChoose.org that is in need of funding. For the month of September, Roger Market, Senior Project Manager, tells us about the project he chose to support. Name/Location of School: Carondelet…
Read MoreA Hybrid Approach for Assessment
by Kevin J. Gray, Managing Director While the assessment debate has long pitted summative year-end tests against formative in-course ones, some states are looking to a hybrid approach to gauge student performance. As outlined in this article from EdSurge, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and New Hampshire are looking to recast their assessment molds, relying more heavily on check-ins throughout the…
Read MorePhenomena for Next Generation Science Standards
by David Bailis, STEM Content Director The Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) are different from the science content standards of old because they are not simply based on knowing random science content. Before the NGSS, a student may have been asked to know only the three basic states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas, and…
Read MoreIn the Community: Samuel Fels High School, Philadelphia, PA
The Westchester K-12 DonorsChoose initiative has had a very positive impact on our team. Each person who has participated has experienced a high level of gratitude in having the opportunity to support public school classrooms throughout the country, and our Director of Creative Services, Mark DaGrossa – a naturally jolly person – was understandably…
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